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Monday, February 8, 2010

Damn Cool Pics

Death Metal Rooster
Bike Show Babes
Facebook Employee Proposes to Google Girlfriend
Live Cow Fed to Tigers in Chinese Zoo in Front of Tourists
The Best of Yahoo Answers
Jumping Fail

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 08:54 AM PST

Haha, what is better? The original version or the death metal one?

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 07:33 AM PST

We go to bike shows for the love of motorcycles, but there's always something else there to raise a smile, so sit down, belt up and let us take you on a journey to the girls of the Russian bike show.

Facebook Employee Proposes to Google Girlfriend

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 06:37 AM PST

How does the Senior Platform Manager at Facebook Dave Morin propose to his Google girlfriend Brittany Bohnet? Simple, by spelling out "B. Will you marry me?" in coconuts on a a sandy beach in the Maldives and flying over it in a private charter plane while she gets to pilot it.

She obviously said yes, what girl in their right mind wouldn't and the whole thing was later posted on a Flickr gallery with a bunch of photos.

Live Cow Fed to Tigers in Chinese Zoo in Front of Tourists

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 06:25 AM PST

In China a live cow was fed to tigers to entertain tourists. A witness says that a tourist can order a cow for tigers for $200.

Source: dailymail

The Best of Yahoo Answers

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 03:18 AM PST

We know it's a free service, but before asking a question on Yahoo Answers, please be sure to use some common sense. When you ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer.

Jumping Fail

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 03:15 AM PST

Can you guess the girl that won't jump? It's simple.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Damn Cool Pics

Grammy Music Awards 2010
The Face Behind The Mask
Guys with iPhones
13-Year-Old With Lipodystrophy Looks Middle-Aged
How to Make Space Invaders Cookies

Grammy Music Awards 2010

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:57 PM PST

The 52nd annual Grammy Awards belonged to the ladies. While Taylor Swift took home album of the year and three other awards, the night's biggest winner was actually the mighty Beyonce. With her six trophies, she becomes the winningest female in Grammy history.

The Face Behind The Mask

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 06:57 AM PST

The stars behind the masks of the alien costumes we see in the movies are usually quite beautiful. What does Neytiri from Avatar really look like and just who is the human behind Darth Vader's mask? Take a look at the photos in this post to find out.

Neytiri in Avatar was played by Zoe Saldana

Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element was played by Maïwenn Le Besco

The alien in Alien was played by Bolaji Badejo

Darth Vader in the Star Wars series was played by David Prowse

"Christopher Johnson" from District 9 was played by Jason Cope

Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan in Enemy Mine was played by Louis Gossett Jr.

E.T. was played by Michael Pat Bilon

Eytukan was played by Wes Studi

Godzilla (from the original Godzilla films) was played by Haruo Nakajima

The Predator in Predator was played by Kevin Peter Hall

R2D2 in the Star Wars series was played by Kenny Baker

Chewbacca was played by Peter Mayhew

Moat (mother to Neytiri) in Avatar was played by CCH Pounder

Guys with iPhones

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 06:39 AM PST

If you are a girl, than maybe you would enjoy these photos. And the rest of you I can only suggest this post, Hot iPhone Girls.

13-Year-Old With Lipodystrophy Looks Middle-Aged

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 06:16 AM PST

At the age of 13, Zara Hartshorn already looks 50. Hartshorn, who is from Rotherham, England, suffers from a rare genetic disease known as lipodystrophy. The disease causes the supporting fatty tissue under the skin to crumble even while the skin continues to grow, often at an alarming rate.

Only around 2,000 people in the world are said to have the condition, and there is currently no known cure. The effects of the disease have caused Hartshorn a great deal of hardship and discomfort.

Sadly, lipodystrophy is a family affair for the Hartshorns: Zara's mother, Tracey, suffers from the same genetic disorder, as do two of Zara's siblings. But the affects of lipodystrophy are especially pronounced in Zara; at 13, she looks older than her 21-year-old sister Jolene and 16-year-old brother Tommy, though both also have the disease. For details read full NBC article.

How to Make Space Invaders Cookies

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:37 AM PST

This is a chunk of cookie dough made by extruding individual "pixel logs" out of a Play-Doh machine and stacking them to form a design. Flickr user SeattleJonman has a little picture tutorial if you want to see the process, it's pretty basic.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Daredevil Balances Chair Over Precipice

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:02 PM PST

French daredevil Henri Rochatin, now 65, has been performing stunts since the age of 5. In this video, he balances on a chair on two glasses which are on top of another chair, which is balanced on four glasses, over a precipice 12,486 feet high in the French Alps.

Strange Trees From Around the World

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:28 AM PST

Here are some really strange trees from around this weird wonderful world. Some are huge, some are small, but they all are unique one way or another. The funny part is that some of them are growing right in the middle of a town. Have a look for yourself.

Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 3

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:54 AM PST

Here's another big collection of funny demotivational posters. Check out the first part and second part as well.

PainStation

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:32 AM PST

PainStation was created by two German designers. It's almost a normal Pong game. But when you lose you don't just feel the dissapointment, you also feel pain. Your left hand is positioned on the Pain Execution Unit and missing the ball results in different types of pain. You may feel heat, punches or electroshocks of varying duration depending where the ball hits. The game ends when one of the players decides that he had enough pain.

The Tallest File Cabinet on Earth

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:15 AM PST

This sculpture made it to the Guiness Book of Records as the "tallest file cabinet on earth." It was built by an artist Samuel Yates somewhere in California. It's very very tall.

Gizmo's Best-ever Freeware"

Link to Gizmo's Freeware: Top selections

Free Utility Does Your PC Maintenance with the Click of a Button

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:46 PM PST

Editor Gizmo was impressed by the ease of use of the utility though he did find the registry cleaner a little over enthusiastic for his austere tastes in such matters. Still many of our site visitors were impressed. As one user said "Nice find. It's simple to use and effective. I've been looking for something like this to give to my relatives and friends so they can maintain their own PCs without calling me!"

Updated: Where To Find Great Web Apps

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:37 PM PST

This highly popular list of outstanding web applications compiled by editor Rhiannon has now been updated. Check it out; there's something for everyone here.

Free Pursuits - Your Chance to Write a Guest Post (El Niño Edition)

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Your Chance to Write a Guest Post (El Niño Edition)

Feb 04, 2010 03:30 am | Corbett Barr

Happy Thursday everyone. It is Thursday, right? The days tend to run together when you’re living in a small foreign town.

On a quick living-in-Mexico update, I have two Spanish words to tell you about: El Niño. If you haven’t heard of El Niño before, it’s not just a Mexican thing or the Spanish phrase for “the boy”. I’m referring to the weather pattern that is caused by periodic warming of surface waters in the Pacific ocean.

I’ve experienced El Niño before, living on the West Coast. It usually results in above average temperatures and above average rainfall. At least that’s what it was like in Seattle and Portland before.

In Mexico this year, at least on the Pacific Coast around 19 degrees North latititude, it has caused two big changes. First, the surf has been much better than normal near the town we’re in, which is awesome. Second, it’s been raining (with lightning) for the past couple of days like cats and dogs, which is not so awesome.

It rained so much yesterday that I started building an ark. Seriously, it was blowing sideways at what sounded like 100 km/h. We’re talking tropical storm type rain here, and it left about 3-4 inches of standing water in much of our beachfront condo.

Anyways, I’ll gladly take a little rain while living in paradise. It’s just a little shocking considering we didn’t see rain down here last winter for 4 months straight. Hopefully it will clear up in the next day or two, but in the mean time I’m getting quite a bit of work done.

Guest Post Contest

Speaking of getting work done, I have so much lined up (like the new projects I mentioned recently) that I’d like to run a few guest posts here while I’m busy.

Some of my favorite posts on this blog have been written by guest authors. Some of your favorites (or most popular, at least) were also guest posts, like Are You Putting Off Life Until Later? by Chris Garrett, 5 Lessons from a 2-Month Remote Work Experiment by Tim Leffel and The Smart Ass Guide to Dealing with Dream Zappers by Ashley Ambirge.

Writing a guest post at Free Pursuits can help you increase readership and subscribers to your own blog. A great post can be read by thousands or tens-of-thousands of readers. Just ask Ashley Ambirge. I recall she was very happy with what her guest post here did for her readership at The Middle Finger Project.

I haven’t asked for new guest posts in a while, so I’m going to run a little contest this time. If you’d like to write a guest post, you have until next Friday, the 12th of February to submit your complete article for this round. Feel free to send me an email with a proposal if you’d like to run an idea by me before you write it. Take a look at the popular articles in the sidebar if you’re curious about what types of posts do well here.

For topic inspiration, how about continuing the conversation we started last week about what lifestyle design means now, and how it’s changing? Maybe you could share a real-life story about progress you’ve made towards your own ideal lifestyle?

I’ll take the top 2-4 guest posts I receive by next Friday and will run them over the following few weeks. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments or shoot me an email. Good luck!

-Corbett
editor@freepursuits.com

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Damn Cool Pics

Smiling Dog
Launch Of Apple’s Tablet Ipad
Brilliance of the Seas
Lingerie Football
The Scroll With the Largest Number of Tigers
That's Why All Hunters have to be Good Runners

Smiling Dog

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:51 PM PST

First, all you see is a dog. A nice dog. But watch what happens when his master gets near -and be prepared to laugh!

Source: japanprobe

Launch Of Apple’s Tablet Ipad

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:06 PM PST

Apple will unveil a new tablet-style computer this morning which could revolutionize the publishing industry, but New Zealanders face a wait before it is available here.

