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All The Rage: Turning Your Cat's Head Into Totoro (http://geekologie.com/201... ) [http://geekologie.com/201... ]

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"These are several shots from cat owners in Japan that have turned the back of their cat's heads into Totoro by applying pieces of cut paper. This one is pretty spot-on, but the last couple -- I'm not sure if those people aren't good with scissors or what, but they look more like awful Furbies than they do Totoro. If this was a school assignment I would definitely make those students stay after class to ask whether or not their parents know they eat glue sticks." - rønin - -

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My Terrible Idea - NJ to SF, Home to Grandma's House by Bicycle (http://myterribleidea.tum... ) [http://40.media.tumblr.co... ] [http://41.media.tumblr.co... ]

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A good friend of mine is cycling across the country during his sabbatical from work. And tumblr'ing along the way. - rønin - -

Sounds like an incredible adventure! :) - Jenny H - -

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Groundhog (https://flic.kr/p/twcbjx) [https://farm1.staticflick... ]

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Finally got a shot of the groundhog in our backyard. Still not sure where s/he lives exactly or if there's more than one. I've only seen one at any one time. - rønin - -

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It's an orangey undercoat, but in the right light, they do look pretty orange - or at least the ones in our back did. It only lasted a little bit before their coarser grownup fur grew in. This shows it a bit: http://www.dreamstime.com... - Jennifer D. - -

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Lab Culture Of 8-Year Old's Hand After Playing Outside (http://geekologie.com/201... ) [http://geekologie.com/201... ]

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"This is a shot of the lab culture grown from an 8-year old's handprint after playing outside. As you can see, there are all sorts of delicious microbes present. I like the ones on the palm and tip of the middle finger that look like snowflakes. Also, you see the one at the tip of the index finger? Those are booger microbes. Because kids pick their noses. So do I. Except if anyone catches me I tell them I was just scratching the inside of my nostril and a booger must have hopped onto my finger to escape. What? No I didn't just put it in my mouth!" - rønin - -

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I'm fascinated - chiaratiz - -

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Man sues Chinese actress over her intense stare in TV show (http://news.yahoo.com/man... ) [http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api... ]

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"Rules making it easier to file lawsuits in China have led to a new concern over frivolous claims, such as one in which a man says actress Zhao Wei stared at him too intensely through his TV set." - rønin - -

"The Legal Daily said the plaintiff was alleging Zhao's stare caused him "spiritual damage." Gan Wen, deputy head of a case-filing chamber under the Supreme Court, said at a news conference Tuesday that the Zhao case was an example of citizens abusing their right to file lawsuits. "It's not necessary to waste our judicial resources on cases like these," Gan said." - rønin - -

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No evidence that eating placenta post-birth has benefits (http://news.yahoo.com/no-... ) [http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/... ]

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Wait, what? This was a trend? Ewww... "Eating one's own placenta after giving birth may be trendy but there is no scientific evidence that women derive any benefits from it, researchers said Thursday. A review of 10 previously published studies showed no "human or animal data to support the common claims that eating the placenta -- either raw, cooked or encapsulated -- offers protection against postpartum depression, reduces post-delivery pain, boosts energy, helps with lactation, promotes skin elasticity, enhances maternal bonding or replenishes iron in the body," said the study by experts at Northwestern University." - rønin - -

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I have a friend here who does placenta encapsulation so you can take yours in pill form. I didn't do it, but whatevs. - laura x - -

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Meet 'Hellboy,' the dinosaur with exotic horns and frill (http://news.yahoo.com/mee... ) [http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/... ]

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"They officially named it Regaliceratops peterhewsi, meaning "royal horned face" and honoring geologist Peter Hews, who found it. But they nicknamed it "Hellboy" because its stubby horns above the eyes resembled the comic-book character of the same name and because of the hellish time they had in painstakingly extricating it from what they called "evil hard rock." "We did have an earlier, politically incorrect name for it, but with great effort we managed to stop ourselves using it after a few months," Royal Tyrrell Museum paleontologist Donald Henderson said." - rønin - -

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Sumo groups hope skinny Japanese kids can recapture their nation’s glory (http://www.washingtonpost... ) [https://img.washingtonpos... ]

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"Chikara Yamanobe is about as far from a sumo wrestler as it’s possible to be. He’s so skinny that his ribs stick out, and his eyes well up when he gets manhandled in the ring. He’s also 5 years old. Still, Chikara, whose name means “power,” wants to be a professional sumo wrestler when he grows up." - rønin - -

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The Agency (http://www.nytimes.com/20... ) [http://static01.nyt.com/i... ]

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"From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities." - rønin - -

"One account was called “I Am Ass.” Ass had a Twitter account, an Instagram account, multiple Facebook accounts and his own website. In his avatars, Ass was depicted as a pair of cartoon buttocks with an ugly, smirking face. He filled his social-media presences with links to news articles, along with his own commentary. Ass had a puerile sense of humor and only a rudimentary grasp of the English language. He also really hated Barack Obama. Ass denounced Obama in posts strewn with all-caps rants and scatological puns. One characteristic post linked to a news article about an ISIS massacre in Iraq, which Ass shared on Facebook with the comment: “I’m scared and farting! ISIS is a monster awakened by Obama when he unleashed this disastrous Iraq war!”" - rønin - -

