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Japanese Akiro Makino, now 84, was a former medical officer in Japan’s WWII navy who admitted to experimenting on the bodies of about 30 Filipino prisoners of war, including women and children.
Akira Makino, 84, a former officer of the medical corps of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s No.33 patrol unit, said the experiments on live prisoners [...]

Chinese manufacturers have become so efficient in copying original Japanese and Korean products that by the time the legit products arrive in China, they are seen by Chinese buyers as the fake ones.
Chinese electronic pirates have been very busy, for instance, in tinkering with LG’s chocolate phone:
When LG Electronics released its Chocolate phone in the [...]

You might sense that folks over at the Consumerist seem a bit eager to ring the death knell on Zune, but we don’t care. So we’re blatantly block-quoting what the Consumerist has also painstakingly blockquoted, just to give you your day’s supply of glee and to answer some of your most pertinent Zune-related questions.
On Device [...]

From stone tablets, to paper, to magnetic discs. Now, Sainul Abideen of Kerala plays the Pied Piper and leads us all to go back to paper; and he’s armed with some goodies to match with the seduction. It’s called “rainbow technology,” a storage format that uses biodegradeable paper.
“Files such as text, images, sounds and video [...]

It’s finally happening; one helpless confession after another, written not necessarily in “leet” but often peppered with the words immortalized by coke-sniffers, “If I don’t like it, I can easily stop.”
The World of Warcraft game addicts.
“Finally I was allowed to input my credit card details. This is the real no-going-back point. Still in some sort [...]

After making their cuddly pandas watch “panda porn,” now this Thai zoo is earning big bucks from another panda-derived product: multicolored paper made from the animals’ daily poop.
When keepers of the country’s panda couple — Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui — got tired of disposing the 55 pounds of feces daily produced by the duo, [...]

A Thai buddhist monk hacked off his penis because he had a hard-on during meditation.
The 35-year-old monk, whose name was withheld for privacy reasons, allowed medical staff at Maharaj hospital, 780 km (480 miles) south of Bangkok to dress his wound, but refused reattachment, hospital chief Prawing Euanontouch said.
But wait a minute; if he doesn’t [...]

Is that after being decapitated, the average person remains conscious for an additional 15-20 seconds.
Think about those folks in Iraq.
More shit about death here.