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A smattering of weird things you should read/watch/think about:

1.) “I Survived a Japanese Game Show”: The first entry is the most recent: I just found it 5 minutes ago! Sure, it has a lot of stupid American “reality” junk on it, but in its defense it boasts a.) the host from “Unbeatable Banzuke,” b.) lots of hypercolor graphics and audience shouting; and c.) some pretty bizarre games. The one I just watched was called “Squishy Squid Face;” the one embedded below is an elegantly simple challenge called “Bonk.” (Rest of the best after the jump.)

2.) It may be healthy, but I’m not biting: Over at Time magazine, humorist Joel Stein has a great take on a practice I’d never heard of until today: Moms eating their new baby’s placenta?

There is so much you can’t know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta. … So when Cassandra told me that for $275, a woman would come to our house, cook Cassandra’s placenta, freeze-dry it and turn it into capsules to help ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply, I said, “$275 is a bargain compared with the $20,000 I’ll have to spend to tear out our kitchen immediately afterward.”

Amazing! Fact: I found out hours after first reading this that a friend of mine (who shall remain nameless) ate “stir-fried placenta” as a child growing up on a “hippy commune.” His words, not mine! Anyway, I think this would make a great challenge on “I Survived a Japanese Game Show.”

3.) To stick with the human body for the moment: John Schwenkler, a paleoconservative blogger whose thoughts are far more interesting than mine, spins off a topic brought up at The Atlantic (which is by far my favorite magazine): namely, the idea of kidney donors being paid for their, uh, donations. He thinks (and is probably right) that his view is in the minority:

[N]otwithstanding the obviously weird and potentially problematic aspects of open markets in human organs I can’t shake the conviction that carefully experimenting – at the state level, please – with the legalization of such markets and the establishment of other financial incentives to encourage organ donation is absolutely the right thing to do. …  I’m willing as ever to be reasoned with, so fire away.

Please, though, make your objections more forceful than “Allowing people to do X for money might lead people who need money to do X”.

If this type of thing interests you, make sure to read through the comments.

4.) And then there’s this:

Click it. It’s worth it.

]]> http://in3rds.com/blog/2009/07/out-of-the-blue-awards-weird-wednesday/feed/ 7 http://in3rds.com/blog/2008/07/fox-news-really/ http://in3rds.com/blog/2008/07/fox-news-really/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:37:37 +0000 R. Justin http://rjustin.wordpress.com/?p=185 In case you haven’t seen this yet, and in case you seriously think that they’re truly “Fair and Balanced.” This is something that would get your can kicked right out of journalism school, trust me. See if you can spot alll the differences! Answers below. (Note: I’ve linked a Media Matters video, although I think that organization is a bit biased itself, simply because I couldn’t find an embeddable version of the piece from MSNBC, where I initially found out about this.)

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ANSWERS: In picture 1, the eyes have been darkened, teeth yellowed, the chin has been enlarged, as has the nose, the eyebrows thickened slightly. In picture 2, the eyes darkened, teeth yellowed, hairline receded and head enlarged.