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The sophisticated ladies man in this photo wears a top-of-the-line, mindbendingly fashionable tuxedo that not only features prints of bacon strips, but also smells of authentic bacon. If you’re like us who have the habit of fielding the question, “What animal is that?” Let the tuxedo’s makers answer you:
There’s a theory that everything is better [...]

Animal activists haven’t killed Knut, yet. So while waiting for the possibly high-heeled assassin, the cuddly man-eating (someday) polar bear finds time to show off his budding German physique to Vanity Fair, maybe to somehow reassure those people who are concerned about Knut’s “polar bear humiliation” for being brought up as a “pet” that he [...]

When somebody said America is the fattest country in the world, our hearts bled. So we believe we’ve just found one effective slimming aid: lose much of the desire to eat just by looking at these blood-curdling photos of dead Mexican infants (click to enlarge for maximum efficacy), courtesy of our friends from the poor [...]

You may still forward to your Boss’s secretary’s mobile phone that Kim Kardashian or Keeley Hazell heart-stopper, buy if you’re doing it in Beijing, you risk having your balls chewed by panda bears.
Beijing police on Tuesday said that anyone found guilty of sending sexually explicit messages could face a fine of up to 3,000 yuan [...]

Bullshit-friendly East Is Red explains why this wax mango with Chairman Mao’s smiling face deserves a $600 price tag.
In August 1968 Chairman Mao was presented with Mangos, which he then redistributed to various teams in Beijing. Rather than consume these sacred mangos, they were preserved. And since the actual mangos could not be preserved indefinitely, [...]

Just spotted on Boingboing, a pair of “absolutely adorable” otters “making out” in public.

This is what happens to your neck if you happen to meet an old world samurai warrior and manage to really, really piss him off.

If you’re the sort of guy who is so manly you can eat live parrots while arching your right eyebrow without feeling any pang of gayness, but still somehow love to jullienne beans and host Tupperware parties, this manly silverware/tool set has been designed to specifically satisfy your varied interests.

Made by University of Tokyo professor Yasuo Kuniyoshi and his engineer friends, the 61-inch tall robot publicly demonstrated that it can lift a weight of as heavy as 66 kilograms (145 pounds) in an uncannily human-like fashion. As if it really cares.
A recent software upgrade allows the robot to move more like a human by [...]

Information technology’s explosion must have sent us a curse instead of a blessing: one’s voice, if not consigned as “just another one of those daily petty squeaks”, is already drowned in an ocean of gazillion voices. Whichever medium you choose, your opinion doesn’t make any difference anymore, if at all, especially if the media is lorded over by crazy celebs and pricky politicians hungry for attention.
In short, a [...]

Bad GPS, bad.

Presumably recorded somewhere in Miles Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, this video shows ice or snow creeping inland from the frozen ocean. Technically, what unexciting people say is that it’s just an ice shove, a surge of ice from the ocean onto the shore that can sometimes pile up as high as 40 feet. We’ve seen some [...]

Nope, we completely have no data about the breeding of loonies, but we’re joining the “Saturn hexagon dance party” by citing the potentially hype-deflating Earth-bound possibilities of squarish, pentagonal, and hexagonal spinning things, as found out last year by researcher Tomas Bohr and colleagues:
Tomas Bohr and colleagues made plexiglass buckets, 13 and 20 centimetres across, [...]

On March 17, 2007, local activists gathered on a site somewhere in the University of California Berkeley campus. Their mission: save a bunch of oak trees from the university’s evil athletic gym-driven machinations.
And what can be a more opportune time than when you see art photographer Jack Gescheidt enter the picture. Jack has been doing [...]

Hey girls, if your idea of romantic fun is sharing some Chinese dude’s tomb, we’ve just the right Nanjing guy for you.
A single male in Nanjing recently posted an online message looking for a woman with whom to share his tomb after death.
The 45-year-old businessman, surnamed Li, decided to remain a life-long bachelor after being [...]

This “monster” cane toad as big as a small dog belongs to a toad species called Bufo marinus. It has been captured after “terrorizing” communities of small animals and eating them.
It’s huge, to put it mildly,’ he said. ‘The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male … I would hate [...]

The Japanese are crazy about soy sauce, and they will do anything to put it in every kind of food known to man. Love it!