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School is out and it’s a sort of a buzz. a back then I didn’t really know what it was. but now I see what have of this. the way that people respond to summer madness.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Deco-Gundam
Safe for Work? Yes
Just in time for the 30th anniversary festivities comes this girlie Gundam, a jewel-encrusted RX-78-2 (apparently created by a Taiwanese fan) looking pretty in pink and lace.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
The top ten train stations where you wouldn’t mind being delayed
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We have all spent more time than we care to remember in stations waiting for missed connections or delayed trains.
After the obligatory cup of watery tea and a stroll round WHSmith there is not much else to keep you entertained except huddling from the inevitable rain in the waiting room which, despite the ban, still has a hint of stale smoke.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Uniqlo to Fill the Fashion Gap!?
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The days when Gap commercials actually made a fashion statement have been over for quite sometime. Their designs have been stagnant, bland, have terrible cuts, and since designer jeans came into the picture, their denim rack simply ignored by the fashion-conscious. So who’s to save the the American retailer from fallin’ into the gap?
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Giant Gundam Gathers Gawking Geeks
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Embrace your inner geek - in Tokyo a life-size Gundam almost 60 feet tall has been revealed in all its glory.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Teen plane crash survivor ‘didn’t feel a thing’
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The father of a teenage girl who remarkably survived a plane crash off the Comoros islands has described how his daughter was ejected from the plane into the Indian Ocean.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Khmer Rouge survivor tells how painting saved his life
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One of only three remaining survivors of the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious prison has testified how his life was saved because of his skill at painting.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
China plan to censor all computers dropped
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China has backed down from a plan to install censorship software on all computers sold on the mainland.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Fancy Fast Food
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Fast food to look like fancy fine dining food.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Bagelheads? No, Not Fans of Poppyseed, But of the Latest Body Manipulation Trend
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Winner in the latest creepy new “beauty” trend has to be bagelheads. Let’s sooo hope the Japanese body modification trend of injecting saline drips into one’s body to form bagel shapes will not make it stateside.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
You’ve been Punk’d. Thailand-style.
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How hidden camera pranksters conquered Thailand’s box office.
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