Chief executive Steve Jobs is due to announce the new gadget – a one-piece computer with a large touch-screen – at a product launch in San Francisco.

The multimedia tablet will allow users to perform functions such as using the internet, watching movies, playing video games and reading books. It is expected to challenge Amazon and Sony in the growing e-reader market.

Specifications, in particular time is impressive :
Processor : Apple A4 1GHz
Memory : 16/32/64 GB
Display : 9,7 IPS 1024 × 768
WiFi 802.11 N
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
10 hours of battery life, 1 month of standby time
Multi-touch
Compass, speaker, microphone, accelerometer, Dock-port
Dimensions: 1.27 cm in thickness and weight of 680 grams.

Brilliance of the Seas

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 07:58 AM PST

Brilliance of the Seas is one of the word's largest cruise ships belonging to the Royal Caribbean's Radiance class. It has 5 restaurants, 13 decks and there are even a casino, an art gallery and a theater aboard.

It cruises the Mediterranean from April to January, and is based in Dubai sailing to ports around the Middle East and India from January to April, doing two repositioning cruises each year which take it through the Suez Canal.

Lingerie Football

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 07:41 AM PST

American Football is the biggest sport in the US. Huge men padded and helmeted thunder around a pitch, chasing, kicking and throwing a ball, looking for a touch down. But there is also an established female version of the game called Lingerie Football.

The Scroll With the Largest Number of Tigers

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 06:17 AM PST

A scroll featuring drawings of 2010 tigers was presented during the Shanghai Expo and is a serious candidate for the Guinness record for the scroll with the largest number of tigers.

Chinese artist Xiao Yanqing, known as the best tiger drawer in all of China, has created this impressive scroll for the upcoming Chinese New Year, known as the Year of the Tiger. His impressive achievement is now being considered for inclusion in the Guinness Book of record. Standing at over 200 meters in length, Xiao Yanqing's tiger scroll is also one of the longest scrolls in the world.

Source: imaginechina

That's Why All Hunters have to be Good Runners

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 06:08 AM PST

By the way these guys are using sleeping darts. See the rest of the pictures after the jump.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Damn Cool Pics

Love Valley
Realistic Oil Paintings by Alyssa Monks
Big Sandy Shoot
Hot iPhone Babes
Tough Guy Race 2010

Love Valley

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:20 PM PST

Love Valley in Cappadocia, Turkey is unusual, to say the least - it is not something that you see during the thirty seconds of those dizzyingly gorgeous TV adverts enticing you to visit the country - for some strange reason. Apparently, people take one look at this strange geology and think of something else entirely. This modestly named place seems to be made for those with a dirty mind.

Realistic Oil Paintings by Alyssa Monks

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:08 PM PST

Look at these extraordinarily expressive oil paintings. Sometimes it's very difficult to distinguish them from photos.

Alyssa Monks paints these images, paying meticulous attention to detail. The 31-year-old said,

"I have always wanted to paint for as long as I can remember. I took classes at school and then went to college and University before ending up at the New York Academy of Art".

The New York artist is in demand, currently showing at a prestigious exhibition at the National Academy Museum. Plans are also in the works for an exhibition at the Kunst Museum Ahlen in Germany and a museum show at the Noyes Museum in New Jersey for next summer. I certainly hope that she will expand her exhibition so that I can view more of her work in person.

Artist's Website.

Big Sandy Shoot

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 11:50 AM PST

Every year, the Big Sandy Shoot draws in hundreds of shooter from all over the world, for what is known as the "largest shoot".

The Big Sandy Shoot is a bi-annual event, held in the western desert of Arizona, where you can shoot your heart out for three straight days. Featuring a 1500 foot firing line, 1200 yard maximum range, over 1000 reactive targets and aerial targets, this is one shooting exhibition you don't want to miss, if you're into this stuff.

Machine-guns, gatling guns, bazookas, and pretty much every other type of weapon ever invented can be found at the Big Sandy Shoot. Shooters have to fork out $230 ($200 if reserved in advance) to participate and spectators just $25. Both have to sign a release waiver stating they enter the shooting range at their own risk.

The average 3.5 million rounds fired at the Big Sandy Shoot certify it as the world's biggest shooting event. I can't say that impresses me much and regarding the safety, seeing women and kids handling deadly equipment isn't very reassuring.

Hot iPhone Babes

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 11:48 AM PST

We love women and we love iPhones. Therefore it's time for a gallery packed with pretty ladies and their iPhones.

Tough Guy Race 2010

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 10:51 AM PST

The Tough Guy challenge is an endurance race held at Perton in Shropshire which attracts thousands of participants every year. The competitors must overcome 21 different obstacles, including, fire, tunnels, and swamps to complete the track.