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As we’ve demonstrated many times before, sometimes the truth is stranger than Photoshop. For those of you still unconvinced, we present the latest installment in our ongoing quest to show you every picture that has ever looked ridiculously fake, and isn’t.
In case you missed them, here’s Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five and the gritty reboot that doesn’t acknowledge the previous editions.
And now…
#17.
“What, So It’s Just Two Photos Cropped Togeth- HOLY SHIT!”
This photo isn’t terrifying as long as you think it’s just the bottom half of one postcard glued to the top half of another one. Or maybe it’s an indoor swimming pool and the skyline is just a mural on the wall? Nope, that’s a guy swimming to the edge of a pool on top of a skyscraper.
It’s the Marina Bay Sands Skypark, and it’s 55 stories (and 600 feet) above street level. If you’re wondering where the edge of the pool is, and what keeps the guy from swimming right off the end and splattering to the pavement below, the answer to both is in the design. It’s an “infinity pool” which has a lip under the water level, and over the side is a sort of gutter that catches both the water that runs off the side, and any drunken humans who drift over.
These pictures aren’t from some sci-fi movie, and they’re not some wishful thinking mockup from one of those bullshit futuristic issues of Popular Science. This is an actual 20-story car storage facility for Volkswagens at a factory in Germany.
Are you thinking what we’re thinking? That there should be a game show where you get to operate that thing like a giant claw machine and you win whatever car you can grab without dropping it?
#15.
Look, Honey, He Impaled Himself on the Utility Pole!
We can find no record of how many car accidents were caused by this 200 foot-wide soccer player billboard in Munich, Germany. But can you imagine seeing this looming bastard rising up on the horizon as you crest the hill? Germany once again shows no regard for their sleepy and/or stoned motorists, who are going to slam on their brakes for fear their sedan will be kicked into a gigantic net a mile away.
#14.
Dammit, Guys, I Just Painted that River
Either these guys are living in that Robin Williams movie where he died and had to spend afterlife inside an oil painting, or else the bottom of their boat is about to melt from toxic waste sludge.
Actually that’s algae which has overtaken Chaohu Lake in China. It’s pretty, but it’s also bad news for anyone relying on the lake for drinking water (as 300,000 people do). The Chinese government is spending billions trying to clean the stuff out of their rivers and lakes. According to the below photo, they do that by sending a dude out to scoop it off with a sauce pan.
#13.
Rendering Art Museum: 86%…
This is one that looks less like Photoshop and more like bad MS Paint. But it’s another one of those forced perspective works of art where strategically-placed lines give the illusion of a floating box (hint: it only works if you’re standing in the right spot). In this case it’s just bright green tape…
…and the skill of street artist Aakash Nihilani who randomly tapes misleading cubes in public spaces presumably for the sole purpose of freaking out passersby.
#12.
“Maverick, Do NOT Make Your Jet Fart a Rainbow!”
This rainbowfied F-22 Raptor fighter jet is not some crude Photoshopped commentary about gays in the military. It’s an actual photo captured at exactly the right moment when the water vapor trailing off the aircraft caught the sun in just the right way to refract it. Credit Bernardo M. Malfitano for capturing the world’s fruitiest picture of the world’s most badass aircraft.
#11.
A Cautionary Tale of Teleportation Gone Wrong
This bicycle that has gotten swallowed by a tree is a fairly famous landmark in Vashon Island (near Seattle). You can find numerous references to it, including multiple supposed back stories. One way or the other, the story boils down to somebody left their bike next to a little tree years ago and the tree just swallowed that bastard up when it got big. Trees do that:
Trees are living things just like you and me, and if survival means growing right around whatever happens to be parked between them and the sun, they’re going to do it, without a moment’s hesitation. Trees don’t give a shit.
#10.
In Soviet Russia, Watermelon- ah, Forget It
This carved watermelon is actually from a melon carving contest in the Czech Republic. The real difference between seedless and regular watermelon is whether or not mouths carved into them appear to have severe oral hygiene issues. Also, it’s 10 times more disturbing because when we look at that thing we can’t not picture Mick Jagger.
