A 2009 Road Safety Campaign in New Zealand featured billboards that would bleed on rainy days.
For The Love Of Tank! After his dog was bitten on the nose by a rattlesnake, Bobby Jenkins of Goshen County, Wyoming, USA, sucked the dangerous venom from the wound, and was hospitalized himself.
A hibernating mammal can lose as much as 40 % of its body weight over winter.
The Stannard Rock Lighthouse is the only structure on a large, 23 miles off the coast of Lake Superior. It was staffed only by men for 8 decades until it was automated in 1962.
Rhesus Monkeys at Japan’s Osaka Zoo were fed so much by visitors that the primates became obese, weighing up to 3 times their normal weight. They are now on a strict weight-loss regimen.
ENIAC, in 1946, was the world’s first general purpose computer. It weighed 30 tons and occupied an entire room. Its computing ability can be recreated today on a silicon chip smaller than your thumbnail.
London’s 1 million security cameras only help solve crimes at a rate of about 1 per thousand.
Belarus lost so many people during World War II (1941 – 1945) that its population didn’t recover to pre-war levels for more than a generation.
During one of the voyages to the Americas, Christopher Columbus’ crew angered the native population of Jamaica, but managed to pacify them by “magically” predicting an eclipse (with the help of an astronomer’s almanac)
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Feed Your Mind
Riddles
If you want to learn to fight, what book should you read?
A scrapbook.
Idioms
a chip on one’s shoulder
- a grievance in one’s mind which colors one’s attitude to life
Ex. Michael has had a chip on his shoulder ever since he was rusticated.
If you want to learn to fight, what book should you read?
A scrapbook.
Idioms
a chip on one’s shoulder
- a grievance in one’s mind which colors one’s attitude to life
Ex. Michael has had a chip on his shoulder ever since he was rusticated.
Quotable Quotes of the Day
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
- Francis H. Bradley
“Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.”
- Edgar Watson Howe
“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”
- Francis Bacon
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
- Will Rogers
- Francis H. Bradley
“Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.”
- Edgar Watson Howe
“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”
- Francis Bacon
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
- Will Rogers
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
THE EATER! Salim “El Akoul” Haini of Algeria eats light bulbs, candles, sawdust and nails, and he once consumed an entire roasted lamb in one sitting.
MATERNAL INSTINCT! King penguins often adopt other penguin’s chicks as their own, and have even been seen trying to raise a young skua bird – a species that feeds on young penguins.
Munish Bansal of Gillingham, Kent, England, has taken pictures of his children everyday for 13 years.
During World War II, Scientists from the UK, US and Canada experimented with a bomb that shot out lethal poison darts.
MUTT UGLY! Pabst, a boxer-mix who won the 2009 World’s Ugliest Dog Competition at the Sonoma- Marin Fair in California, was the first dog in nearly a decade to win that wasn’t a Chinese crested pedigree.
Until July 1, 2009, it was illegal to collect rainwater in the State of Colorado, USA.
Liz Strutton converted a World War II defensive bunker in Cornwall, England into an underground home.
Qin Shi Huang (259 – 210 B.C.), the first emperor of China, was buried in an underground tomb next to rivers filled with shimmering mercury.
Africa’s Driver Ants have bites strong enough to stitch a wound shut. Once in place, the ant can be decapitated, and its jaws will stay clasped together.
MATERNAL INSTINCT! King penguins often adopt other penguin’s chicks as their own, and have even been seen trying to raise a young skua bird – a species that feeds on young penguins.
Munish Bansal of Gillingham, Kent, England, has taken pictures of his children everyday for 13 years.
During World War II, Scientists from the UK, US and Canada experimented with a bomb that shot out lethal poison darts.
MUTT UGLY! Pabst, a boxer-mix who won the 2009 World’s Ugliest Dog Competition at the Sonoma- Marin Fair in California, was the first dog in nearly a decade to win that wasn’t a Chinese crested pedigree.
Until July 1, 2009, it was illegal to collect rainwater in the State of Colorado, USA.
Liz Strutton converted a World War II defensive bunker in Cornwall, England into an underground home.
Qin Shi Huang (259 – 210 B.C.), the first emperor of China, was buried in an underground tomb next to rivers filled with shimmering mercury.
Africa’s Driver Ants have bites strong enough to stitch a wound shut. Once in place, the ant can be decapitated, and its jaws will stay clasped together.
Feed Your Mind
Riddles
If a flea and a fly pass each other what time is it?
