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Minggu, 11 Juli 2010

12 Unfortunate Beards and Mustaches for a Mugshot



Now that's a good reason to grow a real mustache.








Why choose when you can have the best of both worlds?















































































What a dickhead... literally.
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Nastiest Toothpaste




The Twin Lotus Original Herbal Toothpaste combines two things I'm scared of when it comes to products to review — it's herbal, and it looks like something that might come out of an asshole. Made in Thailand.






Chocolate Toothpaste




In 2005, Unilever Philippines marketed a limited edition of chocolate flavored fluoride toothpaste. Closeup Flavalicious toothpaste in Choco Loco might not be as strange as it sounds, however: The research of Tulane University doctoral candidate Arman Sadeghpour shows that an extract of cocoa powder protects teeth, and is in fact, more effective than fluoride when it comes to cavity prevention.






Bacon Toothpaste




Bacon is getting to be a plenty popular thing, and everybody is coming up with bacon products that have sprawled out from just the dining table. With this toothpaste you can clean those pearly whites with bacon-flavoured toothpaste and have a long-lasting fresh breath of bacon. It may not look very appetizing, but it has that lovely porky taste and smell of everybody's favorite bacon!






Whiskey Toothpaste




The ultimate he-man toothpaste, flavored with scotch or bourbon. The night-before feeling on the morning after.





Two Way Toothpaste




A two way toothpaste, ideal for those who get angry with their partner for squeezing the toothpaste from the front. Simply open the other end and squeeze from the back as demonstrated below. Also quite useful for getting the last of the paste out of the bottom.






Monkey Brand Black Toothpaste




Close your eyes and imagine this. Charcoal, ground to a fine powder. Vicks Vapor Rub, in all its eye watering, nasal clearing goodness. Now imagine these two things together, in your mouth! Sure, at first imagining, Charcoal plus Vicks Vapor Rub may not sound too appetizing; and I will admit that it is an acquired taste. Once you have acquired the taste though, and the ability to stomach the gritty, dry, gagging texture, you have a toothpaste that gets your mouth clean like no other. It is a bit like sandblasting the gunk off your teeth. They are really squeaky clean after the rinse. And believe it or not, it is both a whitening toothpaste and an Ayurvedic Medicine! Oh Monkey Brand has its down side, the spatter of black dried spit that coats the sink and walls, the aforementioned texture and the container that is strangely hard to open.






E-mail Diamant Rouge Toothpaste




This weird toothpaste called Email Diamant Rouge is French, and apparently, it's been around since 1893. Guess teeth whitening isn't such a modern phenomenon. The toothpaste is dark red, has an intense clove/licorice/mint taste, and gives the most immediate brightening effect ever witnessed from a toothpaste. Supposedly the secret is that it coats your teeth with natural light-reflective particles, making them sparkly yet somehow not red, while staining your gums--and, unfortunately, your tongue and your toothbrush--pinker so your teeth seem crisper-white in contrast. The drawbacks? It's expensive and messy, turning everything in its path hot pink. Watching the neon water swirl down the drain is kind of fun, though.






Champagne Toothpaste




If you prefer Champagne rather than whiskey, this toothpaste is perfect for you. You can have this toothpaste with Champagne flavour for $10/each. Surprise your friends with this unique gift.






Black Japanese Toothpaste




I can think of many uses for everyday charcoal. From art to making myself a burger on the grill, it is definitely useful. However, when I first saw that Korea had Charcoal Toothpaste, I was a little taken aback. Black in color, go figure, it uses the cleaning power and absorption of odor to help clean your mouth and “neutralize the poisons from the body”. I guess someone figured if it is good enough to filter your water then it is good enough to clean your teeth. Japan has had charcoal toothpaste since 2003 when Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals released Sumigaki.






Ice Cream Toothpaste




Tanner's Tasty Paste wants your mouth to smell like ice cream. Created by Pediatric Dentist, Janelle Holden, her goal was to make a toothpaste that makes brushing teeth a pleasant experience for kids. This stuff tastes great. There's 3 flavors to choose from, Banilla Bling, Cha Cha Chocolate, and Blingsicle, which tastes like Orange and Vanilla ice cream. There's no artificial colors, flavors, Saccharin or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate in Tanners Tasty Paste and best of all, your kids will look forward to brushing their teeth. For the little ones, they make Baby Bling, which is fluoride free, so it's safe to swallow.
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Kamis, 08 Juli 2010

Yellow Stone National Park

Yellow Stone National Park








Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is America's first national park. Located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, it is home to a large variety of wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. Preserved within Yellowstone National Park are Old Faithful and a collection of the world's most extraordinary geysers and hot springs, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

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Lost Cities

Photo: The Treasury at Petra,  Jordan

The breathtaking city of Petra was a vibrant trading hub that vanished from most maps in the seventh century A.D. It lay beneath a thousand years of dust and debris when, in 1812, a Swiss scholar disguised as a Bedouin trader identified the ruins as the ancient Nabataean capital.

