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WATCH: American kids react to breakfasts from around the world American kids attempt to traditional breakfasts from Korea, Brazil, Finland, Vietnam, Poland, and Netherlands. Read the rest... SF week: Noise Pop Film with DEVO, Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs Next week, our friends at Noise Pop kick of the 16th year of their independent music, art, and culture festival in San Francisco, and this year's Noise Pop Film line-up is far fucking out. Read the rest... Beckett — a Quinn Martin Production "A short lived detective drama from 1972. Never caught on with the American public." Read the rest... Uncertainty over why rabbit prefers to walk on its front legs This bunny was one of many purchased by a Chinese zoo as live food for some of the animals it keeps. Read the rest... Man, jailed for 3 months, released after "drugs" turn out to be vitamins Minnesota cops pulled over Joseph Burrell for driving out of a grocery store parking lot without turning on his headlights. This led to a search of his car, where police found a bag of powder. Read the rest... Fair use: a guide for artists Pat from American University's Center for Media and Social Impact writes, "Can an artist use images from Facebook in her collage? Read the rest... Twitterbot generates North Korean patriotic slogans with Markov chains The 300 weird patriotic slogans that North Korea released last week had the stilted feel of machine-generated text. Now comes a limited Turing test for the ages: can Shardcore's @NK_Markov bot generate better patriotic slogans using Markov chains than Pyonyang's own propagandists? Read the rest... Video: 1980s teen movie montage Enjoy a moment of cinematic sentimentality through this montage of 1980s teen movie clips set to Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)," the title song from The Breakfast Club, the iconic film released thirty years ago this week. Read the rest... "Let's Learn Japanese": the 1984 language-teaching video series still holds up Foreign residents of Tokyo: have you ever run into Yan-san? If so, did you buy him a drink? I've heard that described as standard practice for anyone who began their lifelong Japanese language-learning odyssey with Let's Learn Japanese, a 1984 production of The Japan Foundation. Read the rest... "Bitter, Sweet, Seoul": a crowdsourced film that reveals life in the Korean megalopolis If any given person has seen Seoul on film, chances are they've seen it in a Korean blockbuster like Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, that tale of imprisonment, revenge, and elaborately plotted incest that earned Korea a not-especially-deserved reputation for "extreme cinema." They can see much, much more of the city in last year's Bitter, Sweet, Seoul, an hour-long film made by Park Chan-wook, his brother Park Chan-kyong (together they form the filmmaking unit known as PARKing CHANce), and 141 different contributors from all walks of life who submitted their own footage of Seoul. Read the rest... Radio Shack's happier days, when it sold $2495 cellphones I suppose one shouldn't make light of the dying, but Radio Shack, as moribund a nationwide retailer as they come, pretty much asks for it. Read the rest... Afrika Bambaataa Collaborates with James Brown and Johnny Rotten This week's Hip Hop Family Strip is of David Bowie/Bing Crosby proportions. By Ed Piskor Read the rest... Free NASA sounds (MP3s and ringtones) NASA offers a terrific collection of free MP3 sound files and M4R ringtones, from astronaut quips and greetings to the explosive liftoff of rockets to Sputnik's pulsing beep. Read the rest... Vaginal Photoplethysmograph and Penile Strain Gauge This Vaginal Photoplethysmograph, used to measure sexual arousal in women, is one of many unusual devices photographed by Sarah Sudhoff at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Read the rest... Listen: A chiptunes album by the Ninja Gaiden composer Keishi Yamagishi, aka the composer of the music for the original Ninja Gaiden, just released a chiptunes album that sounds like an alternate dimension soundtrack to the best NES game that never existed. Read the rest... Video: 2CELLOS play "Welcome to the Jungle" 2CELLOS shred classic Guns N' Roses. Read the rest... This Is The Police, a game about power and corruption "You can love the police, you can hate the police, but you can’t argue that the police wield enormous power," writes the team behind This Is the Police, a game currently in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign. Read the rest... The fastest way to find Waldo, courtesy of an algorithm People have been trying to find Waldo since 1987, and like any time-consuming endeavor, some of them have gone looking for a better, more efficient method. Read the rest... Eat the Rude: Hannibal Lecter meets the 99% The good doctor's tastes illustrate our insecurities about class. Here's what’s really on the menu in Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal Read the rest... Better Call Saul explores survival instinct in "Nacho" Jimmy and Mike find common ground in "Nacho", episode 3 of the Breaking Bad spinoff. Read the rest... The brilliant ideas and radiant visions of reclusive SF author Greg Egan There are no pictures of Greg Egan online, and his website has a disclaimer that while some of his more dedicated fans claimed to have tracked down a picture of the author, it’s not him. Read the rest... Jabberwocky in Nadsat John-Lewis translated Jabberwocky into Nadsat, the synthetic Russified English dialect spoken by the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange, starting with "Twas dobby and the chellovecks—" Twas dobby and the chellovecks— That’s Pete, George, Dim, and me, the boss— Did sit and drink some vellocet When came this great goloss “Beware the millicent, my droog! Read the rest... How to decapitate strawberries with the push of a button It didn't take me long to get the hang of the Stem Gem Strawberry Huller ($8), and once I did, I was able remove the stem and core of strawberries much faster than I could with a knife. Read the rest... NSA has ability to embed spying software in computer hard drives, including yours The agency can hide software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, reports Kaspersky Labs. Read the rest... “My pug hates my kisses” Keegan Osinski's dog doesn't care for her kisses. [Link] Read the rest... Watch this robot waiter attend to diners at a Chinese hot pot restaurant I'm not buying it. I think there's a very tiny person inside. Just like my iPhone. Read the rest... The best moments from the two-night premiere of Better Call Saul The task set before Better Call Saul is impossibly daunting. Can it join Breaking Bad in the pantheon of great TV? Read the rest... CIA bought and destroyed Iraqi chemical weapons during US occupation of Iraq The New York Times reports that the CIA purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller. Read the rest... Improved design for Delta Airlines "Disposal Bag" Drink to remember. Read the rest... Police questioning techniques make it easy to elicit false accusations Horrified psychologists discontinued a study into how police interrogation tactics can create unshakable false memories of crimes; but it turns out that police questioning tactics are even better at elicting false accusations of crimes that never even occurred. Read the rest...