2005 September 16

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TV Watching Record – I Can Do That!

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on September 16, 2005 at 12:31 pm

Suresh Joachin is the Guiness world record holder for longest marathon tv watching of 69 hours and 48 minutes. He broke the previous world record of 50 hours and 7 minutes.

Suresh now holds 16 Guiness records, including longest duration balancing on one foot (76 hours and 40 minutes) and bowling for 100 hours. Why is he doing this? "To raise awareness of suffering children".

Link to CNN article | Link to the rules at LIVE with Regis & Kelly

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Cool Snowflakes.

Posted by Alex in Everything Else, Pictures on September 16, 2005 at 12:30 pm

Natural and artificial snow flakes beautifully photographed by Ken Libbrecht at Caltech. The first one on the left is nature’s own (photo by Patricia Rasmussen & Ken Libbrecht), the middle one is an unusual triangular shaped showflake. The one on the right is a designer or artificial snow flake, probably the world’s largest, measuring at approximately 1 inch across. Link

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Swing’s Coin Furnitures.

Posted by Alex in Art on September 16, 2005 at 12:29 pm

Johnny Swing is a New York artist who welded thousands of pennies, nickels, and quarters into amazing furnitures.

Shown to the left is his "Nickel Couch".

If you have a Swing furniture, and someone asks whether you’ve ever found money on your couch, you can say "why, I have thousands of coins on my couch now…"

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