Spread throughout a series of remote desert canyons in southern Jordan, Petra arose more than 2,000 years ago at the crossroads of key caravan trade routes between Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The Nabataeans carved most of the sprawling city's buildings, including temples, tombs, and theaters, directly into the region's towering red sandstone cliffs. Here, a Bedouin walks his camel past Petra's most famous building, Al Khazneh, or the Treasury

Photo: Machu Picchu

Photo: Palenque, Mexico

The earliest Maya began to settle the dense rain forests of southwestern Mexico and Guatemala some 3,000 years ago. For nearly 1,400 years, settlements arose throughout the region, with some, like Tikal and Palenque (shown here), expanding into large, vibrant city-states.

Although the archaeological discovery of Machu Picchu came nearly a hundred years ago, historians are still unsure of the function of this ancient Inca citadel.

The Inca had no system of writing and left no written records, and archaeologists have been left to piece together bits of evidence as to why Machu Picchu was built, what purpose it served, and why it was so quickly vacated.

Photo: Ancient Troy

Myth, folklore, mystery, and intrigue surround the ancient city of Troy like no other ruin on Earth. Once thought to be purely imaginary, a prop in Homer's epic poem The Iliad, excavations in northwestern Turkey in 1871 eventually proved that the city indeed existed.

In 1871, German adventurer Heinrich Schliemann began digging at Hisarlik, Turkey, (shown here) in search of the fabled city. His roughshod excavation wrought havoc on the site, but revealed nine ancient cities, each built on top of the next and dating back some 5,000 years. At the time, most archaeologists were skeptical that Troy was among the ruins, but evidence since the discovery suggests the Trojan capital indeed lies within the site.

Photo: Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan

The Indus Valley civilization was entirely unknown until 1921, when excavations in what would become Pakistan revealed the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (shown here).

This mysterious culture emerged nearly 4,500 years ago and thrived for a thousand years, profiting from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade with the civilizations of nearby Mesopotamia.

Photo: Palmyra, Syria

There is evidence that the ancient city of Palmyra, also known as Tadmor, was in existence as far back as the 19th century B.C. Its importance grew around 300 B.C. as trading caravans began using it as a way station between Mesopotamia and Persia. Palmyra's strategic location and prosperity attracted the interest of the Romans, who took control of the city in the first century A.D.
Photo: Ruins at Tanis, Egypt
The city of Tanis is relatively unknown among Egypt's wealth of historical sites, though it yielded one of the greatest archeological troves ever found. Once the capital of all Egypt, Tanis's royal tombs have yielded artifacts on par with the treasures of Tutankhamun.
Photo: Great Enclosure,  Zimbabwe
Once thought (erroneously) to be a city of the biblical Queen of Sheba, Great Zimbabwe stands as the most important archaeological site yet found in sub-Saharan Africa. Though historians are still seeking answers about the origin and purpose of the city, evidence suggests the Shona, ancestors of the modern Bantu, built it beginning around A.D. 1250 and that it served as a spiritual center.
Photo: Relief sculpture of  Assyrian king
Nimrud in northern Iraq was once the capital of the Assyrian empire. Feared as bloodthirsty and vicious, the Assyrians arose around the 14th century B.C. and dominated the Middle East for a thousand years.
Nimrud and the Assyrian Empire declined rapidly around 612 B.C., after Nimrud's sister city, Nineveh, fell to the Babylonians.

Photo: Relief sculpture in Persepolis,  Iran
The ancient city of Persepolis in modern-day Iran was one of four capitals of the sprawling Persian Empire. Built beginning around 520 B.C., the city was a showcase for the empire's staggering wealth, with grand architecture, extravagant works of silver and gold, and extensive relief sculptures such as this one portraying envoys with offerings for the king.
The height of Persian rule lasted from about 550 B.C. until 330 B.C., when Alexander the Great overthrew the ruling Archaemenid dynasty and burned Persepolis to the ground.


Photo: Stonehenge, England
Over centuries of study, archaeologists have discovered many truths about the famed Stonehenge monument in southern England. But despite these advances, the basic questions of who built this iconic structure and why have remained unanswered.
Photo: Anasazi ruins in Mesa  Verde, Colorado
More than 600 cliff dwellings made by the ancestral Pueblo people, also known as the Anasazi, are scattered throughout Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado (shown here).
The Anasazi arrived in the region as early as A.D. 550, building their homes and cultivating crops on the soaring mesa tops. Around 1150, though, they began to move their dwellings to the alcoves within the canyon walls. Most houses were quite small, but a few reached enormous proportions, housing up 250 people.
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