Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations

<h3 style="text-align: center;">10. Lego iPod Case</h3><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_ipod.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This interesting BrixPod Classic iPod Shuffle case gives your Shuffle the appearance of a full-sized iPod made of Lego bricks. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">9. Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/han_lego.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Nathan Sawaya used over 10,000 Lego pieces and spent 3 months making this "Han Solo in Carbonite" masterpiece. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">8. Lego Volvo XC90</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/volvo_lego.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Built by Lego Master Model Builders, this Volvo XC90 is the official car of Legoland California. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">7. Lego NES Case</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_nes_case.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> If Nintendo came out with a Lego NES case, this would be it. Everything is 100% Lego - power/reset buttons, controller ports, LED light cover, and even the vents up top. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">6. Lego Harpsichord</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_harpsichord.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This Harpsichord was constructed entirely from Lego parts (over 100,000!), including keyboard, jacks, jack rack, jack rail, plectra, soundboard, bridge, hitch pins, tuning pins, wrestplank, nut, case, legs, lid, lid stick, and music stand. It has a range of 61 notes and weighs 150 lb. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">5. Lego Pinhole Camera</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techeblog.com/files/lego_pinhole_camera.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This person took a Polaroid 95a, stripped it down, and than reassembled the camera with all Lego parts. Like a real mechanical 35mm camera, it includes a manual crank which takes 23 clicks to advance one frame. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">4. Lego Knitting Machine</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techeblog.com/files/lego_knitting.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Rarely do we come accross something so interesting yet odd, take a look at this fully functional knitting machine made entirely out of Lego pieces. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">3. Lego Difference Engine</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_difference_engine.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> One of the most imaginative Lego creations ever. Made by Andy Carroll, this difference engine is able to solve mathematical problems (2nd/3rd-order polynomials) and calculate the answers to 3 or 4 digits. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">2. Lego Air Conditioner</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_air_conditioner.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Behold, a functional Lego replica of Carrier's latest air conditioner, complete with valves, compressor, and working fan.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">1. Lego Pinball Machine</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techeblog.com/files/lego_pin.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Created by Lego fanatics Gerrit Bronsveld and Martijn Boogaarts of the Netherlands, this fully functional pinball machine was made using over 20,000 of these colorful blocks. The Lego Pinball Machine features an operational coin slot, rotation bumpers, auto kickback, 5-digit mechanical display (for points), 13 RCX Mindstorms computers, and even a ramp. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">( <a href="http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-lego-creations">Link</a> )</span> </span></div>

Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations

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Top 10 Strangest Foods From Around the World

