Most Compelling Photographs of 2011
January 7, 2012 by admin
Filed under News, Places and Nature
Colourful photograph of a young boy throwing the ball
Photograph of Amy Winehouse at her last concert in Belgrade, Serbia
Kampala, Uganda, in May, during a ‘walk to work’ anti-government protest
12,000 colourful cross-county skiers during Engadin ski marathon in Switzerland
Kevin Spacey during the Berlin film festival
Lake Natron in Tanzania completely pink with hundreds of thousands of Lesser Flamingos
The rebels attempting to advance to the town centre at the battle for Sirte
Kissing couple picture during the Vancouver riots
The “mine” at the centre of Guatemala City
Space shuttle Endeavour lift off captured from a flight over northern Florida
Pakistan floods
Newmarket equine hospital- racing horse undergoing surgery
Egypt – 25 January revolution
Muammar Gaddafi
Soldiers of 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder in action
Women escapes the fire at Reeves corner in Croydon
Wonder of Nature Or Wonder Of Humankind
Stunning photos of a wonder of nature among us, a guy whose skin looks like tree bark creating an effect that has never been captured before on photographs. This guy is a tree man, a wonder of mankind. The BBC and discovery have been running a series of documentaries on extraordinary people. After watching a couple of them I came to realize that there are indeed strange diseases and medical conditions out there. The weirdest one is this: half man half tree!
10 Most Dangerously Theme Park Rides of All Time
November 4, 2011 by admin
Filed under Misc, Places and Nature
The very idea behind theme park rides is to scare people. They attract the thrill-seeking, the naive and the stupid in their millions every year. Remember when you were a kid and you always wondered if the rides really were that dangerous? Well, turns out some of them were.
Neurotics beware: here lie enough horror stories to put you off your local amusement park for good, permanently rendering you one of those jittery guys who watch their friends plummeting through loop-the-loops while they eat corn dogs from the safety of a bench. Yes, we bring you the 10 most dangerous – and ill-conceived – amusement park rides of all time.
10. Cannonball Loop Slide
As this list shows, New Jersey’s Action Park is pretty much the Mecca of bafflingly stupid ride concepts, so it was no surprise – sometime in the ’80s – that some genius at the park’s headquarters decided it would be a smart idea to invent a fully enclosed water slide that incorporated a complete loop-the-loop at the end. The ride was the only one of its kind, and proved so unstable that it was only tested a handful of times, reputedly following the apparent decapitation of a test dummy and, according to some reports, injuries suffered by employees who took the kamikaze plunge on trial runs.
9. Alpine Slide
Alpine slides were seemingly only conceived in order to make use of steep slopes and save tightfisted theme parks some dollars. The concept is very simple: build a breakneck, winding concrete trackway with shallow edges down a huge freakin’ hill and let the general public fly down it on a ludicrously temperamental cart with a mostly useless handbrake. Aside from obvious risks such as grazing one’s body practically to the bone upon bailing, actual deaths aren’t unheard of, with one unfortunate individual at a certain East Coast theme park hitting his head fatally against a rock when his cart derailed. Read more
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Play Scrabble at 7 Scariest Places
UNTIL now, the word “extreme” was simply a great score in Scrabble – now it’s a whole new way to play the word game that is celebrating its 60th anniversary. For as these daredevils show, Extreme Scrabble involves playing the game in the scariest places on – and above – Earth.
The name Scrabble comes from the Dutch word Schrabbelan, meaning to claw or to scrape, and over 150million sets have been produced in the game’s 60-year history. An estimated 30,000 games begin every hour, and there are over 400 Scrabble clubs around the world. The game is produced in over 29 languages, the latest of which is Welsh. Below are some extreme vanues to play the Scrabble, however it’s not for ordinary people.
Dangerous game … two people risk life and limb to play Scrabble near alligators in Florida, USA
Shark-ing score … two deep sea divers play scrabble on a sunken ship off the coast of the Bahamas surrounded by Caribbean Reef Sharks
The Sharpie Lamborghini Gallardo
October 19, 2011 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Science and Technology
The car was actually done in sharpie markers on the paint and then finished with a clear coat for protection. It took about 2 weeks total. Prestige (Lamborghini Miami) definitely shocked a lot of people when this car was first seen in California during the Concorso Italiano/Pebble Beach week. It attracted attention good, and apparently bad as well, everywhere it went.
Name of Thy God is Alcohol
It’s almost time for New Year’s Eve party! Every year, boys and girls go extra wild on New Year’s Eve without caring what may happen to them. While it’s a happy day for us to welcome the year of 2011, make sure you don’t get too drunk in the party or you may end up looking like these poor victims below.