#9.
Vases? Jars of Potpourri?
Get your camera close enough to some water droplets on a leaf and this is what you’ll see. They call it macro photography (that is, extreme close-up photography) and it is in general cool as hell. This person has a whole collection of it on their Flickr page. When you zoom in on water droplets, you get that awesome refractive effect where it gives you a wide-angle view of whatever is behind it. |
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18750_17-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped-part-6.html#ixzz0yvgzRpRn
A Utah woman used Google Maps’ walking directions on her Blackberry and was given directions to walk onto a highway. She got hit and is now suing Google for damages.
 You know those warning labels on those chemical packets that come in new shoes that say ‘do not eat’? Have you ever wondered why they have to print something so stupidly obvious?
Enter Lauren Rosenberg of Park City, Utah. She used Google Maps on her Blackberry to get walking directions from one part of town to another. Part of those direction included walking on a road without sidewalks called Deer Valley Drive, aka Utah State Route 224.
According to court documents, instead of finding a different route or walking safely away from traffic, she walked into the street and was (surprise!) struck by a car. Now she’s suing Google for in excess of $100,000.
Defendant Google, through its “Google Maps” service provided Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg with walking directions that led her out onto Deer valley Drive, a.k.a. State Route 224, a rural highway with no sidewalks, and a roadway that exhibits motor vehicles traveling at high speeds, that is not reasonably safe for pedestrians.
The Defendant Google expects uses of the walking map site to rely on the accuracy of the walking directions given….
As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant Google’s careless, reckless, and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Laren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle…
This reminds me of something my parents used to tell me when I was younger and blamed someone else for my mistakes. They’d say “If Google told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?”
Except I was a kid. And if I was told to walk onto a highway, I would have passed.
As Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land points out, if you do a walking directions search from a desktop or laptop, you get one of those “Don’t eat this packet of chemical stones” warnings:
Walking directions are in beta. Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.
Microsoft’s Bing has a similar warning when mapping the same path:
Caution, this route may be missing sidewalks or other pedestrian paths.
The problem is that you only get 320×480 pixels on a Blackberry screen (if you are lucky) and if Google needed to put warnings on its Maps pages, there’d hardly be any room for a map.
Instead, Google has to rely on people using common sense and lessons they learned in kindergarten – at least until their maps become ‘fool proof’.
POLITICS
* President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Rahul Gandhi receive Italian Prime Minister Priyanka Gandhi.
* Fight in Parliament to grab the next seat beside newly elected MPs Mallika Sheravat, Sherlyn Chopra and Rakhi Sawant.
* Mayawati all set to install her 10,000 statue in UP Assembly.
* Jayalalitha and Karunanidhi signed a 100 years deal to rotate power in Tamil Nadu every 2 years.
* Raj Thackrey and his supporters fighting for a separate state for Marathi manoos. All set to form 76th Indian state.
TV and CINEMA
* Dhoom-17 ready for release.
* Mein to ab bhi jawan hoon - Dev Anand’s new movie set for release where he plays son of Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif.
* After remakes of 45 films of Amitabh, Shahrukh now to play Amitabh’s role in remake of ‘Paa’ .
* Amitabh’s new movie with Shahrukh Khan’s daughter ‘Ek aur Nishabdh’.
SPORTS
* Lalit Modi to inagurate IPL Season-20 next week.
* Jayasuriya celebrated his 56th birthday with a century against Australia in a T20 match.
* Coach Ganguly resigns, as India went out of The World Cup in 1st round after losing to South Korea.
* Navjot Siddhu will launch his own TV channel where he is the Host the Guest too.
TECH
* Maruti launches its new Hovercraft ‘SX-25′. Toyota to follow.
* Hyundai launches its new car i420.
* TRAI to add another 2 digits to mobile numbers. New numbers would soon have 20 digits.
* Intel launched its latest processor Intel Core10 Trio.
NATION
* Petrol Rs. 900 / ltr.
* Gold touched all time high 1,00,000 mark per 10 grams.
* Temperature set to touch 60°C mark in summer this year.
