marți, 1 februarie 2011

Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics

Mortal Kombat: Brutal X-Ray Action Highlights

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:55 PM PST

IGN sits down to interview the team of the new Mortal Kombat about the brutal new fighting system. Check out these bone breaking damage features.

85 Strange and Stunning Buildings Architecture

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:57 PM PST

The term Architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation. As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter. As a profession, architecture is the role of those persons or machines providing architectural services. As documentation, usually based on drawings, architecture defines the structure and/or behavior of a building or any other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.

01. Device to Root Out Evil (Vancouver, Canada)


02. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)


03. Museum of Contemporary Art (Niteroi, Brazil)


04. ING Headquarters (Amsterdam, Netherlands)


05. Experience Music Project (Seattle, Washington, USA)


06. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)


07. Druzhba Holiday Center (Yalta, Ukraine)

08. Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)


09. Forest Spiral Building (Darmstadt, Germany)


10. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)


11. Upside Down House (Szymbark, Poland)


12. The Basket Building (Ohio, USA)


13. The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)

14. Stone House (FAFE, Portugal)


15. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, USA)


16. Stata Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)


17. The Hole House (Texas, USA)


18. Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)

19. Container City (London, UK)


20. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)


21. Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)


22. Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)


23. Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)


24. CCTV Tower – China Central Television Headquarters (Beijing, China)


25. The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, USA)


26. Ripley's Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)


27. Ripley's Believe It or Not! (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)


28. Fuji television building (Tokyo, Japan)


29. Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)


30. Blur Building (Yverdon-les-Bainz, Switzerland)


31. The Puerta de Europa towers (Madrid, Spain)


32. Gas Natural headquarters (Barcelona, Spain)


33. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, USA)


34. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)


35. Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester, UK)


36. Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, California, USA)


37. Shoe House (Pennsylvania, USA)


38. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)


39. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)


40. Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, USA)


41. Fashion Show Mall (Las Vegas, USA)


42. Edificio Mirador (Madrid, Spain)


43. Luxor Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, USA)


44. Grand Lisboa (Macau, China)


45. Dome House (Florida, USA)


46. Gherkin Building (London, UK)


47. Tempe Municipal Building (Tempe, Arizona, USA)


48. National Architects Union Headquarters (Romania)


49. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)


50. Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)


51. Turning Torso (Malmö, Sweden)


52. Lloyd's building (London, UK)


53. Wozoco Apartments (Amsterdam, Holland)


54. UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, USA)


55. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, USA)


56. Atomium (Brussels, Belgium)


57. Great arche of defense (Paris, France)


58. Ferdinand Cheval Palace (France)


59. Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil)


60. Errante Guest House (Chile)


61. The Museum of Play (Rochester , USA)


62. Jumeirah Emirates Towers (Dubai, UAE)


63. Burj al Arab (Dubai, UAE)


64. Raffles Dubai in Wafi city (Dubai, UAE)


65. National centre for the performing arts (Beijing, China)


66. Digital Beijing (Beijing, China)


67. Water Cube (Beijing, China)


68. Atlantis (Dubai, UAE)


69. Nordpark Cable Railway (Innsbruck, Austria)


70. The Valencia Opera House (Valencia, Spain)


71. Water Tower (Zaragoza)


72. Pabellon de Aragon (Zaragoza)


73. Eden project (United Kingdom)


74. Royal Ontario Museum Expansion (Toronto, Canada)


75. John Curtin School of Medical Research (Australia)


76. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Nice, France)


77. Kunsthaus (Graz, Austria)


78. State Department for Traffic (Tbilis, Georgia)


79. Tenerife Concert Hall (Canary Islands, Spain)


80. Berlin Zeiss Planetarium (Berlin, Germany)


81. Montreal Biosphère (Canada)


82. Esplanade Theatres, Singapore


83. La Pedrera (Barcelona, Spain)


84. National Congress Building (Brazil)


85. Robert Bruno's steel house (Lubbock, Texas)

Chinese Six Year Old Is Social Outcast

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:41 PM PST

This young boy has lost his parents to AIDs. Ah Long is only 6 years old. He was born with HIV. He lives in his parents' shack in Guangxi Province, China. And he has to fend for himself because most people are afraid to get close enough to care for him. His only friend is his dog.

Long's 84-year-old grandmother won't let him live with her. She sometimes visits him helping to plant some vegetables and do some cooking. The local school won't let him attend classes, because other kids' parents promised to kill him if he comes closer to their children. Doctors won't treat his wounds.


The civil bureau provides Ah Long with 70 yuan monthly subsistence allowance. This is about $10. Surely, this is not enough for this little kid to live on.

Ah Long studies all by himself. He grows cabage and leek, and raises chickens.He does his own washing and much of his own cooking. His best and only friend named Lao Hei is the only close soul he has left. Long's dog sleeps with his master and plays with him.


From time to time kind-hearted people bring him clothes, food and old blankets. One man, for example, brought Long 20 kilograms of rice and 5 kilograms of noodles. Another man brings him a weekly newspaper to keep up with the world's latest news.


























Source: english.people.com

Jodhpur: The Blue City of India

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:25 PM PST

Jodhpur is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is also referred as the Blue City due to the blue-painted houses around the Mehrangarh Fort.

Why the population of the fortress city – the Blue City as it is universally known – took to painting their houses in various shades of blue is not completely certain. Yet most believe it is to do with the prevailing caste system in India.

It is thought that Brahmins – members of the priestly class – first took to coloring their houses blue (yet perhaps it should really be called indigo) to signify their domicile and to set them apart from the rest of the population. Soon, however, the rest of the population followed suit. History does not tell us which brave non-Brahmin was the first to do it, yet it happened and since that day the people of Jodhpur have steadfastly maintained this tradition.

Never Send Cakes by Post

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:30 PM PST

If you want to surprise someone with a great cake, then just take your time and deliver it personally. Or just place a Fragile sticker on the box. It may help. Otherwise your cake will be totally damaged like the one in this post.

Asian Art of Self-Defense

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:18 PM PST

The Shocking Numbers Behind Cell Phone Usage (Infographic)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:15 PM PST

200,000,000,000,000 (two hundred trillion) text messages are received in America every single day, which is more than an entire year's worth of regular mail that's received in America. 3339 is average number of texts sent by an American teen each month.

More Infographics.

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Source: onlineitdegree

Open a Locked Suitecase

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 08:41 PM PST

Demonstrating how easy it is to break into and reseal a locked suitcase using a pen. Unfortunately, suitcases are insecure and generic locks are not able to protect you. Tampering and resealing can happen in seconds! Ensure this does not happen to you.

Hockey’s Most Badass Goalie Masks

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 08:23 PM PST

The mask goalies wear in hockey have come a long way. Hard to believe there was a time when they'd raw dog it in the net. Those dudes had serious balls taking rock hard pucks to the dome. While the masks of yesteryear were primitive, they were also pretty scary. Even Jason Voorhees is like, "Take if off, dude. You're buggin' me out." So, with the NHL All-Star Weekend approaching, we decided to take a look at the most kick-ass, bad-ass masks in the sport. Try not to wet yourself. See the pics after the jump!
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