Thursday 18 December 2014

Have You Heard About These Weird Quests?

These folks put a new twist on the concept of odd and unique when it comes to their goals. Whether it is a man who plans to grow all types of facial hair or the Kenyan lawyer who is on a quest to have a trial of Jesus overturned these folks surely have something to offer the world. Here are their fascinating stories.

1Australian Man on a Personal Quest to Have Coffee with his 1,088 Facebook Friends

28-year-old Matt Kulesza is on a fascinating quest to have coffee with each of his 1,088 Facebook friends. Kulesza wrote about his mission on his Tumbler page to give him the inspiration to get to know and socialize with people. It is like a kick in the pants from using the traditional methods of communicating today. What a great concept. Way to go Matt.

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Young Man on a Quest to Grow All Sorts of Facial Hair

It was back in 2008 when Jon Dyers started an unusual quest of trying to grow every style of beard, mustache, and side burn. Guys you might want to check this one out. The guy even has his own Beard FAQs, a Beard Chart, and sponsors Macho Growing Beard Month during the Month of December.

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Texas Man Plans to Have Coffee at Every Starbucks across the World

42-year-old Texas man Winter has a goal of having coffee at every Starbucks across the world. With nearly 23, 505 store locations across 65 countries that is a lot of coffee to drink. This is no challenge to the Houston resident who has already drunk 29 cups of coffee a day. Additionally he has already visited 11,773 Starbucks locations just another 10,000 to go.

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80 Year Old Texas Woman Hugs Every Soldier Going and Coming Back from War

Noted as the “Hug Lady” 80 year old Killen, Texas resident Elizabeth Laird hugs every solider going and returning from war at the local army base. Her personal quest began in 2003 after hugging a soldier. Seeing other,soldiers and a veteran of the Armed Veterans Forces Laird started a new tradition in Killen, Texas. What a great way to honor and show our troops how much she cares for them.

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The girl who went on a quest to take a cardboard cut-out of her dead father to all the places he always wanted to visit

This lady was devastated by the loss of her father to cancer so she went on a trek through Europe carrying a cardboard cutout of him everywhere she went in a bid to take him to all the countries he hoped to visit. In 2012, Jinna Yang’s father passed away from stomach cancer and Yang, lamented that in exchange for providing for her and her family, her father had shortchanged himself out of doing the things that he wanted to do, like play PGA golf. To handle her sorrow, Yang worked harder than ever in her corporate job in New York City. When the stress caused by her father’s passing and her grueling job responsibilities grew to be too much, Yang dropped everything and did something drastic.

She bought a one-way ticket to Iceland, and took a cardboard cutout of her late father “to honor his memory and come to peace with herself,” as she traveled across Europe.

The girl who went on a quest to take a cardboard cut-out of her dead father to all the places he always wanted to visit

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Strange fashion trends around the world

Different trends happen within different parts of the world. These trends may be weird to you and me, but all the normal to someone else. Fashion is thus one trend that will always change. Changing in fashion is only one way that culture stays true to its theme. So with this comprehension, there is many weird trends around the world that warrants a look. With this observation, you can see just how weird, or normal fashion can be.

1Pollution Masks

This strange fashion trend was introduced in Beijing, China as a way to keep the pollution out of the mouth and nose of the individuals. With the pollution level high and unpleasant in China many found it necessary that some sort of clothing or mask has to cover the face up. With this fashion trend, many people has found it essential for the mask to match or go along with the clothing that they are wearing. This fashion trend is very popular not only because of the pollution, but because of the style and flare that it gives the person. This is popular with both teens and adults alike!

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2 Extra ocular Implants

This strange yet very popular fashion is known all over the world. Its origin was first started in the Netherlands as a trend to show flare and beauty to their eyes. It first started as a procedure in the Netherlands Institute for Innovation Ocular Surgery (NIOS) for people to be able to change their eye appearance as a modification to their body. The procedure involves a shiny piece of platinum material molded into any shape and then implanted into the eye itself. The shape can visually been seen as the user opens and closes their eyes. This procedure usually cost around 1,000 USD dollars. Although known around the world it is currently only legal to get this eye modification in the Netherlands. Nothing like a piece of Bling in your eye to show off some true strange fashion.

