With no. 1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world Manny Pacquiao facing Miguel Cotto on November 14 for their Las Vegas fight, funny images of the Filipino boxer, Manny Pacquiao, are spreading. Most of the images are photoshopped. But I am sure these are all for the sake of fun.

Nerdy? Geeky? See these collection of the nerdiest, geekiest marriage proposals ever. If you need help on how to propose to your partner in a unique way, then look at the pictures below.

This comp. sci. student proposed to his girlfriend by hacking the old Super Nintendo game Chrono Trigger.


This Twitter user proposed on the “Twitter-universe” to his girlfriend through a Tweet.

This lovestruck nerd collaborated with a jeweler and the vinyl record manufacturer Dubstudios to create an engagement ring etched with a 20 second recording of his proposal.

This computer geek reprogrammed his girlfriend’s favorite video game (Bejeweled) so that the screen went clear and a ring a dropped down when she reached a certain score.

A Google employee thought his first proposal (“Proposal 1.0″) lacked in “pizazz”. So he did what “any Silicon Valley geek would do:” proposed to his girlfriend over Google Street View by holding up a sign reading “Proposal 2.0: Marry me Leslie! ” when the camera car drove by his office.

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Here are photos of the world’s largest soap bubbles. ‘Bubbleologist’ Samsam Bubbleman set the record for the world’s biggest free-floating soap bubbles.

Samsam is forever blowing bubbles and made the huge bubble using a top-secret soap bubble mixture he has developed over 20 years.

The previous Guinness World Record was set in October 2005 in Minnesota, USA, with a volume of 105.4 cubic feet.

Resembling something out of 90′s hit movie The Abyss, Samsam’s incredible creation floated above Finsbury Park, London.

The 37-year-old has made bubbles for celebrities across the world.

“The final magic ingredient is the environment. You need the right conditions like low wind and high humidity to create bubbles on this sort of scale.”

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They are amazing stunts for the viewers, but certainly the stunts do not look pleasant for the person doing the act. Have you seen photos of the most painful stunts? OMG, you can only ask if these people are still sane…

Painful stunt 1: Chinese man attempting to wrap himself with steel wire using special breathing techniques.

Painful stunt 2: Jaja Stone pulls a bus using his penis.

Painful stunt 3: Monk on top of spears

Painful stunt 4: Monks during the October Festival.

Who are these people? They look like illegal immigrants evading arrest. LOL.

Yoga gurus must be happy for these drunk people! Even drunks can do something productive with their lives by doing yoga positions. The photos you’ll see below are from a popular blog that shows photographs of people taken while asleep and drunk. Alongside the picture is an image of a yoga position which looks very similar.

Enjoy: “Drunk People and Yoga Positions” photos

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TLC featured the World’s Tallest Children. TLC traveled to Jamaica and even to a remote place in Thailand to find the World’s Tallest Children under age 18.

Here are the photos of the Tallest Kids as of July 2009.

15-year-old Marvadene from Jamaica — stands 6 feet 9 and one half inches.


13-year-old Brenden Adams from Ellensburg, Washington — stands 7 feet 4 inches, the world’s tallest boy.

17-year-old Malee Duangdee from Thailand — stands 6 feet 10 inches, the world’s tallest girl. Malee is the new Guinness World Record holder.

You do whatever it takes for your wedding to be the best that it can be, no matter how weird/strange/funny it can really become. But who cares? You just want to reminisce in the coming years, by looking at your weird wedding photos, the day you said “I do.”

Weddings should be memorable. If you think the best place to wed is underwater or under the tree dressed in Star Wars costumes, then be it. Do it.

Here are some funny wedding photos I found online. These may give you few wedding ideas if you are thinking of marrying soon.

There was an email hoax before showing a list of IQ for the U.S. Presidents. The list showed Bill Clinton having the highest IQ (182) among all Presidents in U.S. history and George W. Bush having the lowest (91). But it was a fake list generated by a non-existing Lovenstein Institute.

However, in 2006, a study called “Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and Leadership: Estimates and Correlations for 42 U.S. Chief Executives” published in the “Political Psychology” journal, estimated the IQs for all US presidents.

