The world’s heaviest beer drinker, Marijan Camber drinks on average almost a crate of beer EVERY day, but as The Sun (UK tabloid) reported on 29th October, Steve “Boozer Loser” Webster, 18 did even more: (more…)
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I got this via email some months ago. It’s one of those rare ones that’s been seen by many people, but so good I had to post it again.
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To reflect and…. act.
The difference between the poor countries and the rich ones is not the age of the country.
This can be shown by countries like India & Egypt, that are more than 2000 years old and are poor.
On the other hand, Canada, Australia & New Zealand, that 150 years ago were inexpressive, today are developed countries and are rich.
The difference between poor & rich countries does not reside in the available natural resources.
Japan has a limited territory, 80% mountainous, inadequate for agriculture & cattle raising, but it is the second world economy. The country is like an immense floating factory, importing raw material from the whole world and exporting manufactured products.
Another example is Switzerland, which does not plant cocoa but has the best chocolate of the world. In its little territory they raise animals and plant the soil during 4 months per year. Not enough, they produce dairy products of the best quality. It is a small country that transmits an image of security, order & labor, which made it the world’s strong safe.
Executives from rich countries who communicate with their counterparts in poor countries show that there is no significant intellectual difference.
Race or skin color are also not important:immigrants labeled lazy in their countries of origin are the productive power in rich European countries.
What is the difference then?
The difference is the attitude of the people, framed along the years by the education & the culture.
On analyzing the behavior of the people in rich & developed countries, we find that the great majority follow the following principles in their lives:
1. Ethics, as a basic principle.
2. Integrity.
3. Responsibility.
4. Respect to the laws & rules.
5. Respect to the rights of other citizens.
6. Work loving.
7. Strive for saving & investment.
8. Will of super action.
9. Punctuality.
In poor countries, only a minority follow these basic principles in their daily life.
We are not poor because we lack natural resources or because nature was cruel to us.
We are poor because we lack attitude. We lack the will to comply with and teach these functional principles of rich & developed societies
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The worst computer game of all time
30-Oct-06
According to the testimony, Athet Pyan Shinthaw Paulu (above) was almost dead for a few days but when he came to, he told of his vision.
What he said is highly controversial, especially his vision of hell: (more…)
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The greatest and most famous photographs tend to have emotional impact upon us.
The naked girl in the middle is Phan Thi Kim Phic, 9 years old then. She’s screaming while fleeing her village after being severely burnt on her back by a napalm attack.
The photo was taken by Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut. This photo won him the Pulitzer Prize. (more…)
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A nightmare scenario for network administrators is taking over from a well-worn, years-old cabling closet which have had many people in charge. One thing that has to be done is determining where all those cables go to, or linking what and what.
Consider this one, which might look a totally hopeless case:
Hair-tearing stuff? But to me, this one looks even scarier, possibly due to the Alien-black wiring:
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Peter John Anak Apai’s “Joget to the Moon” is entertainingly bad.
The song (melody) itself is not bad… still danceable and hummable, but the following are reasons why I think it’s the song with the world’s worst lyrics and music/karaoke video:
- The singer’s actions throughout the video is unbelieveable – more gay than macho. Especially that “jaywalk” at the beginning. No wonder the girl did not take the bait. And while I thought that that jump-in-the-water stunt was lame, the fact that this was replayed several times was lamer, and the fact that he continued singing while IN the water was ….well…….. puke-worthy.
- That girl looked unnaturally nervous on screen – the first time the camera focused on her – she was like, combing her hair back several times – not beautiful……:-)
- Lyrics are on par with the worst i have ever seen: “you’re so beautiful like Madonna?”; “on honeymoon we go to the moon, but not to the doom?” Even Jean-Claude Van Damme’s worst is better than this!
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Adult film superstar and pop culture icon Jenna Jameson is pictured below unveiling her life-sized wax figure at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas. Ms. Jameson, a Las Vegas native, is the first adult film star to be immortalized in wax by Madame Tussauds in its more than 200-year history. (more…)
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New seven wonders of the world
21-Oct-06
Only one of the original (read: ancient) Seven Wonders of the World is still standing, which is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt.
Now, a non-profit Swiss foundation called New7Wonders which specializes in the “preservation, restoration and promotion of monuments” have suggested making a new list for the modern version of the Seven Wonders. (more…)
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The world’s strangest election campaign
20-Oct-06
If you stand for an election, you expected to be voted in.
But not Paul Herold.
He wanted to be voted out!
Essentially, he said: “Please don’t vote for me, vote for my opponent.”
Then the weirdest thing happened: people voted for him. In heaps.
He finished second in a 3 way race, and qualified to face the incumbent in another election in November. What’s his reaction? Ask people to vote anybody but himself!
Someone said that that the greatest campaign catchphrase ever.
Background:
Herold was a candidate for a City Council seat in this Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb, but then he landed a new job that he says wouldn’t leave him enough time to do a decent job for his constituents. He missed the deadline for removing his name from the ballot, so he wrote a letter to a local paper pleading for nonsupport. He even offered to drive friends and neighbors to the polls to vote for anyone but him.