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3 Poop Bird Facials

Even though fashions can be anything from clothing to body art or manipulation of the body in anyway, keeping these fashions can also be a fashion in itself. Time and time again, woman found it necessary to get a facial. This involves a good cleaning of the pores and cleansing of the skin. What about applying bird poop to your face? Fashion, I think so! This popular facial was founded by the Geisha Japanese girls. It involves applying bird poop mixed with rice bran ultra-violent light to the face to clean the talked about pores. This extremely strange fashion is known from Hollywood, California all the way to Japan, and normally cost around 180 USD dollars. Weird, OH YES!!

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4 Hitler Chic Stash

Often studied in history, Adolf Hitler was one of the world’s prominent leaders stretching from Germany and all over most of the Middle East. In times past he was recognized as a world power, but more recognized as a cruel and ruthless person. With Nazi concentration camps, and the genocide of a whole culture, his legacy was left unparalleled for many. His face on the other hand is a rising fashion in Bangkok. His much recognized mustache only spawning two inches in size has taken over this large city. His gestures as a world leader – “literally” the standing and arm straight out stance with hand in the air is also a trend for many people in the Bangkok area as well. With both of these weird actions, the stash has even went to the point of going on Ronald McDonald. Yes, I said Ronald McDonald is a child icon here in the United States. With this weird fashion, we can see that Hitler might not be alive, but he could be making a comeback…..even from the grave. Weird, Yes Indeed!!

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Wednesday 17 December 2014

These are the apps you must have on your iPhone

What’s your iPhone without the applications? Still a great phone, though your life would become much more interesting and easier if you get these apps that, no doubt, should already be in your iPhone. Here are the best rated apps.

1Buffer

This one is for those who want to be social media whizards. Buffer works a lot like Hootsuite. You can schedule Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus posts based on when they’ll be most effective. Want to tweet something at a time when most of your followers will be listening? Buffer measures this and assigns an appropriate time. You can even see the stats of your posts and see how they’ve performed. Also free application.

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2BillGuard

Another free application for your iPhone. If you aren’t very good at organizing your finances, this application is perfect for you BillGuard is a very handy tool for iPhone users. Though it shares some of the same functions as a major bank app, BillGuard goes further by helping you manage your spending habits. It’s geared toward keeping you aware of irregular spending and bills you need to pay for down the road. It will even notify you frequent charges for services you may not even use anymore.

What’s your iPhone without the applications? Still a great phone, though your life would become much more interesting and easier if you get these apps that, no doubt, should already be in your iPhone. Here are the best rated apps.

What’s your iPhone without the applications? Still a great phone, though your life would become much more interesting and easier if you get these apps that, no doubt, should already be in your iPhone. Here are the best rated apps.

3Google maps

What phone doesn’t have maps and navigators, but if you are actually honest with yourself, you know that Google maps is the best navigating app and you must never leave your iPhone without this application. It’s free, so why not download it.

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4Zillow

Hunting for an apartment or a house? This is the application that would help you in that area. Zillow is (according to most users) a gift from God. The app crawls pretty much every property and real estate in your area, ranging from buying to renting. It proceeds to give you the information you need to get in touch with the property owner or leasing office. Free app!

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5Sleep cycle

This app costs $1.99 and if you feel like spending the money on an app you will get the ultimate alarm clock. Instead of selecting a time to be woken up at, you select a time frame (between 8:00am and 9:00am for e.g.). You then place the phone on your bed and go to sleeap. The app measures your sleep cycle, analyzing how well you rested and when you hit R.E.M. sleep. It will then sound the alarm when you’re ready to be woken up, which will be at a time when you’re not feeling “groggy” or too tired to get up.

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6Dropbox

Dropbox allows you to save and view your files across multiple devices, including your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet, as long as you have the internet to access them. This one too is free.

