Largest guitar ensemble

The largest guitar ensemble involved 1,802 participants who played 'Smoke on the Water' simultaneously leaded by the band "Party Blues in Bb" in Leinfelden-Echterdingen (Germany) on 26 June 2007.

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guinnessworldrecords.com

New fashion tattoo

There’s a new fashion tattoo, it’s called Branding, this art is made with a high frequency surgery device. With this device you can sign relatively fine and with detail scar lines in the skin. Or using the classical branding with a carefully bent metal drawings. These are heated up to approx. 1200 ° and are pressed in a before certain pattern for 1 or 2 seconds on the skin. The uppermost skin layers are burned, and originate scars which can be considered tattoo patterns.
This art requires extreme precision and experience with a little bit too much pressure or one second long burning, can serious injure for real.There are records that people are doing branding in Germany since 1998. But it just started to be known around the world a few years ago.

If you decide to chose this method, remember that this hurts like hell, people that have already made the regular tattoo and this new method said that is ten time painful. But we can’t discus tastes, Both are known as definitive method of art. If you are tired of your regular tattoo, you can always do a laser surgery and erase the ink traces. But with branding if you want to remove them, you need to do a integral skin transplant by doing a plastic surgery.

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deepmetal.de

iPod Sets a man's pants on fire

It happened with the a new iPod Nano. Danny Williams saw a hole in flames coming up from his pocket pants for about 15 seconds. Apparently he had an iPod Nano and a piece of paper in his pocket. Luckly it was this piece of paper that help him from being burned.
The iPod uses a lithium ion battery, the same type of battery under recall for setting laptops on fire. It seems that Apple wants him to send his iPod back and they are committed to replace it by a new one. After this incident, Apple refuses to coment and say how common the problem is, they even refuses to talk about this particular incident at all.

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wsbtv.com

Anti-Gravity Boots

Boing boing boing! Put these spring in your feet with what will be the next big craze in something that's just a little bit crazy. Anti-Gravity Boots are utterly daft and immensely good fun. You just strap yourself into the boots, throw caution deep into the wind and bound off. The sprung bases give you an extra and somewhat alarming lift with each bound, and they make Heelys look decidedly tame and dull.
The boots themselves are adjustable to fit most shoe sizes and are best worn with trainers. You'll go further, faster and probably higher than you thought possible, and if we weren't all all so juvenile we'd probably have been able to use them without making six million dollar man effects. We should have them by the end of June with any luck, and we'll let you know the second they arrive. They really do kick air!

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iwantoneofthose.com

Pamplona - Bull Run in San Fermin

Now the Sanfermin festivals is celebrated from the 6th of July till the 14th. Nearly 400 years ago, in 1591, the authorities of the city decided to change the dates due to the bad weather that used to be in October. Well, all this celebrating is going on thanks to a saint called San Fermín. But who was he really? He came to up to be the patron saint for all this partying Well, first they had to make him a saint and that happened a long time ago. It seems he was the son of the local head man when Pamplona was just another city belonging to the great Roman Empire back in the third century A.D. or thereabouts. A french Bishop - San Saturnino - came down to bring the Good News to the local heathens. He did such a good job on San Fermín that this guy decided to go up to France - to Toulouse to do some more learning and to become a bishop. Then he returned to help out with the good work that San Saturnino had started and then after a period he went back up to France to spread the word around the area of Amiens.
However, it seems he ran up against the local powers-to-be up there and got himself tortured and beheaded for his trouble. The body is still up there in the local Cathedral, but some parts of it are spread round as valuable relics. Three such relics eventually made their way to Pamplona back in the middle ages and they made the guy very popular round these parts. So much so, that the people started having a Festival every year to celebrate the Saint. Although, funny enough, he's neither the Patron Saint of the city (that honour goes to San Saturnino), nor the patron saint of the Region (that honour goes to another local boy - St. Francis Xavier) It’s a bit ironic really that, with the curriculum that he’s got, this saint should be the excuse for the annual Baccal that has become so famous round the world. He would probably turn in his grave if he only knew. But let’s be fair, for many people it is something more than just "a damn good party". And so there is a pretty classy procession on his feastday - the 7th of July. And maybe he returns his thanks when he gives us that special protection during the Bull-Running when the people talk about the "capotico (the cape) of San Fermín" when there have been some lucky escapes made.
Some people really believe in these "miraculous escapes" and the only explanation can be the intervention of the Saint. For others it’s nothing more than a tradition. In any case, not a bad idea to sing the homily to the saint before you start your run just in case. By the way, the original date for celebrating his feast-day used to be in October, both here and in Amiens. But in Pamplona, back in 1591 it was decided to change the date to the 7th of July because the weather was usually bad in October.

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spanish-fiestas.com

Lee Redmond nails

Since 1979, Lee Redmond decided to stop filing her nails. She intended to cut them off once they started twisting, but her plans changed. Now after 27 years and 33 inches the Salt Lake City resident holds the record in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest fingernails.
Redmond will be featured in this year's Guinness Book of World Records. She flies to London on Sept. 26 to promote the book. She also has been invited to appear on talk-show host Sharon Osborne's TV show while there. In October, she has offers to make television appearances in France, Italy and Spain. However, traveling is a concern for Redmond.
"They're flying me first class to give me room with my fingernails. The last time I (flew) they were 27 inches and it was a journey then," she said. "Where do you put them for 10 hours on an airplane? That'll be a job . . . (but) it'll be interesting."
Redmond's philosophy that "you are what you eat" has influenced the growth of her nails. She eats a high-protein diet, which is what hair and nails are mostly made of. She used to soak them in warm olive oil once a week, but now she no longer has time, and they don't fit in the fry pan.

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deseretnews.com