UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

UPDATE 18th May 2009 (2+ years later)

She is already one of the all-time greats of the sport, and quite possibly is already the greatest sportsperson, man or woman, Malaysia has ever produced. Look at these achievements:

World Open: with 3 titles, she’s 4th on the all time list. Sarah Fitz-Gerald is at the top with 5 titles, well within Nicol’s sight.

British Open: with 3 titles, she’s joint 7th on the all time list. Heather McKay is at the top with an incredible 16 titles!

Hence, one could say very well say that based on the joint number of titles won in the abovementioned 2 tournaments, the two most prestigious squash tournaments in the world, Nicol is probably the THIRD greatest female squash player of all time, who, at 3-3, is only behind Susan Devoy (4-8) and Michelle Martin (3-6).

The first Asian woman to be ranked world no.1

Became the youngest world champion in 2005, at age 22.

And all that achieved on the relatively small frame of 5′ 4″ and 50 kilograms!

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[Pic from The New Straits Times]

At 23 years of age, already she’s the greatest ever Malaysian athlete.

Who else comes close?

• She’s world no.1 in a global sport at senior level.
• She’s probably the first Malaysian ever to win a world title.
• She’s the first Malaysian ever to win her chosen sport’s most important titles in the same year (World Open and British Open)
• She’s the first Malaysian ever to successfully defend a world title at senior level (more…)
  

The Australian reports on 28th November that a South African man was fined by a court for taking time off from work by claiming that he’s pregnant! (more…)

20 years on, after The Final, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley will perform together live onstage. (more…)

To qualify, this gadget must be able to do “everything” and small enough to slide casually into a back pocket:

• smartphone,
• shoot and store photos,
• surf the Web,
• check e-mails,
• listen to music files (more…)
  

Kongo Gumi was establised in the year 578. It will close down in January 2007 after 1,400 years in operation: (more…)

Probably no woman has ever had more sex, with more men, in 24 hours than she did: 919 men to be exact. That means one man every 2 minutes, non stop, for one WHOLE DAY!! (more…)

According to bullz-eye.com, the best of all time is Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody performed in the film Wayne’s World. (more…)

As reported by angolapress.com on 10th October:

Nairobi: A Kenyan court Monday sentenced a couple to 18 months in prison each for having sexual relations inside a Mosque at Gilgil, about 100-km northwest of Nairobi. (more…)

At the height of his fame, sneering neo-punk Mr Idol is an extremely unlikely candidate to release a Christmas album.

I’d say it’s as likely as George W Bush sporting a mohican haircut.

But, he’s done it. Really done it. Damn! (more…)

Weartv.com reports that Dubya has arrived in Hawaii after his 6 hour visit to Indonesia.

That means, Ki Gendeng Pamungkas,  probably Indonesia’s top black magic practitioner has failed, as he promised:

He said the jinx would send spirits to possess Secret Service personnel guarding Bush and put them in a trance, leading them into falsely thinking the president was under attack, thus eventually causing chaos in Bogor Presidential Palace, where the American leader was scheduled to meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday.

I also read somewhere else that he promised to make Bush “bloat”.

This blog is updated less than 10 times in a year, and has mind-boggling entries like “Scratching my knee,” which says simply:

My knee had a slight itch. I reached out my hand and scratched the knee in question. The itch was relieved and I was able to continue with my activities.

But it still received an astounding 519 comments. (more…)

www.serialkillercalendar.com claims to be home of the “one and only serial killer calendar” and the serial killer poster. (more…)

As reported by Forbes Magazine.

The purple-coloured “World Card” offered to private clients of Coutts & Co. is probably the rarest, most exclusive credit card of all. Only about 100 people are said to have been invited to join, including Queen Elizabeth II. (more…)

Terrence D Chalk, 44, was CEO of Compulinx Managed Services Inc.

Pic above is from a newsrelease of hospiceofwestchester.com. Mr Chalk possibly the one on the left. (more…)

As reported by New Straits Times, 12th November 2006:

Sudar Marto of Kampung Duyong, Melaka, 105 married Ely Maryulianti Rahmat, 22 in September.

That’s a staggering 83-year age difference.

That is 12 years more than Muhamad Noor and Wook Kundor’s 71-year age gap, as I reported earlier, although in this case, the groom is the older person. (more…)

It’s a 3 month old infant!

