Sunday, October 26, 2008

World's Smallest Bodybuilder!

At just 2ft 9in, Indian muscleman Aditya 'Romeo' Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.

Pint-sized Romeo is well-known in his hometown of Phagwara, India - for his ability to lift 1.5kg dumbbells - despite his overall 9kg body weight.

Every day, crowds flock to the local gym to the see the mini-muscleman in training.





10 Most Incredible Waterfalls of Ice

10 Most Incredible Waterfalls of Ice
We're used to seeing stunning images of cascading waterfalls in all their fluid glory, but have you ever wondered how they would look if Jack Frost was let loose on them? Well, you need wait no longer as we have compiled a range of fantastic frozen waterfalls।
1. This enchanting image of an ice waterfall perfectly captures the force and flow of the water underneath the ice, making it hard to comprehend how it ever manages to freeze.
2. Ice climbers flock to The Fang in Vail, Colorado. The enormous ice pillar forms from the cascading waterfall only on exceptionally cold winters, and when it does the column can measure up to 50 meters high and has been known to have a base measuring 8 meters wide.
3. If you think climbing an ice waterfall is scary, imagine the fear factor when part of the cascade breaks off and collapses to the ground mere meters from you and your buddy. That's exactly what happened climbers Albert Leichtfried and Markus Bendler on their ascent of a frozen waterfall near Hokkaido, Japan. Their friend managed to capture the frightening moment on camera. Both climbers made it to safety soon after.
4. Thick layers of ice sit on St Louis Falls in Beauharnois, Quebec. The area is home to one of the largest hydroelectric generating stations in the world.
5. This fantastic shot shows the waterfall freezing from outside in; there's still a considerable waterfall flowing within the ice lume.
6. Undulating waves and nodules of ice give this waterfall in Starved Rock State Park, Illinois, such wonderful texture.

7. This random waterfall was discovered on the road side of a seldom travelled road near Hamilton, Canada.
8. The folds at the bottom of this waterfall demonstrate how slowly waterfalls can freeze, and are in stark contrast to the jagged, spiky icicles hanging from the edge of the rock.
9. This great image was taken in Oak Creek Canyon near a place called Temple of Mother Earth on the West Fork Trail, Sedona, Arizona.
10. A simply fabulous shot from the bottom of the ice waterfall looking up. Just look how the ice has built up from the spray on surrounding twigs. That's what you call natural beauty.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Unusual Buildings

The egyptian house-USA
The dog house-Florida-USA
The castle house-San Juan-Republic Dominica

The crooked house-Polandia
The basket house-USA
Laennya
The UFO house-Florida-USA

The kettle house-Texas-USA

The hovercraft house-New Mexico-USA

The WTF house-Erie Avenue-USA


Top 15 Repulsive Dishes In The World - Most Disgusting Foods



Catepillar fungus

Caterpillar fungus is highly valued in Chinese medicine and used as crude drugs to restore energy, promote longevity and stimulate the immune system.



Bee larva





Giant grilled spiders

Two Cambodian women selling grilled spiders in Phnom Penh's central market, 09 August 2001 try to attract customers as one of them display a specimen to a passer by. Grilled insects such as those big spiders are very popular with Cambodians who eat them as snack any time during the day.



Duck fetus

Cooked just before the embryo was old enough to crack through the shell.



Poop coffee

This photo shows a villager in Indonesian island of Sumatra picking up faeces, which will then be used to make expensive and gourmet coffee called "kopi luwak




Dogs

A Chinese chef prepares to carve a carcass of a dog at a restaurant kitchen in Beijing.



Grubs

A Thai worker prepares grubs to cook.



Snake blood

A journalist tries to drink snake blood on a jungle survival program during a media training exercise June 9, 2003 at Sanggabuana mountain in Subang, West Java, Indonesia.



Fried scorpions





Rats

In this village where people eat rats, there are a dozen of rats hunters like this man and each day they sell their catch for about one dollar per kilogram.



Snake wine

A waitress pours a favorite Chinese wine, soaked with various herbs and snakes, into a glass for a customer at a restaurant in Beijing.



Grasshopper taco

Florentino Azpetia, chef at Girasoles restaurant in Mexico City, prepares a grasshopper taco (taco de chapulines), a typical Mexican delicacy, in the restaurant's kitchen 19 October 2001. Maggots (gusanos del maguey), grasshoppers (chapulines) and white ant eggs (escamoles) form part of a Mexican specialty cuisine which features over 500 edible insects and bugs.



Maggots



Fried lizard

An array of once-wriggling reptiles and arachnids is on the menu of a new Thai restaurant seeking to cash in on the country's appetite for the unusual, the owner of the restaurant said the reptiles served up by his 'experienced chefs' were also prominent ingredients in traditional Thai medicines.



Worms

A woman looks at a dish of worms during the Taipei Chinese Food Festival.

Masters of disguise: Stunning pictures of the tricks used by creatures to camouflage themselves

Hiding under lily pads and blending into their environment these species of the animal kingdom are masters of disguise.

With the ability to fade, blend and merge these animals use the art of concealment as a means of survival in the natural world.

Animals use two basic methods to conceal themselves in nature: general resemblance and special resemblance.

With general resemblance animals use colour to blend in with their habitat so that they're almost invisible.

Waiting patiently underneath this lily in the Australian swamplands, this young crocodile uses his deep green skin to blend in perfectly with its habitat, waiting to strike.

In contrast the three toed sloth in Costa Rica is almost invisible as it clings effortlessly to this tree trunk.


An endangered species, the pygmy three-toed sloth is characterised by usually blotchy, pale grey-brown fur and a tan-coloured face with a distinctive dark band across the forehead, from which long, shaggy hair hangs over the face, giving a hooded appearance.

Sloths have an unusual means of camouflage to avoid perdition; their outer fur is often coated in algae, giving the pelage a greenish tint that helps hide them in their forest habitat.

Others, like the two month old cheetah hiding under a wheel in Kenya's Masa Mara, and the grizzly bear in the snow North America, simply use their cunning and guile to remain hidden.


With special resemblance animals use a combination of colour, shape and behaviour to help them appear like something in their habitat.

Sitting in an iris flower, this goldenrod spider in France, this goldenrod spider is a member of the crab spider family. It is best known for its ability to change its colour from white to yellow in order to camouflage among flowers.

Usually found wherever there are yellow and white flowers, especially goldenrod and daisies, they eat insects, either by hunting on the ground, or by ambushing from a flower.



However the master of disguise is the mimic octopus, shown here in the Maldives.

Like the harlequin crab, they use their colours to merge into their surrounding environment.

But unlike the harlequin crab, the mimic octopus can undergo startling transformations into deadly or inedible animals so that predators avoid them.

The octopus' abilities have only recently been discovered and have been the subject of several scientific studies in recent years.




Like the mimic octopus, merlet's scorpionfish, seen here in the Lifou Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, harnesses the art of concealment to perfection.

This species tend to be dominated by colours that mimic their surroundings.

Additionally, these species are covered with numerous cirri, fleshy appendages, spines, and ridges; these appendages provide additional camouflage.

Like its name, the orchid mantis has white and pink projections over their legs, neck, and abdomen, allowing them can make a fantastic camouflage when placed on an orchid.

Regardless, these animals are so adaptable it would be easier to find Wally amongst these maters of disguise.