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Video broadcast on Japan’s TV NHK of yesterday’s FedEx plane crash at Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan: Sadly, the two pilots were both killed; fortunately, nobody else was killed or injured. [Source: YouTube, via Gizmodo]

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Nah, on second thought, better take the bus. C’mon Japan, WTF? Hentai as a form of city planning, or just trying to “cute up” old Godzilla’s image? For those of you who are (even more) confused, Wikipedia can bring you up to speed: “Hentai is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to…

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The Art of Memory has a beautiful post, Weaving the feathers of a blackbird with breath and strings, featuring images from Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase’s (b. 1934) 1970s book, The Solitude of Ravens. I’ve put together a small composite of the photos that TAoM has posted — click on it to see them individually and larger…

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When you’re closing up the War Room one last time just before the apocalypse, load the Leekspin page on every computer you can hack your way into and let this spinning urchin agape with joy polkka you off to eternity in her soul-enhancing, life-preserving, mind-easing, toe-snappingly inspirational way. Don’t let the Finnish roots of this dissuade you from stepping out of the hanger deck long enough to glance back over your shoulder at the receding glow from the end of civilization…

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