On 1st November 2006, mid-day.com reports that in Bihar, India, police have named a three-month-old boy in a bus robbery case in this district. (more…)

The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History is a 1978 book by Michael H. Hart. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, in his opinion, most influenced human history. Since publication the book has been hotly debated and its concept widely copied. It is important to note that Dr. Hart did not rank the greatest people. His criterion was influence.

Hart’s Top 15 (from the 1992 edition): (more…)

Courier-journal.com reports on 11th October 2006:

Imagine a home-theater system with images so crisp they surpass those in a movie theater.

Or envision sitting in a classroom surrounded by movie screens and taking a virtual trip inside Egyptian pyramids. The images are so clear they blur the line between video and reality. (more…)

http://8-topsites.com

http://digg4it.com (more…)

This is a bit old, but I think that would go to John Carpenter, the first winner of a million dollars in any edition of the show.

He managed it without using any of his 3 lifelines, except for the final question, which he didn’t need help at all, but used a lifeline anyway for a totally unexpected purpose. (more…)

To qualify, you need to get the first question wrong, live on camera.

Apparently quite a few people achieved this dubious feat and embarrass themselves in the process.

One of them is Chase Sampson from Nashville. He’s not the first Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’s player to go out at USD100 and certainly won’t be the last.

(more…)

According to bit-tech.net, Katamari Damacy is king of the crazy games:

At first glance, it seems quite normal, revolving around a King and a Prince, who are trying to put the universe back together after accidentally destroying it.

The fact that the son builds stars by rolling a big ball of junk around around does not, apparently, detract from the plotline or even make the idea of a story here unfeasible. Rolling around the world rolling up everyday objects in to a large ball of katamari results in a pile of junk large enough to make a star. The developers even decided to expand the story in the PSP game Me and My Katamari. The King and the Prince decide to go on holiday to a tropical island to take a break from all their star constructing.

However, as can be expected when dealing with the King of All Cosmos, everything goes wrong (how did this guy actually become King?) and his son has to go about rectifying things by building custom planets for the islands inhabitants, such as a tortoise and an ant. Arguments ensue, but eventually the 5cm wonder child is sent off the Sunflower Continent as that’s the best place to build planets from… Apparently. That’s without counting We Love Katamari, which has a self-referential plotline dealing with how the King reponds to his new-found fame on Earth.

The music adds to the sense of insanity, as a strange Japanese chap recites “Da dum, dee dee da da dum, dar dar, dee Katmari Damacy…” repeatedly.

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Tags: gaming, games, videogames

In case you’ve misplaced that opener, you can use the following tricks:

• use your arm (”Brazilian way”)
• use a piece of paper
• use another bottle
• use a hat
• use Ronaldinho (the gadget, not the soccer player) (more…)
  

Earlier this year, Burger King recently announced the arrival of the QuadStacker (above) to its restaurants. It’s made up of bacon, cheese, creamy sauce and burger patties. No veggies.

So you get four patties, four slices of cheese and eight slices of bacon. It also has about 1,000 calories, which is actually only a few more than a double Whopper with cheese. (more…)

According to neatorama.com, Mental Floss magazine has published, and attempted to answer, the 25 most important questions in the history of the universe.

It attempts to answer questions like :

Why Do Battery Letters Skip from A to C? Was There Ever a B-Cell Battery?

…of which the answer given is: (more…)

Cracked.com lists eleven horror movies that are so bad that in hindsight, they are good! (more…)

As reported by Australia’s news.com back in August 2006, Michael John Neal, 48 has condom phobia and has a “what the hell” attitute towards his sexual partners. He’s already HIV positive and has allegedly infected at least 5 men. Shockingly, he told a court that he had wanted to contract the deadly virus. (more…)

On 1st November 2006 Jackson Pollock’s “No.5, 1948″ was sold for USD140 million (more than half a billion ringgit), according to the New York Times.

It was sold by media mogul David Geffen to Mexican financier David Martinez. So two Davids doing good business here. (more…)

A composite photo of the “Parete Gaudenziana” a fresco painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari, dated 1513 is claimed to be the largest digital photo on the Net, at 8.6 Gigapixel.

To be precise, 96,679 pixels x 89,000 pixels! (more…)

The North and South Yungas Roads in Bolivia make the road to my village look like a three lane highway.

(more…)

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Tags: geopathy, pseudoscience, geopathic stress, carstens

The TV academy faced uncomfortable questions about its procedures after Ellen Burstyn was nominated for a best supporting actress Emmy for a 14-second performance. (more…)