Halloween (also known as All Saints’ Day) is celebrated across the world from the United States,Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom to parts of New Zealand on the last day of October. The most prominent symbol of Halloween has to be the carved orange pumpkin lit by a candle inside on every house’s doorstep.

The carved pumpkin is also called a jack-o-lantern, which got it’s origin from Europe. The European used to carve lanterns from turnips or rutabaga back in the days believing that the head was the most powerful part of the body with the spirit and the knowledge to frighten off any superstitions. The named jack-o-lantern traced back the Irish legend of Stingy Jack. The story of Jack, a greedy, gambler, hard-drinking old farmer has been summarized by Wikipedia as follows:

He tricked the devil into climbing a tree and trapped him by carving a cross into the tree trunk. In revenge, the devil placed a curse on Jack, condemning him to forever wander the earth at night with the only light he had: a candle inside of a hallowed turnip.

To celebrate Halloween with you all, I have compiled a number of creative pumpkin artworks for you to enjoy. Have a horrific Halloween!

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Elephants are herbivorous (vegetarian). On a daily basis their diet consist of 150-250 pounds of hay along with additional grains, fruits, and vegetables. So of course they love to eat peanuts. With all that food they also drink 30-50 gallons of water per day.,

Orang Tua  Group, a group of manufacturing companies in Indonesia who specialize in producing food, beverages and consumer products such as tooth brushes, is promoting their KayaKing brand peanuts. The ad below showing the adult elephant performing a choking rescue procedure (also known as Heimlich manoevere) on the young elephant choking on a large peanut is quite cute.

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The idea of jumping from a tall structure while connected to a parachute and a wingsuit frighten me already. I am sure most of you would not consider it as a normal sport. I will never have the balls to attempt such a dangerous activity, even when I’m drunk! Life is too short for me to take such risk. But there are some brave people out there who have the guts for this kind of sport.

The videos below show some ‘brave souls’ performing BASE jumps, which grew from skydiving. According to definition from Wikipedia BASE jumping involves the use of a parachute or the sequenced use of a wingsuit and parachute to jump from fixed objects (with the parachute unopened at the jump!). ‘BASE’ is an acronym for the four categories of fixed objects: Building, Antenna, Span, and Earth. BASE jumping differ from skydiving in that it’s much lower in altitudes than skydives and it takes place in close proximity to the object. BASE jumpers have less aerodynamic control and are more likely to tumble because they are falling at lower speeds.

BASE jumping was first attempted back in the 1783 by a gentleman named Louis-Sebatien Lenormand. Louis made the first parachute jump from the tower of Montpellier observatory with a balloon preceding the jump. BASE jumping is quite popular in action movies, but of course with special effects added. You will find examples of BASE jumps in the 2002 Vin Diesel film xXx where Diesel’s character jump off a bridge in an open-topped car, and in several James Bond movies (1985’s View to a Kill from the Eiffel Tower, 1987’s The Living Daylights from Rock of Gibraltar, and 2002’s Die Another Day from a melting iceberg).

BASE jumping is viewed by many as a stunt or daredevil rather than a sport. Due to the high fatality rate, approximately 123 deaths between 1981 and 2008, the so called ‘extreme’ sport is not widely accepted. Carl Boenish’s was the first man to be listed on The Guinness World Records for the highest BASE jump, but unfortunately he died two days later with a jump at the same site. Currently the record is being held by Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan with a jump from Meru Peak in northern India at an elevation of 6,604 meters (21,667 feet).

Now sit back, relax and enjoy the BASE jump experience from your computer screen. Not quite the same feeling as in reality but it will give you a feel for it… Enjoy! 8)

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Are you a fan of magic tricks? Ben might have something you’ve never seen before. Don’t try to understand how he did it. There might be some special video effect that he used. It’s just too well done. Now let’s check out the magical pants! :-)

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I came across a shoe polish brand that has a similar name to my website, Kiwi. Of course with such name there got to be an association with Australia. Indeed it has. The name Kiwi was chosen by the shoe polish inventor, William Ramsay, as a tribute to his wife who is a New Zealander. Kiwi is a dominant shoe polish capturing two-thirds of the market around the world, mainly in the UK and US.

Such a successful company yet still chose sex as their marketing strategy. They say ’sex sells’, but is that true for every product? Check out these hot models beside the shiny polished shoes. Very similar concept to sports cars with hot models…but is it effective for shoe polish?

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