I saw something on the way to campus today that honestly made me question how some people survive as long as they do, while being as utterly stupid as they are. I was driving down Mt. Hope Rd., one of the main roads in my town, when I noticed a pickup truck with an SUV-style hardtop cover a few cars up. In the back pickup bed sat a medium-sized dog, looking confused and uncomfortable as he tried to maintain his balance sitting up. More

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Teacher Ate SD Card after Allegedly Photographing Up a Woman’s Skirt [Crime]: Kotaku

On May 12, a 54 year-old junior high school teacher spent the evening at anime shop, Animate, in Osaka’s geek district, Den Den Town. More »

I used to love putting together domino rallies as a kid. But I never attempted anything this ballsy.

30,000 Dominoes Collapsed to Bring you This Insane Nintendo Video [Video]: Kotaku

It’s hypnotic. So many dominoes. So many Nintendo icons being made out of dominoes doing nothing but lining up then falling over. More »

Thanks to the Patriot Act, none of us Rochester residents knew that Kodak had a nuclear reactor hidden deep in the depths of its Rochester campus, no doubt a key component of their diabolical LIVEPrint Printer series.

UnEasyshare: Kodak’s now-defunct, Rochester-based nuclear reactor: Engadget

Ready for this unsettling Kodak moment? It seems the one-time imaging powerhouse held a decades-long secret deep in a bunker below Building 82 on its Rochester campus. The now vacant facility, a concrete-shielded chamber built in 1974, was once home to a californium neutron flux multiplier (CFX) or, in layman’s terms, a small nuclear reactor as recently as six years ago. Certainly, that’s not the technology one would normally associate with an outfit built on the foundations of photography, but according to recently released documents, its three and a half pound store of enriched uranium was used primarily for neutron radiography — an imaging technique — and chemical purity testing. The site’s long been shut down and the radioactive material in question carted off with federal oversight, but for denizens of that upstate New York territory, alarming news of the reactor’s existence has only just surfaced. Before you cast Kodak the evil side eye, bear in mind post-9/11 policies forbade the company from making the whereabouts of its small reactor widely known, though earlier scientific studies did make reference to the CFX’s existence. It’s an eye-opening glimpse into the esoteric machinations of private industry and the deadly dangers that lurk below your feet.

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I have been a poor college student for several years now. How little disposable income do I have? I went to my first full-price movie in almost a year last night (The Avengers, of course), because I had won a raffle for a gift card at work. So when it comes to buying presents for loved ones, I’ve had to get creative. For example, since I haven’t been able to afford anything really worth getting my mom for Mother’s Day (and even if I could, most of the money I’d spend would come from her anyway), I’ve instead hit on the idea of putting to work my increasingly valuable skills I’ve learned as a result of her sending me to college in the first place. As a result, I’ve given her a present worth more, both in cash and in sentimental value, than most other kids at the same point in their life as I am. More