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Pitbull Armour - Horse-armour ... Squirrel-armour?

Top 60 Japanese Buzzwords of 2007. Are you a Tetsuko? Or maybe a Umu Kikai? In any case, you don't want to be a Himono Onna.

Top 10 Craziest Star Wars Tattoos. more inside

Thirteen, and Ella-esque. You may not like child prodigies, you may not like scat singing, you may not appreciate the greatness that was Ella Fitzgerald --- but here is a kid that will blow the roof off the joint. YouTube video. Turn up your speakers, whet your ears, and leave room for your jaw to drop.

Cypriot cave filled with dwarf hippos' remains. more inside

Shocking! Unbelievable!The latest scandal! KINDERGATE!

Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions. Tech security John-the-Baptist Bruce Schneier efficiently plows through a long list of reader questions related to online security and the future of Guarding Your Shit. more inside

Sabadabada! . Bellybongo Get a soul full! more inside

Cat Survives 19 Days with Peanut Butter Jar on Head "In a bizarre example of a cat’s nine lives, a fortunate feline survived nineteen days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head. While no exact details are known as to how the jar found its way there in the first place (cats like peanut butter?), we’re pretty sure Jiffy will be off the menu from now on." more inside

Human hair + mushrooms + tanker oil = beautiful roadside landscaping. Buh? (Via.)

Not Enough Parking for Private Jets Going to UN Climate Conference As climate alarmists from all over the world head to Bali to talk about the sacrifices regular folks have to make to save the planet from global warming, it seems certain media will ignore all the private jets clogging the tiny airport. more inside

Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet The BBC’s infrastructure is shockingly outdated, having changed only by fractions over the past decade. Over-priced Sun Enterprise servers running Solaris and Apache provide the front-end layer. This is round-robin load balanced, there’s no management of session state, no load-based connection pool. The front-end servers proxy to the application layer, which is a handful of Solaris machines running Perl 5.6 - a language that was superseded with the release of Perl 5.8 over five and a half years ago. more inside

Happy Birthday, Finland. The declaration of Finnish Independence 90 years ago led to a year of turmoil, but now the Finns are marking the occasion with engraved doves' bottoms

Reissued German educational charts that were illustrated in the 1950s and 60s. via The Presurfer more inside

Toddler fools the art world into buying his tomato ketchup paintings. The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings. more inside

Hand in Hand. A short dance by two dancers who are each missing a limb.

The sound of one cat purring. The audio version of Cute Overload.

Terminus - a short film about a man being followed by a strange... thing. (youtube)

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