They say one man's trash is another man's treasure. The same could be said about food: one man's nightmare may just be another man's delicacy. From cow's tongue and pig's snout to chicken's feet, from fried worms and frog's legs to sautéed snails, the list of weird stuff we eat is endless (and often quite tasty). If you've been indulging lately and need a reason to diet, take a read, you may just lose that appetite. Here is the list of the ten strangest foods from around the world.<br /><br /><strong>10. Fried - brain sandwiches</strong><br /><img alt="Fried - brain-sandwiches" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/brain%20sandwich.jpg" title="Fried - brain sandwiches" /> <br />Long before the era of Mad-Cow Disease, a sandwich made from fried calves' brain, thinly sliced on white bread was a common item on the menus in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The sandwich is still available in the Ohio River Valley, where the brains are now heavily battered and served on hamburger buns. In El Salvador and Mexico beef brains, lovingly called sesos in Spanish, are used in tacos and burritos. The brains have a mushy texture and very little flavor on their own so the addition of copious amounts of hot sauce definitely helps.<br /><br /><strong>9. Haggis</strong><br /><img alt="Haggis" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Haggis.jpg" title="Haggis" /> <br />A traditional Scottish dish, haggis is made with the minced heart, liver and lung of a sheep mixed with onion, spices, oatmeal, salt and stock, and boiled in the sheep's stomach for a few hours. Larousse Gastronomique, a popular encyclopedia of gastronomic delights, claims that haggis has "an excellent nutty texture and delicious savory flavor." Haggis is available year-round in Scottish supermarkets and made with an artificial casing rather than a sheep’s stomach. In fact some are sold in cans to be heated in a microwave before eating. Similar dishes can be found in other European countries with goat, pork or beef used instead of sheep.<br /><br /><strong>8. Bugs</strong><br /><img alt="Bugs" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Bugs.jpg" title="Bugs" /> <br />The practice of eating insects for food is called entomophagy and is fairly common in many parts of the world, with the exceptions of Europe and North America (though bugs are apparently a favorite with the television show "Fear Factor"). It is not uncommon to find vendors selling fried grasshoppers, crickets, scorpions, spiders and worms on the streets of Bangkok, Thailand. Insects are high in protein and apparently consist of important fatty acids and vitamins. In fact flour from drying and grinding up mealworm can be and is often used to make chocolate chip cookies. So next time you think there is a fly in your soup, it may actually just be part of the presentation.<br /><br /><strong>7. Rocky Mountain Oysters</strong><br /><img alt="Rocky-Mountain-Oysters" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Rocky-Mountain-Oysters.jpg" title="Rocky Mountain Oysters" /> <br />What is so strange about oysters? Probably the fact that they're not the kind you find at the bottom of the ocean, but rather a fancy name given to deep-fried testicles of a buffalo, bull or boar. Rocky Mountain oysters (also called Prairie Oysters) are well-known and regularly enjoyed, in certain parts of the United States and Canada, generally where cattle ranching is prevalent. The testicles are peeled, boiled, rolled in a flour mixture, and fried, then generally served with a nice cocktail sauce.<br /><br /><strong>6. Stuffed Camel</strong><br /><img alt="Stuffed-Camel" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Stuffed-Camel.jpg" title="Stuffed Camel" /> <br />The recipe for a whole stuffed camel kind of reads like a bad joke, with ingredients that include one whole camel, one whole lamb and 20 whole chickens. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the recipe as the largest item on any menu in the world, conveniently leaving out any concrete examples of this dish actually being eaten. Legend has it that that a whole stuffed camel is a traditional Bedouin dish seemingly prepared like a Russian Stacking Doll, where a camel is stuffed with a whole lamb, the lamb stuffed with the chickens and the chickens stuffed with eggs and rice. The entire concoction is then barbecued until cooked and served. Fact or fiction, the shear amount of food created by this dish makes it deserving of a place on the list.<br /><strong><br /></strong><strong>5. Hakarl</strong><br /><img alt="Hakarl" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Hakarl.jpg" title="Hakarl" /> <br />Anthony Bourdain, known for eating some of the strangest foods in the world, claims that hakarl is the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten. Made by gutting a Greenland or Basking shark and then fermenting it for two to four months, hakarl is an Icelandic food that reeks with the smell of ammonia. It is available all year round in Icelandic stores and often served in cubes on toothpicks.<br /><br /><strong>4. Fugu</strong><br /><img alt="Fugu" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Fugu.jpg" title="Fugu" /> <br />Fugu is the Japanese word for the poisonous puffer fish, filled with enough of the poison tetrodotoxin to be lethal. Only specially-trained chefs, who undergo two to three years of training and have passed an official test, can prepare the fish. Some chefs will choose to leave a minute amount of poison in the fish to cause a tingling sensation on the tongue and lips as fugu can be quite bland. Perhaps the fuss of fugu is more in surviving the experience than the actual taste of the deadly fish.<br /><br /><strong>3. Casu Marzu</strong><br /><img alt="Casu-Marzu" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Casu-Marzu.jpg" title="Casu Marzu" /> <br />Found in the city of Sardinia in Italy, casu marzu is a cheese that is home to live insect larvae. These larvae are deliberately added to the cheese to promote a level of fermentation that is close to decomposition, at which point the cheese’s fats are broken down. The tiny, translucent worms can jump up to half a foot if disturbed, which explains why some people prefer to brush off the insects before enjoying a spoonful of the pungent cheese.<br /><br /><strong>2. Sannakji</strong><br /><img alt="Sannakji" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Sannakji.jpg" title="Sannakji" /> <br />With sashimi and sushi readily available the world over, eating raw seafood is no longer considered a dining adventure. The Korean delicacy sannakji however, is something quite different, as the seafood isn't quite dead. Live baby octopus are sliced up and seasoned with sesame oil. The tentacles are still squirming when this dish is served and, if not chewed carefully, the tiny suction cups can stick to the mouth and throat. This is not a dish for the fainthearted.<br /><br /><strong>1. Balut</strong><br /><img alt="Balut" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Balut.jpg" title="Balut" /> <br />Balut seems to be on every "strange food" list, usually at the top, and for good reason. Though no longer wriggling on the plate like the live octopus in Korea, the fertilized duck or chicken egg with a nearly-developed embryo that is boiled and eaten in the shell is easily one of the strangest foods in the world. Balut is very common in the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam and usually sold by street vendors. It is said balut tastes like egg and duck (or chicken), which is essentially what it is. It is surprising to many that a food that appears so bizarre—often the with the bird's features clearly developed--can taste so banal. In the end, apparently everything does indeed, just taste like chicken. (<a href="http://www.moolf.com/interesting/top-ten-strangest-foods-from-around-the-world.html">Link</a>)

