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In animator Marco Spitoni’s CODE Guardian universe, World War II was fought by giant Mechs, taking away from real people all that heroic talk. But it’s fun to watch, and you need it like you need tin versions of Godzilla stomping on innocent Red Cross trucks. Or better, Hogzilla!
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Wired takes one modern foodstuff apart and shows us its inner self.
Water
It’s the main ingredient. But like any whipped product, Cool Whip contains a high percentage of air. At 41 cents per ounce, you’re buying mostly water and air for just over twice what it would cost to whip real cream yourself.
Polysorbate 60
Polysorbates are made [...]

For dogs, like men, “clean” is a four-letter word.

Of the “Top 10 Reasons You Should Quit Your Job Today And Become A Freelancer,” this is just beauty:
Number 5: Only farmers should wake up that early.
Hah! Take that, silly farmers!
See the list of 10 here, and just quit.
And while you’re at it, you should check “10 Reasons Why You Should Never Get A Job,” [...]

A section of highway lies crumbled in Emeryville after a tanker carrying gasoline exploded early Sunday, April 29, 2007.

Chinese coal miners, and — surprise! — they’re still alive!

Just some of the billion people who make China such a wonderful place to hatch some powerful migraine.

Mother tries to breastfeed her triplets. Can you guess what she’ll use for the third baby? (Hint: it’s peeping at you like a little wiener right now).
More heartbreaking images [...]

Looks so good you can almost smell it.

Whoever’s the genius who did this, expect him to also take you literally when you say, “You know what, I think I can shove a baseball bat up Uranus.”

The interwebs is on fire with the latest web sensation — the super-exciting, white-knuckle fun of watching a huge chunk of Cheddar cheese attract mold and mature! Brought to you by the fun people at West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers.

Time-lapse video of the Cheddar cheese’s first three months.
Next blockbuster: watching paint dry! Yay!

Howling dogs doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re seeing scary stuff that we humans don’t. But they could be going through those freaky times that some of us sometimes suffer.
Man’s best friend may have a new best friend after Eli Lilly and Co. won U.S. approval to sell its former blockbuster antidepressant Prozac to treat misbehaving [...]

Get a plastic bag and a couple of aspirins ready.

This Adsense ad will show you what to do when “you’ve got testicles.”

We’re pretty sure some robot with penis envy did this. View the ad in its full context here.

Mark Jenkins creates these street installations of fake people and objects, and leaves them lying around the city, inspiring confusion and awe among passersby.

A still unidentified man barged into the kitchen of London’s Zizzi pizza restaurant, took a huge knife, jumped on a table, and hacked off his own penis. The restaurant staff, although very much impressed with the man’s display of selfless loyalty, refused to toss the severed penis among the toppings for a special hastily-cooked pepperoni [...]

Thousands of poodle-loving Japanese ladies were genuinely shocked to learn that that innocent furry thing they’d taken as poodles were actually sheep.
Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest ‘must have’ accessory.
But the scam was only spotted after a leading [...]

Estrella Benavides swears God has been communicating with her, compelling her to scribble on any useful surface — her house, car, on her own face, maybe using her own poop but you’ll never know — God’s divine communique.
Benavides’ home is almost completely blanketed in words, which combine to warn in part of a worldwide conspiracy [...]