Showing posts with label WTF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WTF. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Driver Hits Cyclists
Apparently the driver claimed that he was harassed by cyclists behind his car, fearing for the safety of his son and himself, he accelerated and the video was the result...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Woman Kills Over 4 Million Mosquitoes, Wins a Prize
From TreeHugger
If mosquitoes have nightmares, odds are Huang Yuyen will be making an appearance in them. Yuyen, a pig farmer from Taiwan, may soon find a place in the record books for killing the most winged-bloodsuckers in a month -- over 4 million of them, in fact. The insect slaughter was part of a contest held by a company that makes bug-catchers, which awarded Yuyen around $3,000 for her 3 lbs, 5 ounces worth of mosquito carcasses.
According to the Liberty Times, Yuyen beat out 72 other mosquito-catching participants quite handily -- her closest competitor nabbed less than half of her estimated 4 million bugs. The contest was organized by Imbictus International, a manufacturer of 'environmentally friendly' mosquito-traps, which subdue the bloodsuckers without harmful chemicals.
Yuyen reportedly used 10 of these bug-catchers around her pig farm in southern Taiwan to round up the 4.05 million mosquitoes in just one month. For her effort, she walked away with a cool $3,000 and probably a place in the record books; an application has been sent to the Guinness World Records.
To achieve this record, Yuyen managed to capture about 90 mosquitoes every minute for a month.
This isn't the first time mosquito hunting has been made a sport. Earlier this summer, folks in the town of Tartu, Estonia gathered for a contest to see how many of those pesky insects they could kill in 10 minutes -- though unlike Yuyen, many used their exposed skin as bait. In all, around 400 bugs were nabbed by the 38 participants.
While the death of 4 million mosquitoes will likely not have a significant impact on the insect's numbers in Taiwan, the sheer scale of the slaughter does raise some ethical questions among people who, you know, hold some reverence for living things. It's not to say that even the most devout animal-rights activist wouldn't take a smack at a mosquito given the opportunity, but killing millions of them for a contest may be a bit much to celebrate.
Still, it's no wonder why people would relish in the death of so many mosquitoes considering the human toll they've taken. Throughout the world, mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue and malaria continue to threaten communities, a problem expected to worsen as rising temps and increases in rainfall bolster the insect's numbers -- evidenced, perhaps, by the fact that one woman in Taiwan was able to catch over 4 million of them in a month.
No word yet on how Yuyen plans on spending her prize money, but I suspect bug-spray will be near the top of the list.
Source: Treehugger
posted by DMM252 @ HWZ
Friday, July 30, 2010
Jay's Tiny House Tour
From Gizmodo
This impossibly tiny, 100 square foot house contains tiny chairs, a tiny fireplace, and a tiny loft with a tiny window which serves as a tiny bedroom. But of course its owner couldn't help springing for the 15" MacBook.
Jay Shafer is the ingenuous architect and unfortunate resident of this tiny house, one of many he has built as part of his Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. He's been living in the above house since 1997—this tiny tour was filmed in 2007—but he's still actively building new postage stamp mansions today.
Source: Gizmodo
Thanks to Vincent for the link!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Forced Marriage.... with a twist !
Seriously i have no idea i should be laughing or crying over this...
Thanks to alex for the link~!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Dolphin jumps out of the pool
basically video 1 and 2 are the same, juz taken by different people, jump to video 3 to see the crane lifting the dolphin to the back of the truck with a pool i guess...
posted by InPhinity @ HWZ
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
The Hand Crashes the X-Games Street Course
The Hand is a reference to "X-Games Fingerboards" :)
pretty cool stuff, kudos to Tom Ryen for being able to skate in tt suit ! lol~
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
OK Go - End Love - Official Video
From Lieberman:
“The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.”
VERY NICE !! damn.. tt's lots of patience n hardwork !!
Posted by LunaSouL @ HWZ
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Judge Judy - A $2500 playstation 3
wow.. i think the issue is not abt the case itself.. but.. 100over bucks per mth for a ps3??? juz save the damn money and get urself a brand new one in 4mths time !!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Sasha Grey Interview
thanks to ah thia for the heads up !!
pretty interesting interview, dunno y some ppl are juz so interested in those kind of porn.. geeez... cant they settle for normal porn?? O.o
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