Here is the list of the Top 10 Highest IQs among US Presidents, averaged from two periods of biographical data, the first from birth to age 17 and the second from age 18 to age 26:

1. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) — IQ = 175.0

2. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) — IQ = 156.7

3. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) — IQ = 154.6

4. Bill Clinton (1993-2001) — IQ = 153.2

5. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) — IQ = 150.1

6. John Adams (1797-1801) — IQ = 150.0

7. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) — IQ = 149.2

8. James Madison (1809-1817) — IQ = 148.3

9. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) — IQ = 146.5

10. James A. Garfield (March 1881 – September 1881) — IQ = 145.7

The Bottom 3: Lowest IQs among 42 U.S. Presidents
40. George W. Bush (2001 -2009) — IQ = 129.5
41. James Monroe (1817-1825) — IQ = 129.2
42. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) — IQ = 123.3

Pres. Barack Obama’s IQ has been estimated anywhere from 110-165.

After the recent successful full face transplant done to Connie Culp, I browsed for the list of first successful transplants ever conducted. I found out from wiki that there are just few of them. Here are some of them in photos:

1905: First successful cornea transplant by Eduard Zirm — Alois Gloger received the first successful cornea transplant.


1954: First successful kidney transplant by Joseph Murray (Boston, U.S.A.) — The world’s first successful kidney transplant was done to the identical Herrick twins at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

1966: First successful pancreas transplant by Richard Lillehei and William Kelly (Minnesota, U.S.A.) — Done to 28-year-old woman who was diagnosed with diabetes at age 9.

1967: First successful liver transplant by Thomas Starzl (Denver, U.S.A.)
1967: First successful heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard (Cape Town, South Africa) — In this photo, Dr. Christiaan Barnard illustrates a point while addressing a group of journalists in Cape Town.

1981: First successful heart/lung transplant by Bruce Reitz (Stanford, U.S.A.) — The heart and lungs of an anonymous donor were implanted in the chest of Mary Gohlke, a 45-year-old newspaper executive.
1983: First successful lung lobe transplant by Joel Cooper (Toronto, Canada)
1986: First successful double-lung transplant (Ann Harrison) by Joel Cooper (Toronto, Canada)
1987: First successful whole lung transplant by Joel Cooper (St. Louis, U.S.A.)
1995: First successful laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy by Lloyd Ratner and Louis Kavoussi (Baltimore, U.S.A.)

1998: First successful hand transplant (France) — Clint Hallam was the first person to have a hand transplant.

2005: First successful partial face transplant (France) — World’s first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman who was disfigured when she was attacked by a dog.

2006: First jaw transplant to combine donor jaw with bone marrow from the patient, by Eric M. Genden (Mount Sinai Hospital, New York)
2008: First successful complete full double arm transplant by Edgar Biemer, Christoph Höhnke and Manfred Stangl (Technical University of Munich, Germany) — German Karl Merk received the world’s first complete double arm transplant.

2008: First baby born from transplanted ovary — Maja Butscher was born after her mother had the world’s first ovary transplant.

2008: First transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells. Surgeons replaced a section of Claudia Castillo’s windpipe, that had been irreparably damaged by tuberculosis, with a donated organ that was stripped of its cells and used as a scaffold for her stem cells.

2009: First full face transplant — Connie Culp suffered a loss of bone structure when she was shot on the face by her husband. In December of 2008, the 46-year-old Ohio woman received organs from a local donor. After 22 hours of surgery, the surgeons had successfully attached the donor’s face to Connie.

This is a list of people still alive with highest IQs on record. They are called geniuses. A person can only be labeled as a genius or near genius if his/her IQ is 140+. Below is the list of people with the highest IQ (180 and above) ever measured, provided by onemansblog.com.

Kim Ung-Yong – Korean Physicist / Engineer – IQ of 210


Christopher Michael Langan – American autodidact / Bouncer, “the smartest man in America” – IQ of 195

Philip Emeagwali – Engineer, Igbo Nigerian-born computer scientist/geologist – IQ of 190

Garry Kasparov – Russian World Chess Champion – IQ of 190

Marilyn Vos Savant – American magazine columnist, author, lecturer and playwright – IQ of 186

James Woods – American Actor – IQ of 180

John H. Sununu – Lebanese-American Politician – IQ of 180