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POPSGeoducks - Tasty but Strange "Treat them with respect. They'll outlive any of you - they get up to 160 years old . It's the second longest-living organism on Earth (after giant tortoises, which can live almost 200 years). As they grow, they accumulate rings on their shell, much like a tree does."
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POPSFive Centuries of Board Games Except where noted, all these board game prints were sourced from the British Museum Prints Database - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/advanced_search.aspx
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POPSThe 2 cutest Darths The other costumes at the source are your typical grown-up costumes. Princess Vader is just too cute not to clip.
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POPSThumb novels: Mobile phone fiction more (at source): Astronomically popular, "thumb novels" are much decried as trash for yahori ("slow learners"). But over the past few years this trashy subculture has stormed Japanese commercial book publishing. In 2007 – keitai shosetsu's annus mirabilis – half of the top 10 fiction bestsellers in the shrinking Japanese book market originated on cellphones. Last autumn, a literary grandee joined in. Jakucho Setouchi, the Marguerite Duras of Japan, revealed herself as "Purple", the author of a keitai shosetsu about a teen's search for love entitled Tomorrow's Rainbow. Setouchi is also a celebrated 86-year-old Buddhist nun who wrote a contemporary update of The Tales of Genji, Japan's racy classic.
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POPSAppeals Court Backs Prison for E-Mail Obscenity Whorley was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, in part for possessing genuine child pornography. But the Justice Department — perhaps sensing a chance to smuggle bad law onto the back of an unsympathetic defendant — also charged Whorley for having unsavory manga under the recently-enacted Protect Act, which outlaws obscene cartoons depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. While this is admittedly an unusually despicable character, the courts should not be able to use censorship as the basis for imprisonment. This is clearly the criminalization of thought, and it sets a dangerous precedence. Another aspect of this is that this legal system slaps the wrist of drunk drivers who have killed someone and then sends another person to prison for 20 years for photos and words. Unbelievable.
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POPSEuropean Decadence. For Big Boys, only!!! Sorry, no violence. Or violent games either. If anyone has difficulty with their eye sight after view these image, then please let me know. I know someone who will come around and fix you permanently. Ladies, there is one for you too, soon.