Fly past flea
How are 2 plus 2 equal 5 and your left hand alike?
Neither is right.
If a man born an Australian, worked in America and died in Europe, what is he?
Dead.
If a flea and a fly pass each other what time is it?
Fly past flea
How are 2 plus 2 equal 5 and your left hand alike?
Neither is right.
If a man born an Australian, worked in America and died in Europe, what is he?
Dead.
Quotable Quotes of the Day
“What is nothing exists and were all in somebody’s dream? or what’s worse, what is only that fat guy in the third row exists?”
- Woody Allen
“My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – Building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army.”
- Jimmy Page
“When walking through the valley of shadows remember, a shadow is past by a light.”
- H.K. Barclay
“No pressure, no diamonds.”
- Mary Case
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down, without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”
- Jerry Chin
“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
- Will Rogers
“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”
- Georges Clemenceau
Feed Your Mind
Idioms
blank check
- permission to do whatever one considers desirable or necessary.
Ex. The management has given me a blank check to modernize the company’s equipment.
Tongue Twister
Try repeating this sentence in quick succession without faltering or stuttering, and don’t be surprised to see your tongue twisted in the process!
Eugene endeavored to play the euphonium and usually hushed the audience who ushered him from the room.
blank check
- permission to do whatever one considers desirable or necessary.
Ex. The management has given me a blank check to modernize the company’s equipment.
Tongue Twister
Try repeating this sentence in quick succession without faltering or stuttering, and don’t be surprised to see your tongue twisted in the process!
Eugene endeavored to play the euphonium and usually hushed the audience who ushered him from the room.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
It takes 8.3 minutes for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
Sharon Smith, a teacher from Molino, Florida, USA, died from a heart attack just minutes after dismissing her last class on the day of her retirement, May 30, 2008.
Two recent recipients of double hand transplants, both of whom were right-handed before they lost their hands, became left-handed after the surgery.
When droughts conditions dried out a pond in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India in May 2009, 98 human skulls were found at the bottom.
In 1900, men outnumbered women in Hawaii more than 2 to 1.
In January 2009, Baba “Jagir” Singh wore an 820 foot long turban for a Sikh Religious Festival in Amritsar, Punjab, India.
The human brain operates on the equivalent of about 20 watts of energy.
More than 200 billion liters of bottled water are sold worldwide every year.
80% of the face of Connie Culp of Unionport, Ohio, USA, was replaced by the bone, muscles, skin and blood vessels of another person during the world’s most extensive face transplant surgery ever.
Sharon Smith, a teacher from Molino, Florida, USA, died from a heart attack just minutes after dismissing her last class on the day of her retirement, May 30, 2008.
Two recent recipients of double hand transplants, both of whom were right-handed before they lost their hands, became left-handed after the surgery.
When droughts conditions dried out a pond in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India in May 2009, 98 human skulls were found at the bottom.
In 1900, men outnumbered women in Hawaii more than 2 to 1.
In January 2009, Baba “Jagir” Singh wore an 820 foot long turban for a Sikh Religious Festival in Amritsar, Punjab, India.
The human brain operates on the equivalent of about 20 watts of energy.
More than 200 billion liters of bottled water are sold worldwide every year.
80% of the face of Connie Culp of Unionport, Ohio, USA, was replaced by the bone, muscles, skin and blood vessels of another person during the world’s most extensive face transplant surgery ever.
Quotable Quotes of the Day
“There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.”
- W.C. Fields
“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.”
- Robert Benchley
“You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; But I know that is not so.”
- William Morris Hunt
“It is well that war is so terrible or we should grow too fond of it.”
- Robert E. Lee
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
- Albert Einstein
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
- H.L. Mencken
- W.C. Fields
“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.”
- Robert Benchley
“You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; But I know that is not so.”
- William Morris Hunt
“It is well that war is so terrible or we should grow too fond of it.”
- Robert E. Lee
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
- Albert Einstein
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
- H.L. Mencken
Friday, December 11, 2009
The Sims 3 Pictures
These are the images I captured in my favorite game the Sims 3, the best selling pc game of all time. I would tell you the story behind these images.
My Sims 3 Game Images and The Story Behind
It's harvesting time, time to reap all the produce brought by so many years of hard work, toiling, weeding, tending, watering and fertilizing these healthy and hearty vegetation. Shovel and extend your arms to reach for these nutricious produce you can cook on your kitchen or eat it fresh direct from your vegetable garden!
This lady is pushing herself to the limits, crash and burn, wet herself in sweat just to obtain a good physique, become fit and a healthy lifestyle. Way to go for this girl!
