My students showed me this video that made the rounds in the Middle East (and beyond...?) a few years ago and it at once terrified me and impressed me. My Saudi students, on the other hand, were totally blasé about it - "oh, speed skating in sandals on the freeway? That was SO four years ago."
In really weird cloud news, we have tsunamis and UFOs. [HT Jeremy and Kathy]
Falling is the new cone-ing, which was the new planking, I guess? It's good for a laugh, anyway.
2011 was The Year of the Mormon. It used to be that months would go by without any kind of Mormon-related article in the newspaper. Not so anymore.
WHAT ON EARTH. [HT a bunch of people on FB]
Finally, here's a collection of the best media errors of 2011.