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NIKON COOLPIX
CAMERA PROJECTOR

What's the fun in squinting at snapshots on a two-inch LCD? Instead, try projecting your latest stills and video clips onto the nearest wall, courtesy of Nikon's latest (but pricey) compact camera.

Announced today and set for release in September for a hefty $429, the 12.1-megapixel Coolpix S1000pj looks like your typical compact digicam, complete with a 28mm wide-angle lens, flash, and a 2.7-inch LCD in back.

But the Nikon has a cool trick up its sleeves: a tiny, built-in projector capable of throwing a 40-inch image onto any nearby surface, good for showing off individual snapshots, slideshows, or even clips you've captured with the S1000pj's video recorder.

Expect VGA resolution from the Coolpix's pico projector, according to Nikon, as well as an hour of battery life. Also in the box: a projector stand, as well as a remote that controls the projector or acts as a shutter release.

Nikon also promises that the S1000pj won't shirk its usual imaging duties, packing in 5x optical/4x digital zoom, image stabilization, "face-priority" auto focus, and a "best shot selector" mode that takes a burst of shots and picks the one with the sharpest focus.

Overall? Pretty cool, despite the stiff price tag. Indeed, I hope we see a lot more of these itty, bitty projectors in cameras and cell phones in the future—and as pico projectors become more and more common (as I hope they do), we can expect prices to fall accordingly.

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Q A D D A F I

The Statesman from Libya - Muammar Al Qaddafi : the playboy, the rocker, the actor or whatever; no doubt, he is too trendy.

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T O M A T I N A

La Tomatina is an annual tomato fight festival in Bunol, Spain.
More than 45000 people from all over the world will participate in this year's Tomatina. 100 tons of rotten and over-ripe tomatoes have been prepared for the festival. Looks like a lot of fun . Those pictures have been taken 26 August 2009, during the opening fight.

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A BABY IS BEING BORN

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AMAZING BABY ROCKER

This enterprising Linux user wrote a script that rhythmically opens and closes the CD tray on a tower PC; the CD tray is connected to the baby's rocking seat. As the tray cycles, the baby rocks. Lovely.

PLANT EATS FROG

Like other plants, Venus Flytraps gather nutrients from gases in the air and nutrients in the soil. However, they live in poor soil and are healthier if they get nutrients from insects. Carnivorous plants live all over the world but Venus' Flytraps live only in select boggy areas in North and South Carolina. Because of people's fascination with these plants, they collected many of them and they became endangered. Venus' Flytraps today are grown in greenhouses.

The leaves of Venus' Flytrap open wide and on them are short, stiff hairs called trigger or sensitive hairs. When anything touches these hairs enough to bend them, the two lobes of the leaves snap shut trapping whatever is inside. The trap will shut in less than a second. The trap doesn't close all of the way at first. It is thought that it stays open for a few seconds in order to allow very small insects to escape because they wouldn't provide enough food. If the object isn't food, e.g., a stone, or a nut, the trap will reopen in about twelve hours and 'spit' it out.

Picture of Venus' Flytrap in the wild.
When the trap closes over food, the cilia. finger-like projections, keep larger insects inside. Fold your hands together lacing your fingers to see what the trap looks like. In a few minutes the trap will shut tightly and form an air-tight seal in order to keep the digestive fluids inside and bacteria out.

Dionaea muscipula (Venus Flytrap) with the carcass of a partially digested insect. The exoskeleton of the insect can not be digested by the flytrap, so it remains when the leaf reopens.
If an insect is too large it will stick out of the trap. This allows bacteria and molds on the insect to thrive. Eventually the trap turns black, rots and falls off.

The trap constricts tightly around the insect and secretes digestive juices, much like those in your stomach. It dissolves the soft, inner parts of the insect, but not the tough, outer part called the exoskeleton. At the end of the digestive process, which takes from five to twelve days, the trap reabsorbs the digestive fluid and then reopens. The leftover parts of the insect, the exoskeleton, blow away in the wind or are washed away by rain. The time it takes for the trap to reopen depends on the size of the insect, temperature, the age of the trap, and the number of times it has gone through this process.

