You will love these Korean songs I hope

You wont believe it, but I have started watching Korean Dramas, popularly called as K-Dramas. They are fun to watch with lot of melodrama and awesome songs.
Just want to list two of my favorite songs here
The first one is from the hugely popular movie 200 Pounds Beauty.
This is called Byul or Star

And the second one is from a big hit KDrama called Boys Over Flowers. The song is called Because I am Stupid.

Record Large Wine Bottle

A man stands next to a 490 liter Grande Cuvee TBA NV No.7 2005 of Austrian wine maker Kracher during its presentation in the small Swiss town of Rehetobel, some 40 km (26 miles) from lake Constance, November 28, 2007. The bottle, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest bottle of wine, holds the equivalent to 640 regular bottles, or 69,000 glasses of wine.

source: http://news.yahoo.com

World Record - After Getting Hit By Car!!!

Matthew McKnight hopes nobody manages to top his feat in the Guinness Book of World Records.

That's because McKnight holds the record for "Greatest Distance Thrown in a Car Accident" in the book's 2008 edition.

The 29-year-old record-holder lived to tell about being thrown 118 feet by a car that hit him while traveling about 70 mph. He was struck on Oct. 26, 2001, while trying to help accident victims along Interstate 376 in Monroeville, about 15 miles east of Pittsburgh.

He suffered two dislocated shoulders plus a broken shoulder, pelvis, leg and tailbone. He spent two weeks in the hospital and 80 days in rehab before returning to work in April 2002.

McKnight is a volunteer firefighter and paramedic, though he was not on duty when he stopped to help the accident victims. He works full-time as a communications specialist at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh.

McKnight's emergency room physician, Dr. Eric Brader, submitted paperwork for the record, which Guinness recognized in 2003. It was not listed in the book until the 2008 edition, however.

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com

New Spitting Cobra Species

A new species of spitting cobra—now the largest in the world—has been named by researchers in Kenya and the United Kingdom.

The newly anointed Ashe's spitting cobra, or large brown spitting cobra (Naja ashei), can reach lengths of more than 9 feet (274 centimeters) and is believed to deliver more venom with a single bite than any other cobra on the planet.




The aggressive reptile was previously identified as a brown-colored variant of the black-necked spitting cobra, though researchers had long suspected that it merited its own species. Now blood and tissue analysis have confirmed this theory to be true.

The snake dwells in the dry lowlands of north and east Kenya, as well as in Uganda and Ethiopia.

It is named after James "Jimmy" Ashe, a prominent herpetologist who founded the Bio-Ken snake farm and research center in Watamu, Kenya, where the snake is commonly found. Bio-Ken milks snakes for their venom and sends it to labs to develop antivenin.

The findings were first published earlier this year in the animal taxonomy magazine Zootaxa by researchers at the University of Wales and the Biodiversity Foundation for Africa in Buluwayo, Zimbabwe.

But they gained wider notice on Friday when the researchers announced the new species through the nonprofit conservation group WildlifeDirect.

Royjan Taylor, the director of Bio-Ken, said the paper's authors had asked him to wait several months to give time for other herpetologists to challenge their findings. None did.

Spitting cobras eat eggs, carrion, snakes, lizards, and birds. Their venom has two uses: to kill prey and for defense. The reptiles can spray venom several yards and usually aim for the attacker's eyes, giving the snake the best chance for escape.

A Healthy Appetite

Snake experts had long believed that the brown spitting cobra was fundamentally different from the black-necked spitting cobra.

Other variants of the black-necked spitting cobra fought harder when handled and took longer to settle down in captivity. Once in their cages, they were picky eaters.

But the Ashe's cobra was less resistant to handling, generally less alert, and less picky. And they were bigger.

"There's a butcher here in Watamu who gives us chicken heads, and [the Ashe's cobra will] eat five or six chicken heads at once," Taylor said.

"That's very unlikely for the spitting cobra group."

Ashe's cobras are not the only kinds of snakes that get lumped together.

Researchers suspect that many different species of snake, such as the highly venomous puff adders, have been grouped into species that need greater differentiation.

Ineffective Antivenin

The greatest significance of the new finding may be for residents along Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, who are at risk of being bitten by the new cobra.

Its venom is similar to the species it was previously grouped with, but it can deliver about twice the amount of venom with a single bite.

That means that doctors previously treating bites from what turned out to be Ashe's cobras were only administering half the necessary dose of antivenin to victims.

