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Tattoo you

When tearing into a box of Crackerjacks as a child, who wasn't disappointed if the toy surprise didn't contain a tattoo? A show of keyboards, please"¦ Mankind, of course, has been fascinated with tattoos since Neolithic times, using body ink for everything from religious purposes to making personal artistic statements. But the ways in which we view tattoos hasn't changed much at all over the thousands of years we've been inking ourselves. Until now, that is. The... READ ON

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Greg Veis, YouTube Hunter: 3 Rock-Star Interviews that Turned into Train Wrecks

As a journalist -- okay, a "journalist" -- I take great schadenfreudic glee in seeing a peer get eaten alive by his interview subject. Whenever you talk to somebody for a story, you're always worried about whether the other person likes you, thinks you're smart enough, feels as if you have a strong enough grasp on the topic, et cetera, et cetera. And a good deal of the time you walk away with absolutely no idea of what the other person thinks of you. (Probably because they rightfully don't care enough to... READ ON

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The world's sharpest man-made object

Okay, that looks like a rasberry and theÂ last time I checked, rasberries are not sharp. But according to the American Institute of Physics, this is a field ion microscope image of a tungsten needle, the world's sharpest man-made object. So what are those little round ball-looking things? Those are individual atoms. Link via The Cellar Image of the Day... READ ON

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'Cause you see, he's on a losin' streak

Our friends at the Huffington Post recently turned us on to Smith magazine, where we found the following anecdote that was too good not to... READ ON

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Signs of the apocalypse, #2

"An incident involving a player swearing and a coach slapping the player has resulted in reprimands, apologies and a five-second delay for broadcasts of the Little League World... READ ON

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Colorful blob #2

This one's a little less colorful but equally blobby, and we still want to know what you think it depicts. We like the answers we've gotten so far; keep 'em... READ ON

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Apocalypse: then and now

"I was walking along a path with two friends when suddenly the sky turned blood-red "“ there were tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city "“ I stood there trembling with anxiety, and sensed an infinite scream passing through nature." Who can read Edvard Munch's willies-inducing description of his 1893 masterpiece, The Scream, without pausing to contemplate our own impending environmental apocalypse(s)? From the grotesque new strength of cyclonic storm... READ ON

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Signs of the apocalypse, #1

Spotted in a Sarasota grocery... READ ON

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It's not easy being green, especially if you're French

According to Time's European edition, the Frogs are taking on the frogs -- armed men are slipping through the night, hunting the not-nearly- elusive-enough North American bullfrog: [The species was] introduced to France in 1968 by a French aviator who liked the idea of the critters croaking in his garden. They're now an ecological menace. ... Weighing up to a kilo, these voracious predators gorge on crustaceans, fish, other frogs, salamanders and even the occasional bird. ... The park service has... READ ON