Made You Look

Interesting article about a pig who is afraid of dirt. via dailymail

Bloggers don’t get much of a break especially if they have an audience and expects some new content on the site everyday, sites such as Gizmodo and Techcrunch.

Even though I don’t work for any of those blogs I do admit that I get really tired and pressured of this one. Sometimes it feels like work other days I look forward on showing you guys cool things.

Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.

Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet.

Read more over at Times

In Mexico emo kids are targets for random violence and crazy mob action. The emo’s have been fighting back for their rights and it’s been starting riots. Read more about it on Time

A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers in front of the residence of Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry, Pakistan’s deposed chief justice. via Christian Science Monitor

This game is only in it’s early stages but already causing controversy.  There are even rumors that it’s going to be banned in the United States.The DS game deals with the holocaust and revolves around a young Jewish boy living in France under the Nazi occupation of WWII. In order to escape the atrocities around him, he imagines a fantasy world, in which the game is set. via worthplaying

There have been maid and cosplay cafes to entertain men.
Welcome to Tokyo’s first schoolboy cafe, the latest in a flurry of eateries in Japan where customers and waiters role play themes from strange erotic fantasies. I’m sure these waiters in school boy uniforms aren’t really underage. reuters

One of the smallest snail species on earth the partula rosea snail only about 200 of these little guys live in captivity. via dailymail

This is a picture of a thornback ray against the glass of an aquarium. What look like Its eyes are actually Its gills, still looks very cute. via dailymail

Nasreem Khan discoved these strange Aquilegia plant pods that look like shrunken skulls. The looked so detailed and real that they even came with tiny little teeth. dailymail

The dog shown is Conan, a eighteen month old long haired chihuahua that hangs out at the Shuri Kannon-do Temple in Naha City. According to the above video news report, it only took a priest at the temple two days to teach little Conan how to pray.
I have know idea if the dog actually know that it’s “praying” but it sure does look cute. via metro