Tags: paul herold, herold, minneapolis, city council, elections, election, campaign, politics
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You will never guess. Ten, twenty maybe, but no, the answer is: one hundred and fifty five! Watch in wonder at how his head seems to shrink and retreat into his body.
Someone commented: they have t-shirts THAT big? Yes apparently 10XL size is available.
And I thought XXXL is big already!
Anyway, XXXXXXXXXXL sizes would surely make funny shirts.
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The world’s biggest ball of paint
18-Oct-06
The world’s best accidental discoveries
17-Oct-06
The world’s most popular blogger
16-Oct-06
According to ChinaDaily, it’s Xu Jinglei, an actress and director from mainland China, with 50 million hits so far.
When I checked technorati a few days ago, she’s the 3rd most linked blog, behind engadget and boingboing, and the most linked personal blog, with more than 18,000 other blogs linking to her.
Daily traffic around 12,000 [only?]
According to china.org.cn, she racked up her 10 millionth hit in February, a mere 4 months after launching her blog. 3 months later, she briefly held the title of the world’s most popular blog, knocking off Boingboing at Technorati 100.
Tags: xu jinglei, blog, blogs, blogging, china, chinese
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The world’s wackiest domain names
15-Oct-06
Unintentional humour perhaps, but if your business is running a nursery and its name is Mole Station Native Nursery, would you intentionally choose the domain name molestationnursery.com?
The same goes to Pen is Mightier which became penismightier.com:
…and Therapist Finder which became therapistfinder.com
However, my favourite has got to be the website of a building firm based in Ontario, Canada which calls itself Mammoth Erection and promises: “No job too small, or too tall.”, hence the domain name mammotherection.com:
More wacky domain names / websites available at the programming-designs.com.
Tags: domain, websites, domain names
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Ivan aka Tsar Bomba aka King of Bombs aka Emperor Bomb
Constructed by the Russians at the height of the cold war in 1961
On October 30, 1961 a Tu-95 plane dropped Ivan from altitude 34,500 feet over the Mityushikha Bay Nuclear Testing Range at Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Sea. The weapon’s on-board barometric sensors detonated the bomb at approximately 13,000 feet at 11:32am.
And what an explosion it produced.
- 50 megatons [originally planned 100, but deemed too risky]
- 3,800 times more explosive energy than the Hiroshima bomb
- equivalent to 50 million metric tons of TNT
- fireball reached 34,000 feet into air
- mushroom cloud reached 60km into sky, with diameter of 40km
- area of complete destruction had radius of 25km from ground zero
- 100km from ground zero the heat would’ve inflicted 3rd degree burns
- flash of light visible as far as 1,000 km away
- Generated shockwave travelled aroubnd the earth 3 times before dissipating
We should be thankful that no other weapon with the massive destructive power of Tsar Bomba has ever been built.
Tags: weapon, Ivan, Tsar Bomba, King of Bombs, Emperor Bomb, bombs, weapons
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The world’s strangest monuments
12-Oct-06
A list of the 10 strangest monuments can be found at archibase.net. My pick is this one that apparently can be found at Melbourne, Australia.
The statue is of Charles La Trobe, Victoria state’s (in which Melbourne is located) first lieutenant-governor.
It was done by Melbourne sculptor Charles Robb.
He said he did it that way because “it embodies the notion that universities should turn ideas on their heads.”
Tags: monuments, statues, australia, melbourne
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The greatest software ever written
11-Oct-06
According to informationweek.com, it is Unix. More specifically: The single Greatest Piece of Software Ever, with the broadest impact on the world, was BSD 4.3. Other Unixes were bigger commercial successes. But as the cumulative accomplishment of the BSD systems, 4.3 represented an unmatched peak of innovation. BSD 4.3 represents the single biggest theoretical undergirder of the Internet. Moreover, the passion that surrounds Linux and open source code is a direct offshoot of the ideas that created BSD: a love for the power of computing and a belief that it should be a freely available extension of man’s intellectual powers–a force that changes his place in the universe.
This is Beastie, the BSD daemon:
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Humane poultry killer?
10-Oct-06
Prospective customers are welcome to try it out on their chickens.
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The world’s worst hacker
09-Oct-06
The IRC transcript I found at crisscross.com
Apparently real – but seems to be too good to be true??
As for myself – fake or not, just enjoy the script 
Originally in German, or so I’m told, way back in April 2005
More hilarious IM exchanges at bash.org
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Vicky Tham is Karaoke World Champion 2006, while Badri Ibrahim finished 3rd.
Vicky is on the left, Badri on the right.
The finals was held in Helsinki on 9th September.
Does that mean Vicky is even better than the following:
- Siti Nurhaliza (“Malaysia’s no.1 singer”, and certainly the most highly paid);
- Jaclyn Victor (first Malaysian Idol champion, and IMHO the best from the MI-OIAM franchise, and to me the best ever Malaysian singer)
- Vince Chong (first Akademi Fantasia champion, and IMHO the best from the AF franchise)
You judge for yourself in this video of her singing in the final.