Top 10 Strangest Foods From Around the World

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Top 10 Strangest Things in The Universe [Vol. 1]

<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="hypervelocity star shooting speed fast" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/hypervelocity-star-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The more we look among the stars and galaxies, the weirder things seem to get.</i></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Even space itself is puzzling, for example. Recent studies suggest that the fabric of the universe stretches more than 150 billion light-years across -- in spite of the fact that the cosmos is 13.7 billion years old. From super-fast stars to the nature of matter, here we cover other strange and mysterious elements of the universe.</i></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b>10. Hypervelocity Stars</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">If you've ever gazed at the night sky, you've probably wished upon a shooting star (which are really meteors).</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">But shooting stars do exist, and they're as rare as one in 100 million.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">In 2005, astronomers discovered the first "hypervelocity" star careening out of a galaxy at nearly 530 miles per second (10 times faster than ordinary star movement).</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="black hole holes star supermassive galaxy" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/black-hole-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>9. Black Holes</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Speaking of black holes, what could be stranger?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Beyond a black hole's gravitational border -- or event horizon -- neither matter nor light can escape. Astrophysicists think dying stars about three to 20 times the mass of the sun can form these strange objects. At the center of galaxies, black holes about 10,000 to 18 billion times heavier than the sun are thought to exist, enlarged by gobbling up gas, dust, stars and small black holes.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="magnetar wave field neutron star" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/magnetar-star-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>8. Magnetars</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The sun spins about once every 25 days, gradually deforming its magnetic field.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Well, imagine a dying star heavier than the sun collapsing into a wad of matter just a dozen miles in diameter.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Like a spinning ballerina pulling his or her arms inward, this change in size spins the neutron star -- and its magnetic field -- out of control.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="neutrino numi minos detector underground tube" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/neutrino-detector-numi-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7. Neutrinos</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Pull out a dime from your pocket and hold it up for a second... guess what? About 150 billion tiny, nearly massless particles called neutrinos just passed through it as though it didn't even exist.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Scientists have found that they originate in stars (living or exploding), nuclear material and from the Big Bang. The elementary particles come in three "flavors" and, stranger still, seem to disappear on a whim.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Because neutrinos occasionally do interact with "normal" matter such as water and mineral oil, scientists hope they can use them as a revolutionary telescope to see beyond parts of the universe obscured by dust and gas. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">  </span><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="dark matter einstein energy pie universe" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/dark-matter-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>6. Dark Matter</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">If you put all of the energy and matter of the cosmos into a pie and divvy it up, the result is shocking.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">All of the galaxies, stars, planets, comets, asteroids, dust, gas and particles account for just 4 percent of the known universe. Most of what we call "matter" -- about 23 percent of the universe -- is invisible to human eyes and instruments.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">For now.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Scientists can see dark matter's gravitational tug on stars and galaxies, but are searching feverishly for ways to detect it first-hand. They think particles similar to neutrinos yet far more massive could be the mysterious, unseen stuff. (<a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/strange-universe/space-10-weirdest-things-universe-06.html">Link</a>)</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">  </span>

Top 10 Strangest Things in The Universe [Vol. 1]

The more we look among the stars and galaxies, the weirder things seem to get. Even space itself is puzzling, for example. Recent studies su...

