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Thai Boxers in Japan
This article is interesting as hell because I’ve heard many, many times about how weak Thai boxers/kickboxers are used to prop up their Japanese counterparts, but never actually bothered to research it. Thai boxers downed by punches that missed him (via F*cked Gaijin)
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Note to Kevin
Can I be your second? As the challengee, do you get to specify the terms? How about cavalry broad swords of the largest size, standing in a square ten feet wide and about twelve feet deep…
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the horror
I imagine this is pretty much what hell must look like. (reddit)
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Magazine cover illusions
At least one of them is unstaged, even: Link (via digg)
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My New Baby Alligator
I rescued him from a wet bathroom floor when I was painting.
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Korean Hostage Crisis as Seen by Overseas Korean Volunteers
Yesterday, I asked a group of four young Koreans who have come to teach our students computer skills the following questions: Were the Koreans who were taken hostage missionaries, or what? Is it important to make the distinction between missionaries and volunteer workers? Are average people in Korea blaming the US for what happened? Are you hopeful about a diplomatic solution? Their answers were: Yes, and YES(!). No. …. So there you go. The news says that progress is being made and the Taliban is promising release today or tomorrow. That would be nice. The Taliban ain’t exactly nice guys, though. I hope everything works out, but let me say…
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cute fish (and not-so-cute fish)
Go see for yourself: Cute Not-so-cute (To my knowledge, I’ve only eaten one of the fish on that list. Hint: It wasn’t the coelacanth) //////////////////////// In related news, the last of my impossible fish died a few weeks ago, I think. The red one was the first to go, and blue was the last. The whole tank got hit with some horrible gill disease that killed all inhabitants – impossible fish, algae eaters, tetras, and Japanese goldfish. The blue fish hung on a whole month or so longer than the second longest survivor (purple, I think), but in the end he just wasted away. Eventually, we put him outside in…
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Google Earth – Strange Sights
PC World has a cool gallery up: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth (thx k)
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Pink armbands for Thai cops
Over on AOL news: Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring Hello Kitty, the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame… Great! It should match their panties very well… (thx sis) UPDATE: Nico actually has a photo….
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24 Treehugging?
Before I got crippled in the bandwidth department, I was on the front lines of 24, seeing more than a few episodes before they even aired on television, so it pains me to read this: Jack Bauer’s Next Mission: Fighting Global Warming Cry me a river if Jack Bauer drinks California Condor blood for dinner with a dugong fetus apertif; all I really care about is that he kicks ass constantly and consistently… Fuck the Prius delivery routine, fuck solar powered cappuccino makers, and fuck these arbitrary carbon footprints – for fuck’s sake are you all wearing palm frond skirts and organic hemp pantalones, or what? – and give me…
