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Capybaras and squirrel monkeys living together (the photo's pretty cute)



Capybaras and squirrel monkeys, unlikely neighbors in the wild, are living in the same enclosure at a zoo outside Tokyo and so far, they're loving it. They're generally not compatible.

What would Dr. Peter Venkman say?

Term of the day: "interfacial marriage"

Belinda Luscombe writes about the challenges of having a much hotter spouse. You can see a photo of her here?

"This is not necessarily quit-your-day-job money, but it might be new-telescope-lens money. It can help fund your passion."

Time magazine writes about the self-publishing service Blurb. But c'mon, an online article without a hyperlink to the site?!

"The majority of kids coming out of college are essentially generic,"

"They need key brand attributes and to be able to talk about them to
employers."

Interesting article in Time about the growing field of personal-brand consultants.

Washington Post uses Photoshop to make Barack Obama's eye's sparkle?

See the before and after here

Video: Stanley Fatmax Joust

Photoshop: Product placement


Via Worth1000.

MP3: Soundgarden, Marilyn Manson and others perform "Come Together"

Over a dozen different mp3s at My Old Kentucky Blog.

Enjoy Illinois poster gallery





Enjoy Illinois poster gallery. Via Wired.

Use clear nail polish to tighten loose screws on your eyeglasses

Tip courtesy of Real Simple.

Remove your phone number from Google's PhoneBook

Follow the link. Via The Consumerist.

The "52" Cover Gallery

Comic Book Resources has posted a gallery of the covers from DC Comics year-long event "52." My favorites featured Steel:



The game "Undertow" is based on drawings Donald Mustard made when he was 10



Here's the article

Here's the trailer


And here's the official site. Via Kotaku

Warning Sign: People in wheelchairs may be eaten by alligators


Wheelchair Sign

Here's another good one

No pooping

Flickr Gallery: Tiny Animals On Fingers

There's a Flickr gallery featuring tiny animals on fingers

Here's a sugar baby


Via the Cranium Blog

American with 10 alibi witnesses convicted of murder in Nicaragua

The Washington Post calls it a "Kafkaesque Encounter With Nicaragua's Justice System"

Five beautiful photos ready to become your desktop wallpaper


Moon


Castle


Bluebells


Umbrellas


Candy Machine

Ducks have absurdly long tentacle-like penises

Carl Zimmer writes in the NY Times about a scientist studying ducks:
When she first visited in January, the phalluses were the size of rice grains. Now many of them are growing rapidly. The champion phallus from this Meller's duck is a long, spiraling tentacle. Some ducks grow phalluses as long as their entire body. In the fall, the genitalia will disappear, only to reappear next spring.


*See also: Funny ad with a sex toy.

Showgirl Elizabeth Berkely wants to help teens through the "maelstrom" of adolescence

Visit her new website if you need advice.

300 pound drunk falls on woman at baseball game and breaks her back

"People shouldn't have to deal with drunks flying through the air at a ballgame," said her lawyer, Stephen Kaufman. Via The Wall Street Journal.

The veteran explosives technician looming over Bogosh was visibly upset. He insisted he did not want a new robot. He wanted Scooby-Doo back.

Joel Garreau writes in the Washington Post about soldiers and their robots:

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become an unprecedented field study in human relationships with intelligent machines. These conflicts are the first in history to see widespread deployment of thousands of battle bots. Flying bots range in size from Learjets to eagles. Some ground bots are like small tanks. Others are the size of two-pound dumbbells, designed to be thrown through a window to scope out the inside of a room. Bots search caves for bad guys, clear roads of improvised explosive devices, scoot under cars to look for bombs, spy on the enemy and, sometimes, kill humans.

It's common for a soldier to cut out a magazine picture of a woman, tape it to the antenna and name the bot something like "Cheryl," says Paul Varian, a former Army chief warrant officer who has served three tours in Iraq with the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office. "There's an awful lot of picture-taking," he says. One guy who married just before deployment wanted his wife to see the gal who was his constant companion. It was a PackBot. "One Guard unit got so attached to a development model that we gave it to them. It was pretty beat up. They put it in a place of honor in their museum."


Via Reason

Cemetery vandal crushed by 1,000 pound headstone

The letter V (in the family name) left an imprint on the vandal's thigh. Via The Obscure Store.

A prison in the US state of Iowa has changed its locks after a set of keys was sold online for $12

It cost the prison $6,000 to change the locks, so maybe the state should have bid on the keys.

Via Marginal Revolution, which also passes on this disturbing factoid: 48% of Caribbean adolescent girls surveyed described their own "sexual initiation" as forced.

Seconds later, an anonymous caller told me someone had been murdered -- "That woman with the dead husbands."

Strange story about reporter Larry Altman investigating woman with two dead husbands. Via LA Observed.

Thought-provoking sentence of the day: Pneumonia, once regarded as the "Old Man's Friend," offered the very frail a dignified death.

Peter Schuck asks "Why do we keep spending on bad bets and bad apples? Healthcare is the most wasteful area for bad bets."

Now we spend millions of dollars per year offering Alzheimer's patients an abysmal existence by keeping them alive on dialysis. Opinion leaders and litigation exacerbate the problem: A leading medical journal recently attacked one of our poorest states for proposing to give extra coverage to its Medicaid patients who join weight-loss or antismoking programs - a cost-effective way to improve health and extend life.


Read more.

