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Design student Anna Schwamborn has created jewellery made with the hair and cremated ashes of dead loved ones. Maybe between “thinking fondly” and “insanely freaking out” while admiring these pieces, yeah, maybe that might work.

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Now that the King of Pop is dead, what better way to remember him by than looking at the people making a living out of him, and the animal spoofs, and the awesome pranks. You know, all the collateral damage. Remember when those schoolkids were so freaked out? Yeah, that was fun.

Burger King’s ad for its seven-incher sandwhich is quite possibly the most blowjob-y ad you’ve ever seen in a while.

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This is how a tooth’s microstructures look like when magnified thousands of times. Now lick it.

If you have about 25 pounds of aluminum, silicon, and plastic sitting atop your desktop, aka, your old computer, here’s something you can do to make it more powerful — cheaply, quickly, like new.
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This is Brooke Greenberg: baby-sized, thinks like a toddler, 16 years old.

“Why doesn’t she age?” Howard Greenberg, 52, asked of his daughter. “Is she the fountain of youth?” Such questions are why scientists are fascinated by Brooke. Among the many documented instances of children who fail to grow or develop in some way, Brooke’s [...]

Exactly 210 people with tattoos so insane you’re forced to think their brains must’ve been fried on meths, or something that fries brains and makes people get shit tats.

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The awesome shit here is the robot hand — see how it handles delicate stuff like sushi? Only a matter of time when somebody uses this to handling human genitalia, eh?
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) released the final still images taken by the onboard High Definition Television (HDTV) of the lunar explorer “KAGUYA” as it crashed on the moon. The KAGUYA was launched on September 14, 2007, and was controlled to be dropped to the Moon on June [...]

Forget buckets of blood. Nothing says horror like one of those tubs of artificially buttered, nonorganic popcorn at the concession stand. That, at least, is one of the unappetizing lessons to draw from one of the scariest movies of the year, Food, Inc., an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding [...]

Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) created a number of woodblock prints showing legendary tanuki (raccoon dogs) using their humorously large scrota in “creative ways.”  Below, for example, shows how to use them testicles for muscle build-up.

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Anthony Franz says an undercooked salmon salad gave him a 9-foot-tapeworm, and in August he sued the Chicago restaurant that served it to him.
If Franz’s tapeworm tale holds water – and the Chicago Sun-Times reports that the restaurant disputes his account – then it’s just one more data point to add to a growing urban [...]

Whoa!

Six freaking minutes.
Scientists set out to test the well-known saying that just one drink can quickly go to your head.
Only six minutes after consuming an amount of alcohol equivalent to three glasses of beer or two glasses of wine, leading to a blood alcohol level of 0.05 to 0.06 percent, changes had already taken place [...]

AN erotic dance craze is thought to be the cause of a recent spate of broken penises in Jamaica, and now faces a government crackdown.
“Daggering“, a lewd dance style where couples simulate dry sex in various positions to the beat of the music, is characterised by over-the-top gyrating, heavy pelvis-thrusting and daredevil leaps.
Many couples have [...]

…DARPA have now expanded somewhat on their intention to initiate a programme called Self-Explanation Learning Framework (SELF), which they explain thus:
DARPA seeks to construct systems that can participate in their own construction… The system might know the requirements for various tasks in its repertoire, and it may try to perform those tasks to verify functionality.
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As you can see from his faxes, Billy had a clear overall vision for the package from the start. One of his notes reads, “As you know I am looking for that very sentimental, Victorian style look…” It is not well known, but originally I had suggested a photographer to execute the various images Billy [...]