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Top 10 Strangest Things in The Universe [Vol. 2]

<div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="dark energy matter cosmic web filament" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/dark-matter-energy-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><b>5. Dark Energy</b><br />What really has everyone on the planet confused -- including scientists -- is dark energy.<br />To continue with the pie analogy, dark energy is a Garfield-sized portion at 73 percent of the known universe. It seems to pervade all of space and push galaxies farther and farther away from one another at increasingly faster speeds.<br />Some cosmologists think this expansion will leave the Milky Way galaxy as an "island universe" in a few trillion years with no other galaxies visible.<br /><br /><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="planet planets exoplanet extrasolar" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/planets-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><b>4. Planets</b><br />It might sound strange because we live on one, but planets are some of the more mysterious members of the universe.<br />So far, no theory can fully explain how disks of gas and dust around stars form planets -- particularly rocky ones.<br />Not making matters easier is the fact that most of a planet is concealed beneath its surface. Advanced gadgetry can offer clues of what lies beneath, but we have heavily explored only a few planets in the solar system.<br /><br /><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="gravity wave waves graviton" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/gravity-waves-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><b>3. Gravity</b><br />The force that helps stars ignite, planets stay together and objects orbit is one of the most pervasive yet weakest in the cosmos<br />Scientists have fine-tuned just about every equation and model to describe and predict gravity, yet its source within matter remains a complete and utter mystery.<br />Some think infinitesimal particles called gravitons exude the force in all matter, but whether or not they could ever be detected is questionable.<br /><br /><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="bacteria life extremophile e coli escherichia" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/bacteria-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><b>2. Life</b><br />Matter and energy abound in the universe, but only in a few places is the roll of the cosmic dice perfect enough to result in life.<br />The basic ingredients and conditions necessary for this strange phenomenon are better understood than ever before, thanks to abundant access to life here on Earth.<br />But the exact recipe -- or recipes -- to go from the basic elements of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur to an organism is a prevailing mystery.<br /><br /><br /><div class="clear clearfix floatRight" id="photo"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="universe cosmos big bang theory" border="0" height="450" src="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/gallery/big-bang-625x450.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><b>1. The Universe</b><br />The source of energy, matter and the universe itself is the ultimate mystery of, well, the universe.<br />Based on a widespread afterglow called the cosmic microwave background (and other evidence), scientists think that the cosmos formed from a "Big Bang" -- an incomprehensible expansion of energy from an ultra-hot, ultra-dense state.<br />Describing time before the event, however, may be impossible. (<a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/strange-universe/space-10-weirdest-things-universe-10.html">Link</a>)

Top 10 Strangest Things in The Universe [Vol. 2]

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Top 10 Strangest Flying Animals