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7Vine

This is the new social media that slowly, but surely takes over the world. Vine will provide you with short entertainment videos and would inspire you to make them too. Vine allows you to create and view 6 second videos via a Twitter-esque newsfeed. The fun of Vine is following great and hilarious users, but the handy “re-vine” feature allows you do find the best videos pretty quickly. Did we mention it is free? Yes, it is.

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8Duolingo

The visionaries behind Duolingo set out to create a premium-level language app that uses free lessons to make you a pro at any language that exists. So if you are into learning something new, go ahead and get this free app.

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The scariest hollywood movies of all times

What makes a movie so scary? What makes us shiver after watching it, not lettings us close our eyes and sleep peacefully? Which element scares us the most? Is the blood? or the chainsaw in the arms of a serial killer? On the other hand, is it just the feeling that evil exists around us, waiting around the corner for its next victim?

#1The Silence of the Lambs

A film which is actually of the thriller genre, but scares the hell out of us while watching it. The film is made after Thomas Harris’ novel of the same title, introducing us a story of Hannibal Lecter, the outstanding psychiatrist with a very special side job – a cannibal and a serial killer. The young detective Starling, starred by Jodie Foster is seeking for help from Doctor Lecter, impersonated by the brilliant Anthony Hopkins, whose insight might help her in solving the case involving a serial killer “Buffalo Bill”. The atmosphere of this film just gets under you

#3Suspiria

The outstanding horror directed by the famous Italian Dario Argento. It introduces a story of a ballet dancer who enrolls into the prestigious dance academy in Germany; however, the school is actually managed by a coven of witches. What makes this film even scarier is the music background; the soundtrack was originally made for Argento’s film by the Italian prog-rock band Goblin. Pretty spooky.

#4Psycho

The famous Alfred Hitchcock’s horror-thriller; one is never safe again under the shower, behind the curtain. The brilliant Anthony Perkins is a twisted motel manager and a psycho-killer and his victim is played by Janet Leigh; the murder of her character, Marion Crane, is the famous “shower scene” and one of the most legendary scenes in cinematography. This film is Hitchcock’s scariest story; even in the present times of modern film effects, Psycho never seems to fail in its exciting spookiness.

#5Rosemary’s Baby

One of Roman Polanski’s jewels. The film is actually based on a novel written by Ira Levin, a psychological horror story. The plot introduces a pregnant Mia Farrow having paranoid ideas about her husband offering their future child to their twisted neighbors so that they can use the baby in conducting their occult rituals. In return, he gets to succeed in his future acting career. Polanski brilliantly directed the film – it is horrifying, dark, full of suspicion, and paranoia and very disturbing. There is an escalating atmosphere of paranoia and fear, a true horror story.

#6Seven

Another horror-crime film dealing with a terrifying serial killer whose mission is to remind the world of the seven deadly sins. Two detectives, played by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, entangle themselves into the sick world of this sick-minded psychopath, desperately seeking for an answer. It is a truly poisonous film with an intense music background. David Fincher at his best, a neo-noir work of art.

#7The Shining

The famous adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, directed by the amazing Stanley Kubrick. The exceptional performance of Jack Nicholson is what makes this film even scarier to watch; the twisted writer and the recovering alcoholic loses his mind in an isolated hotel which leads him to killing his wife and son, descending into complete madness, driven by a supernatural force. One should not miss the documentary “Room 237” dealing with the filming of this horror story.

#8Lost Highway

Another neo-noir made by the master of horror, David Lynch. The story is actually a psychological thriller, introducing a man, driven by unexplainable evil forces, going completely mad, ending up killing his wife. Suddenly, the film changes its course and introduces new characters, but yet so similar to the previous ones. The story is featured by a brilliant soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti and the super-talented Trent Reznor, with David Bowie also appearing with “I’m Deranged”. A true nightmare.

