The World's Only Penis Museum: What are Their Collections?

From gigantic whale penises to speck-sized field mouse testicles and lampshades made from bull scrotums, Iceland's small Phallological Museum has it all -- and recently put its first human member on display.

"This is the biggest one," founder and curator Sigurdur Hjartarson says, patting an enormous plastic canister. Inside was a liquid-immersed greyish-white mass as wide as a small tree trunk and as tall as a man.

Weighing 70 kilos and measuring around 170 centimetres, the Sperm Whale specimen "is just the front tip," he explained.

"The full penis could in fact be five metres and weigh something like 350 to 450 kilos -- but of course, the animal it came from weighed around 50 tonnes," says the 69-year-old retired headmaster, chuckling beneath his woolly, grey beard.

A total 276 specimens from all of Iceland's 46 mammals, along with a few foreign contributions, are on show at what may be the world's only penis museum.

The cramped room is filled with test tubes and glass containers in all shapes and sizes, holding formaldehyde-immersed offerings from whales, dolphins, walruses, redfish, goats, polar bears and rats, just to mention a few.

More Americans are Members of Facebook than Have Passports

A staggering 155 million Americans - 50 per cent of the population - are on the social network, while only 115 million people - 37 per cent - have a passport.

The number of U.S. citizens applying for passports has been rising over the last decade, but the proportion of people with the travel documents is still dwarfed by other countries.

Some 71 per cent of the population in the UK has a passport. But the U.S. is still way ahead of China, where only 1.5 per cent of the population can travel abroad.

Facebook, which was started by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student at Harvard, has experienced phenomenal growth since it was launched in February 2004. There are now 750 million Facebook users worldwide, according to travel website Tripl, which compiled the figures.

Reasons given for the low proportion of Americans with passports include the costs of travelling abroad and the popularity of vacationing at home. Simon Winchester, who wrote 'The Best American Travel Writing', said that Americans to do have a history of international travel.

Dog Smiles for the Camera

When the person taking this picture said, 'Smile for the camera,' they probably were only expecting to see one set of gnashers. But thanks to his unexpected human-like expression of happiness, this gleeful dog has become an internet sensation.

The chirpy canine, pictured grinning ear to ear with his smiling Martina Navratilova lookalike owner, is now something of a star after his picture began being shared on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

However, this hound's fame is nothing yet compared to that of Riley, the bichon frise/poodle mix pictured smiling while celebrating its first birthday.

The young dog was photographed in a party hat, unable to contain his excitement, as he prepares to devour a cake by its owner Maureen Ravelo, from San Jose, California. The image has since spread like wildfire.

‘Riley always makes faces like this, and that’s the best part about him. He gives you a new facial expression every time that you forget he’s a dog,’ Ms Ravelo told Metro.

‘The most unique part about him is he thinks he’s human like us,’ she added.

How to Build Positive Emotions

With the following positive mental attitude you will be better prepared to face challenges, including in your work place. Find out how to practice being positive:

Daily entertainment schedule
When you create a daily schedule, never forget the activities that make your day fun. Whatever its form, do what you think is fun on dayly basis, although only for a few moments.

Encourage yourself to be strong and independent
There was a time when you become weak, most of the time was when you have to finish the job. But try opponent your lazyness or anything that weakens you. This mental attitude can be built and conditioned. As early stages, try to measure your ability in sports. Forced to do sports movement within 10 minutes.

Manage stress
Practice simple strategies to reduce stress. The form can be set breathing slowly. Take a deep breath from the nose, then blow it out slowly through your mouth. Repeat three to four times to allow oxygen into the bloodstream, and provide a sense of calm.

Share with others
The ability you have can be useful for others. Try to find what you can share with others. Research shows, volunteering makes you feel happier and improve welfare.

Laugh
Gather with friends, family, or friends, at least once or twice a month. Laugh with them, laughing shown to decrease high blood pressure, reduce stress hormones and release endorphins which can reduce pain. *Global*

Bored to Death is Real, Study Shows!

It may be too much to say that get bored speed up the process you leaving this world! But unfortunately it really happened and researchers have proved it. According to those researchers, someone who hit by the boredom will finally go sooner by getting heart disease and or stroke.

Based on the results of a study conducted by researchers from University College London, people who often complain bored have died from the risk of heart disease and strokes two times greater than people who rarely feel bored.

More than 7000 participants with age range from 35 to 55 years were included in this study. The participants are then monitored during their 25-year life.

