When I first glanced at this I thought a snake had been found with a foot in it’s stomach. I got up, made some coffee, and pondered that a little — even going so far as to imagine writing a post with a joke about Yao Ming and how they’d finally amputated his oft injured [...]

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The CPBL’s La New Bears released switch-hitting leadoff man Tim Raines Jr. in late May after just 15 games.
Apparently the Bears had had enough of Raines Jr.’s ideal leadoff production, and abruptly showed him the door. He was hitting .327 with a .367 on-base percentage and 11 steals in only 55 at bats, caught [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm4LOQWtrh0

I thought I’d seen it all at games….Randall Simon clobbering a giant wiener, Don Zimmer getting thrown aikido-style by Pedro Martinez, some extra curricular lovin’ in the bleachers.  But I have to admit this one was a first…the groundskeeper at [name edited by censors] stadium setting the pitchers mound on fire at the request of [...]

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The IBAF released a new set of world rankings Tuesday after the World Baseball Classic. And the winner is……Cuba! Congrats to the new champs.  Second place goes to Korea, and Japan finished a distand third.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApuszuPBKwo

I can’t believe it took me 33 years to catch on to this, but this weekend I was in a hotel with the fam and we stumbled across Japanese Women’s Extreme Pro wrestling on TV. This is more or less a must see if you haven’t seen it before.
Another facet of Japanese TV [...]

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Just when you think there may be one or two things left inconceivable by the human imagination, it turns out that reports of organ harvesting–especially of Falun Gong members–turns out to be real.
I saw a lot of Falun Gong protestors in Hong Kong and New York City, and always kind of dismissed them as wackos [...]

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From the AFP story: Woman arrested for calling Japanese police 7,177 times
Japanese police arrested a woman for making more than 7,000 emergency telephone calls because an officer did not take her initial complaint seriously, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The 38-year-old was arrested on Tuesday on charges of obstructing police work, a police spokesman in western [...]

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Don’t get me wrong, I was no fan of Jeorg Haider, but does anyone find this cartoon in yesterday’s Korea Times appropriate?

If Kim Jong-il were to die in a car crash  you’d be hard pressed to find anything approaching this in a Korean newspaper. Kim has been much more of a menace — not to [...]

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This is one of the more amazing things I’ve ever seen in a baseball game. What happens when a switch hitter takes on a switch pitcher?
Well, they switch gloves and sides of the plate, they get angry at each other, one of the managers comes out on the field, and the ump has no idea [...]

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Odd story here. Let’s start with the death of a Chinese woman in Guangzhou, China early this month. Local police believes she was a sex worker, but now it seems she may not have been.
Also in the room; three South Korean men working for an unnamed South Korean airline.  The woman, Tan Jing, 24,  was [...]

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 Simroid is a robot designed to help dental students improve on their patient communication skills. The  video below  is an interview with Dr. Naotake Shibui of the Nippon Dental University in Tokyo, who helped develop the Simroid.
According to the interview, Simroid is modeled after a 28-year-old woman, and her fear of dentists and [...]

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I probably shouldn’t get too far into the various reasons I like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOILokbSwAQ

From Pink Tentacle

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Damn the modern age. Here’s just one more example that robots are stealing jobs away from humans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jcstZbBTVA

I give you the Breast Massage Robot, developed by Beijing’s BUBBY Robot Technologies Co. The company is currently looking for investors by the way, citing the following attainable health benefits for women who purchase (or have one purchased — [...]

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Imagine the deep sense of honor and accomplishment felt by Manchester United marketing director Rob James as he’s presented with this framed gold-plated rendering of Man U midfielder Park Ji-sung’s feet by of Manchester United F&B Korea’s Kim Chi-gon.Put that right up on the mantle Mr. James.
Also, it should be noted that the Korean guy’s [...]

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Maybe this is the mysterious gyro ball Dice-K supposedly throws…  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jlCDsLmj-g

(From TV in Japan)

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Relax. Things Could Be Worse.

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