Archive for November 2013

Sannakji: eating raw octopus ALIVE !

Sannakji means raw cuisine in Korean. The famous raw dishes were live octopuses. The octopus will be eaten alive and sometimes chopped off into little pieces and serves while it still squirmed in the plate.

Yummyyy

Brutus : Devil's car

The full name is BMW Brutus Experimentalfahrzeug (which means experimental car). This one of a kind machine is developed using a 46 litres V12 as it engine. It can generate almost 500 bhp in just about 1500 rpm.

After the world war, there were a lot of abandoned fighter jet's engines that were lying around. Being German, they came out with an idea to put those engines into a car. "Das klingt gut!"

Another goat on the wall

These pictures were taken at a dam in northern Italy. Look closely

Internet surveillence: What does it means to us?

The conspiracy theorists got it right this time. The government do spy on its own citizen. While much of us believe that we remain unaffected by this, it certainly pose a question. What does it means being watched over by the goverment?

World War 1 war declarations

When empires fought empires. Newspaper reports of the war declarations of World War 1

Japanese giant Salamander

It is known as "living fossil". They have walked the earth along the dinosaurs. These giant salamander can be found in Japan and has entered the Japanese folklore for ages. Currently threatened by pollution as it can only thrives in clear clean water.

Most extreme toilet

This little loo has been voted as the most extreme toilet in the world. Sitting on a cliff 2,600 metres on a Siberia cliff at Kara-Tyurek in the Altai Mountains, it serves a group of weather station workers.

Turn off your phone few hours before bed

According to researchers, the artificial light given off by smartphone screens can cause a decrease in a user's melatonin levels -- the hormone that helps control your sleep cycles -- causing a plethora of sleep problems, especially in the hour before bed

Man switched at birth wins suit againts hospital

JAPAN - We all sometimes think of it. the thought of what would it be if we could live another life. A better, more prosperous life. Well, for a man in Japan, it is case of what should have been instead of what it could have been.

A Japanese court ordered a hospital in Japan to pay 38 million yen in lawsuit damages to a man after he claimed that he was switched at birth. The switch occurred in 1953. As a consequences of that the man said he had to live a life in poverty.

His "father" died when he was two, and as a result h had to studied at a night school while at the same time working in a factory. Later he went on to work with the Tokyo district court.

This story unraveled after the 3 younger brother of the other "switched" man having a suspicion after they said that the man did not look like them. Then a series of DNA testing confirmed that in 2009. The "switched" man apparently did study up into the university.

The three younger brother along with "genuine" older brother sued the hospital for 250 million yen.

Source : Japan Today

Nouadhibou: Where ships come to die

Nouadhibou is a small peninsula in Mauritania and Western Sahara. It is home to the largest ship graveyard in the world.

Financial hardships led to authorities turning a blind eye to ship owners who offered bribes to dump used vessels in the harbor. After nearly three decades of this practice, Nouadhibou’s coastline is a unique landscape of over 300 rotting ships.

Tashirojima: A cat heaven

Tashirojima is a small island in Miyagi, Japan. The population is quite small and it has been famous for its population of cats. Large stray cat population thrives as local belief that feeding cats will bring wealth and good fortune.

The population of cats far outnumbered human population in this island and this made it known as the "Cat island".

Paratroopers of World War 2

Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroops land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army. September 1944.

Onborad the USS Enterprise !!

Real warp drive is no longer a distant possibility. Yes, you heard it right. A group of researches at NASA said that they have found loopholes in the space-time fabric that make space-time warp possible. The method is by creating a space wrap so that ship can travel in it. The space's engine will compress the space ahead and expand the space behind it. This will cause the ship to "move" without actually moving ( ai it only moves space, not the ship itself )

This maybe sound like a science fiction to most of us, but never underestimate the power of imaginations. And also a little bit of Star Trek fandom.

World's tallest man found his love

Sultan Kosen, a turkish who is the world's tallest man at his wedding ceremony. His wife is about 3 feet shorter than him. But it;s the love that counts.

"Autobots, let's roll !!"

Well you can't escape the law even though you're Optimus Prime. Picture taken in Malaysia

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo

Where the dead comes alive

Welcome to the real world

A French soldier

This is a portrait about Eurosatory , one the world's major arms trade fairs where all kind of professionals of this sector obtain information, buy and sell material for the war. A vision that wants to transmit the feelings, thoughts and contradictions that generates to the visitor unconnected to this industry. War means profit.

Welcome to the real world by welcome_real_world

U.S. Route 50, Nevada

The loneliest road in America

Amazing U2 360 stage

The U2 360 tour features the largest stadium set ever constructed. The architecturally striking stage turns the audience into an undulating backdrop to the show. It was used througout the U2 360 tour. The cost of each structure was between £15 million and £20 million ($23 million and $31 million, respectively). Puttin up a big show eh?

Haiyan typhoon's rage

Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 5,235 people in that country alone.

Hakkinen & Schumacher

Legendary F1 drivers back in their old days

Icelandic food: lamb's head

Svið is a traditional Icelandic dish consisting of a sheep's head cut in half, singed to remove the fur, and boiled with the brain removed, sometimes cured in lactic acid. Yummyyy

Wembley's first FA cup final

The first event held at the stadium was the FA Cup final on 28 April 1923 between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United. This is known as the White Horse Final. Such was the eagerness of fans and casual observers to attend the final at the new national stadium that vast numbers of people crammed through the 104 turnstiles into the stadium, far exceeding its official 127,000 capacity. The crowds overflowed onto the pitch as there was no room on the terraces. Estimates of the number of fans in attendance range from 240,000 to well over 300,000. It is estimated that another 60,000 were locked outside the gates.

Monowi, Nebraska : population 1

Eiler, 77, is the lone inhabitant of Monowi, a village in northeast Nebraska. That is unique, according to new 2010 U.S. Census data, which indicates Monowi to be the only incorporated town, village or city in the country with only one resident.

Monowi had two people in 2000, the census showed, but the other one was Eiler's husband, Rudy, and he died in 2004.

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