It’s not just a photo or image
Posted by: superbloink on: December 3, 2009
I found a few interesting images while browsing through someone’s travel blog. It’s amazing how some people can create simple images and turn them into something not just plain images or symbols but also something that send out meaningful messages. Images that has a bit of humor in it, images that serve as a reminder or an inspiration, images that talk about life, women, men, work, career, travel, love, etc.
I only have a few words to write about this blog post and I’ll let the pictures do the talking. Viewers, enjoy and judge it for yourself!
Eggs troubled by a choco-maniac…
This looks yummy! Nicely made, fresh from the oven. “Cookie Monster” cupcakes in a tray.
Newly released video game, the Filipino version of classic all time favorite video game Pacman.
You’re free to do some “PDA” at McDonald’s.
Every girl’s fairy tale dream is to walk down the isle….
And to walk down the isle of flowers makes it extra special.
This beats any hollywood celebrity couple photos you have seen. I’d rather see these kind of photos than Tomkat or Brangelina beach photos.
Yeah rock on grandma!
Animals with visual problems.
Apple or Mac???
‘Esc’ trying to escape from the keyboard.
The Prophecies: Believe ‘Em or Not
Posted by: superbloink on: October 16, 2009
I’ve read a lot of websites talking about these different prophecies. It doesn’t matter if these things are really going to happen or not, if we have to believe these things or not; but for those who are curious, we want to know what are the possibilities. Prophecies are like warnings, reminders, sort of a wake up call; and to those who anticipate it, prophecies are like a preparation for them.
Here I compiled a few videos from History Channel’s Nostradamus Effect (Episodes 1 to 3)
Episode 1 – The Third Anti-Christ
http://www.quicktvonline.com/2009/09/nostradamus-effect-s01e01.html
Episode 2 – Da Vinci’s Armageddon
http://www.quicktvonline.com/2009/09/nostradamus-effect-s01e02.html
Episode 3 – Extinction 2012
http://www.quicktvonline.com/2009/09/nostradamus-effect-s01e03.html
Episode 4 – Hitler’s Blood Oath
http://www.wisevid.com/view_video.php?viewkey=75yg3wrjsadi13k53535
Episode 5 – The Apocalypse Code
http://www.wisevid.com/view_video.php?viewkey=5gmw7qnug05zv6p73737
The Nostradamus Effect series presents the most chilling prophecies generated over time by closely examining today’s global events and relating them back to a particular prophecy. A number of experts will deconstruct the prophecies of Nostradamus and of others contained in the Bible, within mythology, hieroglyphs and other ancient texts to identify remarkable correlations between today’s unfolding events and a particular prediction from history. To get up-to-date videos and for the complete list of episodes, go to History Channel’s website.
Tags: antichrist, bible, calendar, day, end, mayan, mystery, nostradamus, prediction, prophecy, revelation, video
Amazing Facts: Foods
Posted by: superbloink on: June 16, 2009
Have you ever wondered how some foods were produced and where they came from? Foods aren’t just meant for the daily consumption of our body, some foods can also be used as household cleaner and even used for building structures! Read and feed your mind with these amazing facts while eating your favorite snack.
- Cilantro comes from the same plant as the coriander spice.
- The coriander plant has long been used in folk medicine and it’s juice is even believed to help cure acne when applied to the face like toner.
- Eating a handful or almonds or other nuts each day has been shown to help stabilize blood sugar levels, reduce the risk of cancer, lower cholesterol levels and help sustain weight loss.
- Scotland’s national dish called “Haggis” is made of the heart, liver, lungs and small intestines of a calf. It is then bolled in the animal’s stomach and seasoned with salt, pepper and onions.
- Trans Fatty Acids (TFA’s) are an unspoilable substance that’s cheap, can prolong shelf life, allow easy transport, provide solidarity at room temperature and increase suitability for commercial frying.
