Amazing Tokyo Time-lapse Video

Love time-lapse videos? Take a look at this one. This time-lapse video shows Tokyo, the capital city of Japan. And the interesting thing is this video was shot in Tokyo with a digital still camera over a period of one year!

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The Baby Jumping Festival!

 

Ever heard of the "Baby Jumping Festival"? First take a look at the pictures. They are real. Because it is a real festival that takes place in Castillo de Murcia near Burgos, every year since 1620. Also known as El Colacho (the devil's jump) in Spain, the Baby-Jumping Festival has been rated as one of the most dangerous in the world.

What actually happens in the "Baby Jumping Festival"? During this festival men dressed as the Devil (know as the Colacho) jump over infants laying on a blanket. People believe that this festival help to cleanse the babies of original sin, ensure them safe passage through life and guard against illness and evil spirits. But due to it's dangerous nature, Pope Benedict has asked priests in Spain to stay away from the Baby Jumping Festival.

 

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Gillette Fusion Power Zamboni Ad

A cool way to advertise! Big Gillette Fusion Power razors were attached to Zamboni ice resurfacer machines in order to deliver the right message! It gives "smoother shave" like it makes the ice surface smooth! The ad was done by advertising agency BBDO New York, Proximity Canada.

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Zhao Liang : The 8ft Tall Man

Take a look at tall man in the picture. This is Zhao Liang, a 27-year-old man from Menan province, China. Believe it or not, Zhao is 8.07 ft tall (2.46m) and probably the tallest man in the world. The current world record for tallest man is in the name of Bao Xishun, who is 7.9ft (2.36m) tall.

Mr Zhao had been training as a basketball player when he sustained a foot injury over a decade ago. He was unemployed until 2006, when an art troupe in Jilin province enrolled him to perform magic tricks and play the saxophone and flute. To treat his old injury, Zhao recently came to the Tianjin hospital where his height caught attention of the hospital staff. After measuring his height in presence of media, the hospital staff learned that Zhao is 3.9 inches (10cm) taller than current world record holder for world's tallest man.

In order to get into the Guinness World Records, Zhao's height is needed to bve verified independently. We hope that the Guinness judges will do justice with him and give him official recognition as the tallest man in the world.

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Creative Greenpeace Shopping Bag

Take a look at the pictures. Greenpeace, the environmental activist group,  created some nice paper shopping bag that shows that you care for animals. The unique shopping bags carries the message - "Give Me Your Hand". And to suit the message, the bags are so nicely designed that from a distance it looks like you are holding the hand of one of those cute animals. Create design that delivers the right message. What you say?

Greenpeace is an international non-governmental organization that works for protection and conservation of environment. It is one of the World's most popular and active environmental activist groups. If you really care about environment and animals, you must support the causes they are fighting for.

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Google Earth finds Ancient Fish Trap

Google Earth helped to find a huge ancient fish trap in a estuary. The 260m (853ft) man-made V-shaped structure could be more than 1,000 years old, experts believe. It is believed that the fish trap was designed to catch migratory fish, such as salmon and sea trout going up the River Teifi at Poppit in Pembrokeshire.

The structure is entirely underwater and it has never been surveyed before. Now, research is being undertaken between Pembrokeshire College and the Dyfed Archaeological Trust to find out more about the ancient structure.

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Entire Village up for Sale!

Want to buy more than a home? What about a village? Believe it or not, an entire village including 22 cottages, a cricket club, a blacksmiths and a manor house has gone up for sale. The price tag is between £23,000,000 - £25,000,000.

Picturesque Linkenholt, near Andover in Hampshire, is in an area of outstanding beauty and includes 1,500 acres of farmland and 450 acres of woodland. It is located between Newbury and Andover and about 73 miles to Central London.It will be sold by the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust, who owns the estate. The only thing not included with the deal is the 12th century village church, which does not belong to the trust.

Under the terms of the sale, the buyer will land everything including its 22 houses, the village shop and a commercial shoot. Recently, a meeting has been held with the close-knit community of around 40, where it was decided to keep the layout of the village the same.

Estate Agent Tim Sherston, from Jackson-Stops and Staff in Newbury, told Sky News: "There has been an unusual amount of interest in the village, so we do expect it to sell."

More information about the offer: http://www.jackson-stops.co.uk/cgi-bin/properties/summary_details.pl?propID=34075

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OK! Magazine Jade Goody Tribute Issue!

Reality TV star Jade Goody, who is living her last few days battling cervical cancer at her residence in London, is already dead for an OK! magazine! The UK edition of OK! magazine already published a tribute issue for Jade Goody! Take a look at the image of the magazine front page.

Titled as "Jade Goody Official Tribute Issue", the March 17, 2009 issue carries the phrases "In Loving Memory" and "Jade Goody 1981-2009". The OK! UK issue, that went on sale on Tuesday, also contains a "World Exclusive" interview with Jade and many unseen pictures of the former TV reality-show star.

Do you think that it is appropriate to publish such a tribute issue when the person is still alive? We don't think that it is appropriate. In fact it is weird and only mad people can do something like this.

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Playboy's Hugh Hefner selling Mansion

It is reported that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is selling his Holmby Hills mansion for $28 million. Is it an effect of the ongoing global financial recession? Probably it is!

According to the Los Angeles Times, the mansion backs on to the Los Angeles Country Club and also shares a lot line with the official Playboy mansion next door, where Hefner is still known to saunter the nights away dressed in his famous pajamas.

Hefner, 82,bought the 700-sq-meter mansion for a reported $6.7 million for his Playmate wife Kimberley, in 1998. After the couple split in 1999, Kimberley remained in the house where she raised their two sons. Now their sons are off to college.

The palatial spread features five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, a two-storey entrance hall, a large living room with one of the home's three fireplaces, a library with a second fireplace, a family room that adjoins the dining room and an eat-in kitchen - and a massive expanse of lawn.

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Boy, 6, climbs Five Everests!

A British boy named Tom Fryers has scaled the equivalent of five Mount Everests at just the age of six. How? Fryers, who nearly died at birth from breathing problems, has trekked up 214 of the Lake District's highest peaks, after he conquered his first peak at the age of 3 and a half. Tom even raised more than 2,000 pounds for the hospital that saved his life

The little boy completed the 480-mile trek in 62 days, which totals to an average of four peaks a day, and in one grueling 15-mile session he conquered the two highest peaks in England, 3,162ft Scafell and 3,209ft Scafell Pike.

Tom said during the challenge: "I have loved climbing mountains ever since I climbed my first Wainwrights."

Tom, who was accompanied by his dad Paul, 41, of Oxspring, South Yorks, gave the cheque to a special-care baby unit in Sheffield. Mr Paul said his son was born prematurely and raising funds for the trust was a way to say thank you to the hospital staff who cared for him. Brave boy. What you say?

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