New developments in antivenin may be made from studying the chemical makeup of the new cobra's venom, researchers add.

"The fact that this is a separate species raises a question of the efficacy of existing antivenins," said David Warrell, a herpetologist at the University of Oxford, who was not among the co-authors.

"It hasn't been studied at all, so that's a complete mystery."

"Planet Mismanagement"

Taylor of Bio-Ken says he hopes the new species will bring in more funding for research.

He wants to study the snake's venom to see how it differs from that of other spitting cobras, and to find out what role it can play in antivenin production.

The snake is not thought to be endangered, but WildlifeDirect officials said its discovery should draw attention to the animals that are being lost to human encroachment.

"A new species of giant spitting cobra is exciting and reinforces the obvious," WildlifeDirect Chairman Richard Leakey said in a news release. (Richard Leakey is a past grantee of the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.)

"There have to be many other unreported species—but hundreds are being lost as their habitats disappear under the continued mismanagement of our planet."

source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com

Where is the most ugly home in America?

Sarasota, Fla., has the ugliest house in America. That's according to thousands of people who voted online at www.theugliesthouse.com in HomeVestors' 'Ugliest House of the Year' contest. The results were revealed today at the company's annual convention at the Hilton Hotel at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

The winner of the contest was a home at 1916 32nd Street in Sarasota. It was bought by HomeVestors franchisee Gregory Weinstein of Goldmine Properties, LLC.



"The filth, trash and remnants from squatters left this house totally repulsive and a menace to the community," said Weinstein. To remove all "tenants," Weinstein was forced to enlist the help of local law enforcement. He purchased the property, sold it to a real estate investor and renovations are already underway to completely renovate the home.

The Ugliest Top 10

America voted for houses in these cities in the following ugly order: -0- 1. Sarasota, Fla. 2. Fort Worth, Texas 3. Phoenix, Ariz. 4. Salisbury, Md. 5. San Antonio, Texas 6. Dallas, Texas 7. Cincinnati, Ohio 8. Montgomery, Ala. 9. Detroit, Mich. 10. Philadelphia, Pa.

source: http://www.pr-inside.com

Shortest actor in the world

Malayalam famous actor Ajay kumar who is more known as UndaPakru is the shortest actor in the whole Indian industry. He has also made into Guinness book of word records of being the shortest actor to play a full-length character. He is only 2ft 10 inches tall.

He played the full-length character in the Malayalam film “Albhuta Dweep”, which was later dubbed in Tamil.

Pakru started his career in the filmdom as a mimicry artist and grew to be a full-fledged character artist. he is presently working in television serials.

Pakru was presented the best performer award for this film. Pakru later married Gayatri Mohan in March 2006.


source: http://bollywoodpoint.com

World's heaviest motorcycle

Monster bike is world's heaviest.

A giant motorbike powered by a Russian tank engine has been recognised as the heaviest in the world.

It's been dubbed the Led Zeppelin by creator Tilo Nieber, 39, who said: "You don't get much more heavy metal than this."

The four-and-a-half tonne machine has driven into the Guinness Book of Records as the heaviest motorbike in the world.

It is 17ft 4ins long and 7ft 6ins tall and the engine alone weighs 1.8 tonnes after the armour plating tank cover has been stripped off.

The bike, which took a team of welders and mechanics almost a year to build at the Harzer Bike Schmiede in Zilly, Germany, is now hoping for a licence to travel on the road.

But in the meantime Guinness Book of Records spokesman Amarilis Espinoza confirmed it was the world's heaviest motorbike.

source: http://www.instructables.com

Wrong beauty voted queen!!!

An accounting mix-up led to the wrong woman being crowned Miss California USA, and she has relinquished her crown to the rightful winner, organisers say.

Christina Silva, 24, was declared the winner of the annual state beauty pageant, but she gave up the title to Raquel Beezley, who was originally named the second runner-up.

Beezley, 21, will represent the state at the Miss USA pageant next April.

The pageant's state director, Keith Lewis, said several judges questioned the results of the November 25 competition at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Lewis said the error was discovered the next day after the ballots were opened and recounted.

"It was a simple human error," Lewis said.

Silva has hired a lawyer and is weighing her legal options, according to her manager, Tony Brewster.

In a news release, Silva said she felt pressured to step down.

"They never could explain their accounting error, but told me that if I didn't give up my crown to Miss Barstow, my personal integrity could be questioned, and my career could potentially suffer," she said.

