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06-06-2010 @ 00:00

Artwork Update : August 2010 :

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08-27-2010 @ 15:06

First look at Tokyo’s main execution chamber

“For the first time ever, the Japanese justice officials took a few journalists to see its execution chambers. All executions in Japan are done by hanging. Hiroko Tabuchi’s NY Times article describes the process:

The inmate is handcuffed and blindfolded before entering the execution room, officials said. Three prison wardens push separate buttons, only one of which releases the trapdoor — but they never find out which one. Wardens are given a bonus of about $230 every time they attend an execution.

Japan’s capital punishment system has gotten a lot of crap from the UN and other human rights activists. There’s no pardoning, and inmates (and their families and lawyers) aren’t told when they’ll be executed until the day of. This has gotten a lot of scrutiny, but officials claim it’s to quell panic.”

- via TokyoMango.

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08-20-2010 @ 23:45

Hikikomori finds way into Oxford Dictionary of English

“Hikikomori, a word that has come into common usage in Japan in recent years to signify the abnormal avoidance of social contact, especially by adolescent males, has found its way into the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English published Thursday. The word is one of more than 2,000 new entries in the dictionary, whose first edition was published in 1998, according to Oxford University Press, the dictionary’s publisher. The vuvuzela, the plastic horn used to cheer teams during the soccer World Cup in South Africa earlier this year, also won an entry in the latest edition. (AP)”

via News On Japan.

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08-09-2010 @ 09:40

Cat Armor

via Boing Boing

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07-21-2010 @ 10:06

MC Escher Panorama

Tribute to Escher in Barcelona
- via Boing Boing.

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07-19-2010 @ 14:07

Fleecing the Fleecers, I approve!

“An outfit called Post Rapture Pet Care (PRPC) offers to look after the pets of fundamentalist christians in Britain after they are taken up to heaven in the rapture. Run by Atheists (who will obviously be left behind), it offers ‘peace of mind’ for just £69.99. The US equivalent is Eternal Earthbound Pets, whose clients pay $100 for a ten-year contract ($15 for each additional pet.) – Psychic News, 27 Feb. 2010.

- via Fortean Times

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07-19-2010 @ 14:00

“Animals ‘killed in religious ritual’”

“Investigators believe some kind of religious ritual may be behind the discovery of the remains of more than 400 dead animals at a house in Philadelphia. The remains include deer, turtles and other animals. Officer George Bengal, director of law enforcement at the Pennsylvania SPCA, said investigators spent hours combing through the home in the city’s Feltonville neighbourhood on Wednesday. He says the animals had apparently been used in some kind of religious ritual, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. Authorities are trying to find the people who rented the home.”

- via The Guardian