C. S. Magor

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.

  • Up close and personal with a category 5 cyclone [Cyclone Yasi Stream]

    February 2, 2011
    Recorded Earlier in the day by SkyCam Home webcam from Townsville resident’s backyard Live video by Ustream Home webcam facing street Live Broadcasting by Ustream Streaming live video by Ustream If you ever wondered what it looked like to be inside a category 5 storm, this is it –...

  • Retired Gorkha takes on 40 armed robbers

    January 29, 2011
    A train robbery in West Bengal went horribly awry for a gang of 40 bandits armed knives, swords and pistols – when they encountered the sharp end of a retired Gorkha’s khukuri. The robbers stopped the train and were busy relieving passengers of their valuables when they came across...

  • Egyptian Army shields protesters from police, or does it?

    January 29, 2011
    Every popular uprising has a tipping point – the moment when festering resentment either reaches critical mass and topples an unpopular government or conversely, when the unpopular government reminds the rebellious masses why they are in charge. Egypt is rapidly approaching one of those two conclusions, which will it...

  • Arsonist identified by severed fingertip

    January 29, 2011
    The two gentlemen that you see in the mugshots to your left are Samuel “Sammy” Davis (sans hair) and 24-year-old Ismael Ortiz – they are in hot water over a little insurance-related arson incident in which they may or may not have taken part. Police say that Davis paid...

  • Suicide bomber killed by explosive spam

    January 29, 2011
    A would-be Russian suicide bomber is reported to have been detonated when an ill-timed message arrived on her phone to wish her a happy new year. The woman and two suspected accomplices (who are believed to be part of the same group that killed 35 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo...

  • Twenty-four hour photo is a creative way to kill a full day

    January 29, 2011
    The amazing photograph that you see above is the perfect combination of art and science. Greek photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos spent a full day capturing photographs in specific directions at a spot in Athens, Greece – he then spent 12-hours rendering them to combine the 360-degree small world effect with...

  • Pass the Meat Water

    January 26, 2011
    Remember that phony ad from The Simpsons that featured the phrase “the great taste of Worcestershire sauce in a soft drink”? It was ridiculous and funny to everyone who watched it, everyone except for Krautkraemer – the company that has brought us Meat Water. I don’t know why someone...

  • Marathon runner falls victim to dumb luck and poor signage

    January 25, 2011
    You’ve got to feel for Japanese marathoner Natsuki Terada on this one. The guy ran a phenomenal race only to have it run hideously (and memorably) awry in the final seconds… when he followed a race truck away from the finish line....

  • Man cheats Darwin in stupid train stunt [video]

    January 25, 2011
    By rights the jackass in this video should have misjudged the height of the train and been rendered into a kilometer-long smear (or at the very least raised his head a couple of seconds too early). He wasn’t and didn’t, which is why this is a video and not...