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What are these incredible red lights in the sky?

Of you look close enough and for a long enough time, you will see this uncanny and extremely rare lights in the sky. They are called red sprites. What are they? https://gizmodo.com/ethereal-photos-capture-rare-red-lightning-phenomenon-1177809208

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A free Mario game for iPhone or Android would actually suck

Many iPhone and Android owners dream of having the Nintendo classics for their touch gadgets, but as this Kotaku article demonstrates, a Mario game reinvented for touch screen only will be really terrible. Especially if it’s free. https://kotaku.com/the-horror-if-super-mario-bros-3-was-made-in-2013-for-1168392829

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Millions of unemployed Chinese college graduates live in “ant colonies”

Every year, China puts out millions of college graduates who can’t find jobs. Without any possibility to have a house of their own, they go to live into huge compounds—often underground—where they share rooms and bunk beds. They call them the “ant tribes.” https://kotaku.com/a-look-into-the-homes-of-chinas-ant-tribe-1107163431

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The Orion 8: Some of these men and women will go to Mars

Some of these eight men and women will go to Mars and land on an asteroid for the first time in the history of humankind. Through rigorous tests, NASA selected them from 6,100 candidates to plan and carry the next space missions beyond Earth orbit. We can call them the Orion Eight, after the new…

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Man’s half face is forever young after getting hit by particle beam

Forget about botox or plastic surgery: if your face gets hit by a high energy particle beam—and you survive the event—your face will stay forever young. This is what happened to physicist Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, the only person ever to put his head in an active particle accelerator. It happened to him 19 years ago…

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Dead direwolf actually lives a happy life with Game of Thrones’ actress

One of the first What the hell is going on? *vomit* moments of Game of Thrones is when Ed Stark has to kill her daughter’s puppy direwolf by order of the evil Queen. In real life, however, Lady got to live a happy life with the actress who plays Sansa Stark. https://gizmodo.com/sansa-starks-actress-adopted-her-real-life-direwolf-1166195026

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This is the safest car ever made (surprise: it’s American!)

The safest car ever is not a Volvo, a BMW or a Mercedes. It’s a car made in California: the Tesla Model S. It actually broke the safety scale. America, fuck yeah. https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-is-the-safest-car-ever-produced-1171606291

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Mike Tyson wins first combat in a decade—against his own Nintendo game

“Pum! Pum! Pum! Oh, up your ass, dude! Take this! take this!” That’s Mike Tyson winning his first combat since 2001, playing his own Nintendo game for the first time. Look at him—he’s just like a little kid with a new toy. So cute. https://kotaku.com/watch-mike-tyson-play-mike-tysons-punch-out-for-the-f-1170599272

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Terrible accident of a truck jumping over guardrail caught on video

Rich kids Instagramming their ostentatious antics, killers Facebooking photos of victims, and now people using Vine to trivialize terrible accidents. This all-connected all-singing all-vomiting world just gave us a new pearl today. Alex Stack was using Vine to capture the precise instant in which a truck jumps over an overpass’ guardrail into the abyss, then…

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The only seven cases in which it’s ok to accept a pay cut

Lifehacker has an excellent case guide on when it is ok to accept a pay cut in your new job. At the end, however, the best advice is that anything that will make you have a happier life is the right thing to do. If that’s a pay cut and less money to spend, so…

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Which little Game of Thrones’ actor gets replaced next season?

Fear not, they are not swapping Peter Dinklage for Warwick Davis in the role of Tyrion Lannister (thankfully, as he’s the best of the series!) This one belongs to the house Baratheon. Prince Tommen Baratheon, now played with Callum Wharry on the left, will be interpreted by Dean-Charles Chapman on the right. Apparently, says io9,…

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The Xbox One games that you will be able to buy this holiday season

Kotaku got the list of games that you will be available when the Xbox One—the next generation console by Microsoft—launches, just in time for the Holiday shopping season. https://kotaku.com/here-are-the-xbox-ones-launch-games-1170844581

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Freudian slip: Putin’s army gets all gay and wonderful

