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GIRLS 11 Aug 2009
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The Cambodian authorities have banned the beauty contest "Miss Landmine" which took place in Angola last year.
Women, victims of landmines, had to participate in this contest.
The winner was to receive high quality prosthesis to replace the missing member.
Despite the ban, the competition will take place on the internet. And we have the opportunity to see the candidates. 
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ANIMALS 11 Aug 2009
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Dogs don’t always brawl with cats and quite often, there is a real friendship between them.
Let's see how they are getting along with each other. 
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The day before yesterday morning, the Morakot typhoon hit Taiwan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever to hit Asia.
On the photos, you will see a six-story hotel that collapsed into a river because of the typhoon.
People were not injured as they were evacuated from the hotel even before the typhoon started. 
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Photoshoppers like to target celebrities while doing their creative works.
Once again they made a great job, but the stars look like a freak show ;)
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For the first time in Moscow was held the Red Bull Flugtag event in which competitors attempt to fly homemade human-powered flying machines.
And there were a lot of flying machines of all kinds.
All this looked very funny and many people came to watch this event and support their favorite team. In short, everybody was in a great mood afterwards. 
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DAILY 10 Aug 2009
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A great wall painting with an evolution process rather unusual but which sums up pretty much what it’s all about ;)
The artist’s name is Blu (I’m not sure, but looks like him) and he also makes wall-painted animations.
You can see more on his website.
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A nice girl at first sight. But this is not quite true. Look inside the post to see how she was prepared for the beauty contest. 
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Babes 10 Aug 2009
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The famous 48-year-old Susan Boyle, Britain’s Got Talent 2009 favourite, made the cover of American Harper’s Bazaar magazine for August 2009.
I must say they made a great makeover for the photo shoot and she looks good in her shinny dress.
Judge by yourself looking at the pics after the jump.
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In China, a guy was stopped by the traffic police that handed him a ticket for speeding.
But the driver couldn’t understand how the police could determine his speed. So he started to look for a speed camera that took his speed. Finally, he found the device and was quite surprised that this dubious device could determine his speed correctly.
At his place, I would doubt too. 
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ANIMALS 10 Aug 2009
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Apparently, there are dwarfs even among horses. Here is Koda, a dwarf horse. It is so small that people often take it for a plush toy.
Koda chooses friends by size for a walk ;)
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A few days ago, a new building caught fire in Moscow. A multi-unit dwelling was just built but wasn’t still habitable.
I have only one question: what are they making the building’s facade from for it to burn like a torch?
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They are very creepy, indeed, but very well made. 
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10 Aug 2009
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Sometimes cool cars can ignite spontaneously while driving.
Like, for example, this Porsche.
And it's always a pity when it happens to cars like that. 
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Seven photographers were making the photo-project about Detroit for 5 years.
The whole 5 years they were taking pictures that show the evolving of the city.
Especially nowadays when not many people are satisfied of what Detroit is.
The pictures aim to uncover the city, not what it has been before or what it should be today, but simply the way it is.
Here are the names of photographers who took part in this project: Corine Vermeulen-Smith,
Mitch Cope, Clinton Snider, Mark Alor Powell, Antonio Gomez, Ingo Vetter, Scott Hocking. 
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A photographer managed to photograph a funny scene, the heroes of which are a cane and her ducklings.
During a walk on a pond, one of the ducklings climbed on a wooden stick, apparently, willing to rest a bit. 
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“In the depths of north-eastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown.”
That sums up pretty well the idea of this post, here, the bridges are 100% natural.
Some of those bridges can be over a hundred feet long and they require 10 to 15 years to be fully functional. Some are really old (like hundreds of years) but they become stronger with years…
Look at those amazing shots inside the post.
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10 Aug 2009
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This is how they pimp cars in Bulgaria ;)
It is easy to make. First, steal an iron fence and put it on the car.
Well, see yourself )) 
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I got chills down my spine! Original but scary.
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I do not recommend viewing this post for those who dream of going to the sea, but cannot do it this year. Like me for example 
When I saw those pics I started to dream even more to go there…
Well, even if you are not dreaming about that, after seeing these photos, you too will begin to dream 
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DAILY 7 Aug 2009
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We already had one fascinating story about a slimming down, the guy has managed to lose about 400 lbs.
And here’s a woman from Russia named Svetlana, after one year and a half she lost nearly 155 lbs. And she deserves respect because it wasn’t that easy for her.
First, she started to walk every day for 1 km, later – 5 km, another step was going to the gym.
But the most stunning thing is her diet:
Breakfast: 2 eggs, or a piece of cheese, or porridge, a piece of black chocolate or a spoon of honey, coffee without sugar.
Second breakfast: half of a pomegranate, green tea.
Lunch: boiled lean meat, fish or a chicken breast, fresh vegetable salad with vegetable oil, green tea.
Snack: a handful of shelled seeds, green apple, grapefruit or pomegranate.
Dinner: green tea.
Now let's look at the fruit of her efforts.
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Here is the description of the site: “Logo.Hallucination proposes to use technologies of recognition of images in order to detect subliminal forms of logos or emblems, hidden (generally involuntarily) in the visual environment or in the whole of the images of the Internet. The found images will be accessible in a weblog, proposing a comparison between the original on the one hand and, on the other hand, the brand and its logo.”
I must say that the results are interesting, some comparisons are funny but the majority, if not all, are really twisted. I would not have even seen a single brand (its logo) by myself, even if I had searched for days…
You will find more info on the author’s website.
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The pics were taken by NASA astronauts from the International Space Station. At first, the pics were not interesting because all of them were blurred, but techniques and devices evolved over the years and now, you can have beautiful clear photos.
One interesting thing is that Tokyo seen by night is rather green while other cities are more orange/yellow. In fact, the majority of the urban area in Tokyo has light green mercury vapour lamps instead of orange sodium vapour lamps.
You will see pictures by night of London, Madrid, Athens, Cairo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and lots more.
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This post is the continuation of another similar post faces of rural poverty.
This series of pictures is mainly concentrated on a 17 years old girl named Autumn (all names have been changed) living in extreme poverty and searching for love and understanding. That’s where the series name Love Me comes from.
Brief facts: she’s still in 9th grade as she missed lots of classes and has not enough passing grades.
At the age of 13, one of her relatives tried to rape her but her family doesn’t believe her.
Her neighbour who once grabbed her breasts, which left bruises, became her boyfriend one week later.
This post made me even sadder than the previous one ((
I hope she’s going to get out of this hellhole one day…
