This photograph of the Earth and Moon was taken by the HiRISE telescope from a distance of 142 million kilometres. The HiRISE camera is the most powerful telescope to have left Earth orbit.
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This post was written by bullets on March 5, 2008
The Earth and Moon as Seen From Mars
Homemade Bacon-flavored Vodka
Bacon Vodka
Makes up one pint
- Fry up three strips of bacon
- Add cooked bacon to a clean pint sized mason jar. Trim the ends of the bacon if they are too tall to fit in the jar. Or you could go hog wild and just pile in a bunch of fried up bacon scraps.
- Optional: add crushed black peppercorns.
- Fill the jar up with vodka. Cap and place in a dark cupboard for at least three weeks.(No need to refrigerate)
- At the end of the three week resting period, place the bacon vodka in the freezer to solidify the fats. Strain out the fats through a coffee filter to yield a clear filtered pale yellow bacon vodka.
- Decant into decorative bottles and enjoy.
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(Originally published on BrowniePointsBlog.)
This post was written by bullets on March 5, 2008
Student Gets Rich Staying In Bed
A Dutch student has come up with the ultimate way of making easy money – by staying in bed.
Yde Van Deutekom, 22, from Zoetermeer, is selling advertising on a website featuring a webcam showing him in bed. o far, he has been in bed for 21 days and has had more than £3,500 (~ 5000 euros) paid into his bank account.
Mr Van Deutekom said: “Sleeping is just a hobby of me, and it is the only thing I’m very good at. Everyone is asking what I want to do with me life, but what I really want to do is sleep.
“I stay in bed all day, except for taking a shower, going to the bathroom and making something to eat. That’s all I want to do. And I want to stay in bed until I’m very rich.”
More than 450,000 people have visited his website – www.slapendrijk.nl.
Source: Ananova
This post was written by bullets on March 5, 2008
Big Breasts Win Verdict for Japanese Pin-Up
A Japanese pin-up model says that her big breasts have not only boosted her career — they also helped her overturn a court verdict.
“I used to hate my body so much,” Serena Kozakura, who has appeared in product commercials on television said. “But it was my breasts” that won in court, she said.
Kozakura, 38, was convicted last year of property destruction after a man said she kicked in the wooden door of his room and crawled inside, apparently because he was with another woman. Kozakura had said the man made the hole himself.
In her appeal, the defence counsel held up a plate showing the size of the hole and said that she could not squeeze through with her 110-centimetre (44-inch) bust.
The judges were very good-mannered as they showed no expressions on their faces. I guess they’re well-trained,” Kozakura said.
Tokyo High Court presiding judge Kunio Harada agreed and threw out the guilty verdict on Monday, saying there was reasonable doubt over the man’s account.
Source: Yahoo News
This post was written by bullets on March 5, 2008
Most Powerful Supercomputers in the World
7. Tera-10 – Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique
Built by Bull SA for France’s Atomic Energy Commision (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique), the Tera-10 is currently ranked number 7 on the Top 500 list of fastest computers in the world.
The Tera-10 consists of 544 of Bull’s NovaScale 6160 servers with each one featuring eight Dual-Core Intel Itanium processors and runs at about 42.9 Teraflops. It uses Linux as an operating system and is used for nuclear testing simulations.
6. Thunderbird – Sandia National Laboratories
This post was written by bullets on March 3, 2008
The Longest Tail on a Horse
Crystal Socha, 26, of Augusta, Kan., shows her American Paint horse, Summer, during the 11th annual EquiFest of Kansas at the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. Eleven-year-old Summer holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the longest tail on a horse, at twelve feet, six inches.
“The tail and mane are not fake. Summer does not have tail extensions.”
While other horses can walk about without a retinue, Summer Breeze’s black-and-white tail is so long that one of her owners has to follow behind, carrying it like a bride’s train
This post was written by bullets on March 3, 2008
Largest clam known to man
The geoduck or gooyduck is the largest species of clams on the face of the earth. The clam grows to around 15 to 20cm but it’s long siphon can reach 1 metere in length. It weighs between 0.5 and 1.5 kilograms but can grow much larger. There have been stories about 7.5 kg heavy gooyducks.
The geoduck or gooyduck is the largest species of clams on the face of the earth. The incredible aspect of the gooeyduck isn’t only limited to its size, but also to its lifespan. It has a life expectancy of 146 years, which makes it one of the longest-living organisms in the animal reign.
The organism, which can live well over 100 years, geoducks are a delicacy in China and Japa, where they are often eaten raw, sashimi style.
This post was written by bullets on February 27, 2008
Hot Jessica Photos
This post was written by bullets on February 24, 2008
Why Girls Don’t Fart
The mysteries of the female digestive system revealed in a 100% scientific video, even though I’m still calling shenanigans.
This post was written by bullets on February 23, 2008
Tokyo in 1913: 22 Photographs
The Japanese National Diet Library’s website has put up a huge collection of photographs taken in Tokyo around the beginning of the 20th century.
After spending a couple hours on the site, I saved 22 of my favorite photographs and have posted them here for you all to enjoy. Most of these were taken around Meiji Year 44 (1913):
This post was written by bullets on February 22, 2008