<h2>10. Flying Squirrels</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15567"><img alt="flying squirell" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15567" height="367" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/flying-squirell.jpg" title="flying squirell" width="400" /></a><br />Okay, as flying animals go, flying squirrels are almost mundane; at least most of us have heard of them, although the closest we have come to seeing one was when one hung out with a stupid cartoon moose. The real animal is pretty strange; it looks like someone ironed out a hamster and made it jump from trees. Flying squirrels are the world record holders for “flying” animals, which is to say, of all the gliding animals that are called fliers, they go the farthest, reaching a stunning 288 feet in a single jump! The only humans to go that far after a jump unfortunately fell 30 stories and had to have the evening news tell of their “accomplishment.”<br /><h2>9. Flying Phalangers</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15568"><img alt="Phalangers" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15568" height="489" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Phalangers.gif" title="Phalangers" width="500" /></a><br />Okay, if you have no idea what a phalanger is, join the club. They are apparently an Australian subfamily of possum that manages to survive the horrors of that island continent by cuting them into submission. I mean it, that picture is an adult. I can only imagine the babies are…. Holy crap… If they made Care Bears that looked like that, adult men would scream and cry if they were forced to leave Toy ‘R’ Us without one.<br />At any rate, the most famous phlying phalanger is the sugar glider, which sounds like it flies with fairies and delivers laughs to kittens. They can glide for about 50 to 150 feet and are likely the cutest thing to ever take to the air. It’s also the last thing on the list that would even remotely qualify as “cute.”<br /><h2>8. Flying Lemurs</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15569"><img alt="Lemurs" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15569" height="337" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Lemurs.jpg" title="Lemurs" width="445" /></a><br />These things are called flying lemurs because “air sailing horror-beast” was too wordy. Or maybe because they are related to lemurs. Believe it or not, that is the closest thing on earth to being a primate without actually being one. They are also called colugos and outside of bats, they are the mammals most highly adapted for flight. As you can see, their limbs and tail are connected by flaps of skin that connect out to the very ends of them, thereby increasing their surface area and making them better gliders. They are apparently incredibly bad climbers, which is odd since they glide rather than fly, but are extremely maneuverable and can glide up to 3230 feet, with almost no loss in height. (most other “gliders” are more accurately “controlled fallers”).<br />They are also really scary looking animals that have no doubt inspired tales of flying monkeys stealing children.<br /><h2>7. Flying Lizard</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15570"><img alt="Lizard" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15570" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Lizard-533x400.jpg" title="Lizard" width="533" /></a><br />I am of the mind that lizards, at least the small ones, are kind of cute. They often have big doe-like eyes and rid the world of bugs. However I am also of the mind that anything that drops on you from a tree unexpectedly is instantly frightening. Pictured above is an Indonesian lizard of the genus Draco, which as you may have guessed, means “dragon.” They have been known to glide as far as 195 feet while only losing 30 feet in height from the initial jump.  Unlike the flying mammals, they don’t have loose skin strung between their arms and legs for gliding, but rather extended ribs, which makes them about the only thing in nature to achieve a super power by being blended with one of Jigsaw’s<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJigsaw_Killer&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEcuifclGvJbrWCsKqUriZpkdVTcQ"> </a>murder machines.<br /><h2>6. Flying Snake</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15572"><img alt="flying snake" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15572" height="324" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/flying-snake.jpg" title="flying snake" width="470" /></a><br />If you are afraid of snakes, you probably did not need to know that in some parts of the world, you are in danger of them gliding out of the forest canopy and landing on you. Sorry about that. They also live in the same parts of the world as the flying lemur and the flying lizard, which makes me wonder, what is in those trees that is so bad that multiple animals evolved gliding abilities to escape it?<br />The flying snakes are “mildly venomous”, which means they have poison, but it is not harmful to humans. Likely 90% of the people who read that don’t care about the “not dangerous to humans” part and will likely focus on the fact that South East Asia and Indonesia have flying poison snakes. Life in that part of the world must be like a game of Pitfall.