Airplane crashes and accidents are horrific things, involving exploded and smashed things that would make Michael Bay blush, as well as high body counts. Usually, there is a chain of events that have to occur before any sort of disaster, but especially aircraft accidents. If anything in the chain is done differently, the accident doesn’t happen. In most cases, the circumstances of the accident are beyond that which anyone could have foreseen or stopped.

And then there’s the accidents that if someone hadn’t been asleep at the wheel, wouldn’t have gone down at all.

You know that Eminem/Chrysler commercial that aired during last year’s Super Bowl? Well, now, there’s a new spin on it: a gospel choir singing a rendition of Em’s hit “Lose Yourself”.

The Selected of God Choir is donating the proceeds of their iTunes sales to Detroit charities.

What on earth has happened here? Has a gigantic toy fallen from the heavens? Or are we gazing at the Big Yellow Rabbit of Örebro in Sweden? This gargantuan yellow rabbit is both hated and loved by citizens of Sweden.

Ebooks raked in $313 million in 2009, growing by 176.6% compared to 2008. The sale of ebooks are currently growing at a rate of 217.3% in comparison to 2009. For more interesting facts on traditional books and ebooks, check out the infographic below.

In this day and age, sport stars are treated like A-list movie celebrities. Advertisers are falling over themselves to get these modern day Olympians to promote their products and are paying millions to get them to wear their logos. Even ads for sporting events are treated like epic movie trailers. The usual consensus for the project briefing tends to be “if we can make star players look like they have super human abilities, throw in some slow motion shot and a few kinetic camera angles, then they’ll buy it. Shazam!”