This character based on real life is a self confessed drug addict driver and also a notorious witch. He is cruel to his family and unforgiving to people. Because of his nasty lifestyle, he began to live a difficult situation, he become skinny and find so many enemies besides he is so ugly that others thought he might be a hideous monster. Will he survive a lifetime now that he is trapped in his house or die in misery?
This guy is about to celebrate his adulthood and coming to terms with his character and personality. Will he pursue a strict and rigid discipline in a job or a comfortable and luxurious, lavish lifestyle?
These two lovely couples are about to sleep in my previous game that was erased and put back again in the storage until I move them in another lot. They look gorgeous and handsome and they love each other. Wonder who they are?
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
Cyprus and Kosovo are the only countries in the world that have maps on their national flags.
Karl McLennan of Aberdeen, Scotland returned to his job after 12 years of sick leave.
Hadaka Matsuri or "Naked Festival", is a Japanese tradition during which thousands of naked or scantily clad men struggle to retrieve sacred sticks thrown into the crowd by a priest.
The first man-made object to leave earth's atmosphere was a weapon of war - NAZI Germany's V-2 Rocket.
Combing your hair while it's dry can launch head lice several feet into the air.
Sharks can sometimes be lulled into a temporary dormant state - by holding them upside down and massaging them.
40% of Americans have never moved from the community in which they were born.
The Giant Pacific Octopus has an arm span of more than 14 feet across.
Karl McLennan of Aberdeen, Scotland returned to his job after 12 years of sick leave.
Hadaka Matsuri or "Naked Festival", is a Japanese tradition during which thousands of naked or scantily clad men struggle to retrieve sacred sticks thrown into the crowd by a priest.
The first man-made object to leave earth's atmosphere was a weapon of war - NAZI Germany's V-2 Rocket.
Combing your hair while it's dry can launch head lice several feet into the air.
Sharks can sometimes be lulled into a temporary dormant state - by holding them upside down and massaging them.
40% of Americans have never moved from the community in which they were born.
The Giant Pacific Octopus has an arm span of more than 14 feet across.
Quotable Quotes of the Day
"Probably I hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience."
- Audrey Hepburn
"If nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. Time doesn't exist."
- Julian Barbour
"The most beautiful thing he can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein
"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
- Charles Darwin
- Audrey Hepburn
"If nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. Time doesn't exist."
- Julian Barbour
"The most beautiful thing he can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein
"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
- Charles Darwin
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Quotable Quotes of the Day
"All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, move."
- Timothy Leary
"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind."
- Buddha
"All of nature is basically conservative -- it doesn't exert energy or take any risks if it doesn't have to. Ninety-nine percent of the time in life this approach works."
- Robert Mckee
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction. Both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
"A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life."
- Rev. Edward A. Malloy
"Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing."
- R.D. Hitchcock
"For a successful technology, reality just take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
- Richard P. Feynman
"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
- Gene Fowler
- Timothy Leary
"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind."
- Buddha
"All of nature is basically conservative -- it doesn't exert energy or take any risks if it doesn't have to. Ninety-nine percent of the time in life this approach works."
- Robert Mckee
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction. Both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
"A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life."
- Rev. Edward A. Malloy
"Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing."
- R.D. Hitchcock
"For a successful technology, reality just take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
- Richard P. Feynman
"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
- Gene Fowler
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
The sidewalks of Mexico City have an average of 70 pieces of discarded chewing gum per square yard.
US President John F. Kennedy, his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and his assassin's assassin, Jack Ruby, all died in the same place - Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, USA.
David Olson of Riverton, Wyoming, USA found a pair of 9 mm bullets which had collided in midair.
Swallow syncope is a medical condition that causes a person to faint when consuming certain foods or beverages.
During the 2008 Season, The Detroit Lions became the first team in the history of the U.S. National Football League to lose every regular season game, for a 0-16 record.
The people of Swaziland live an average of 32 years - less than half the world average.
Male bowerbirds of Australia build huts and maintain decorative gardens to attract mates.
Each year on September 15, RESPECT FOR THE AGED DAY is celebrated in Japan, and all citizens who reach age 100 are given a silver cup and a letter from the Prime Minister.
The U.S. television show "M.A.S.H." aired for 11 season from 1972-1983, but the Korean War, which was the shows setting, only lasted 3 years.
The $400 million, 557 ft. long yacht owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is equipped with a swimming pool, two helipads, a mini-submarine and a missile defense system.
