BLOG INSURANCE

For all those who hated my blog, don't despair. There's help at hand. You can apparently nuke Mall Road.

Dilip: there's been a massive Mars attack on your blog! Be there or elsewhere :)

Amit Varma's blog, for all its obsession with cows, gets some cow dung. He deserves it in between all the praise and awards.

Yazad Jal keeps wrting about his atheism. I don't know why. Here's evidence at last for him that God exists.

God can be nasty. Sonia Faleiro's blog used to be called Colour of Water. She removed those words and put her own name there. The rain gods caused a flood at her blog.

All those poor souls who got bad reviews from Jabberwock take revenge. Jabberwock sucks, they said, and so they decided to suck his text!

Someone finally called Caferati's bluff in a sting operation, exposing how much they spill coffee in their meetings.

For his various libertarian crimes against humanity, I used a spray to paint some really obscene graffiti on Saket Vaidya's blog.

I used a chainsaw to cut out all those obtrusive ads from the Desicritics website. No prizes for guessing: I was not successful.

Buddy Gaurav, what happens when your arguments don't make sense? I throw tomatoes at you.

And boy, there's yet another puke fest at The Maanga.

All you guys, go deal with the trouble. In the meanwhile, I'll go hatch my chickens before they count.

(I got to know all this bad news after K revealed how someone peed at his blog! All that beer has become you-know-what!)

Now you know why why I've been trying to convince you all to get your blogs insured? And all you wanted was a discount from my commission!

Cross-posted at my nuked blog.

DANGEROUS ROADS.............

1. Magnificient Guoliang Tunnel Road in China
- Road that does not tolerate any mistakes

In our post about The Most Dangerous Roads in the World we mentioned a few roads that imperil the lives of motorists, or just make it really miserable. The following roads did not quite make the list, but continued to pop up in conversations around the world. They may not be "deadly" as such, but certainly require a keen concentration on driving, as the rock walls in many of them are not known to be a forgiving substance.

The road shown here is the Guoliang Tunnel in Taihang mountains (China). It has been built by villagers themselves, which is an inspiring story in itself:

"Before 1972, the path chiseled into the rock used to be the only access linking
the village with the outside world. Then the villagers decided to dig a tunnel through the rocky cliff. Led by Shen Mingxin, head of the village, they sold goats and herbs to buy hammers and steel tools. Thirteen strong villagers began the project. It took them five years to finish the 1,200-metre-long tunnel which is about 5 meters high and 4 meters wide. Some of the villagers even gave their lives to it. On May 1, 1977, the tunnel was opened to traffic."

The wall of the tunnel is uneven and there are more than 30 "windows" of
different sizes and shapes. Some windows are round and some are square, and they range from dozens of metres long to standard-window-size. It is frightening to look down from the windows, where strange rocks hanging form the sheer cliff above and a seemingly bottomless pit lying below. A village, opposite the tunnel, appears to hang on the precipice.


2. Taroko Gorge Road in Taiwan (Chungheng)

Another one of quite unforgiving roads, consisting of tunnels carved in the mountain rock.





























3. Pasubio (Vicenza), Northern Italy

This is an ancient road, converted to a hiking trail. Mountain bikers love it for the spectacular views, cool tunnels and hair-raising precipices... Some cars (presumably small italian kind) climb the hairpins to service the guesthouse built there.























source:muthamizhsarena