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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
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…
What are the nation’s brides up to, these days? Having run out of ways to torture their friends and sisters with horrible dresses, the soon-to-be-married ladies are now forcing their bridesmaids to undress, for these tacky flesh-pile pictures. https://groupthink.kinja.com/bridal-party-boudoir-shots-are-a-thing-1169774872
There’s nothing like the way the air smells after a desert thunderstorm. It seems so clean. Connoisseurs tend to breathe in as much as they can. But what exactly are they breathing, anyway? Oh, just something that can do “terrible damage to the lungs, splitting open cells and causing them to leak enzymes.” [Photo by…
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…
Marijuana isn’t legal everywhere yet, but kids everywhere would like to try marijuana. One way to virtually experience getting high is to play the new car-stealing video game called Grand Theft Auto. Sources just confirmed that this game lets you pretend to smoke pot and have sex. https://kotaku.com/you-can-smoke-pot-in-gta-v-according-to-official-ratin-1173843764
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
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
The unstoppable Minecraft sensation is coming to Sony’s new PlayStation game console, because every kid from 2 to 20 wants the blocky multiplayer mining game and they want it on everything: iPhones, tablets, computers, even dad’s musty old PS3. https://kotaku.com/minecraft-coming-to-ps4-at-launch-1172999872
Russia is not America’s pal. Politically, there are disputes over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s temporary asylum in Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s autocratic government. But the issue that’s really souring U.S.-Russian relations is the same issue that’s still dividing America: gay rights. [Photo of Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova kissing in protest of Russia’s…
A legal website used by attorneys to privately discuss case law is shutting down after 10 years because the owner no longer feels the site’s users are protected from government spying. After federal threats led to the closure of several secure email providers, the publisher of Groklaw closed her own operation last night, saying she…
Is your hair driving you crazy? Be thankful you aren’t this lady, who has hair so long it could be used as a rope to climb up a four-story building. What made this Atlanta resident decide to quit getting haircuts back when Ronald Reagan was president? https://jezebel.com/meet-the-woman-with-55-foot-long-dreadlocks-1169935017
“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
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…
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…
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,…
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
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
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
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