* Govt subsidized vegetables by 50%. Subsidized onion to cost Rs.200 per kg.
* Textile industry incurred loses of Rs.1,000 crores. Ministry blames bollywood actress.
Your e-mail address ‘can reveal your personality’
Think twice before you pick an email address — it can reveal your personality.
Researchers at the University of Leipzig in Germany have carried out a  study and found that an email address may speak volumes about the character of the person who created the unique online identification.
According to lead researcher Mitja Back, even the thinnest slice of communication via the world wide web - the mere e-mail address — contains valid information about the personality of its owner.
In their study, the researchers asked a panel of 100 students to guess the personalities of 600 young adults simply by looking at their e-mail addresses.
The panel’s guesses agreed mostly with a personality survey the teenagers had completed when it came to qualities like openness, conscientiousness and narcissism, and diverged most on the trait of extroversion.
Addresses that gave away personality often contained full stops, numbers or a name that was obviously not genuine, the researchers found.
Level of accuracy was explained using lens model analyses — the students made broad use of perceivable e-mail address features in their personality judgements, features were slightly valid and the observers were sensitive to subtle differences in validity between cues.
The study has been published in the latest edition of the Journal of Research in Personality.
Source: Yahoo!
9. Lost City of Heike
 In the late 2nd century AD, the Greek writer Pausanias wrote an account of how (4-500 years earlier?) in one night a powerful earthquake destroyed the great city of Helike, with a Tsunami washing away what remained of the once-flourishing metropolis. The city, capital of the Achaean League, was a worship centre devoted to the ancient god Poseidon, god of the sea. There was no trace of the legendary society mentioned outside of the ancient Greek writings until 1861, when an archeologist found some loot thought to have come from Helike - a bronze coin with the unmistakable head of Poseidon. In 2001, a pair of archeologists managed to locate the ruins of Helike beneath the mud and gravel of the coast, and are currently trying to peice together the rise and sudden fall of what has been called the "real" Atlantis.
8. The Bog Bodies
 This mystery may even be a problem for those legendary investigators from CSI and the like! The bog bodies are hundreds of ancient corpses found buried around the northern bogs and wetlands of Northern Europe. These bodies are remarkably well preserved, some dating back 2,000 years. Many of these bodies have tell-tale signs of torture and other medieval "fun", which have made some researchers postulating that these unfortunate victims were the result of ritual sacrifices.
7. Fall of the Minoans
 The Minoans are best known for the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur, but it is in fact the demise of this once-great civilisation that is more interesting. While many historians concentrate on the fall of the Roman Empire, the fall of the Minoans, who resided on the island of Crete, is an equal, if not greater mystery. Three and a half thousand years ago the island was shaken by a huge volcanic eruption on the neighbouring Thera Island. Archeologists unearthed tablets which have shown that the Minoans carried on for another 50 years after the eruption, before finally folding. Theories of what finally ended them have ranged from volcanic ash covering the island and devastating harvests to the weakened society eventually getting taken over by invading Greeks
6. The Carnac Stones
 Everyone has heard of Stonehenge, but few know the Carnac Stones. These are 3,000 megalithic stones arranged in perfect lines over a distance of 12 kilometers on the coast of Brittany in the North-West of France. Mythology surrounding the stones says that each stone is a soldier in a Roman legion that Merlin the Wizard turned in to stone. Scientific attempts at an explanation suggests that the stones are most likely an elaborate earthquake detector. The identity of the Neolithic people who built them is unknown.
5. Who Was Robin Hood ?
The historical search for the legendary thief Robin Hood has turned up masses of possible names. One candidate includes the Yorkshire fugitive Robert Hod, also known as Hobbehod or Robert Hood of Wakefield..
The large number of suspects is complicated further as the name Robin Hood became a common term for an outlaw. As literature began to add new characters to the tale such as Prince John and Richard the Lionheart the trail became more obscure. To this day no one knows who this criminal really was.