The results showed that participants often feel tired during his lifetime, known to 40 percent more who died at the end of the study. Meanwhile, participants who rarely feel bored or can overcome boredom still survive until the study ended.

How does laughter heal?

"Clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast," said the late Groucho Marx, a comedian star whose words are often quoted. Why did he say that?

1. Laughter relieves anxiety. Therefore, one can not laugh and feel scared at the same time. It is physically impossible. Laugh also minimizes the source and size of our fear.

2. Laughter eases the sense of solitude. Because, laughter makes us want to socialize with other people and ease the sense of solitude.

3. Laughter reduces aggression and conflict. People who laugh do not be rude to others.

4. Immune system become stronger with a laugh, stress hormone levels were reduced, the heart and circulatory system healthy, and the muscles become more relaxed.

5. Laughter is the source of heart-healthy exercise, especially for those who are in elderly period. In addition, laugh also will make a special breathing pattern and is good for the health of respiratory organs.

6. Laughter works like a good virus because it spread rapidly. Spread to the whole world with laughter will reduce the anger and violence.

7. Our mental health will be better with a laugh. Stress is reduced, as well as anger and worry. It has a positive effect, feeling happy and positive attitude increases.

8. We become more creative and able to solve the problem because of laughing. It has also proven can increase job satisfaction. We can work harder, but felt comfortable. In short, productivity increased.

9. Everyone can laugh. Humans are born with a talent to laugh. Sense of humor is not really necessary to if it is just for a laugh.

10. Laughter is a natural process that reduces the pain, both physically and emotionally. This is a natural remedy from the body itself. Multiply laugh and you will find that it only takes a little drug to enjoy life.

Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true

Few if any of the deals retailers have offered online during the recession have been as good as Best Buy Inc.'s sale price of $9.99 on a 52-inch TV Wednesday. But it quickly turned out the offer was too good to be true.

The electronics retailer said it will not honor the $9.99 price posted Wednesday morning on its Web site for a 52-inch Samsung flat-screen TV. By early afternoon, the TV was listed at $1,799.99, almost half off the original $3,399.99 price.

Bloggers and Twitterers lit up the Internet with posts about the offer, some insisting Best Buy must honor it, others making jokes.

Best Buy, based in Richfield, Minn., said it has corrected an online pricing error and will not honor the incorrect price. Orders made Wednesday morning at the incorrect price will be canceled and customers will receive refunds, the company said.

Mirror, Mirror on the iPhone, for Free

Inner Four Inc., a Tampa, Fla., company that has 150 programs in Apple's App Store, usually devotes a couple of months to create a major app. But its biggest success so far has been one that one engineer spent just one hour on.

The ad-supported free app, called Mirror Free, is essentially a black empty screen framed by a picture frame. If a user peers closely into it, the reflection off the screen can create an effect like a mirror. By Inner Four co-founder John Swartz's own admission the app “doesn't do anything.” But the app has been a breakaway hit, dominating the top spot in the App Store's free app rankings for the better part of last week.

Mirror Free isn't the first joke app to become popular on the App Store. In the past, apps like iBeer, in which users can brew and drink a virtual glass of beer, and iFart, which does what one might expect, have taken the spotlight.

Obama Checking out Girl Mayora Tavares

President Barack Obama was caught in a very compromising position - checking out a Brazilian girl’s bootylicious behind during the G8 summit this week. The Drudge Report calls it the “second stimulus package”.

French President Nicolas Sarkozi also couldn’t resist checking that booty too. Actually Sarkozi’s naughty smirk is a bit creepy – he is either delighted with the girl’s assets or thinking Obama is one naughty boy!

The girl in question is Mayora Tavares and she is only 16 years old! How embarrassing!?! That single accident can traumatize that girl for life. Mayora was part of J8, a group of 53 people between 14 and 17 years-old, who were there to discuss how the lives of young people around the world can be improved.

“Eight don’t asks” of the Beijing Olympics

Posters are appearing around Beijing guiding locals about how to interact with the (few) foreigners coming for the Summer Games.

The posters instruct residents on the “eight don’t asks” when chatting with foreign guests. Here’s a rough translation, courtesy of the Peaceful Rise blog:

Don’t ask about income or expenses, don’t ask about age, don’t ask about love life or marriage, don’t ask about health, don’t ask about someone’s home or address, don’t ask about personal experience, don’t ask about religious beliefs or political views, don’t ask what someone does.