If you feed a Venus Flytrap something that doesn't move, e.g., a dead insect, it will not close tightly over it. You need to squeeze the trap and move the food around so it imitates the action of a live insect.

The lobe manufactures digestive juices and an antiseptic juice. This keeps the insect from decaying over the few days it is in the trap and purifies prey that it captures.
carnivorous plants - Drosophyllum-4

People still do not understand fully how the trap closes. The Venus' Flytrap does not have a nervous system or any muscles or tendons. Scientists theorize that it moves from some type of fluid pressure activated by an actual electrical current that runs through each lobe.

How to Grow

The Venus Flytrap is one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow. If you wish to grow one or more, they have only a few requirements such as, wet roots, high humidity, full sunlight, and poor, acidic soil. It comes shipped to you as a bulb or rhizome. Plant it root side down so that the top of the bulb is even with the soil. A recommended soil mixture is one that contains sphagnum moss and sand. Do not add fertilizer or lime. Your plants will do better if you transplant them into new soil every few years.

In order to provide high humidity for your Venus Flytrap, plant it in a terrarium or in a glass container with a small opening. An old aquarium or fish bowl make good containers for this purpose. You need to watch your terrarium in the summer because the temperature inside the glass may get too hot. Two hours in the sun may be sufficient. If your plants wilt, then they need to come out of the sun sooner. Just the opposite is true for winter. If it gets very cold in your area you may need to move your plants away from the window or cover them at night in order to keep them warm and moist. However, your Venus' Flytrap will experience a dormant period in the winter, from Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day so it needs fewer hours of daylight and cooler temperatures.

Another way is to plant it in a pot and place the pot in a larger container such as a bucket. Partially cover the top of the bucket with a piece of glass or Plexiglas. Don't cover the entire top because air needs to circulate.

If you grow your plant outside, it will get enough insects to eat. If it rains the container may fill up with water but this will not hurt the plants, they can live underwater for months. If you grow your plant inside you will need to feed it insects. A couple of houseflies or small slugs per month is enough during the growing season. Do your plant a favor and do NOT feed it hamburger! Indigestion, rot may occur and usually your plant will die. Find a "just right" sized bug instead!

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CANNABIS CHEMICALS
may help fight PROSTATE CANCER

By Ben HirschlerPosted 2009/08/19 at 2:22 am EDT

LONDON, Aug. 19, 2009 (Reuters) — Chemicals in cannabis have been found to stop prostate cancer cells from growing in the laboratory, suggesting that cannabis-based medicines could one day help fight the disease, scientists said Wednesday.

After working initially with human cancer cell lines, Ines Diaz-Laviada and colleagues from the University of Alcala in Madrid also tested one compound on mice and discovered it produced a significant reduction in tumor growth.

Their research, published in the British Journal of Cancer, underlines the growing interest in the medical use of active chemicals called cannabinoids, which are found in marijuana.

Experts, however, stressed that the research was still exploratory and many more years of testing would be needed to work out how to apply the findings to the treatment of cancer in humans.

"This is interesting research which opens a new avenue to explore potential drug targets but it is at a very early stage," said Lesley Walker, director of cancer information at Cancer Research UK, which owns the journal.

"It absolutely isn't the case that men might be able to fight prostate cancer by smoking cannabis," she added

The cannabinoids tested by the Spanish team are thought to work against prostate cancer because they block a receptor, or molecular doorway, on the surface of tumour cells. This stops them from dividing.

In effect, the cancer cell receptors can recognize and "talk to" chemicals found in cannabis, said Diaz-Laviada.

"These chemicals can stop the division and growth of prostate cancer cells and could become a target for new research into potential drugs to treat prostate cancer," she said.

Her team's work with two cannabinoids -- called methanandamide and JWH-015 -- is the first demonstration that such cannabis chemicals prevent cancer cells from multiplying.

