Spider-Man meets Barack Obama the new President Elect of the United States in issue #583 of The Amazing Spider-Man. Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a “shout-out back” by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor-in-chief. The comic starts with Spider-Man’s alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas. Parker decides “the future president’s gonna need Spider-Man,” and springs into action, using basketball to determine the real Obama and punching out the impostor. Obama thanks him with a fist-bump.

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When a jumbo jet dies, it’s usually sold for scrap or something. But Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Dios has a better idea for the 30-year-old junker he bought. He turned it into a hostel. Boeing 747, dubbed Jumbo Hostel, is parked outside Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport. It’s got 25 rooms, with some of the nicest on the plane’s upper floor.

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The culprit has escaped the scene, leaving this to the owners of one U.S. Automobile Sales Centre…

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Driving Licenses, ID cards, University cards, etc. are all considered as important documents. Some people are not happy with this, however, and do not share the usual sense of seriousness attached to them!

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These prints, made for the Animaster Animation School, emphasize materiality of thought and promote drawing skills, which you can presumably gain from studying there. The idea of drawing-reality fusion is not original, but nevertheless quite exciting and performed professionally!

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In the south-western part of Bolivia, near the famous salt flats of Uyuni, a unique hotel Hotel de Sal Playa was built entirely of salt back in 1993. Noting that people who wish to work in the area are often looking for a place to stay overnight and that salt is almost the only material, which is readily available in the region one entrepreneur came up with an idea of this hotel. Quite a successful idea, it has to be said!

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In May 1929 the Soviet Union signed an agreement with the Ford Motor Company. Under its terms, the Soviets agreed to purchase $13 million worth of automobiles and parts, while Ford agreed to give technical assistance until 1938 to construct an integrated automobile-manufacturing plant at Nizhny Novgorod. Completed in 1932, the factory and marque was titled Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, or GAZ. GAZ’s first vehicle was the medium-priced Ford Model A, sold as the GAZ- A, and a light truck, the Ford Model AA (GAZ-AA). GAZ-A production commenced in 1932 and lasted until 1936, during which time over 100,000 examples were built.

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