So what is one to ask? Maybe the relative merits of fencing versus marathon swimming?

Now, for the foreigners out there, here’s the No. 1 dud question to ask a Chinese person. It’s a question that will draw a blank, non-comprehending stare:

“Hey, pal, tell me about your president. Is he doing a good job?” (Yahoo! News).

Contractors!

Three contractors, one from India, another from Germany and the third from England are bidding to repair the White House fence. A senior White House official takes them to examine it.

The English contractor : takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works on some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says. "I figure the job will cost $900 . . . $400 for materials, $400 for labour and $100 profit for me."

The German contractor : also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700 . . . $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me."

The Indian contractor doesn't measure or do any figuring, but leans over to the White House official and whispers: "$2,700."

The official incredulously says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"

"Easy," the Indian explains, "$1,000 for you, $1,000 for me and we hire the guy from Germany

Guess who got the contract.... ......... ......... ..!!

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This story sounds familiar, but where?
Oh, I know now, it’s Republik Mimpi to do the work!"

Sepatu..........

Ciko* telat bangun, boro boro sikat gigi, mandinya ntar sore lah, hp gue dah tereak tereak, bos diujung hp sebelah sana dah ngomel ngomel “mana hasil printingannya, orang uda pada mo meeting semua!” #menghela napas dalam dalam# saat keluar, Ciko kaget campur semaput, sepatu buat ngantor ngga ada ditempat alias HILANG!!, buru buru ke mall dulu, nyari sepatu daripada di omelin berseri! Beginilah jadinya…..

*Ciko - bukan nama sebenarnya! he is just a perfect stranger with no name!

Ps; Cerita di atas hanya imajinasi gue doank saat gue ngeliat ada orang yg bolak balik kaya setrikaan di depan gue, lengkap dengan label harga di sepatunya!. thanks to him, gue jadi bisa senyum2 sendiri (dari pada gue bengong nungguin teman gue ditempat yg sama), dan kebetulan hp gue berkamera! Jadilah tulisan ini!

Toilet Pesawat (Humor)

Seorang pria yang sedang mengadakan perjalanan dengan pesawat terbang, tiba-tiba ingin buang air. Akan tetapi setiap kali ia pergi ke toilet, selalu saja toilet itu terisi. Seorang pramugari melihat keadaan ini, ia lalu menganjurkan pria tadi untuk menggunakan toliet wanita dengan catatan tidak menekan tombol-tombol yang ada di dekat toliet tersebut. Ternyata tombol-tombol itu memang ada didekat tissue, pada tombol-tombol itu tertulis huruf "WW" ."WA".."PP". ."ATR"...

Karena penasaran, pria tadi tidak mengindahkan pesan sang pramugari dan mencoba untuk menekan tombol-tombol itu. Dengan hati-hati ia menekan tombol "WW" dan seketika air hangat menyemprot pantatnya... dalam hati ia berkata "Oh rupanya tombol ini berarti Warm Water (air hangat...) untuk cebok.....wah enak ya perempuan kalau ke toliet"

Karena ia masih penasaran, lalu ia mencoba menekan tombol "WA"....dan seketika bertiuplah udara hangat (Warm Air) untuk mengeringkan pantatnya yang basah....."Aha. .." ia berpikir "Tidak heran kalau perempuan betah berlama-lama didalam toilet dengan pelayanan seperti ini...!!":

Lalu ia menekan tombol "PP" dengan sangat berhati-hati sambil meng-antisipasi kemungkinan yang akan terjadi. Sebuah bantalan bedak (Powder Puff) keluar dari samping lalu membedaki pantatnya yang sudah kering dengan bedak halus..... "Man...this is great sangat hebat pelayanan seperti ini !!!" ia berkata dalam hati...

Kemudian ia ia menekan tombol "ATR". Tahu-tahu ia bangun dan tersadar di sebuah kamar rumah sakit dan ditangannya telah menempel selang infus...ia sangat heran..lalu ia bertanya kepada perawat yang sedang bertugas..ia menerangkan bahwa yang ia ingat adalah ia sedang berada didalam toilet wanita di dalam pesawat.

Sang perawat kemudian menjelaskan. ."Ya...anda pasti sedang menikmati pelayanan dipesawat yang ditujukan untuk perempuan... sampai ketika anda menekan tombol ATR yang artinya adalah Automatic Tampon Removal (pelepas pembalut otomatis)... ..dan buah zakar anda tertarik oleh alat itu...." Apaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....................