bluefrog
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badassoftheweek.com
Awesome website! Great for killing time while waiting for someone who asked for help with a Into to Programming project but hasn't shown up yet...
My favorite is Aki Ra:
Awesome website! Great for killing time while waiting for someone who asked for help with a Into to Programming project but hasn't shown up yet...
My favorite is Aki Ra:
From 1994 to 2007, Aki Ra grabbed a shovel, a stick, and a knife and personally went out into the jungles of the densely-populated Siam Reap region of Cambodia to remove Soviet, Chinese, and Vietnamese-constructed land mines. He almost single-handedly cleared out all the explosives surrounding Cambodia's primary tourist attraction – the incredible Temples at Angkor Wat – before turning his attention to local playgrounds and farmlands that had been off-limits for decades. For this guy to do this shizzle without wearing any kind of protective gear (he usually just went out in a pair of sandals and a button-down shirt) is so mind-flayingly insane that I kind of want to vomit a little. Thanks in no small part to the work of this one man, the number of accidental landmine casualties in Cambodia dropped from 3,047 to 1,109 in the three-year span from 1996 to 1999.


