• Sir Ian McKlellan is performing “Waiting For Godot” in Melbourne, and, to get some publicity shots, they took the characters out into the streets and even begged for money.
• The oldest tree in the world, named Prometheus, was cut down in 1964 at about 4862 years old. Amazing, but clonal trees like the aspen can be much, much older. Pando, a clonal colony in Utah, is 80,000 years old!
• Nicolas Vigier is a Parisian photographer who likes to explore abandoned places. He and a friend visit a train station that was built for the 1878 World’s Fair.

“Trappers and hunters in the Four Peaks country on Brown’s Basin [Ariz. Terr.]. Two Crab Tree boys, their father and the dogs and burrows [sic] which they hunt with. Their cabin is located on Long Creek, at the entrance of Hell’s Hip Pocket in Brown’s Basin, between Four Peaks and Salt River.” By Lubkin, January 1908.

The National Archives has about 200 photos from out West around the turn of the 20th century. See the photo above at full size, or view the rest.

Two men are talking on a Pyongyang subway train.
“How are you, comrade?”
“Fine, how are you doing?”
“Comrade, by any chance, do you work for the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Have you worked for the Central Committee before?”
“No, I haven’t.”
“Then, are any of your family members working for the Central Committee?”
“Nope.”
“Then, get away from me! You’re standing on my foot!”

A New Zealand site collected this and a few others.