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  • Golden coffin on sale at Verona fair

    Shoppers wondering how to deal with the afterlife found an answer Friday -- a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin, one of many items on display at the opening of an international luxury fair in Verona. The coffin was priced at a mere 280,000 euros (381,000 dollars), while a diamond-studded, cancan-style wedding gown in pink chinchilla fur could be scooped up for 220,000 euros. Read More

  • Historical firearms auctioned

    James D. Julia Auctions in Fairfield, Maine provides this rare opportunity to all gun lovers to get hold of historic firearms that belonged to famous and infamous and morbid men like the FBI’s most wanted man of the Depression era, John Dillinger. Among the impressive display of items up for auction include a Belgian Knuckleduster Revolver (featured right, est. $7,000-$9,000), and the most excit... Read More

  • Top 10 most self-indulgent golfing gears

    If you thought that Golf is a sport which only needed a putter, ball and clubs to hit it off in style then you need to run a check as time and again we have been covering luxurious golfing paraphernalia that enhances the oomph factor of this game. Touted to be a rich man’s sport, it is often wondered if the equipment makes the golfer, or is it the other way around. Of late golf has become a desi... Read More

  • Coffee Cups recreate the Mona Lisa

    The Mona Lisa has been recreated with 3,604 cups of coffee and 564 pints of milk in Sydney, Australia. The 3,604 cups of coffee were each filled with different amounts of milk to create the different sepia shades of the painting. It measures an impressive 20 feet high and 13 feet wide and took a team of eight people three hours to complete. Read More
   
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Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:41

endofrain1The Irish leprechaun's secret hiding place for his pot of gold is usually said to be at the end of the rainbow, but in this instance someone else got there before me (sigh). The truth is the end of a rainbow is impossible to reach as it's an optical effect that depends on the location of the viewer. When walking towards a rainbow, it will invariably move further away, that makes this image all the more special (happy smile).

Click on the image to get a clearer picture.

Jason Erdkamp of Lake Forest, South California, took this photo while traveling north on the 241 Tollroad in northeast Orange County.

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