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The world’s most advanced toilet
07-Oct-06
As reported by Reuters in August 2006
A new restaurant in India’s financial hub, Mumbai is named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas.
The owner, Punit Shablok said he chose the name “Hitler’s cross” because:
“We wanted to be different. This is one name that will stay in people’s minds. We are not promoting Hitler. But we want to tell people we are different in the way he was different.”
In fact, the owners are planning to turn the eatery’s name into a brand with more branches in Mumbai.
Unsurprisingly it’s not a favourite with the local Jewish community. India’s remaining Jews (most migrated to Israel and the West over the years) say they are outraged by the gimmick.
Jonathan Solomon, the chairman of the Indian Jewish Federation, the community’s umbrella organization said:
“This signifies a severe lack of awareness of the agony of millions of Jews caused by one man. We are going to stop this deification of Hitler.”
But how exactly they’re planning to stop it, he did not elaborate.
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The small restaurant has its interior done out in the Nazi colours of red, white and black.
Posters line the road leading up to it, featuring a red swastika carved in the name of the eatery.
How would you like to be greeted by a huge portrait of the Fuehrer himself looking stern but smart as you enter?
The cross in the restaurant’s name refers to the swastika that symbolized the Nazi regime. Actually, the swastika has its roots in ancient Indian Hindu tradition and remains a sacred symbol for Hindus. Nazi theorists appropriated it to bolster their central hypothesis of the Aryan origins of the German people.
Tags: hitler, restaurant, india, swastika
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As reported by news.com.au in August, other people could spend years carefully planning a breakout, but Detlef Federsohn, 23 wanted the exact opposite.
He missed prison life so much that he attempted to break back in after being released, having spent 2 years in Josefstadt prison for theft.
Unfortunately he was arrested when he was spotted on the roof of the jail.
Asked, he said: “Life is so much easier on the inside. They feed you, do your washing and let you watch TV, which I can tell you is a lot more than my mum does. So I thought if I could sneak back in I would blend in with the others and the screws wouldn’t notice.”
That reminds me of the infamous Kadus song of the early 80s.
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Paris Hilton breaks world record
04-Oct-06
….as the world’s most overrated celebrity, according to The Sun (UK).
Obviously, the hotel heiress might not be too happy at the accolade given to her by no less an authority than the Guinness Book Of World Records.
As the newsreport said:
it’s not for her, erm, acting skills or singing. A spokesperson for the book says it took its info from a number of magazine polls. Readers voted on their least favorite and most overrated celebrity and Paris’s name kept coming up on top.
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According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), the greatest footballers of the last century are ordered as follows:
- Pele (Brazil, 3-time World Cup winner, including 2 goals in the 1958 final as a 17 year old – possibly will never be bettered)
- Cruyff (Holland, at the heart of “total football”, Ajax won 3 consecutive European Cups with him)
- Beckenbauer (Germany)
- Di Stefano (Argentina, Real Madrid)
- Maradona (only 5th???)
- Puskas (Hungary, almost invincible in 1954 World Cup, unbeaten for a few years)
- Michel Platini (IMHO, Zidane was better than him)
- Garrincha (Brazil)
- Eusebio (Portugal, better than Figo or Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Bobby Charlton (only Englishman in the top 10)
Honourable mentions: George Best is at 16th [one of the greatest natural talent ever], Gerd Muller 13th [the greatest goalscoring machine ever].
But where’s Zidane??? He’s not anywhere in the whole list.
And the greatest goalkeepers are ordered as follows:
- Lev Yashin (1002 pts)
- Gordon Banks (717 pts – “greatest save ever” – saved Pele’s header)
- Dino Zoff (661 pts)
- Maier
- Zamora
- Chilavert
- Schmeichel
- Shilton
- Planicka
- Carrizo
How did they arrive at these conclusions? By voting of course.
But IMHO, Diego Maradona is the greatest, better than Pele. Because he was the inspiration behind an average Argentinian side in their 1986 triumph and 1990 final apperance. Compare that to Pele’s world class teammates.
Further, according to IFFHS, Cha Bum Kum (Korea) was the greatest ever Asian player, and that Mokhtar Dahari is the only Malaysian non-goalkeeper listed, at joint 30th. Chow Chee Keong is the only Malaysian goalkeeper listed: 10th. Fandi Ahmad (Singapore) is rated better than Mokhtar at 29th.
But I was shocked at seeing the state of Ferenc Puskas, the legendary Hungarian (on left, Hugo Sanchez is on the right)
He’s voted the 6th greatest player of the century, just behind Maradona and rated better than even the likes of Platini, Eusebio and Gerd Muller!
Don’t tell me he can still run for 90 minutes. He should be a sumo wrestler.
Tags: greatest footballers, football, soccer
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Best ever IKEA catalogue
01-Oct-06
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 30th August 2006 that the latest IKEA catalog showed a pet dog on the inside cover appeared to have a human-sized penis.
Too late to stop it, already 175 million have been printed and sent to 35 countries.
“The dog seems to be enjoying the IKEA’s office furniture a little too much.”
Party poopers at IKEA’s PR dept says that “it’s just the dog’s leg” and that the pictures “have definitely not been tampered with.”
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