- Food that contain TFA’s are commonly found in baked goods, fried foods and packaged convenience foods like cookies, crackers, biscuits, pastries, pies, doughnuts, packaged frozen foods, chips, packaged popcorn, frostings, french fries, taco shells, margarine, shortening, some candies and cheeses, and fast foods.
- Peanuts are used to make dynamite. These are used to process glycerol, a sweet colorless liquid, and then it is used to make nitro-glycerin, the main component in dynamite.
- Apple pie was first made in France, then brought to England in the 11th century.
- It takes 1,218 peanuts to make only one jar of peanut butter.
- Banana plants are not trees, but are actually the world’s largest herb.
- In the next hour, 17 million sodas will be consumed in America. That’s about 600 million a day and about 5 billion a year.
- Strawberries are the only fruit that carry seeds on the outside.
- Apples, plums and strawberries are members of the rose family.
- In 1893, the US Supreme Court actually passed a law declaring tomatoes to be classified as vegetables instead of fruits.
- Color is not an indicator of ripeness on a cranberry. Cranberries that are ripe can bounce like basketballs.
- Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
- Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
- There were no turkeys, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes or pumpkin pie at the first Thanksgiving in 1621. They most likely ate geese and deer.
- Peanuts are not nuts. They are actually legumes.
- Replace white bread with whole wheat bread. Whole wheat contains as much 7g of fiber.
- There are 2 types of almonds, the ones we eat are the sweet type. The other type contain a form of cyanide and are inedible.
- Cashew shells contain the same irritant found in poison ivy. Roasting them inactivates the poison, making them safe to eat.
- Peanuts were once called “goober peas” and “monkey nuts”.
Amazing Facts: Animals
Posted by: superbloink on: June 16, 2009
Do you like animals? Would you like to have the wild and exotic ones like snakes and reptiles; or the tamed, cute, and cuddly ones like dogs and cats? Each animals have their own unique abilities. These abilities help them in catching their prey, protect them in time of danger and enable them to survive. Animals are one of the living creatures created by God; plants, trees, rocks, mountains, volcano, seas, you and me, we are all living creatures because we have life. Animals are very significant and each of them have distinct roles in sustaining our ‘eco’ system. Here are some of the things which you may not know about these animals.
- Whales are wrapped in a 20 inch layer of fat or blubber to help insulate them against cold.
- Camels have very little fat throughout their bodies and instead keep it contained in their humps.
- Turtles have no teeth.
- Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
- Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they’re crying.
- Camels can spit.
- An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
- Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
- Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
- A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth. It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc.
- Animals are either right or left handed. Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
- Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
- There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
- A frognamed Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
- The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
- The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- A cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow!).
- The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’ .
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- Ants don’t sleep.
- Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
- Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time.
- A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time.
- Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its “nose-leaf”.
- Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
- The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
- Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
- Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
- Pig’s Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
- A duck’s quack doesn’t echo anywhere.
- A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
- A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a “snake charmer”. Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.
- Many spiders have eight eyes.
- The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called “Jacobson’s organs”, on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.
- Birds don’t sweat.
- The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft
- Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts
- The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz
- Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue — more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
- Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don’t Mess with them
- An elephant can smell water three miles away
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
- The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
- Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint.
- The world’s largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.
- Mountain lionsare known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. It’s scientific name is Felis concolor, which means “cat of one color.” At one time, mountain lions were very common!
- The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar.
- Mountain lions can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!
- Mountain lions favorite food is deer, but they’ll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves.
- A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time! That’s equivalent to 40 quarter-pounder hamburgers!
- A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!
- Queen ants can live to be 30 years old.
- The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
- The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That’s bigger than your hand!
- The earthwormis a well-known fishing bait, and it is sometimes called a fishworm or angleworm. Do you know that an earthworm has five pairs of “hearts” in the front part of its body. The “hearts” help circulate the worm’s blood.
Amazing Facts: Health
Posted by: superbloink on: June 16, 2009
Learn some tips and trivia and other health issues and understand how the human body works.
General Topic
- Human milk is easier for babies to digest than other milk
- Breastfed children are less likely to be obese later in life.