Mike Hobbs and Mel Lang of Dorset, England, were the winners of this year's annual STINGING NETTLE EATING COMPETITION - each ate 48 feet of the weed.
British artist Tim Knowles affixed pens to tree branches to see what kind of art the wind would create.
US President John F. Kennedy, his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and his assassin's assassin, Jack Ruby, all died in the same place - Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, USA.
David Olson of Riverton, Wyoming, USA found a pair of 9 mm bullets which had collided in midair.
Swallow syncope is a medical condition that causes a person to faint when consuming certain foods or beverages.
During the 2008 Season, The Detroit Lions became the first team in the history of the U.S. National Football League to lose every regular season game, for a 0-16 record.
The people of Swaziland live an average of 32 years - less than half the world average.
Male bowerbirds of Australia build huts and maintain decorative gardens to attract mates.
Each year on September 15, RESPECT FOR THE AGED DAY is celebrated in Japan, and all citizens who reach age 100 are given a silver cup and a letter from the Prime Minister.
The U.S. television show "M.A.S.H." aired for 11 season from 1972-1983, but the Korean War, which was the shows setting, only lasted 3 years.
The $400 million, 557 ft. long yacht owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is equipped with a swimming pool, two helipads, a mini-submarine and a missile defense system.
Mike Hobbs and Mel Lang of Dorset, England, were the winners of this year's annual STINGING NETTLE EATING COMPETITION - each ate 48 feet of the weed.
British artist Tim Knowles affixed pens to tree branches to see what kind of art the wind would create.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
Born without limbs, Nick Vujicic of Los Angeles, California, USA has learned to golf, swim and surf.
Saturn’s Rings are only a few dozen feet thick in most places!
Lady Beetles taken into orbit are still able to hunt down their prey in microgravity.
Brian Johnsrud of Mansfield, Wisconsin, USA won the Wisconsin State Fair’s Cricket-Spitting Contest by launching one of the bugs 22 feet, 8 inches.
Thin strands of glass drawn out of volcanic lava are called Pele’s Hair – named for Pele, the Hawaiian Volcano Goddess!
Don Briggs, a High School baseball umpire ejected the entire crowd in attendance at a game at West Burlington, Iowa, USA on June 11, 2009.
Saturn’s Rings are only a few dozen feet thick in most places!
Lady Beetles taken into orbit are still able to hunt down their prey in microgravity.
Brian Johnsrud of Mansfield, Wisconsin, USA won the Wisconsin State Fair’s Cricket-Spitting Contest by launching one of the bugs 22 feet, 8 inches.
Thin strands of glass drawn out of volcanic lava are called Pele’s Hair – named for Pele, the Hawaiian Volcano Goddess!
Don Briggs, a High School baseball umpire ejected the entire crowd in attendance at a game at West Burlington, Iowa, USA on June 11, 2009.
Quotable Quotes of the Day
“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”
- Marlon Brando
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
- Charlotte Bronte
“And you will know the truth, and the trust will make you free.”
- John 8:32
“The testimony of the Lord is sure making wife the simple.”
- Psalms 19:7
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
- Louisa May Alcott
“Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.”
- Bhagavadgita
- Marlon Brando
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
- Charlotte Bronte
“And you will know the truth, and the trust will make you free.”
- John 8:32
“The testimony of the Lord is sure making wife the simple.”
- Psalms 19:7
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
- Louisa May Alcott
“Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.”
- Bhagavadgita
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
When Spiders are taken into space, they spin tangled, messy webs – but as they adapt to microgravity, they begin spinning normal symmetrical webs!
The 746,047 sq. mile Canadian Territory of Nunavut is 1 million times larger than the principality of Monaco but has a smaller population.
Enigmatology is the study of puzzles.
The 746,047 sq. mile Canadian Territory of Nunavut is 1 million times larger than the principality of Monaco but has a smaller population.
Enigmatology is the study of puzzles.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Quotable Quotes of the Day
“Measure not the work until the days out and the labor done.”
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
-Horace
“All of nature is basically conservative – It doesn’t exert any energy or take any risks if it doesn’t have to. “
- Robert McKee
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
-Horace
“All of nature is basically conservative – It doesn’t exert any energy or take any risks if it doesn’t have to. “
- Robert McKee
Quotable Quotes of the Day
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: whose?”
- Don Marquis
“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
- M.C. Escher
“Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.”
- Viktor Frankl
- Don Marquis
“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
- M.C. Escher
“Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.”
- Viktor Frankl
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