Some drug companies are already exploring the possibilities of cannabinoids in cancer, including British-based cannabis medicine specialist GW Pharmaceuticals.

It is collaborating with Japan's Otsuka on early-stage research into using cannabis extracts to tackle prostate cancer -- the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men -- as well as breast and brain cancer.

GW has already developed an under-the-tongue spray called Sativex for the relief of some of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, which it plans to market in Europe with Bayer and Almirall.

Other attempts to exploit the cannibinoid system have met with mixed success. Sanofi-AventisAcomplia from the market last year because of links to mental disorders. was forced to withdraw its weight-loss drug.

(Editing by Simon Jessop)

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DRIVING HELL

If accident like this could have claimed the driver's life instantly; however, the driver of this LandRover was luckily unharmed as it is right-hand drive.

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN CAR
Believe it or not, in this Economic Crisis there still the richest people enjoy life like this....

Not only this but some are happy with Platinum Car...

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AWESOME SAND SCULPTURES

Sand sculptures resembles a miniature building or human often a castle. The two basic building ingredients, sand and water, are available in abundance on a sandy beach, so most sand play takes place there. Tidal beaches generally have sand that limits height and structure because of the shape of the sand grains. Good sand sculpture sand is somewhat dirty, having silt and clay that helps lock the irregular shaped sand grains together.

Women’s Day has posted collection of 10 awesome sand sculptures of human face. Showcasing everything from agony to exhilaration, these are the 10 sand-crafted expressions that masterfully exemplify real human emotions.

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ONE SHOT SIX BABIES

Women Gives Birth to 6 Childs! - The most amazing videos are a click away

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DANCE, DANCING TRAFFIC COP

Rhode Island traffic cop Tony Lapore gets down and funky directing motorists. Question is, does anyone understand his hand gestures?

Dancing Traffic Cop - Watch a funny movie here

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OVAL OFFICE CONCERT
[ Obama vs. McCain ]

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TRIBUTE TO MJ
[US PRESIDENT]

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MICHAEL'S CHANGING FACE

THE SMALLEST MEETS THE LONGEST LEGS

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A TALE OF SMALLEST GIRL

The shocking story of a little girl - Taylor, 13yo, 2ft 9 inch, 17lbs, who has a disease that makes her smaller or shorter.... you can see her everyday life during school or the mall.

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THE TRAGIC STORY of
THE WORLD TALLEST WOMAN

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GIANT SQUID

ANATOMY
NATURAL BORN BABY
3D Animation presentation.

This simplified 3D medical animation depicts a normal vaginal birth using a time-lapse effect. Strong uterine contractions push the fetus (baby) forcibly through the birth canal during labor. Concurrently, a picture-in-picture effect at the upper right shows the baby's head moving through the mother's pelvic outlet.

This 3D medical animation of shoulder dystocia in a newborn shows a vaginal delivery with the uterus removed for greater visibility of the brachial plexus in the neck and shoulder area of the fetus. As the baby is pushed through the mother's pelvic outlet during labor, we see the infant's shoulder being trapped beneath the mother's pelvic bone (pubic symphysis) causing the nerves of the brachial plexus to be stretched and injured. This form of brachial plexus injury is called neuropraxia, and may result in symptoms including a limp or paralyzed arm; lack of muscle control in the arm, hand, or wrist; and lack of feeling or sensation in the arm or hand. See more 3D medical animations from Nucleus Medical Art.

LABANON
A GIRL EYES PRODUCES CRYSTALS
A Lebanese girl has eyes which are producing an average of eight small crystals a day.

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ROBOTIC SURGERY
for Prostate Cancer

In the field of robotic prostate- cancer treatment, Florida Hospital surgeon Vipul Patel is a rock star.

Patel, who has performed the most robotic surgeries in the world, is an internationally recognized expert in a type of surgical procedure less invasive than traditional prostatectomies. Men who undergo the surgery are more likely to maintain their bladder control and sexual function.

Patel's patients are a very appreciative bunch.

