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The Most Bizarre Moments!

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:02:00 +0000

Some Very Cool Moments Just For You.

Giant Donut Made of Donuts

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:58:00 +0000

IF Homer Simpson thought heaven was the episode where he was in hell
with a never-ending supply of doughnuts, then Circular Quay this morning
would have come a close second. To celebrate the release of The Simpsons
Movie on dvd, the Simpsons family oversaw the construction of the world’s
largest doughnut.
And the numbers?
It took 40 people over nine hours to build, using over 90,000 doughnuts, half
a tonne of pink icing and 30kg of sprinkles from Donut King.
The giant doughnut measures six metres and weighs a whopping 3.5 tonnes,
which is the equivalent of two rhinoceroses.
Once the giant doughnut’s media duties are complete, the doughnuts will be
donated to Oz Harvest, a Sydney-based charity that collects excess food for
organisations that feed disadvantaged men, women and children.

Gifts for the Extravagant

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:53:00 +0000

Still no ideas on what to get your special someone this Christmas, here are some suggestions…

Crystal-encrusted toilet bowl designed by Jemmah Wright.

21kg gold Christmas tree decorated with 240 pieces of jewelry including diamonds and pearls, made by Japanese jeweler Ginza Tanaka.

Your own personal bust made in bronze, silver, gold and other precious metal made by Wrightson & Platt.

Miracle Bra made by Victoria’s Secret and designer Martin Katz. It is adorned with 3575 black diamonds, 117 white diamonds and 34 rubies… only.

Champagne holder made of pure gold for your Christmas party?

Fragrance by Clive Christian sealed with a cap decorated with gold and diamonds.

Fuzzball table for the guys? This is made in Austria and covered with 150,000 crystals

Think this is a fragrance decorated with 6500 Swarovski crystals.

One for the tech geeks, golden headphones with 59 diamonds on each side.

Laptop designed by Aynao Kimera made in 24-carat gold and decorated with 12,000 crystals.

Another one for the geeks, a diamond-encrusted mouse? 59 diamonds in all.

An exclusive Teddy bear released on the 125-year anniversary of the birth of the famous producer of the bear campaign. This bear is made in golden fleece of lurex, sapphire eyes and golden nose and mouth. Be careful what your kids do with it

Swimsuit for $92,000 made by Japanese designer and jeweler Ginza Tanaka. It took more than a month to extract the finest gold threads and to join them together to make this swimsuit that is probably never gonna get wet.

How about a bra made with 630g of pure gold, 7.5-carats of diamonds and taking more than 2000 hours of work by a Chinese jeweler? $108,000.

Another bra for $160,000.

Linen lingerie made of gold for $260,000. It contains 950g of pure gold and was created by a Chinese jeweler that is not for sale but display only. Of course, with the right price, anything can be bought.

This bra is a whooping $1,890,000! It is made of gold and diamonds and made by a Korean company.

Fantasy Bra by Victoria’s Secret worth $6.5M and comes included with 2000 diamonds and 800-carats.

Another version of the Fastasy Bra by VS costing $12.5M made of white gold, 2900 small diamonds (101-carats) and 22 rubies.

Fantasy Bra for $10M made of white gold, diamonds and 2900 diamonds weighing a total of 70-carats.

Fantasy Bra for $10M made of diamonds, sapphires and other precious stones weighing a total of 500-carats.

Fantasy Bra - $4.5M.

Fantasy Bra - $15M made of rubies and diamonds.

Lacy gold bra made by Chinese designer Zhou Ningxin with a total of 458 grams of gold.

Nature's Fearless Fighting

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:19:00 +0000

A pair of gulls fight in mid-air. Conflict is incredibly commonplace within the animal kingdom. Quite often the fights are short and based on display rather than actual physical contact and so it is difficult to capture on film. The photographer must be incredibly quick in order to get that photograph. This particular spat, for example, could have been over in seconds.

Often the fighting is between alpha males who are looking to secure dominance over a single female or perhaps even a group. The dominance of the alpha male will ensure that it is his genes that are passed on to the next generation. In many species, when a new alpha male takes over, he will deliberately seek out and kill and offspring which he has not sired. Why should he bring up other people's kids? In other species such as the meerkat and Prairie dog it may be the females who occasionally commit infanticide in the fight to get their genes in to the next generation. The Prairie Dogs above are play fighting - but this is as much to practice for the real thing as to pass some time having fun.

