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This hole is just scary. They say that the heavy rains washed the ground, so the road just collapsed but how it can be so deep?

It is 100 meters (330 feet!) deep.

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Backstory on this one:

By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala - A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main.

The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground. A rush of water could be heard from its depths, and authorities feared it could widen or others could open up.

Rescue operations were on hold until a firefighter, suspended from a cable, could take video and photos above the hole and officials could use the documentation to decide how to proceed.

The dead were identified as Irma and David Soyos, emergency spokesman Juan Carlos Bolanos said. Their bodies were found near the sinkhole, floating in a river of sewage.

Their father, Domingo, was still missing, according to disaster coordinator Hugo Hernandez.

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McDonald’s has created a different kind of advertisement.

Surely no one thought about the fact that it’s nearly impossible to read yellow text on white, but hey. It is rather creative:

I’m not so sure I’d want this to become a regular advertisement, though.

I’m not very keen on reading my daily news through fries.

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This Wikipedia link displays a lengthy list of most unusual deaths.

Here are some of examples:

1972: Leslie Harvey, guitarist of Stone the Crows was electrocuted on stage by a live microphone.

2005: 28-year-old Korean video game addict Lee Seung Seop collapsed in an Internet cafe after playing Starcraft and World of Warcraft for almost 50 consecutive hours.

2007: Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, died of water intoxication while trying to win a Nintendo Wii in a KDND 107.9 “The End” radio station’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest, which involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating.

Not to mention the recent Steve Irwin one.

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Here are some photos which can indeed be described with only 2 words : “holy shit.”

More such photos can be seen at Frogview.com

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There are only few moments someone can say: Whoa, that’s a cool lamp.
Well, this is one of them.

Go here to see more of these weird and yet cool lamps.

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Many of us have heard of the so-called “beer goggle” effect. It’s the phenomenon that occurs when someone’s had a few alcoholic drinks and suddenly, all of those people who looked semi-attractive on entering the bar look really, really appealing. Scientists have shown that it’s not just a lowering of standards –
alcohol actually stimulates the part of the brain that judges facial attractiveness.

The formula is:

where:

An is the number of servings of alcohol
S is the smokiness of the area on a scale of 0 - 10
L is the lighting level of the area, measured in candelas per square meter, in which 150 is normal room lightning
Vo is Snellen visual acuity, in which 6/6 is normal and 6/12 is the lower limit at which someone is able to drive
d is the distance between the observer and the observed, measured in meters

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If astronauts have had space sex, it would have been very difficult. First off, there isn’t much privacy up there. A regular shuttle is about as big as a 737, and the two main areas—the crew cabin and middeck—are each the size of a small office.

The bathroom is little more than a seat with a curtain, and there aren’t any closed rooms where two people could retreat.

The space station, on the other hand, has a little more room to operate. The three-person crew generally splits up for sleeping time: Two of them bed down in a pair of tiny crew cabins at one end of the station, and the third might jump in a sleeping bag at the other end, almost 200 feet away. (The panel-and-strap design of a space bed might not be that conducive to lovemaking.)

Astronauts also have a demanding work schedule, leaving them with little time or energy for messing around. Space-station crews do get time off on weekends, though, when they can watch movies, read books, play games, “and generally have a good time.”

But, would space sex be any good? Recent research suggests it would not. For one thing, zero gravity can induce nausea—a less-than-promising sign for would-be lovers. Astronauts also perspire a lot in flight, meaning sex without gravity would likely be hot, wet, and surrounded by small droplets of sweat. In addition, people normally experience lower blood pressure in space, which means reduced blood flow, which means … well, you know what that means.

Source:
Slate.com

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Photos of the aftermath of the bombings were censored by the American occupation forces because they prohibited any thing “that might, directly or by inference, disturb public tranquility”. The pictures remained classified ‘top secret’ for many years.

This is the horror they didn’t want us to see, and that we must NEVER forget.

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All the watches found at the epicenter stopped at 8:15am, the time of the explosion.

The heat at the epicenter was so high that it literally vaporized every human around it, leaving only outlines on hard surfaces.

Visit fogonazos.blogspot.com for more photos and comments.

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1. You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
2. You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
3. You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
4. Seing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
5. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
6. You organise your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
7. You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come.
8. You’re up ’til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
9. The hottest dream you ever had was “Trace contour… Find Edges… Pinch… Extrude… Smudge Stick… Motion Blur…. Sprayed Strokes…”
10. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
11. Your kid knows Lorem Ipsum by heart.
12. The preschool teacher complains your child won’t color inside or outside the lines – only indicate colors on a separate sheet.
13. Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash – and you’re running OSX.
14. You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a “Too Cool for IE” banner on it.
15. You prefer a Layer Style of 50% Opacity (or less) on your wife’s Satin.
16. You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because “it’s the only one where the lower-case g is just right…”
17. Looking at a menu make you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch!”
18. And when you finally order, you go for Layer Based Slices with Grain Texture…
19. You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
20. Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
21. You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, Loose and the Future Unemployed.
22. You refer to your privates as “the Magic Wand”.
23. You actually understand this post and pass it on to your friends.

Source: Crestock.com Blog

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Top ten Windows Vista myths debunked - the list of myths:

Myth #1: You’ll have to buy a new, high-end PC to run Vista
Myth #2: Vista will solve all your security problems
Myth #3: Vista is no more secure than XP SP2
Myth #4: The only thing new about Vista is the eye candy
Myth #5: You can’t dual boot Vista with another operating system
Myth #6: Vista requires (or includes) Office 2007
Myth #7: Most old applications and peripherals won’t work with Vista
Myth #8: You have to buy a Premium version of Vista if you have a dual core machine
Myth #9: You won’t be able to play ripped music in Vista
Myth #10: Vista costs a lot more than XP

Visit techrepublic.com’s article, where all these myths are debunked in a great detail.

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