4. The Lost Roman Legion
 After the Parthians defeated underachieving Roman General Crassus' army, legend has it that a small band of the POWs wandered through the desert and were eventually rounded up by the Han military 17 years later. First century Chinese historian Ban Gu wrote an account of a confrontation with a strange army of about a hundred men fighting in a "fish-scale formation" unique to Roman forces. An Oxford historian who compared ancient records claims that the lost roman legion founded a small town near the Gobi desert named Liqian, which in Chinese translates to Rome. DNA tests are being conducted to answer that claim and hopefully explain some of the residents' green eyes, blonde hair, and fondness of bullfighting. 3. The Voynich Manuscript
 The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval document written in an unknown script and in an unknown language. For over one hundred years people have tried to break the code to no avail. The overall impression given by the surviving leaves of the manuscript suggests that it was meant to serve as a pharmacopoeia or to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine. However, the puzzling details of illustrations have fueled many theories about the book's origins, the contents of its text, and the purpose for which it was intended. The document contains illustrations that suggest the book is in six parts: Herbal, Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological, Pharmaceutical, and recipes.
2. The Tarim Mummies
 An amazing discovery of 2,000 year old mummies in the Tarim basin of Western China occurred in the early 90s. But more amazing than the discovery itself was the astonishing fact that the mummies were blond haired and long nosed. In 1993, Victor Mayer a college professor collected DNA from the mummies and his tests verified that the bodies were all of European genetic stock. Ancient Chinese texts from as early as the first millennium BC do mention groups of far-east dwelling caucasian people referred to as the Bai, Yeuzhi, and Tocharians. None, though, fully reveal how or why these people ended up there. 1. Disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization
 The ancient Indus Valley people, India's oldest known civilization had a culture that stretched from Western India to Afghanistan and a populace of over 5 million. le?India's oldest known civilization? were an impressive and apparently sanitary bronze-age bunch. The scale of their baffling and abrupt collapse rivals that of the great Mayan decline. They were a hygienically advanced culture with a highly sophisticated sewage drainage system, and immaculately constructed baths. There is to date no archaeological evidence of armies, slaves, conflicts, or other aspects of ancient societies. No one knows where this civilization went.
Our Indians' Money ' 70, 00,000 Crores Rupees In Swiss Bank 1) Yes, 70 lakhs crores rupees of India are lying in Switzerland banks. This is the highest amount lying outside any country, from amongst 180 countries of the world, as if India is the champion of Black Money. 2) German Government has officially written to Indian Government that they (German Government) are willing to inform the details of holders of 70 lakh crore rupees in their Banks, if Indian Government officially asks them. 3) On 22-5-08, this news has already been published in The Times of India and other Newspapers based on German Government's official letter to Indian Government. 4) But the Indian Government has not sent any official enquiry to Germany for details of money which has been sent outside India between 1947 to 2008.. The opposition party is also equally not interested in doing so because most of the amount is owned by politicians and it is every Indian's money. 5) This money belongs to our country. From these funds we can repay 13 times of our country's foreign debt. The interest alone can take care of the Center's yearly budget. People need not pay any taxes and we can pay Rs. 1 lakh to each of 45 crore poor families. 6) Let us imagine, if Swiss Bank is holding Rs. 70 lakh crores, then how much money is lying in other 69 Banks? How much they have deprived the Indian people? Just think, if the Account holder dies, the bank becomes the owner of the funds in his account. 7) Are these people totally ignorant about the philosophy of Karma? What will this ill-gotten wealth do to them and their families when they own/use such money, generated out of corruption and exploitation? Indian people have read and have known about these facts. But the helpless people have neither time nor inclination to do anything in the matter. This is like "a new freedom struggle" and we will have to fight this. 9) This money is the result of our sweat and blood.. The wealth generated and earned after putting in lots of mental and physical efforts by Indian people must be brought back to our country. 10) As a service to our motherland and you contribution to this struggle, please circulate this note amongst your friends and relatives and convert it into a mass movement by email forwards, blogs etc. ( Please reply me when you have posted and circulated the same)
It’s another morning……. Again I have to go to office.
Oh, this is me… I shouted having a glance on my snap in today’s news paper. But what the HELL it is doing in the death column??