A mysterious epidemic is killing pigs in southeastern China

Hong Kong television broadcasts and newspapers were full of lurid accounts today of pigs staggering around with blood pouring from their bodies in Gaoyao and neighboring Yunfu, both in Guangdong Province. The Apple Daily newspaper said that as many as 80 percent of the pigs in the area had died, that panicky farmers were selling ailing animals at deep discounts and that pig carcasses were floating in a river.

Read the rest. Via Instapundit.

There's a player in the upcoming NBA draft named Stanko Barac

He has "deceptive athleticism."

"I make love to pressure"

Interesting turn of phrase by Golden State Warrior Stephen Jackson. Via True Hoop.

And here's a bit more about Jackson:

The coolest moment of the game for me came in the second half when Davis was fouled pretty hard by Austin Croshere on a drive to the basket. Davis got up and stepped to Croshere and players from both teams crowded around. At that very moment, the entire crowd looked to Jackson, who was on the court but behind the action, and let out a collective: "Nooooooooo." Obviously they are aware of what a hot head Jackson can be and didn't want him getting tossed and maybe getting suspended for the start of the next series for doing something stupid. When Jackson turned and walked to the other side of the court, the place went crazy. Smart hoop fans.


Of course, the crowd had a good reason to worry:

Wishful thinking: ABC claims Lost will end during the 2010 season

This paragraph sums it up pretty well:
The series, which saw its ratings drop this season amid complaints about scheduling, an increasingly meandering plot and unpopular new characters, still must prove itself to disenchanted viewers to survive.

Read the rest

Headline of the day: Frenzy of risky mortgages leaves path of destruction

Courtesy of Reuters

Runner-up:
Judge: Sheriff Andy no harm to actor

Reason #42 The Nintendo Wii Will Eventually Be Outsold By Its Rivals

My eyes glazed over when I tried reading Shigeru Miyamoto's interview in Entertainment Weekly:

What are some real-world issues that would you consider putting into a game?

I have some ideas. One is that in Japan, there are a lot of trains that have sections reserved for the elderly or pregnant women. Young people in Japan sometimes sit in them, but if people come up and need them, you are supposed to get up. But most of the kids don't! It really upsets me. If I could build a game that somehow made the young people respect their elders... And there is another issue bugging me. In Japan there are a lot of people who freelance or work under the table — people who don't pay any taxes. I look at places in the world where people understand that paying taxes to the government helps society. In Japan there's not that understanding. So [social responsibility] is yet another issue I might address in a game. But I probably sound like an old man when I bring these things up.

Halo Cupcake

Master Chief's never looked more tasty


Via Kotaku, which also posted today about EA sending a limo with mini-skirted women to take the reporters to a software display.

Two United States Army ads, and one for the USO

Sure is a lot of hugging going on





Two print ads for the United States Marines



Fun Comic Book Panels: The first "D.N. Alien" and Firestorm takes action


He said, she said - - Julie Taymor's "Across The Universe"

Here's the start of Nikki Finke's story on the possibly troubled project:

What a mess surrounding Revolution Studios' Across the Universe thanks to the idiocy of hiring director Julie Taymor, who may be lauded as a visual iconoclast in the pages of The New York Times but also derided as a cinematic loon based on what Hollywood sources tell me. So now this musical romance pic has dissipated into two warring versions, and its scheduled September playdate hangs in limbo.


Here's part of the response from Francoise Bonn:

Across the Universe is undoubtedly the most extraordinary film I have had the chance to edit in my 20-plus years as a film editor. The film is entertaining, full of invention and spectacle, and, I believe, appealing to people of all ages. For that reason, and because of numerous inaccuracies written within, I disagree with Nikki Finke’s column about the film [“Across an Alternate Universe,” April 13–19].


Here's the plot summary from the Across the Universe official site:
A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam. The star-crossed lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude and Lucy – against all odds – to find their own way back to each other.

And here's the lackluster trailer. Was anyone clamoring for another Vietnam movie?

Video: David Ortiz and Brian Urlacher play Badminton for Vitamin Water

Video: Travelers Insurance Rabbit Foot Commercial

The winner of the Threadless Bioshock contest has been announced


Nice design, although I don't think it really works great as a t-shirt

Get a personalized Daemon at the Golden Compass movie site

Here's the website.

Here's my personalized Daemon, based on my answers to 20 questions.



Here's the movie poster


And here's a link to the books. Like Harry Potter, but better
His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)

Crocheted sea urchins and other wonders by Margaret Wertheim


Here's her Flickr gallery

The Invasion movie poster



Formerly known as "The Visiting", apparently

Beautiful product packaging


Grassroots Happily Ever After scent


This Works products here

Lego-style Darth Vader & Boba Fett maquettes




Read more at Star Wars.com

Worthy Threadless designs, vote now


The other side


Sheep in class


Philosophize This


Imaginaria Matre


vegetable noah's ark


Unicorn


And this one isn't that great, but the model made me laugh. Someone should do a study on the effect of scantily clad models on Threadless scores.

"Obi Fun Kenobi" and two other Lego creations by Mike Crowley


Obi Fun Kenobi


Boba Fett


Darth Maul

Mike Crowley's personal site is here

Beowulf cover


Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

Illustration: Wonder what Capcom's cast of characters would look like at a black tie event?


Kendrick Lim has the answer

Printable Subway Maps


The selection is huge

Sushi swim trunks


Buy them from Analog Clothing

V for Vendetta mask and four other photos ready to decorate your desktop


Grove


Fortune


Sun Flower


Jungle


Guy Fawkes/V for Vendetta mask
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