<br /><h2>5. Flying Frog</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15573"><img alt="flying frog" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15573" height="392" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/flying-frog-560x392.jpg" title="flying frog" width="560" /></a><br />Finally, we move past horror animals into merely curious. Flying frogs have apparently evolved from several different lines of frog, in most places in the world where there are tree-dwelling tropical frogs. They developed their “parachuting” ability as a means of predator evasion, and fortunately lack the pants-wetting ability of flying lizards and snakes because even a giant house-sized frog would be inherently adorable.<br />Appropriately enough, the first described flying frogs were found in Malaysia and Indonesia, where they spend their lives dodging every other flying creature. I can only imagine the forest skies of those nations look like air traffic control screens, only filled with bug eating animals and snakes.<br /><h2>4. Flying Fish</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15574"><img alt="flying fish" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15574" height="274" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/flying-fish.gif" title="flying fish" width="372" /></a><br />Okay, no more jumping out of trees, these guys live in the ocean.  While flying from one tree to another is impressive,<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFlying_fish&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGeGuuqe7wNmZd2IIxO3vJEQ731og"> </a>leaping out of the ocean and gliding 160 feet is awesome. Now, the flying squirrel may have the tree to tree world record, but they have nothing at all on flying fish. The record for a sustained glide by a flying fish is 1300 feet, at a speed of 42 miles per hour! The achieve flight by beating their tail 70 times a second and launching themselves out of the water, then ride the updrafts waves produce. They can fly up to 20 feet vertically into the air, and sometimes accidentally strand themselves on ships.<br />Those are impressive numbers for an animal that is generally designed to swim for a living, and can’t even breathe air.<br /><h2>3. Mobula Ray</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15575"><img alt="Mobula Ray" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15575" height="333" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mobula-Ray.jpg" title="Mobula Ray" width="468" /></a><br />What is 17 feet across, weighs over a ton, and can launch itself out of the sea? Why, a mobula<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMobula&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGJD_il1hgGDOCZttqa8fOdNFP4Vw"> </a>of course! As rays go, they are only second in size to the manta ray, and they can jump as high as 6 and a half feet out of the water. Now, there is some danger here; a woman in Florida was killed when an eagle ray jumped into the boat she was on and hit her, and they top out at a few hundred pounds. Imagine being hit with a flying ton of fish. Still, there are videos on youtube of these things breaching, and it is pretty damn spectacular.<br /><h2>2. Gliding Ants</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15576"><img alt="Gliding Ants" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15576" height="387" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Gliding-Ants-560x387.jpg" title="Gliding Ants" width="560" /></a><br />Okay, so there are species of ant that fly with wings, so what is so interesting about “gliding” ants? These are un-winged ants that fall into a very specific subset of requirements, like having good eyesight, living in rain forests that flood, and forage for food at the ends of branches. They also tend to be <em>armored</em>. When they fall from trees, they focus on the lighter color of the trunk against the darker forest background, and then flatten their head, legs and abdomen and then glide from free-fall to a J-shaped flight, and then grasp the tree. The whole thing seems to have developed as a way to avoid falling out of trees and being eaten on the forest floor. Gliding ants have an 85% greater chance of falling and landing on a tree than ants that just fall. So nature deigned ants that are clumsy, but make up for it by being X-Men.<br /><h2>1. Flying Squid</h2><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-15577"><img alt="Flying Squid" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15577" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Flying-Squid-274x400.jpg" title="Flying Squid" width="274" /></a><br />That is no PhotoShop, that is an actual squid gliding over the ocean. Believe it or not, they actually display behaviors that show they actively maintain their glide, meaning they may not be gliders at all and may actually be <em>flying</em> squids. They act very much like the flying fish, using their ability to evade predators, and also wind up on ship decks.(<a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-strangest-flying-animals.php">Link</a>)

