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Japanese TV mascot invades 7-Eleven stores

November 7th, 2009, 12:22 am by Jayson Peters

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Ever heard of Domo?

Those not in the know are probably scratching their heads after visits to 7-Eleven convenience stores. That’s because Domo, the mascot of Japan’s NHK television station, has expanded his empire to include Slurpees, bad coffee and truly terrible hot dogs. The gassy, meat-loving, apple-hating, egg-born cave-dweller can be seen on 99 cent coffee cups and other products. (You can check out lots of pictures at Top Cultured, or just head on down to your local 7-Eleven.)

It’s not Domo’s first foray into American retail: In 2008 the character was used in Target’s Halloween promotions.

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Is this how the zombie apocalypse begins?

October 28th, 2009, 12:13 am by Jayson Peters

In a Mexican food restaurant … in Iowa???

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You can breathe easy: No Darth Vader porn — for now

October 5th, 2009, 3:33 pm by Jayson Peters

vaderOh, David Prowse — it’s just not a good week for you, is it?

The actor and former bodybuilder who wore the Sith suit in the original Star Wars trilogy was on location at an English bungalow when police forces raided the set. They’d been tipped off by neighbor who saw the camera and lighting equipment being hauled into the home and naturally assumed it was being used in the production of a skin flick.

What was really being filmed, according to the U.K.’s Metro, is a movie called The Kindness of Strangers; the director’s ex-husband owns the Staffordshire home.

Last week the BBC reported Mr. Prowse broke down on a busy English highway and needed police assistance (or, “used the Force”) to make it to a convention appearance. Now in his 70s, the actor, who was once also a pedestrian safety spokesman, is certainly maintaining a healthy relationship with British law enforcement personnel. That, or he has one of the most unique publicists in the realm.

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Holy cow! Dead, scaly cow …

August 21st, 2009, 11:35 am by Jayson Peters

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Villagers in Cambodia are venerating what may be an advance scout for a race of reptilian bovines from the Far Side of the galaxy. Photo and report: AP

I, for one, join them in welcoming our scaly new overlords. I also plan on taking a good, hard look at my next hamburger …

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Rodents declare war on southern Arizona

August 11th, 2009, 2:47 pm by Jayson Peters

Apparently, the Rats of NIMH live in Tucson.

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Jurassic snark

August 5th, 2009, 9:57 pm by Jayson Peters

Apparently, snarky pseudoscience doesn’t pay the bills. That’s what the owners of a young-Earth creationist theme park in Pensacola, Fla., have found out.

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Put another way: It doesn’t pay to preach deception.

Dinosaur Adventures Land — pictured at left and depicting humans and dinosaurs in pardoxical and scientifically impossible coexistence — is in the process of being seized by the federal government to pay nearly half a million dollars in payroll taxes.

The venture’s founder is serving 10 years in prison after nearly two decades of sparring with the IRS and claiming he and his ministers were employed by God and therefore not subject to payroll taxes. Didn’t render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s.

Via io9

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Meet the new witch of Wookey Hole

July 28th, 2009, 11:05 pm by Jayson Peters

It’s no Hogwarts, but it did stand in for the fictional magic academy’s Chamber of Secrets in the movies. And it has that new-hag smell.

The company that runs Wookey Hole Caves in western England recently interviewed applicants for the post of resident witch. A rock formation in the cave system is reputed to be a sorceress turned to stone by holy water, and the tourist attraction employs someone to bring the local legend to life. That responsibility now belongs to former real-estate agent Carla Calamity. If that is her real name.

(Maybe people didn’t fancy buying a home from someone named “Calamity.”)

Her annual contract is worth $82,000 U.S., but you have to know about witchcraft, be comfortable sleeping underground, and like cats. If Ms. Calamity fails to impress, all this could be yours next year.

The cave system was seen on film in the 1975 Doctor Who serial “Revenge of the Cybermen” and the 2002 film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Via CNN

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School’s UFO hoax gives new meaning to ‘British invasion’

July 21st, 2009, 10:04 pm by Jayson Peters

Children in Britain got the shepherd’s pie scared out of them earlier this month when educators, with the cooperation of local police, staged an alien invasion for the little tykes with the goal of inspiring creative thinking and improving their writing skills.

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As reported in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph, the Sussex students — some as young as 7 — were told a UFO had crashed nearby and were encouraged to follow a trail of debris, whereupon they witnessed a performance that included a school staff member’s “alien abduction.”

Parents were not told of the July 10 exercise beforehand, and one described her daughter as “shell shocked” upon returning home from school.

On the bright side, at least now the kids will have something to put in their journals.

(Via Gawker’s io9 blog)

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Dumber and dumber

July 15th, 2009, 12:52 pm by Jayson Peters

CNNMoney.com and Yahoo! Finance chime in on the “8 Dumbest iPhone Apps.”

I can’t believe “iFart” isn’t among them.

See also: 10 iPod games for those who don’t have the Touch

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Grave concerns

July 14th, 2009, 10:39 pm by Jayson Peters

Have you noticed all the strange happenings surrounding graveyards recently?

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First, you’ve got the one in Illinois where workers are accused of digging up bodies so they can resell the plot. And there was some question about whether Michelle Obama’s father is or isn’t buried there. (The White House now insists he isn’t and never was.)

This was followed by a case of vandals toppling tombstones at an historic South Carolina graveyard. Now comes word of a 51-year-old man caught in the buff in an Indiana cemetery.

It’s a little troublesome when the dead start piling up in the bushes to make room for new arrivals, and it’s certainly unsettling, I’m sure, to see headstones kicked over and flashers strutting about.

Maybe it’s nothing to worry about — just Michael Jackson bringing the freak show with him to the afterlife.

Then again …

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