Dunedin businessman Ralph Jordan is president of Patel's fan club. He was the doctor's first patient at Celebration Health, part of the Florida Hospital system. Jordan was so pleased with Patel's surgical skill and bedside manner that he started a Web site, vipfriendsonline.com. The site is filled with glowing testimonials from Jordan and other patients.

"It seems like when someone literally helps cure you of cancer, you feel this need to give back," said Jordan, 68.

Patel is largely the reason Florida Hospital's Cancer Center is one of five programs recently selected to participate in the Association of Community Cancer Centers' prostate-cancer best-practices project. Florida Hospital, where Patel is medical director of the Global Robotic Institute, will learn and share information about model prostate-cancer programs across the country.

"The need for education and support for prostate care is clearly unmet in many communities," said the association's executive director, Christian Downs.

The best-practices project, funded by Pfizer Inc. pharmaceuticals, is designed to help hospitals and other medical facilities across the country improve prostate-cancer care, Downs said.

More than 185,000 men developed prostate cancer, and nearly 29,000 died from the disease in 2005, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Florida, there were 13,253 cases and 2,154 deaths.

Dexterous robot

Patel, who has performed more than 3,000 operations on men locally and worldwide, uses a robotic system called da Vinci to remove cancerous tumors. Seated at a console just a few feet from the operating table, Patel pushes a joystick and foot controls to remotely manipulate robotic arms at the bedside. One arm positions a three-dimensional, high-resolution camera, while the other two arms control tiny surgical instruments. Patel said the robot can remove a cancerous prostate with less anesthesia, less blood loss and need for transfusion. More important, robot-assisted prostatectomies are less likely to cause nerve damage that can lead to permanent incontinence and impotence. Patient outcomes are the best indicator of a model prostate-cancer care, Patel said. "Best practices isn't just about the type of surgical option you use, it's about the type of physicians you select, it's the nursing care, it's the support you get from administration," he said, commenting on Florida Hospital's best-practices recognition. "They all combine to provide the best level of care." Patel supports a multidisciplinary approach to prostate-cancer care in which patients not only visit with their surgeon, but they also are seen by a urologist, radiation specialist and medical oncologist. "Men should have experts to inform them about their best treatment options, provide second opinions," Patel said. "Thinking that your only option is to have open surgery and lose your sexual function is not acceptable." As for Jordan and his other devotees, Patel said they represent a growing trend among men diagnosed with prostate cancer. "Prostate cancer is coming into its own in terms of the level of knowledge and the level of public awareness," Patel said. "Men are doing their homework and asking questions."

Did his research first

When Jordan was diagnosed with cancer in July 2007, a local urologist recommended he undergo a traditional radical prostatectomy right away.

"Thank God I knew enough to do a little research first," Jordan said.

He learned that there was a variety of treatment approaches. In addition to a radical prostatectomy, where the entire prostate gland and nearby lymph nodes are removed, some doctors employ radiation therapy.

A device like an X-ray machine is used, or radioactive pellets called "seeds" are injected into the prostate gland.

For slow-growing cancers, some doctors recommend simply monitoring the tumor.

Jordan learned his tumor was growing slowly, and that he had time to determine what was best for him. In his research, Patel's name kept popping up.

Jordan, whose company specializes in outsourcing specialized surgical personnel, also contacted the manufacturer of the robot Patel uses in his surgeries.

Again, Patel got rave reviews.

"When he actually called me at home one night to talk to me about my surgery, that sort of clinched it," Jordan said.

Willing to open up

Dr. Richard Reiling, an advisory member to the best-practices project and former president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers, applauds men such as Jordan for seeking out information and sharing it with other men.

"It used to be something men didn't talk about because it meant discussing things like incontinence, erectile dysfunction and that uncomfortable exam in your doctor's office," Reiling said. "But society is opening up. Men are more willing to talk about things men of my generation once thought were too personal."

