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Hiroshi Sakaue is 85, but that didn’t stop him from performing on stage somewhere in Tokyo’s Okubo district to bust some rhymes. if you’re wondering what kind of stuff he’s capable of, here are sample lines from his true-to-life rap song called “”Kotsu Jigoku” (Traffic hell).
“Riding along the Koshu-Kaido road on my bike,”
“Insurance compensation worth [...]

Hakuo Yanagisawa, minister of health, labor and welfare, has been desperate for new Japanese babies that in a recent speech, he actually referred to women as “baby machines.”
According to several witnesses at the meeting, Yanagisawa used the metaphor in reference to the declining birth rate in a 30-minute speech on the future of pension, welfare [...]

This diamond-encrusted mouse, which comes so cheaply available from Pat Says Now for merely US$24,000, is the rich, decadent geek’s way of showing off the relative size of his penis.
If you also think the price tag’s incredible, it’s makers cross their hearts and swear the mouse really has 59 diamonds set on an 18k-carat white [...]

It is a salient character of our modern age that the producers of things we consume make their products easily disposable, making us a species driven by a “bigger-better-newer obsession.”
In San Francisco’s Artist in Residence program, artists are given “permission to dig through Bay Area residents’ trash to find beauty and create art.” And this [...]

As many active users or downloaders of exciting free movies, games and software via torrent find recently, fake torrents courtesy of the staunch defenders of overpriced software and media like the MPAA and the RIAA, are becoming such an RPITA (royal pain in the ass). It’s a great thing here’s Fenopy, and its Fakefinder, to [...]

EasyStill (yours for only $295) allows you to make your own hard liquor right in the comfort of your own home.

At last it is easy to make alcohol distillation a hobby. The actual distilling is as easy as making coffee!
EasyStill is a tabletop distillation unit. 4 liters of mash or wine are added and the [...]

Echo is a little robot that looks like your little daughter’s toy, which detects in real time other Echo-toting people nearby and alerts you if a possibly compatible human mate is within the vicinity.
Let me try to explain that again, by quoting this block from Robot Gossip:
The small robots can wiggle and probably talk [...]

Japanese professor Asaki Geino wants you to know that finding Mrs. Right could be as simple as taking a look at the shape of her pubic hair.
Asaki’s one of those fine gentlemen who genuinely hold this theory in their hearts that a woman’s bush determines her sexual characteristics.
His findings suggest that a woman whose bikini [...]