The World most unusual models

1 Eighty-five year old model that still models in lingerie

The society is obsessed with youth and beauty, and in most cases models like Daphne Selfe wouldn’t even be considered to be in any magazine, but she is a good example that age, grace and beauty can go together. This grandmother is in the 60th year of an extraordinary modeling career thanks to her graceful posture, striking cheekbones and her long, lustrous – and unashamedly grey – hair. At the age of 85, she is Britain’s oldest catwalk model, gracing runways for Dolce & Gabbana, Tata-Naka and Michiko Koshino.

2 The Cross-Eyed Model Who Is Challenging Fashion Beauty Standards

Moffy is not like every other female supermodel. Yes, she is young, beautiful, talented and has the right body measurements, but there’s also something that sets her apart from all the other professional models. Moffy is cross-eyed. Most girls are denied a career in the modeling industry because of their physical “flaws,” but in young Moffy’s case, her strabismus, a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other, was exactly what helped her succeed in the fashion world. Before her now-famous photo shoot for POP Magazine, Moffy had never been photographed for a fashion mag, but her pure, unconventional beauty seduced everyone, even the people at Storm, the model agency that discovered Kate Moss–they recently signed Moffy.

3 Former Marine Without a leg Enjoys a Second Career as a Fitness Model

Alex Minsky is another unusual name who lost his leg in a war. This war veteran’s tattooed, finely chiseled body often gets a second look, for how good he looks in his skivvies.

The former Marine-turned-model works out twice a day – a grueling maintenance schedule – but nothing compared to what he had experienced before reaching this point in his life. Four years before, he lost part of his right leg, and nearly his life, to a roadside explosive in Afghanistan.
Minsky, a Purple Heart recipient, learned to walk with the help of a prosthetic limb. One day, while training at the gym, he was approached by a guy who asked him if he had ever worked as a model. That guy was photographer Tom Cullis. A year after his first photo shoot, Minsky is still heating up the Internet with photos of his tattooed and ripped body.

4 Tallest female model

Amazon Eve is the world’s tallest model. She is also known as Erika Ervin, totally dwarfs the majority of men and women she encounters as she stands at a towering 2 meters. Erika first appeared on the Zoo Weekly magazine front cover. She has also worked as a political lobbyist, paralegal, personal trainer. Additionally, she makes money by challenging men to wrestle her for a $400 fee.

As a child Eve was always tall. By the age of 14 and already at 1.75 meters tall and she towered over her classmates and teachers. Over the next five years, Eve suffered terrible growing pains as she shot up 20 cm, and by 19 stood at her current height of 2 meters. She eventually took up acting classes to boost her confidence. She dreamed of being a Hollywood star, but the main parts she was called for were for roles as aliens or monsters. In 2013, Eve landed a role as Shelley Godfrey in the hit T.V series Hemlock Grove.

5 The plus size models with the world’s largest hips

Mikel Ruffinelli resides Los Angeles, USA, and holds the record for world’s biggest hips, measuring more than 2.5 meters around around. The mother of four kids has struggles to get through doorways and needs two seats on planes. Mikel, drives a truck because her more than 200 kilograms frame cannot squeeze into a car. She also needs a reinforced chair at home. She wasn’t always overweight. She only weight 63 kilograms as a teenager. But she is proud of her figure and does not want to lose weight, even though she often attracts jeers. She models for a website that features big and beautiful women, earning $1,000 per shoot.

07 Crazy Things You Will Learn Today....

#1 Why Prune Fingers?

Do you think man was really meant to live underwater? Imagine that, an aquatic life?

#2 Daniel Kish: Blindness

Wow, Kish appears to have developed a sonar system similar to what bats do when navigating at night, called "echolocation".

#3

Aww, that's okay as it's not only green to save printing supplies BUT the WWF panda is super cute....

#4 Restaurant Workers

That will make us think twice now before going out to eat!

#5 Drowning Fish?

This is strange, right? Here's the logic: Drowning for a fish is like the opposite of drowning for something that breathes air. Fish can't breath air so when they are out of the water they gasp for oxygen till they go unconscious and die. That is how a fish drowns..