The contestants were scored by five celebrity judges who independently ranked them.

The mix-up occurred when the points were reversed, with the lowest point given to the winner and the highest to the fourth runner-up, Lewis said.

Roger Neal, who represents the Miss California USA pageant, said Beezley was the rightful winner.

The pageant allowed Silva to keep her crown, sash and necklace and returned her $US1,500 ($A1,700) entry fee after the error was discovered, Neal said. Duplicates were being made for Beezley.

source: http://www.smh.com.au

Most beautiful black man alive

Blood Diamond star Djimon Hounsou has been named The Most Beautiful Black Man Alive in a new television poll conducted in the US.

The actor beat out heavyweights like Denzel Washington and Will Smith in the poll conducted by TV One Access hot list, contactmusic.com reported.

Hounsou has been nominated for Oscar awards twice and is presently dating former model Kimora Lee-Simmons.

source: http://news.xinhuanet.com

David Blaine braves brain damage to break world record for staying awake!!!

Some of his stunts have been death-defying, others just plain bizarre.

Yet David Blaine's latest is perhaps the most yawn-inducing - for him and his audience.

The American illusionist will attempt to stay awake for longer than anyone ever has before.

The latest "stunt" is set to happen in May of next year in New York's Central Park, according to U.S. reports.

David Blaine waves from inside his clear plastic box in October 2003, after spending 44 days without food inside the box suspended in the air near London's Tower Bridge

Blaine, 34, is yet to confirm the attempt but he did tell the New York Post that he had been in training.

He said: "I'm dropping 30 pounds. I do two hours every day on the treadmill. I'm on a raw diet that includes brown rice. No red meat. No animal products besides cooked fish.

"If I do this thing, which you claim I'm doing, I'll do it on my feet. Standing up."

There is much debate surrounding the current length of the sleep deprivation record - and the record holder.

The Guinness Book of Records does not now accept record attempts related to sleep deprivation due to the possible health risks.

Some believe the record is held by Toimi Soini from Finland who claimed to have kept awake for 11 days and 12 hours - or 276 hours - in February 1964.

He beat Randy Gardner, a 17-year-old California student who kept awake for 264 hours just a few days earlier.

Others claim the accepted current world record holder is 43-year-old Tony Wright from Penzance, Cornwall, who stayed awake for a little more than 11 days, or 264 and 15 minutes hours in May of this year.

Wright had stayed awake just enough to beat Gardner's record, apparently without realising the previous Soini record which was deleted from the Guinness Book amid concerns that it would cause others to beat it with dangerous consequences in 1989.

Blaine spoke of his understanding of the current state of the record: "It's been tried before. In 1959, Peter Tripp stayed awake eight days, but it resulted in permanent brain damage.

"In 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner did it for a high school science project. He lasted 11 1/2 days but recovered fully. No damage."

Blaine added: "A guy in London tried but fell short. Another did 19 hours but slept two hours each night, so that doesn't count. Also he was seated in a rocking chair."

He added: "After 36 hours of sleep deprivation it's like being drunk, 72 hours and paranoia sets in, Day Four the mind goes into hallucinations and you're dreaming while awake.

"The problem is there's no way to know how to offset brain damage or to train for this because there isn't sufficient research. I believe the first guy's mistake was not being in great physical condition. Also he used stimulants to keep awake, which I assume did him in."

Blaine continued: "Basically I'm a human guinea pig pushing the borders of human endurance, so I've spent the last year and a half figuring out this next step. Preparing for it.

"Prepare, study, train, learn and you face the fear. When I know something's coming I'm not afraid. If right now a giant spider suddenly landed on me, I'd be terrified. But if I knew one's about to land on me, I'd prepare for it. The way to train against fear is to prep against it."

New York-born Blaine has previously spent more than a month suspended in a transparent plastic box above the river Thames, and frozen in a case of ice in New York's Times Square, among other stunts.

source : http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Top 10 weird data disasters

Ant infestations, oil and failed parachute jumps are some of the unusual fates which have befallen innocent data storage devices recently, according to data recovery company Kroll Ontrack's list of the most unusual recovery jobs it has faced in the last year.

This year the company has seen more damaged portable devices than ever before. Strange ways of damaging hardware in the company's top ten countdown this year include:

10. All in a spin: A customer who told engineers she had 'washed away all her data' after putting a USB stick through a cycle in her washing machine.