Many animals will avoid a fight and when they find themselves in a situation where they must there is an implicit ‘trust' almost between the two animals that the fight will not lead to life-endangering injuries or lead to death. Obviously, animals do not have Emergency Rooms where they can go to get their wounds healed! Horses are an example where the fight never results in the death of one of the antagonists. Sometimes fights are caused simply because the animals are in a bad mood, in this case possibly because of overcrowding.

The fighting is often about the right to mate. The old idea of the survival of the fittest is an everyday fact of life in the animal kingdom, It may seem unfair to our sense of fair play but when animals must seek out their own food they must ensure that they have the optimum ‘equipment' with which to hunt or to gather.

The male elephant seal will run his own harem and he must protect it with his life. On average male elephant seals live four years less than the females, sometimes reaching the age of twenty. This isn't too surprising when the fact is taken in to consideration that alpha status can be reached at the age of eight. That will mean at least a dozen years of continually fending off other males. No wonder the male does not live as long as the female.

The hippo's reputation has taken a battering over recent years with many nature documentaries showing them for the bad tempered and aggressive individuals that they truly are. These are animals that show no fear in attacking crocodiles should they get in their way. However, hippos will rarely kill each other when they fight, which is more often than not about territory. If a bachelor challenges the alpha male then the fight will be over as soon as it is clear which hippo is stronger.

Additionally, single males are allowed in to the ‘stretch' of a bull alpha male as long as their behavior is submissive towards the alpha male. In this way hippo ‘pods' can number up to a hundred. Due to the size of the pods - and the animals themselves - there can often be some bad-tempered jostling for space. The differences in gender behavior have been difficult to ascertain as they are not sexually dimorphic. This means that females and young males look incredibly alike.

In all three main zebra species, young males will live together in groups. Then, when they feel the need to reproduce they will challenge the alpha male who often has a permanent harem of up to six females (except Grevy's zebra which does not have social bonds of any permanency).

The fights between the competing males often look more violent than they are and the lesser of the two will usually retreat when he knows that he has lost. At least he can go back to the bachelor herd!

Everyone knows that kangaroos box each other and in less enlightened times they were used a fairground attractions. Most boxing is play-related but it can be done for dominance of a group or when there is competition in the great mating game. The forepaws can be used to grapple and punch but the real danger are the hugely powerful hindlegs of the animal. The toenails of the hindleg are incredibly sharp and it has been known for an opponent to be disemboweled. However, most conflicts between males do not result in life threatening injuries.

These Coots are fighting over who gets to pay attention to a female. Some species of birds allow the female to choose her mate and this is usually down to the song, plumage and sometimes the ‘dance' of the male.

Fighting among males is not only restricted to mammals. Dragonflies are highly territorial and if a male strays in to the wrong territory then it will definitely mean a fight. In years when the population is large that can mean that territory can be disputed by more than one dragonfly at a time.

George Bush shoe attack

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:59:00 +0000

Sziget festival in Hungary

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:06:00 +0000

The Sziget Festival is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe, and more recently, in the world. The festival is held annually in August in Budapest, Hungary and takes place on Óbudai-sziget (”Old-Buda Island”), a landscaped island on the Danube, thus Sziget stands for Island. Currently it boasts more than 1000 performances each year.

The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile, gap-filling 1993 student event to become one of the definitive European rock festivals by the late 1990s, with about half of all visitors coming from outside Hungary, including the Anglosphere and France (11 000 French visitors in 2007). Attendancy rates surpassed the 250 000 mark in 1997 and the 350 000 mark in 2001.
Following the end of the communist era 1989, there were no longer organized camps for musicians to meet up and play, and hence a music festival was proposed as a way to bridge this gap. The festival was started in 1993, originally called Diáksziget (Students’ Island)

Sziget Festival is notable in that it contains acts from many different genres. 2006 saw, among others, a blues stage, a jazz tent, a world music stage, alongside the main stage with more typical popular rock acts.

In 2008, Sziget Festival was from the 11th to the 18th of August. The festival, instead of 7+1 days as in 2007, was 5+2 days long, with a “zero day” where the audience can watch one big concert (Iron Maiden) and a special “minus one day” called “Hungarian Song Day” where several classic Hungarian bands (including LGT, Beatrice and others) play gigs during the day.