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TESTIMONY

I was a patient for Dr. Patel, but for Kidney Cancer. Similar options as to Prostate cancer - cut the patient open (traditional method) or poke a few holes in him (robotics). With my vanity and curiousity, I chose the latter. Coincidently, my sister's friend was also having the same surgery in D.C., but the traditional way.

Here are the comparisons: After my surgery, I was able to scoot myself from operating table to my room bed - illustrating that I was capable of movement and had some strength. The other patient was out cold for a day. I had most of my gizmos and stuff removed from my body throughout the night - illustrating that my body is adjusting quickly to the bodily changes that had occurred. In summary, I was walking (slowly) the next morning, out of the hospital the next day, and back to work in just a few days (light work). My sister's friend - out of commission for 6 weeks and a huge stomach scar. Me, no texture scabs, but the skin where the 4 holes were poked are a bit darker than the surrounding. The size of the holes are about as thick as a pencil.

I would recommend looking into Dr. Patel for robotic surgery if you desire a quicker recovery and minimal bodily changes (very good for us vain people). Coincidently, my best friend is also having kidney stones removed from Dr. Patel, thus showing you the variety of procedures his office can handle!

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PENITENTES

Name after peak-hooded New Mexican monks (lower right below), Penitentes are dazzling naturally-forming ice blades that stick up at sharp angles toward the sun. Rarely found except at high altitudes, they can grow up taller than human and form in vast fields. As ice melts in particular patterns, "Valleys " formed by initial mellts leave 'mountains' in their wake. Strangely, these formations ultimately slow the melting process as the peaks cast shadows on the deeper surfaces below and allow for winds to blow the peaks, cooling them.

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CURRY YOUR BRAIN

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WEIRD NEW DEEP SEA ANIMAL

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Hundreds of new species of deep-sea animals, such as the baby isopod Ceratoserolis right, have been discovered during expeditions in the waters off Antarctica.

Ceratoserolis is just one of 585 new species of isopod—a type of marine crustacean related to wood lice—found during the Antarctic Benthic Deep-Sea Biodiversity Project, or ANDEEP, trips between 2002 and 2005.

Researchers aboard the German research vessel Polarstern in the Weddell Sea also brought up heart-shaped sea urchins, carnivorous sponges, and giant sea spiders the size of dinner plates.

"We were astonished by the enormous biodiversity we found in many groups of species,"said Angelika Brandt, a marine biologist at the University of Hamburg in Germany.

The project has made a major contribution to the Census of Marine Life (CoML) programme, a global collaboration among thousands of researchers who aim to make a detailed record of all ocean life by 2010.

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MIDAIR COLLISION

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News,

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ABBY AND BRITTANY

The wonderful twin-sister from US turns 16th and preparing for birthday party.

ATTENTION EVERYONE
DRINK, DON'T DRIVE
IF YOU DON'T DO IT FOR YOURSELF , DO IT FOR THE OTHERS

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youTUBE

This is a place where a group of computer geek shakes the world. It is nothing special inside the building but then what makes youtube so popular, guess....

AROUND THE WORLD
COOL TOILET

No doubt somebody loves to sit in or stand before one of those toilets, at least once a day. Choose one and feel it, it is cool!

PENCIL ART

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CHINESE WEDDING

This may be the biggest ever wedding reception in China even though it does not mention the guest list. Obviously, it is really big!

FUNNY PEOPLE
A R O U N D T H E W O R L D

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RACING CRASH
Watch the following video and guess the fake of the driver. Death is inevitable?

TWIN-HEAD BABY

Islaam Maged was a conjoined twin who's often called as "parasitic twin", but it's wrong, because she was a HUMAN like anyone else. But she was a very very special baby, a fairy!

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STRANGE BABY

Freak new born baby happen to be alive.May god bless that baby!

AMAZING EARTH PHOTOS

SOLAR ECLIPSE FROM SPACE

Did you know that the longest total solar eclipse of the 20th Century was just over 7 minutes? Solar eclipses are one of those incredible and rare natural events that are none the less phenomenal for being predictable, all the more so when this unique Earth, Sun and Moon relationship is seen from space.

