Never heard of the Axis of Awesome, and I haven't actually read all of these books either, but this is still pretty good: via Cynical-C

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Incredible footage of an approaching storm on a beach in Finland of all places. Its hard to believe a storm can actually movie this fast. I thought this would have turned out to be special effects but there's other photos of it on the intertubes. via boingboing

Didn't see anything about this on the news here, but in this following video I can forgive the guy for one or two "oh my god"s and "that's insane". Things get pretty incredible at around the 1 minute mark..

That's gold Jerry, gold! Man, I can't believe that's real. Just awesome..Here's the real background via almost everywhere recently

Surprised to see this video on Aussie tv yesterday. I guess the content kind of applies to Sydney as well as Dublin. Minus the miserable waiting for buses in the rain thing. And the "Luas". I guess with the recession there's not much chance of an improvement in things..