Jul 12, 2006

The biggest lion

The biggest lion

The 10ft lion who's still growing...

He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood. But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood - as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar. Part lion, part tiger, he is not just a big cat but a huge one,standing 10ft tall on his back legs. Called a liger, in reference to his crossbreed parentage, he is the largest of all the cat species.
On a typical day he will devour 20lb of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 100lb at a single setting. At just three years old, Hercules already weighs half a ton.



He is the accidental result of two enormous big cats living close together at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, in Miami, Florida, and already dwarfs both his parents.

"Ligers are not something we planned on having," said institute owner Dr Bhagavan Antle. "We have lions and tigers living together in large enclosures and at first we had no idea how well one of the lion boys was getting along with a tiger girl, then lo and behold we had a liger."



50mph runner... Not only that, but he likes to swim, a feat unheard of among water-fearing lions. In the wild it is virtually impossible for lions and tigers to mate. Not only are they enemies likely to kill one another, but most lions are in Africa and most tigers in Asia. But incredible though he is, Hercules is not unique. Ligers have been bred in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since shortly before World War II.

Today there are believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tigons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. Tigons are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger.

Famous cross-breeds



Look at the size of its head



The biggest lion

Digital Clock T-Shirt

Digital Clock T-Shirt

People are making all kind of stuffs, but this is really intresting, a Digital Clock T-Shirt.This shirt is designed for those people that go on street and are asked 24 a day "Do you have a clock ?".For those people this could be good news, because the t-shirt will talk for them now.

Not much else to say about this really, it takes 4 x AAA batteries (seems some what excessive) and err, well tells the time.I don't know if this is washable or not. :)

You can buy one online from here.


Digital Clock T-Shirt

Laser Scissors

Laser Scissors

With this laser guide scissors, you would always cut a straight line! Just aim the pin-point laser and follow the line. No marking, no crooked cuts.



You can buy one from here, the price is $19.98.

Laser Scissors

Mouse Pad Couch

Mouse Pad Couch



Mouse Pad Couch

The world's largest hose

The world's largest hose

The world's largest hose was made for this large lawn.

Gartenschlauch (Garden Hose), 1983
Steel painted with polyurethane enamel
Two parts, in an area approximately 6,000 sq. ft. (557.4 sq. m)
faucet: 35 ft. 5 in. x 8 ft. 12 in. x 7 ft. 1 in. (10.8 x 2.7 x 2.2 m)
hose: 410 ft. (125 m) long x 20 in. (0.5 m) diameter
Stühlinger Park, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Photo by Attilio Maranzano


Fabricated by Mannesmannröhren Werke AG, Mülheim, Germany. Engineers: Klaus Stiglat, Erich Stender
Commissioned June 1980 by the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, with donations from local sources Installed April 1983
Inaugurated May 2, 1983


The world's largest hose

Art from dust

Art from dust

Let's take one dusty car, and make art from that dust.The car will look very good with dust on it.You don't belive me ? Take a look at this pictures.




Art from dust

The Transparent Desktop Trick

The Transparent Desktop Trick

You just take a shot of what's behind your screen and make it your desktop background. And yes, I've tried it, and yes, it's more difficult than it looks to get it just right, especially if you don't have a laptop.Just imagine when a friend will come to you and he will look at your laptop, or at your PC, and will see this.Try to be creative ...when you create this illusions.











The Transparent Desktop Trick

Peta campaign

Peta campaign

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, member Chris Link of Norfolk, Va., top, adjusts the cellophane covering on the costume of demonstrator Dezeray Rubinchik of Philadelphia, top right, during a protest in front of the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., Monday, June 6, 2005. The protest, in which three people placed themselves in containers resembling supermarket meat trays, was meant to compare eating meat with cannibalism. PETA member Karolina Colwill of Sioux Falls, S.D., appears center.



Peta campaign

Robijn Detergent

Robijn Detergent

An intresting and original way to promote a detergent.I'm sick of this same old ads on TV ...this is much better.Laundrettes in the wheels of a taxi, complete with laundry and soap.
Agency: PPGH/JWT Amsterdam


Robijn Detergent

Ads for Birds

Ads for Birds

To often we forget the power of the simple product demo. This bird-interactive outdoor ad for Friskies bird seed makes a wonderful connection to the product, the audience and the product benefit. You can't get more straight and to the point - yet, at the same time, be inventive, attention getting and very cool. Great work from Leo Burnett, Portugal.


Ads for Birds