Unlike their female relay runners kissing on the mouth, these rainbow-painted Russian Army tanks are just a happy mistake. Sadly, almost nobody—especially the military—is celebrating the gay cause in a fascist country that is actively prosecuting LGBT people. https://jalopnik.com/a-sexually-confused-russia-paints-its-tanks-rainbow-col-1168035698

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Jesuschrist! Look at this goddamn carnivorous caterpillar from hell

Good god, how did evolution get to this horrible creature, this demonic caterpillar “that eats living flesh”? Everything about it is repugnant, the kind of stuff you could only imagine in horror movies and videogames. https://gizmodo.com/a-guide-to-the-ravenous-hellbeast-that-is-the-carnivoro-1032957256

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Did you play Tetris when you were a kid? Then you won’t believe this

Can you clean 40 lines of Tetris in 19.68 seconds? I can’t, but look at this guy breaking the 20-second barrier for the first time ever. The last time the world was so amazed was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. It’s so freaking insane that this cat is freaking out. https://kotaku.com/this-incredible-20-second-tetris-game-must-be-seen-to-b-1167881897

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Who the hell would buy a gold iPhone but a Russian street crook?

Like a terrible winter, the gold iPhone is coming. Multiple sources have confirmed that Apple’s next toy will be available in gold. Not real gold, but fake gold-colored aluminum. They will look like 1980s cigarette cases! Would you buy one of these garish things? Unless you’re someone pretending to be rich in Russia, China or…

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Which music star says she’s being stalked by a creepy famous gossiper?

This lady told this guy: “STAY AWAY FROM ME + MY FAMILY YOU ARE SICK TRYING TO RENT AN APARTMENT IN MY BUILDING TO STALK ME. LEAVE ME ALONE!!!” https://jezebel.com/lady-gaga-accuses-perez-hilton-of-stalking-as-their-feu-1165668091

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Thai university uses the most ridiculous anti-cheating device

Look at these poor students taking an exam at a university in Thailand: a paper headband with two paper sheets stapled to each side so they couldn’t look at the next desk during exams. It’s been a scandal in the country because people find it humiliating—understandably. https://kotaku.com/these-anti-cheating-hats-make-me-sad-1165692137

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Man hacks Zuckerberg’s Facebook to show how much his security sucks

A Palestinian man hacked into Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to demonstrate how much its security sucks. This happened after his efforts to communicate the access hole were snubbed by the company’s security team on numerous occasions. The result of the hacking was innocuous, but a lot of people are going to get chastised at Facebook’s headquarters…

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How can anti-gay bigots be so pathetic and infuriatingly dumb?

Kinja user Kseth works at the Target store in Fargo, North Dakota. A few weeks ago he witnessed an absurd event starring an anti-gay Christian customer and a fellow employee regarding Target’s gay marriage cards. Pathetic. Sad. Dumb—all those adjectives apply. Have a good story for Kinja’s front page? Submit your Kinja post here. https://criticalhitrecords.kinja.com/woman-protests-target-selling-gay-marriage-greeting-car-1156124792

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What are these incredible red lights in the sky?

A free Mario game for iPhone or Android would actually suck

Millions of unemployed Chinese college graduates live in “ant colonies”

The Orion 8: Some of these men and women will go to Mars

Man’s half face is forever young after getting hit by particle beam

Dead direwolf actually lives a happy life with Game of Thrones’ actress

This is the safest car ever made (surprise: it’s American!)

Mike Tyson wins first combat in a decade—against his own Nintendo game

Terrible accident of a truck jumping over guardrail caught on video

The only seven cases in which it’s ok to accept a pay cut

Which little Game of Thrones’ actor gets replaced next season?

The Xbox One games that you will be able to buy this holiday season

Freudian slip: Putin’s army gets all gay and wonderful

Jesuschrist! Look at this goddamn carnivorous caterpillar from hell

Did you play Tetris when you were a kid? Then you won’t believe this

Who the hell would buy a gold iPhone but a Russian street crook?

Which music star says she’s being stalked by a creepy famous gossiper?

Thai university uses the most ridiculous anti-cheating device

Man hacks Zuckerberg’s Facebook to show how much his security sucks

How can anti-gay bigots be so pathetic and infuriatingly dumb?

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