Explore Africa from the comfort of your computer chair
An alternate title might have been, “When in Doubt, post some links”. For the records, both of them were discovered via MonkeyFilter.
I know people who have been to Africa for extended periods of time, and from the sound of it I won’t be going any time soon, simply because of the large volume of insects that invariably make their way into food during the cooking process. You can always spot the newbies to the continent, so the story goes, as the ones who are still picking the bugs out of their stew. The old hands just dig in, and count it as extra nourishment. So it was with some excitement that I came upon this live audio/video feed of an honest-to-goodness watering hole in Africa somewhere. It was well after sunset when I first tuned in, as the crickets were out in full force (actually, full force and then some; I’ve never heard such a loud night-time video when there was nothing actually on the screen), but every now and again I could hear something roaring in the distance. All the excitement of camping in the African bush, without the danger of being eaten by lions. Win-win, I say.
On a totally different topic, I’m not sure how popular he was with the general public, but I loved reading about Encyclopedia Brown as a child. So I also loved this parody called Wikipedia Brown, which takes a much more (post-?) modern stance on the much-beloved character’s world.