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My God: Woman Eats Six Pounds Of Yakisoba Ramen In One Sitting, Lives To Post Video (http://geekologie.com/201... ) [http://geekologie.com/201... ]

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I guess it's not that surprising considering she's a competitive eater. "Seen here in her dining room of solitude, Japanese competitive eater Yuka Kinoshita prepares to down six pounds of Yakisoba Ramen in a single sitting. Several times she even covers the whole bowl in mayonnaise. Any idea what percentage of your daily allowance of sodium six pounds of ramen contains? Because I'm pretty sure it's over 2,000%." - rønin - -

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Pop Chart Lab's Latest Features A Mouthwatering Array of Sandwiches (http://mentalfloss.com/ar... ) [http://mentalfloss.com/si... ]

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Tokyo Roar (https://vimeo.com/1291713... )

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Really well done video of Tokyo. - rønin - -

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New Jersey Residents Advised Not To Eat Fish From The Sewer (http://gothamist.com/2015... ) [http://gothamist.com/atta... ]

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"Not that it ever seems sanitary to eat a fish found on the sidewalk, but this week's deluge has reportedly pushed a bunch of New Jersey fish out of their pond and stream homes and sent them up through the sewers, and officials are warning residents not to consume them. You know what they say: give a man a fish and you'll feed him for for a day, but give a man a fish found in a sewer drain and he'll have diarrhea for a lifetime." - rønin - [ 2 ] -

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New Dementor Wasp Species Turns Roaches To Zombies (http://geekologie.com/201... ) [http://geekologie.com/201... ]

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"Ampulex dementor is a newly described species of wasp from the Mekong region in Southeast Asia named after the Dementors from the Harry Potter series." - rønin - -

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Must Try All: Chart of 40 Hot Dogs from Around the World (http://geekologie.com/201... ) [http://geekologie.com/201... ]

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Something found on the beach (https://www.flickr.com/ph... ) [https://farm8.staticflick... ]

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I don't think I've ever seen a horseshoe crab covered in barnacles before. - John B. - -

Yeah, neither have I. - rønin - -

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Pig escapes, terrorizes entire town, craps in cop car (http://boingboing.net/201... ) [http://i2.wp.com/boingboi... ]

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"Police in Shelby Township, Michigan had an interesting encounter with a pig who escaped from its owner, ran around town for a while, then ended up in the back of a cop car pooping all over the place." - rønin - -

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Poor pig, poor policeman. - Slow - [ 1 ] -

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Namie Amuro - Golden Touch (https://www.youtube.com/w... )

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Fun vid, catchy tune. "The music video for J-pop act Namie Amuro asks you to participate with just one simple act – placing your finger in the middle of the screen." - rønin - -

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Just a handful of macros from our yard earlier. Flying insects are hard to shoot. =\ https://www.flickr.com/ph... [https://farm6.staticflick... ]

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Reviving Japan’s Dreaded and Beloved Ghosts (http://www.nytimes.com/20... ) [http://static01.nyt.com/i... ]

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"There are also beasts whose stories have been lost, but whose images remain, like the tofu-kozo, a bigheaded servant boy holding a block of uncooked tofu. “There’s a number of images of that, but nobody knows why they exist,” Mr. Foster said. “It might have been an Edo period advertising campaign, but that’s all speculation.”" - rønin - [ 3 ] -

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We tried Tokyo’s “rent a middle-aged Japanese man” service, and it was awesome! http://en.rocketnews24.co... (https://sociorocketnewsen... )

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Right off the bat, we asked him why he got into this line of work. “One day I was on the train and some girls nearby me went ‘Ugh, what a gross ossan,'” he said. “So I decided to embrace my ossan-ness and do this.” Now those same girls are paying him by the hour for relationship advice. Justice? - rønin - -

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The Meteorite Sword - http://theawesomer.com/th... (https://theawesomer.com/p... )

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"The Tentetsutou (Sword of Heaven) is a katana forged by Yoshindo Yoshiwara from a fragment of Gibeon, an iron alloy meteorite that was found in Namibia in 1838. It’s currently on display at the Skytree tower in Tokyo, Japan." - rønin - -

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Drone Camera That Automatically Follows You Around (http://geekologie.com/201... ) [http://geekologie.com/201... ]

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"The Lily is a waterproof autonomous quadrocopter with a face that automatically follows you around by detecting a tracker worn on your body (previously: this one from 2014). It has a 20-minute battery life, shoots 1080p video at 60FPS, 720p slow motion at 120FPS, and has a variety of different follow modes. Also, you literally just throw it in the air to start recording. That was weird to watch in the video because I kept hoping to see a crash and burn that never happened. Still, is it smart enough to avoid trees? What about bears? You can preorder a Lily now for $499 (shipping February 2016), otherwise the price goes up to $1,000. Are you going to get one? Cool, I'll just borrow yours. "What are you going to use it for?" Does it matter? "It's going to be sexual, isn't it?" What? Nooooooo. "Then what is it?" Fine, sex on the top of Mount Everest." - rønin - -

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It's been way too long since I've broken out the DSLR unfortunately but always fun to play w/the macro. https://www.flickr.com/ph... https://farm8.staticflick...

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Clueless Gamer: Conan Reviews "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" https://www.youtube.com/w...

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Mantises https://www.flickr.com/ph... http://farm9.staticflickr...

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The mantis egg pod I found in our backyard a few months ago finally hatched. - rønin - -

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Wow! - Jennifer D. - -

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