- For moms, breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast and ovarian cancer and osteoporosis.
- Mothers who breastfeed lose more weight than those that do not.
- Breastfeeding helps the uterus shrink to its pre-pregnancy state.
- Employees who smoke are 50% more likely to be hospitalized, have 2 times more job-related accidents, and have absenteeism rates approximately 50% higher than non-smokers.
- People who smoked an average of 1 or more packs of cigarettes per day had 118% higher medical expenses than non-smokers.
- Studies show that people on fad diets fail to reach their weight loss goals. What’s more, those that do are more likely to put the weight back on.
- The number of fat cells in your body remains the same throughout adulthood.
- Over the course of a year, about 10% of those fat cells die. Unfortunately, our bodies are quick to replace them.
- Only proper eating habits and regular exercise are effective at shrinking those fat cells to keep you trim and lean.
- Liposuction doesn’t lower your risk of obesity related health problems. The surgery only removes fat from beneath the skin, not from around vital organs where it poses the most danger.
- Obesity is more inheritable than schizophrenia, high blood pressure, and alcoholism.
- Trans Fatty Acids (TFA’s) increase belly and body fat, increase bad cholesterol, levels diabetes risk, trigger inflammation, cause metabolic dysfunction and weaken immunity.
- Studies show that a 20 minute nap can help improve alertness, boost your mood and also increase productivity.
- In a 6 year study of Greek adults, researchers found that those who took naps at least 3 times a week had a 37% lower risk of heart related death.
- Headaches are known medically as “Cephalagia”
- Headaches are commonly caused by mild dehydration.
- Headaches can also occur as migraine headache, cluster headache or sinus headaches.
- Studies show that a typical worker’s desk has hundreds of times more bacteria than a public toilet seat. Toilet seats have an average of 49 germs per sq. inch, while an office desktop can have as much as 21,000 per sq. inch.
- A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
- If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty. If it’s reduced by 10%, you’ll die.
- You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men
- More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
- 259200 people die every day
- An average person takes in 21,600 breaths per day. Our body requires 88 pounds of oxygen per day. Sighing or yawning is a sign that you are not getting enough oxygen.
- Dream lately? Scientists say the higher your IQ, the more you dream.
- Benefits of quitting the habit of smoking:- Your breath smells better- Your stained teeth get whiter- The odor in your clothes and hair goes away- Yellow fingers and nails disappear- Food tastes better- Sense of smell returns to normal- You’re no longer out of breath
Heart and Brain
- The human brain is made up of about 70% fat.
- Recent studies indicate a 32% higher risk of heart attack or heart disease death linked to an increased Trans Fatty Acids (TFA) consumption.
- Even small consumptions of Trans Fatty Acids’s (TFA) 2% of total energy intake is consistently linked to coronary heart disease.
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
- Although brain is responsible for registering pain in the body, the brain itself has no pain receptors and feels no pain.
- The human brain is estimated to hold more than 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica
- The image of a light bulb above the head when you have an idea is right on point. The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.
- More electrical impulses are generated in one day by a single human brain than by all the telephones in the world
- There are over 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain. Stretched out, they would circle the earth more than 4 times
- The human brain is estimated to produce 70,000 different thoughts on an average day.
Mouth, Eyes, Nose and Ears
- Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
- 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day
- The less you salivate, the more susceptible you are to tooth decay. Saliva helps prevent harmful bacteria from thriving.
- By the time you reach age 60, you have a 25% chance of losing all your teeth.
- The reason why food and drinks taste bad after you brush your teeth is because a chemical in toothpaste, SLS affects the taste receptors on your tongue. It dulls the receptors that recognize sweetness and enhances the receptors that recognize bitterness. This drastically alters the taste of most foods, especially sweet and bitter ones
Hair and Fingernails
- Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. If the average man never shaved, his beard would grow to over 30 feet in his lifetime.
- Each day you lose between 6-100 strands of hair, unless you are already bald.
