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Found something really cool while reading pink tentacle, where clouds have formed in to "streets", cunningly named Cloud Streets. Apparently its not a rare occurance, but its pretty rare to get a photo that so clearly displays them. This shot was taken just off the coast of Hokkaido.

Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.

hahahahaha! Thats just so good. Gives "sheepdog" a whole new meaning. The article goes on to say how the general lack of sheep in Japan aided the scam, since many Japanese don't know what a sheep looks like... oh come on!



The best part is that the scam was discovered when a Japanese movie star, Maiko Kawamaki, went on a talk show wondering why her poodle wasnt barking or eating dog food!!! Can you imagine! Need to get this footage, links in the comments please!

She was crestfallen when told it was a sheep.

Now I dont even know what crestfallen means, but it sounds pretty damn hilarious! Following the show, hundreds of women called the police fearing the worst of their own new "poodle".

One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.

"became suspicious" - not "they realised it was in fact a fucking sheep", just became a bit suspicious!!!

So if you're living in Sapporo, you just bought a new poodle, you're completely retarded and your dog is a farm animal... it might be time for you to become a little suspicious.

A great story found by bhappy.

Pink Tentacle says: Most octopi squirt thick clouds of black ink to confuse predators. This video from a Japanese TV quiz show, however, shows a type of Tremoctopus, or blanket octopus (murasakidako in Japanese), employing a different technique. The video explains that when threatened, the octopus unfurls a giant sheet of webbing that trails behind like a cape. The webbing breaks apart rather easily when attacked — much like a lizard’s tail — and it gets wrapped around the predator’s face, giving the octopus a chance to flee.

Since oil and water don't mix, these fish can live 5 to 10 years under a deep fryer! The video apparently describes a new kind of oil that doesn't explode when combined with water. Food in a fryer usually gives off little drops of water that splatter everywhere. This new kind of oil limits splatter and allows the water to flow into a lower basin...



(via Consumerist)

Keisuke Kishi has a nice website of pre-"Spirited Away" art, including 360 degree views around this and other sculptures.



"Ministry of Mystic Machines" is a collection of Japanese style figurative art work which are set in the imaginary world of alternate reality that is much like the Edo period. (Japan,the early 17th century to the middle of 19th century.)


His "Piratto" sculpture kinda looks like that ice fish they just found in Antarctica, doesn't it?

Most of what I post on here is light hearted and funny. This is not. I could not keep the feelings away that someone should do to these "fishermen" what they do to the dolphins. On top of that, they are poisoning the Japanese people with meat that is exptrememly high in mercury. It will not be logn before Japan has killed all its dolphins. Things like this make me wish I was a trained sniper.

Read the article at Japan Times