Being located on an island, some festival goers have tried to enter by swimming across the Danube or by paddling across in an inflatable raft. The organizers very much discourage these attempts claiming that it has never worked and that, due to the tricky nature of the fast-flowing Danube river.
This first event was organized by enthusiastic music fans in their spare time and ran well over budget, taking until 1997 to repay the losses. From 1996 to 2001 it was sponsored by Pepsi and renamed Pepsi Sziget. It has been called Sziget Festival (”island festival”) since 2002

As well as Iron Maiden, R.E.M., Babyshambles, Sex Pistols, Jamiroquai, Anti-Flag, Flogging Molly, Alanis Morissette, The Killers, The Kooks, Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs, Pendulum and many other were also confirmed, the day of their performance is available at the Sziget website. The length of the festival was reduced so that the residents living in the neighborhoods nearby would have less trouble because of the noise. The organizers plan to take further steps to reduce noise: the metal stage will be open until 11 pm only and noise filtering walls will be built near the noisiest stages.

A comprehensive survey was done and published on the risk taking behavior and mood of Sziget visitors (2007) by the National Institute for Health Promotion (OEI). The survey revealed amongst others that the last sexual encounter of 9.4% of its participants was unprotected

The festival is popular with west Europeans. Around 50% of visitors come from outside Hungary, with the largest group coming from Germany. Many also come from the UK, France, Italy and The Netherlands

Steampunk Mouse

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:59:00 +0000

Terrible stuff. It looks really scary. Would you like to have it in your office?

Huge Aquariums

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:39:00 +0000

Amazingly Stunning Latest Laptop Designs

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:39:00 +0000

Funny Pig Transportations

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:16:00 +0000

Garbage sculpture

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:06:00 +0000

Someone produces yearly the tons of garbage, and coto bark- that makes from this garbage the [ofigennye] sculptures

Creative Mouse and Mouse Pads (New Pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:10:00 +0000

Cosplay Chicks

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:41:00 +0000

More bizarre Cosplay fashion and costumes of Japanese chicks. Pretty funky.

Al-Quran.. Islam's small book

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:47:00 +0000

Believe It Or Not- Painting Elephant

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:48:00 +0000

Tibetan Dogs (Do they look like Tigers )

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:02:00 +0000

Amazing More Interesting Sculptures Around The World

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:29:00 +0000

Pictures on pencils

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:52:00 +0000

The World’s Most Unusual Plants

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:38:00 +0000

Impressive Ice Sculptures (New Pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:41:00 +0000

Weird Burning Haircuts

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:58:00 +0000

There are very weird and different ways to make your hair looks great.
Today, i came accross on the weirdest way of haircutting. Ladies and
gentlemans, take a good look of the new way of haircutting...
a FLAME haircutting...

Captured Lightning - Lichtenberg Figures

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:10:00 +0000

Lichtenberg Figures are branching electric discharges (or electrical trees) that are sometimes preserved on the surface or the interior of a solid dielectric. They are named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who originally discovered and studied them.

One way that they can be produced is as follows: A sharp-pointed needle is placed perpendicular to a non-conducting plate, such as of resin, ebonite, or glass, with its point very near to or in contact with the plate, and a high voltage Leyden jar (a type of capacitor) or a static electricity generator is discharged into the needle. The electrification of the plate is now tested by sifting over it a mixture of powdered flowers of sulfur and red lead (Pb3O4 or lead tetroxide).

The negatively electrified sulfur is seen to attach itself to the positively electrified parts of the plate, and the positively electrified red lead to the negatively electrified parts. In addition to the distribution of color thereby produced, there is a marked difference in the form of the figure, according to the polarity of the electrical charge that was applied to the plate. If the charge was positive, a widely extending patch is seen on the plate, consisting of a dense nucleus, from which branches radiate in all directions; if negative, the patch is much smaller and has a sharp circular boundary entirely devoid of branches.

Modern Lichtenberg Figures can also be created within solid blocks of acrylic plastic (polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA) using a beam of electrons from a linear electron beam accelerator (or Linac, a type of particle accelerator). Inside the Linac, electrons are focused and accelerated to form a beam of high speed particles. Electrons emerging from the accelerator are moving an appreciable fraction (95 - 99+ percent) of the speed of light (relativistic velocities). The electron beam is then aimed towards an acrylic specimen. When the relativistic electrons hit the acrylic, they easily penetrate the surface, slowing down as they collide with the molecules inside the plastic, and finally coming to rest deep inside the specimen. Since acrylic is an excellent electrical insulator, the electrons inside the specimen are temporarily trapped. Under continued irradiation by the beam, the excess electrons form a plane of negative charge inside the specimen. As the charge builds, the effective voltage inside the specimen can reach millions of volts. Ultimately the huge electrical stress exceeds the dielectric strength of the plastic, causing it to suddenly become conductive in a process called dielectric breakdown.

On the Edge of the Cliff!

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:52:00 +0000

Interesting Bus Stops

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Toilet Paper Brides

noreply@blogger.com (Damn Amazing) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:03:00 +0000