9. Feeding time: A father who, while feeding his baby daughter, forgot about the USB stick in his top pocket. As he leant over the high-chair the device fell into a dish of apple puree.

8. Row, row your boat: A fisherman took his laptop in his rowing boat. Both he and the laptop went overboard, taking all his data to the bottom of a lake.

7. Honeymoon hell: One wedding photographer overwrote the photos of one wedding with another event - and needed to escape the wrath of the newly weds.

6. Melting point: During an experiment, a scientist spilt acid on an external hard drive and burnt away his important data.

5. Shattering blow: In the middle of an argument, a businessman threw a USB stick at his partner, with the device ending up in several pieces on the floor. Unfortunately it contained valuable company plans.

4. Fire alarm: A fire destroyed an office, sparing only a few CDs which had melted to the inside of their cases.

3. Ooooops: A scientist was fed up with his hard drive squeaking, so drilled a hole through the casing and poured in oil - which stopped both the squeaking and the hard drive.

2. Here goes…: To test the functionality of a parachute, a camera was dropped from a plane. The parachute failed and the camera shattered into several pieces but the device's memory stick was reassembled and the footage was recovered.

And the number one weird and wonderful data disaster is…

1. Data repellent: After discovering ants had taken up residence in his external hard drive, a photographer took the cover off and sprayed the interior with insect repellent. The ants were killed off and the data was eventually recovered.

All the hardware on the list was recovered, the company said.

Sourced from: http://www.silicon.com

10 facts about the Black Mamba

1. Black mambas are fast, nervous, lethally venomous, and when threatened, highly aggressive. They have been blamed for numerous human deaths, and African myths exaggerate their capabilities to legendary proportions. For these reasons, the black mamba is widely considered the world’s deadliest snake.
2. They grow 14 feet in length, and can travel at speeds of up to 12 mph.
3. After the king cobra, the black mamba is the longest venomous snake in the world.
4. Black mamba hatchlings are around 51cm long, and greyish-green in colour. They are independent immediately and can catch prey the size of a small rat. Within a year, they reach 2m. Young mambas are eaten by mongooses, and even adult mambas are eaten by the secretary bird and larger species of eagle.
5. As little as 2 drops of its venom can kill a person and a mamba can have up to 20 drops of venom in its fangs.
6. Black mambas usually bite their prey once or twice and then allow it go off to die before attempting to eat. They may however, bite and hold when eating birds. Their venom is mainly based on neurotoxins that are absorbed quickly by the prey. The venom will cause a blockade at the neuromuscular junction which blocks every signal from the brain passing through the nervous system to the muscles which causes systemic paralysis. The prey will die from suffocation due to paralysis of the muscles of respiration.
7. This snake can lift two-thirds of it's body off the ground when striking.
8. They are found in pairs or small groups. They are very nervous, and head away fast when a human approaches. When the mamba feels threatened it will raise its front and head about 3-4 feet off the ground, open its mouth, spread a flat hood, and shake its head. When they attack they will make several quick strikes, and escape as fast as they can. They can strike from 4-6 feet away. Before antivenins were developed, a black mamba bite was 100% fatal.
9. The Black Mambas lay between 12 – 17 eggs at a time. The eggs take 70 – 90 days to hatch. The babies are 40 – 60 cm (3-5 feet) in length when they hatch. Mambas lay their eggs in termite mounds, holes, logs, or shrews.The main time that they breed is late spring or early summer.
10. Mambas have a different nervous systems then humans and they move for a few minutes after death or getting their heads cut off.
    

10 facts about kissing

1. The average woman uses up approximately her height in lipstick every five years and eats up about 2.5 lipstick pieces per year. Her sexual partner also suffers from a certain dose of chemicals, which makes about 0.7 lipstick pieces per year.
2. The average person spends 336 hours of his or her life kissing.
3. The average woman kisses 29 men before she gets married.
4. Study of Kisses is called Philemotology.
5. It is thought that men who kiss their wives goodbye before going to work live five years longer than those who just slam the door. Men of the latter category are said to be more prone to traffic accidents.
6. Smooching passionately for 90 seconds will elevate blood pressure and cause the pulse rate to go racing. It will also increase the level of hormones in the blood, thus reducing life by one minute.
7. The bodies of those engaged in kissing produce a substance that is 200 times more powerful than morphine in terms of narcotic effect. That is why the kissing partners can experience feelings of euphoria and bliss in the process.
8. 38% of women enjoy spontaneous smooches while 31% of men do.
9. 12% says forbidden kisses make their hearts skip a beat.
10. According to U.S. statistics, an American woman would kiss an average of 80 men before she gets married.

