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Video: Japanese Pop Star Comes Out Of The Closet… As A Computer Creation
Fans of J Pop girl group AKB48 were delighted to see the addition of a new member in a candy commercial. Her name is Aimi Eguchi and she smiled and waves alongside her new band mates as they happily sung the virtues of Ezaki Glico. Yum!...
Podcast: The Conspiracy
Justin foolishly rushes into surgery that could make his creepy stare deadly. Brian gets sold a house on the cheap for his family to move into but when winter comes, a vile secret becomes a disgusting reality. Andrew plots the confusing...
Scientists Create Memory Expansion for Brain
Well this is certainly a step in the right direction for downloading instructions on how to fly a helicopter right into your brain. Researchers have stuffed chips into rat brains that enabled them to instantly know things. They can also...
Rabbis Condemn Dog To Death By Stoning
Recently, a dog in Jerusalem got uppity and entered the courts and would not leave. This prompted some judges to remember that they had cursed a lawyer 20 years early to have his spirit enter a dog, because in traditional Judaism dogs are...
Western Pennsylvania Forest Creature
A strange little video. Thoughts? “We caught whatever this is on our digital still camera on video mode. We were zoomed in as far as the camera would go. It took off when we tried to get closer. We were startled by the result of the zoomed...
Confirmed By Science: Great White Sharks Enjoy Heavy Metal Music
A great white shark tour operator in Australia has made a startling discovery. Sharks love AC/DC. They love them so much, playing their songs is a more effective method of luring sharks than spreading chum in the water. After all, they may...
io9 Hosting Cryptid Summer Contest
io9 is sponsoring the Cryptid Summer contest and offering a prize of $2000 for the best photographic or video evidence of a genuine cryptid. This looks like it could end up creating quite a bit of fun. The Bounty io9 will be offering a...
Home Built Hoverbike
Chris Malloy has built a hoverbike from motor cycle parts that can fly 173 mph at an altitude of 10,000 feet. Bonus – you don’t even need a pilot’s license because it is classified as an ultralight! It lacks many safety features now, but...
Family Of Four Flees Snake-Infested New Home, Once Had To Kill 42 Snakes In One Day
A man’s home is his castle. The sense of satisfaction derived from looking out his bedroom window at night and knowing “these walls protect my pregnant wife and family” can provide the strength to carry him through the day. It is the...
World’s First Living Laser
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have genetically engineered the world’s first living laser. This is a living cell that can emit laser light. Based on previous Nobel winning work on Green...
Assault With Weasel
And now: taxonomic correction during assault. Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into a Hoquiam apartment and assaulted a man. The victim asked, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” Police said the attacker said, “It’s...
British City Forced To Admit It Is Unprepared For A Zombie Apocalypse
The Leicester City Council is “not ready” for a zombie attack and a concerned citizen forced them to admit it using the Freedom of Information Act. The CDC recently released one here in the U.S., but it could use some work. “A worried...
Drunken “Wolfman” Captured In Ohio
Police in Brownhelm Township, Ohio were called to Timber Ridge Campground because an extremely intoxicated man was fighting people and kicking dog cages. So far this story sounds like just another night on Lake Erie, but when the police...
600 Dead Penguins
Uruguayan navy ships on patrol found a whole bunch of dead penguins and alerted environmental agencies. They do not know the cause of death yet, but they do suspect something called Ferox, which does not sound friendly. “According to a...
Giant Rats Killing Children, Elderly in South Africa
Forget about the shapeshifters on the loose – it is being reported that monster rats the size of small dogs are killing and eating children in South Africa. The rats can grow up to three feet long and have inch long teeth. “The monster...
Send Your Name To Mars
You have until June 13th to submit your name to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be included on a microchip in the Mars Science Laboratory rover which is headed to Mars later this year. To date 1,171,344 names have been submitted and...
Best Thing You’ll See Today: Electric Storm Strikes Erupting Volcano
Electric storm meet volcano eruption. Can anything be cooler? I defy you to find it. [ABC Tumblr]
Google Mars Anomaly
So, yeah. 71 49 19.73n 29 33 06.53w in Google Mars if you want to see it yourself. What do you think it is? [Sighting UFO]
Music of the Saturnian Spheres
CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo. We have posted stitched together footage from Cassini before, but this video goes above and beyond. Now with 100% more NIN. [daily grail]
Cops Shoot At Concrete Alligator
“Rick Sheridan was working in his garage when he heard gunshots. He went around the back of his house to a pond, where he saw three police officers. The three officers had spotted the gator and were lined up on the bank, shooting at the...