Military-Themed 'Buns and Guns' Restaurant Opens in Lebanon

At the "Buns and Guns" fast food restaurant, deep in Beirut's Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs, the chefs wear military helmets, the food is wrapped in camouflage paper, and the motto is "a sandwich can kill you".

The restaurant opened three weeks ago, with a military theme that is drawing in a sector of Lebanese proud of Hezbollah's battlefield successes. Buns and Guns is made out to look like a military post and diners eat to the sound of gunfire instead of muzak.

Sandbags cover the exterior - a grim, and perhaps inadvertent, reminder of what Lebanon's government buildings looked like during the 1975-1990 civil war - and the interior is festooned with camouflage nets, defused mortar shells, and live ammunition.

Happy Birthday Google!!

Google was started by Sergey Brin and Larry Page who were undergraduates at Stanford University. In these ten years it survived the dotcom crash and become a nighmare for internet gaints Yahoo & MSN. Google’s success is built largely around internet search & online advertising. In last 10 years it has become most people’s favourite search engine.

Google derived its name from a common misspelling of the word googol, which refers to 10100, the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Today, the world google has become so popular that it has found its way to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. It means using Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.

Let’s see how Google celebrates its 10th birthday this year & how does it twists its logo this time. In the meantime Happy Birthday Google from our team at Damn Cool Pics & thanks for making a great search tool.

Official Google Blog: Ten years and counting

The World’s Largest Fountain in Dubai

Dubai’s prominent developer, Emaar Properties said on Monday it plans to build one of the largest fountains in the world as the centrepiece of its Downtown Burj Dubai project. Arabian Business reveals what the real estate giant has in store.


The fountains, which has yet to be named, will be capable of shooting water over 150 metres into the air, the height of a 50 storey building, and stretch over 275 metres, the length of two football fields.


The $218 million project will be 25 percent larger than the iconic fountains at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.


Like the Fountains of Bellagio, Emaar’s fountains will include an integral light and sound show and is expected to become one of Dubai’s major tourist attractions, drawing over 10 million visitors per year.


The fountains will shoot 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment and feature over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors.


The fountains have yet to be named and a cash prize of $27,225 has been assigned to the winner of a competition to name the water feature.


The structure is scheduled to be operation by 2009.

Amazing 2008 Apple Festival in Sweden

Apple creative author - Helge Lundstrom. Showing all this was at apple festival in the city Kivik, which is located in Sweden. Each picture went 4 tons of apples, and that about 75,000 pieces. Short, but as beautiful.

Weird Japanese Self-Defense