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Not that you were wondering, but the best-selling eyepatches at Eyepatches.com apparently include the Hello Kitty model, a camouflage one for stealthy folk, and something called “rhinestone butterflies” for the Dame Edna in you. For the festive among you, there’s also a nice selection of 53 holiday-themed models.

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They totally should have given it to him.

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Much to the consternation of the poor woman who tried to teach me a British literature course in college, I never could get into Jane Austen. Still, I like to think I’ve done some growing since those years, and I think I’ve finally found an Austen novel that I can really sink my teeth into. [...]

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This is apparently an authentic ad for Microsoft’s Songsmith song-writing program, which I guess is supposed to compete with Apple’s less seizure-inducing GarageBand. If there’s a commercial out there that makes you want to incoherently spew obscenities more than this one, I haven’t seen it. Microsoft says: Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s [...]

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The quote of the day comes from Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan, who’s leading the GOP’s charge into social media: “We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today.” Is it just me, or does the phrase “do it in the Facebook” sound [...]

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From Harper’s Weekly A six-year-old boy and a five-year-old-girl were detained in Germany, on a train to the airport; they explained to police that they planned to fly to Africa to be married. The couple, disguised in sunglasses, had brought along several suitcases, a pink blow-up doll, swim fins, and the boy’s seven-year-old sister, who [...]

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Germany’s world-renowned Max Planck Institutes, whose science and technology researchers are among the world’s finest, accidentally printed an ad for a Chinese brothel on the cover of its latest journal. The Independent reports: There were red faces on the editorial board of one of Germany’s top scientific institutions, the Max Planck Institute, after it ran [...]

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Cracked.com features eight of the most pathetic exercises in futility in Guinness history. Featured record attempts include a mass fire-walking event, a fellow who attempted to break the sound barrier by free-falling from 34 kilometres up, and something called “smurfing.” Story via Mental Floss. Image via the Science Creative Quarterly at the University of British [...]

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With their country’s economy reeling, Britons in search of inexpensive pastimes are apparently shopping less and shagging more. The BBC reports: A YouGov survey of 2,000 adults found sex was the most popular free activity, ahead of window shopping and gossiping. The Scots were most amorous with 43% choosing sex over other pastimes, compared with [...]

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Surely it had nothing to do with the title of G&R’s new record. And since when do Chinese foreign affairs officials moonlight as music critics? The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reports: In a rare comment on rock’n’roll, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang dismissed the creative output of US rock band Guns N’ Roses [...]

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