- Women’s hair is half the diameter of men’s hair which is why men have coarser hair than women
- Hair and nails do not continue to grow after death. The reason they appear longer is because the skin dehydrates, it pulls back from the nail bed and scalp
- Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toe nails, and the nails that are used most frequently grow the fastest.
- Human hair is indestructible. Human hair decays at an extremely slow rate and cannot be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water or other natural forces, and is resistant to many acids and corrosive chemicals.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Skin
- If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds
Hands and Feet
- Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
- Human foot is a biological miracle: strong, flexible and built to support hundreds of tons of pressure and withstand the tremendous forces of everyday living.
- About 10% to 11% of the world’s population is left-handed
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Muscles and Bones
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Wanna ride the invisible car?
Posted by: superbloink on: May 5, 2009
It’s not really an invisible car, it’s a car turned invisible through an artistic paint job and a skillful shot from a certain angle using a camera that makes it look like invisible.
Sara Watson, a student at the University of Central Lancashire (Uclan), took 3 weeks to work on this car’s paint job in the car park outside her studio at Uclan’s Hanover Building in Preston.
According to some sources, the car is now being used for advertising by the local recycling firm that donated the vehicle.
Amazing Facts: Places
Posted by: superbloink on: April 30, 2009
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Know more info about the different places here on Earth and also other facts outside our home planet. Stats of different cities, regions and countries, and other latest studies about the other planets.
Inside our Home Planet
- Paris, France has more dogs than people.
- New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
- Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
- Earth weighs 5,972,000,000, 000,000,000, 000 tons.
- 90 % of all the ice in the world is on Antarctica.
- Antarctica is the DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert.
- Antarctica is the COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter.
- More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
- There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
- “Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
Outside our Home Planet
- Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn’t have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but
at night it gets down to -300 degrees. - Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on
Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter. - Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would
float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons. - Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun… usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of
rock and ice.
Amazing Facts: History
Posted by: superbloink on: April 30, 2009
Origins of things, historical happenings and other significant events of the past.
- Chess was invented in India
- The ’place value system’ and the ‘decimal system’ were developed in 100 BC in India
- The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called ‘Mokshapat.’ The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices.
- The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn’t have any pedals? People walked it along.
- The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
- The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
- The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, 336AD in Rome.
- India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
- The worst industrial disaster in India, occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methly isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy is being felt even today.
Amazing Facts: People
Posted by: superbloink on: April 30, 2009
Famous people and ordinary men and women that are remarkable around the globe. Know their achievements, discoveries, inventions and contributions to our society.
- The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.
- A dentist invented the Electric Chair
- After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
- Abraham Lincoln’s mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
- Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not.
- The world’s tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
- The world’s known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
- Santa would have to visit 822 homes per second, travelling at over 4 million mph to visit every house on Christmas Eve.
Amazing Facts: Other
Posted by: superbloink on: April 30, 2009
Compilation of other facts, tips and trivia about the world and beyond.
- The first jack-o-lanterns were made in Ireland out of hallowed turnips. A piece of coal was inserted inside and the lantern was meant to guide the way of poor old Jack who wasn’t welcome in heaven but was barred from entering hell for tricking the devil. According to legend, the devil gave the lamp to jack so that he could walk the earth forever in limbo. When the tradition was brought to America, pumpkins were found to be easier to carve and the modern day jack-o-lantern was born.
- ‘Navigation’ is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
- The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Nou’.
- Twenty-Four- Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
- Man is the only animal who’ll eat with an enemy
- The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.
- Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have at least one radio. Most families have several radios.
- It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
- Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
- The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil
- The world’s biggest snowman stood at 113 ft. tall.
- The first Christmas card was created in 1843 and sold only 1,000 copies.
- 4 million tons of trash are generated annually from gift wrap and shopping bags alone during this season.
- Santa has different names worldwide: Kriss Kringle (Germany), Le Befana (Italy), Pere Noel (France), Deushka Moroz “Grandfather Frost” (Russia), Julinesse (Denmark).
- The tallest Christmas tree (221 ft) was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
