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Hair-raising knife throwing performance nearly ends in death on live TV Digg's highlights: "1:17 — slightly cuts a finger, 1:30 — almost hits another one, 3:15 — 1-2cm from death, 4:45 — trying to clean blood with shoe." Maybe the knife-thrower always does it this way to make the performance more thrilling? Read the rest... Unexplosive hanging loudspeaker The sales pitch for this "Unexplosive hanging loudspeaker" is seemingly a masterpiece of machine translation: Our company is strong, there are channels, have efficient groups, have long-term support of foreigner's manufacturer and cooperate, there is swift stream that supplies the system, these factors in many aspects make the advantage of our company obviously embody, the products of this brand are recent fast-selling type normal products, there is the need you can contact me at any time... Read the rest... Watch this Indonesian girl, 15, shred metal guitar riffs like a total rock monster Indonesian metal guitar prodigy Meliani Siti Sumartini (Mel) is 15. "I love music, im Asian, i love art, im drawing and i write a novel," she says. Read the rest... Lottery ticket with $500,000 prize was a "misprint" John Wines was pleased when the scratch-off lottery ticket he bought at a New Mexico gas station turned out to be worth $500,000. Read the rest... Drawings made from sunlight and magnifying glass Remember as a kid using a magnifying glass and the sun to kill ants? Filipino artist Jordan Mang-osan employs the same technique to create beautiful "solar drawings.""Painting With The Sun: Solar Pyrography Drawings By Jordan Mang-osan" (Visual News, thanks Lindsay Winterhalter!)) Jordan Mang-osan gallery at Fine Art America Read the rest... WATCH: 2015's biggest toilet snake proves nightmares do come true San Diego County's Department of Animal Services announced a 5.5 foot Colombian rainbow boa emerged from an office building's toilet. Read the rest... Diving into an active volcano in Hawaii, with lava-loving robots from NASA JPL Researchers are developing robots to explore volcanoes, like the one on the Big Island of Hawaii that's flowing actively right now, threatening to slurp up homes in its wake. Read the rest... Video: Pulp Fiction vs. Happy Days "Pulpy Days," by Darrin Fullerton. (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!) Read the rest... This might be the nicest gas station restroom on earth It's in Bohol, Philippines. Read the rest... DHS's weird, creepy social media search-terms Michael from Muckrock sez, "Through FOIA requests, MuckRock users have been helping keep watch on the watchers, and recently Todd Feathers's FOIA request to the DHS resulted 91 pages worth of the agency's social media searches, from the occult (seeking the "devil" in August) and creepy ("happy camp") to downright terrifying ("black market ebola")." According to the earlier acquired docs, the automated logging mechanism "captures the date and time of the search, the analyst user ID, and the character search term. Read the rest... "Imported" Kirin not actually from Japan A Florida judge ordered Anheuser-Busch to pay a $.50 a six-pack refund to anyone who bought their beer deceptively labeled as "Imported" and "Japan's Prime brew."Via Grubstreet: The lager hasn't been made within 5,000 miles of Japan or with any Japanese ingredients since 1996, when A-B took over brewing so that Americans could finally "enjoy Kirin products with brewery-fresh flavor," but the prospect of confusion was apparent enough to a Florida judge that he's signed off on a settlement... Read the rest... NASA astronomers: "Pillars of Creation" might also be "pillars of destruction" Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a bigger and sharper photograph of the iconic Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation". Read the rest... The US treasury secretary's signature was unfit to print on currency Above: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's signature. Barack Obama said, “Jack assures me that he is going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency, should he be confirmed as secretary of the Treasury.” Visit Futility Closet to see the version of Lew's signature that's used on US Federal Reserve notes. Read the rest... Remembering Aaron Swartz with action: watch new, unreleased footage from "Internet's Own Boy" Two years after the death of hacker, activist, and good human being Aaron Swartz, new video and a new way to bring life to his legacy of making the world a better place. Read the rest... New antibiotic hailed as a breakthrough Scientists have discovered a "breakthrough" antibiotic in a sample of New England dirt that has shown great promise in the laboratory. Read the rest... Charlie Hebdo will print 1 million copies of next issue instead of 60,000 as usual Surviving staff of the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo, announced they are going to print 1 million copies of the next issue, instead of the usual 60,000. Read the rest... Batmanga: Japan's 1960s parallel universe "New Look" Batman In the 1960s, DC comics rebooted its moribund Batman franchise with the "New Look" comics, where Batman returned to his scientific detective roots. Across the ocean, manga master Jiro Kuwata was tapped to interpret the superhero for a Japanese audience, in stark black-and-white, and made Batman into something remarkable, prescient and unmatched. Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga, DC is collecting, for the first time ever, the English translation of the Kuwata's full run. Read the rest... Tsukunejima: A Fantastic Dining Experience in Hiroshima When I visited Hiroshima, Japan with my family, I expected a lot of tough questions about the atomic bomb from my daughters. But I didn't expect to stumble upon one of the best restaurants I've ever eaten at. Read the rest... Intel earmarks $300m for workplace diversity Bravo, Intel! The chipmaker, after being spooked by adolescent misogynists into dropping ads at websites critical of gamer culture, is atoning in style: a $300m drive to support women and minorities in tech. Read the rest... WATCH: 'United 93' shaky cam clip, stabilized YouTuber rhotoscopic stabilized United 93 footage from the 2006 film, illustrating why shaky-cam is an often-used creative choice. Director Paul Greengrass faced several challenges with the film. Read the rest... FBI chief: "high confidence" that North Korea was behind Sony hack "They used proxy servers to disguise” the trail of evidence, Mr. Comey said. “But sometimes they got sloppy.” Read the rest... All you need to know about terrorizing people over cartoons is in this South Park clip Remember this? Yeah. Read the rest... WATCH: Film colorist's craft in before and after No Film School cites this excellent example of a film colorist's craft. Digital films often shoot in RAW format, giving more flexibility in post for dramatic color shifts. Read the rest... Impossibly imaginative food landscapes. Warning: don't look if hungry. You've been warned. Read the rest... How sound designers created Godzilla's roar This 45-minute video is a fun behind-the-scenes look at how sound designers created Godzilla's blood-curdling roars, and other terrible noises emitted by the monsters in Gareth Edwards's movie. Read the rest... FBI: NAACP bombing in Colorado was deliberate attack, possibly domestic terrorism "We are investigating all potential motives at this time and an act of domestic terrorism is certainly one possibility," said FBI spokeswoman Amy Sanders. Read the rest... Detained for 19 days: immigration checkpoint refusal gone wrong Long haul truck driver Greg Rosenberg was locked up for challenging agents at border patrol checkpoint in Texas. Read the rest... Anatomically-correct felted heart brooch: ultimate crafty hipster science-lover Valentine An adorably and anatomically correct felted miniature heart says "I love you" with biology. By crafter Hine, on Etsy. Read the rest... Downton Against Humanity: "Downton Abbey" stars play Cards Against Humanity "Here's what happens when Lady Edith, Mrs. Patmore, and Mrs. Hughes play a raunchy American card game." [YouTube/Entertainment Weekly] Read the rest... WATCH: NSFW "drone porn" genre, fetishizing surveillance society The NSFW "drone porn" genre is heating up as the devices are used more and more to film rooftop sunbathers, beachgoers, and people on private property. Read the rest...