10 little known facts about breasts

1. Cleavage is not determined by Breast Size: Two women with the same cup size may not have the same cleavage. Woman's breasts that are fuller in the middle will have greater cleavage. A woman with only an A or B cup, but with her breasts naturally set close together, can have nice cleavage too. In addition, if the woman's body is narrow below the, she will have an easier time creating a deeper valley between her two peaks.
2. No two breasts are exactly the same size, and it is usually the breast that is bigger than the right side. However, often the difference is so slight, that one will never notice they are of different sizes.
3. The average cup size of women all over the world is the B cup.
   
4. The late French porn star Lolo Ferrari is credited as having the world's largest breast implants. During her lifetime, she had 22 surgeries to make her breasts 73 inches round.
5. In Hong Kong, you can get a degree in Bra Studies from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where they teach you how to design and build a bra.
6. Women have used bra-like devices, designed to lift, separate and restrain their breasts from early as 2000BC.
7. Cup sizes rage from AA to JJ.
8. British women have the biggest breasts in Europe and the average size is increasing each year. The average breast size in the UK is between 36C and 34E compared to 10 yrs ago when it was a much smaller at 34B.
9. The unusual science Sternomancy, the art of telling fortunes by the form of a female breast, appeared in Spain in the 18th century. Since that time, the science has considerably advanced, and today men can learn about women from the form of their breasts. Women with bosom resembling the pear shape are independent, willful and silly to some extent. These characteristics help them to lead men by the nose. Marriage with such a woman guarantees wonderful sex and big rows. Retracted small nipples reveal their owner is a calculating mind and is hiding her real intentions. These women believe there is nothing particular about sex but ready to fulfill any of men’s sex fantasies.
10. Breasts can start growing as early as age 10 and does not stop until the early 20s.
    

10 little known facts about fart

1. On an average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day.
2. Termites are the largest producers of farts.
3. In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition.
4. The sound is produced by vibrations of the anal opening. The sound depends on the velocity of expulsion of the gas and the tightness of the sphincter muscles of the anus. Contrary to popular misconception, fart noise is not generated by the flapping of the butt cheeks.
5. A gentleman is mostly likely to fart first thing in the morning, while in the bathroom. This is known as morning thunder.
6. People even fart shortly after death.
7. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
8. Farts are created mostly by E. Coli.
9. Although they will not admit it, women fart as much as men.
10. The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

20 little known facts about Elivs Presley

1. Elvis was a Black Belt in karate (a form of martial arts). Elvis’s love of martial arts continued throughout his life.
2. Elvis was reading The Scientific Search For TheFace Of Jesus by Frank O' Adams at the time of his death.
3. Favorite tooth paste - Colgate.
4. Favorite after shave - Brut.
5. Favorite soft drink - Pepsi.
   
6. Elvis was an Honorary Member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
7. Elvis was featured on a 5.50 KR postage stamp issued by Sweden in 2004.
8. By the time he died, Elvis was the second biggest selling recording artist of all time after Bing Crosby.
9. Elvis once owned a pet chimpanzee called Scatter.
10. Elvis made it a point to spend all his earnings from Hound Dog on bananas, peanut butter and ammunition.
11. 148 different Elvis recordings have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum.
12. According to The Great Food Almanac by Irena Chalmers, the last food that Elvis Presley ate was 4 scoops of ice cream and 6 chocolate chip cookies.
13. The 1970s again saw Elvis retreat from the public, battling an addiction to prescription drugs and the resulting weight problems while making occasional appearances as a headliner at leading hotels in Las Vegas, notably the Las Vegas Hilton.
    
14. He died at his palatial home Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee in 1977 and was buried on its grounds. The local medical examiner found his death to be a consequence of an overdose of mixed drugs and complications of severe heart disease.
    
15. After his death, there have been numerous conspiracy theories and Elvis sightings.
16. It took just 7 years for Elvis to sell the same number of records as he did when he was alive (about 300 million).
17. Elvis advertised for only one product in his life - Doughnuts in 1954.
18. More than 20 million Elvis Presley records were reportedly sold on the day after his death.
19. Elvis paid $100,000 for his Graceland mansion.
20. King Creole was the king's favorite among the movies he starred in.