Strange…
One sec… Let me think, last night when I was going to bed I had a severe pain in my chest, but I don’t remember anything after that, I think I had a sound sleep.
Its morning now, oh….. It’s already 10:00 AM, where is my coffee? I will be late for office and my boss will get a chance to irritate me.
Where is everyone…??? I screamed. “I think there is a crowed outside my room, let me check.” I said to myself.
So many people….. Not all of them crying… But why some of them crying… WHAT IS THIS??? I m laying there on the floor…
“I AM HERE” … I shouted!!! No one listen. “LOOK I AM NOT DEAD” … I screamed once again!!! No one is interested in me.
They all were looking me on the bed. I went back to my bed room. “Am I dead??” I asked myself.
Where is my wife, my children, my mom, dad, my friends? I found them in the next room, all of them were crying… still trying to console each other.
My wife was crying… she was really looking sad. My little kid was not sure what happened, but he was crying just because his mom was sad.
How can I go without saying my kid that I really love him, I really do care of him. ?? How can I go without saying my wife that she is really most beautiful and most caring wife in this world..??
How can I go without saying my parents that I am … just because of you ?? How can I go without telling my friends that without them perhaps I have done most of the wrong things in my life… thanks for being there always when I need them… and sorry for not being there when they really need me..
I can see a person standing in the corner and trying to hide his tears… Oh… he was once my best friend, but a small misunderstanding made us part, and we both have strong enough ego to keep us disconnect.
I went there.. And offered him my hand, “Dear friend… I just want to say sorry for everything, we are still best friends, please forgive me.”
No response from other side, what the hell?? He is still preserving his ego, I am saying sorry… even then !!! I really don’t care for such people.
But one sec…. it seems he is not able to see me!!!! He did not see my extended hand.
My goodness… AM I REALLY DEAD???
I just sat down near ME; I was also feeling like crying … “OH ALMIGHTY!!!! PLEASE JUST GIVE ME FEW MORE DAYS…”
I just wasn’t to make my wife, my parents; my friends realize that how much I love them. My wife entered in the room, she looks beautiful.
“YOU R BEAUTIFUL” I shouted. She didn’t hear my words, in fact she never heard these words coz I never said this to her.
“GOD!!!!” I screamed… a little more time plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..
I cried… One more chance please… to hug my child, to make my mom smile just once, to feel my dad proud on me at least for a moment, to say sorry to my friends for everything I have not given to them, and thanks for still being in my life….
Then I looked up and cried!!!!
I shouted….
“GOD!!!! ONE MORE CHANCE PLEASE!!!!”
“You shouted in your sleep,” said my wife as she gently woke me up. “Did you have a nightmare?”
I was sleeping…. Oh that was just a dream…. My wife was there… she can hear me… This is the happiest moment of my life…
I hugged her and whispered…. “YOU ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND CARING WIFE IN THIS UNIVERSE…. I REALLY LOVE YOU DEAR”
I can’t understand the reason of the smile on her face with some tears in her eyes, still I am happy….
“THANK YOU GOD FOR THIS SECOND? CHANCE”
So now that it’s not late.. Forget your Egos… and Express your love to others…
If Columbus had been married he might never have discovered America because of the following:
–> Where are you going? –> With whom? –> Why? –> How are you going? –> To discover what? –> Why you? –> What do I do, when you are not here? –> Can I come with you ? –> Coming back when? –> Dinner ghar par hi khaoge? –> Mere liye kya laoge? –> It seems you deliberately made this …. –> Hain na… –> Why? –> Dont lie…. –> Why r u making such programs –> You seem to be making a lot of such programs –> Why? –> I want to go to my parents place –> I want you to come and leave me –> I don’t want to come back…. –> I will never come back…. –> Why are u not stopping me….. –> I don’t understand what is this discovery chakker? –> You always do like this….. –> Last time also u did like this…. –> Now a days u always seem to do like this…. –> I still don’t understand what else is balance to be discovered… –> Where are u going?…..
Itne sab questions ke baad….. America kya, he may not have reached the front porch of his house.
“If Websites Were People”
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