Partial eclipses give way to a partly-shaded sun, during annular eclipses the moon appears smaller than the sun from the Earth and the sun shows around the edges, but in the umbra of a total eclipse the light is entirely blocked and the appearance from above is almost like a black hole in the surface of the planet.

Depending upon camera angle, weather conditions, location and the type of eclipse involved the effects can be incredible – from shrouded cloud cover to diffused shading as light bounces within the atmosphere of our world.

Historical eclipses have been linked to everything from ancient great-flood myths to war-time armistices and are described in manuscripts from Greece to China dating back thousands of years and attributed to all kinds of natural and supernatural causes.

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STRANGEST BABIES

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THE WEIRD PARAKEET
Have you ever seen the strange-looking bird like this....

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Mt.ETNA VOLCANO

Europe's highest active volcano shadows several towns. Tied to the mountain by tradition and history, for some, it would be inconceivable to live anywhere else.

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ACON WOODPECKERS
amazing hardworking wookpeckers

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HIGH VELOCITY FALCON
How fast can a Peregrine Falcon fly? One scientist aims to find out by skydiving along with the bird.

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MONKEY BABYSITTER

A monkey in Dhenkanal protects and takes care of a twenty-four day old human baby when his mother is engaged in household chores. This incidence has become the talk of the town and the locals are also surprised. The monkey comes to the house in the morning and spends the whole day taking care of the baby and at times even sleeps in the house with the little one.

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ANIMAL SPURTS BLOOD

The animal kingdom is full of weird stuff, like animals that turn into zombies—and one thing many of them will do is go to great (and gross) lengths to avoid predators.

Armored crickets, which are native to Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana, have a particularly disgusting means of driving away predators: They spew vomit and spurt hemolymph (the mollusk and arthropod version of blood) from under their legs and through slits in their exoskeleton. Katydids do it too; in fact, in Germany the species has acquired the nickname “blutspritzer,” or “blood squirter.”

But that’s not all. Wounded crickets can attract other crickets foraging for protein and salt—and the healthy crickets are happy to become cannibals.

“When swarms [of crickets] in the African bush meet a road, lots get squashed and the others gather for a feast, so more get squashed until there can be a thick, acrid pancake of dead and moribund crickets on the roadside, bleeding and attracting more cannibals,” says [entomologist Bill] Bateman.

The Regal Horned Lizard, too, uses the blood-spewing tactic, shooting the substance from a pocket near its eyes…straight at its attacker’s eyes and mouth.

Check out this video of the lizard shooting blood. (Caution: It’s graphic, as videos of animals spurting blood are wont to be).

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THE TALLEST MeN
The tallest couple from Pakistan meets the shortest man in Jordan.

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TREE MAN

An Indonesian man who suffers from a rare disease which causes tree-like growths all over his body. His name is Dede and he is looking for help cure this strange disease and he has been undergone treatment. The relating video at sidebar.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
DELICIOUS CAKE EVER MADE

It’s very difficult for me to say these cakes are delicious. I am really terrifying from these creepy cakes. However, I would like to admire the imaginations of those people who cooked these cakes.

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CRAZY MUD FESTIVAL 2009

Here are some crazy photos from the 12th annual mud festival, which was took place in South Korea. Every year this event attracts thousands of tourists from around the world, where they can enjoy mud bathing, mud games and contests.

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ALCOHOLIC MONKEYS

In the Caribbean, Vervet Monkeys have developed a taste for alcohol and can regularly be spotted stealing cocktails from humans on the beach. It has been many years that Vervet Monkeys are accustomed to drink alcohol and definitely they drunk like humans. Believe it or not watch the video.....

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ARCHER FISH & WATER PISTOL

Take a closer look at the weird and wonderful life of the Archer Fish and the Velvet Worm in this great video from BBC animal show 'Weird Nature'. See how a fish can create an effective water pistol for attack and how a worm can create a glue filled web to lassoo its victims.

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PLAYING WITH BURMESE PYTHON