Top 10 Strangest Flying Animals

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Top 10 Most Strangest Weathers in the World

Different places have different weathers. Mostly people have seen the common weathers like spring, summer, autumn and winters. But today we are going to tell you top 10 weird weathers of different places. Here are they.<br /><h3><b>1. Ice Fall / Bomb</b></h3>It is said at some place in the world small ice balls use to fall from the sky. Most of the people have seen snow falling in their areas but these balls are different from a snowfall because its weight is about 80 pounds. The weirdest thing to know is that balls descend from the clear sky without any clouds and rain.<br /><br /><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Ice Fall Bomb" border="0" height="203" src="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ice-Fall-Bomb_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Ice Fall Bomb" width="300" /></a><br /><span id="more-3202"> </span><br /><h3><b> </b></h3><h3><b>2. St. Elmo’s fires</b></h3>St Elmo fires are said to be seen during the thunderstorms. It is basically balls of fire that people have seen dancing along the river.<br /><br /><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="St. Elmo’s fires" border="0" height="266" src="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/St.-Elmos-fires_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="St. Elmo’s fires" width="400" /></a><br /><h3><b> </b></h3><h3><b>3. Sprites, Jets and Elves!</b></h3>Pilots and crew reported about seeing strange colored light flashes from the top of storm clouds. Many scientists have worked on this peculiar sort of splash and then described that the weird spark really exists. People called the sparks and lights as sprites, elves etc. it is said that the red sprite is a red light flash that rises as high as 50 miles above the earth. It was further proved that the sparks and lights are due to the lightening heat.<br /><br /><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Sprites, Jets and Elves!" border="0" height="262" src="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Sprites-Jets-and-Elves_thumb.gif" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Sprites, Jets and Elves!" width="400" /></a><br /><h3><b> </b></h3><h3><b>4. Colored Rain</b></h3>It’s fearful to even hear the news about the blood plunge from the sky.It is said that there used to be red rain since Ancient Roman times. Scientists worked on it and revealed the secret that it is not actually the rain but the dust and sand which use to get mixed with the rain clouds and give the color to the rain.<br />In Europe rain is usually colored due to the dust that is carried across the continent from Saharan sand storms. Other colored rain that can occur due to other objects such as: pollen could make a yellow rain, dust from coal mines could create a black rain, dust and even some rain could make white milk.<br /><br /><br /><h3><b> </b></h3><h3><b>5. Raining Fish and Frogs</b></h3>From California, England to India, people report about a strange rain. It seems as small animals like fishes and frogs are falling down from the sky in form of the rain. It seems quite eerie but it is a verity.<br /><br /><a href="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Raining-Fish-and-Frogs.jpg"><img alt="Raining Fish and Frogs" border="0" height="262" src="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Raining-Fish-and-Frogs_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Raining Fish and Frogs" width="400" /></a><br /><h3><b> </b></h3><h3><b>6.Sea Monster or Spinning Water</b></h3>It is said that small whirlwind is formed on the surface of warm water that take along the water to the upper surface and forms a waterway on the top of water surface. People give it different names like Loch Ness Monster, devil water etc. water devil has strange movements and it swirl in irregular manner. It makes different sounds like hissing and like bubble. Sometimes it seems as Sea monster which arises to search for food.<br /><br /><br /><h3><b> </b></h3><h3><b>7.</b><b>Whirlwinds of Fire</b></h3>Extreme heat in the ground gives shape to these whirlwinds of fire, which instigate the air to rise and the wind that causes rising air circling. The scene is not as horrible as tornadoes, but it softly portrays evil. The evil dust is carried on the ground by the whirlwind. Scene gets frightening when a round of fire burn takes place due to the extreme heat.<br /><br /><b></b><br /><h3><b> </b></h3><h3><b>8</b>.<b>Once in a Blue Moon</b></h3>Once in Blue Moon here refers to the event when moon gives its bluish looks. It happens due to fire of the forests and volcanoes flare-up and the ashes sprouts in the atmosphere and mixes with the water droplets.Winds carry the mixture to different parts of world and reflect the moon light which makes it look bluish.<br /><br /><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Once in a Blue Moon" border="0" height="305" src="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Once-in-a-Blue-Moon_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Once in a Blue Moon" width="400" /></a><br /><h3><b>9. Seeing Triple Suns</b></h3>Have you ever seen the Triple suns??In the unclouded and sunny day you can experience.As there are cirrus clouds in the sky it happens that when sun gets near to the horizon,it appears on the both sides reflected and gives the vision as if there are three suns on the sky.<br /><br /><a href="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Seeing-Triple-Suns.jpg"><span id="goog_899615802"></span><img alt="Seeing Triple Suns" border="0" height="215" src="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Seeing-Triple-Suns_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Seeing Triple Suns" width="400" /></a><a href="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Whirlwinds-of-Fire.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Sea-Monster-or-Spinning-Water.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span id="goog_899615803"></span><br /><h3><b> </b></h3><h3><b>10.Greats Balls of Fire</b></h3>Great balls of fire have been seen by people in the course of the downpour and lightening. It was said that they were like golf balls, drifted during the storm. These balls do not release light but are noisy. Usually they vanish when they smash something like TV but at times it gets really dangerous when bursts and causes fire. Scientists are unable to find the reason for such Fire balls.<br /><br /><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Great balls of fire: newborn nerve cells navigate their universe" border="0" height="301" src="http://toptens.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Greats-Balls-of-Fire_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Great balls of fire: newborn nerve cells navigate their universe" width="400" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">(<a href="http://toptens.in/">Link</a>)</div>

Top 10 Most Strangest Weathers in the World

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Top 10 Funniest Photos

<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Recently the missus bought one of those Canon EOS 350D cameras, and until we figure out how to use it we are resigned to taking pointless and sometimes amusing photos.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>So to inspire her I have gathered a top 10 list of the funniest photos I have ever seen. So have a look at these amusing camera tricks:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="gymnastic funny" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic00041.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="funny kissing" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic05705.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="leaning tower funny" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic06334.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="amusing magazine" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic11478.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="crazy cat" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic15724.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="powerful fart" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic16827.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="man queen" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic18467.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="funny basketball" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic19169.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="funny football photo" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic26962.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="huge wee" src="http://www.midasupload.com/users/1/pic29358.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">( <a href="http://deanhunt.com/top-10-funniest-photos/">Link</a> )</div>

Top 10 Funniest Photos

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