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Sign of the times.. what used to be called stalking

college kid takes candid photos of another college student and posts them to a secret tumblr (blog). girl later finds out, does not call cops, interviews creeper for communications class. a few red flags going off, no?

(Source: kottke.org)

Single dose of 'magic mushrooms' hallucinogen may create lasting personality change, study suggests

CNN Sending Eight Times More Staff to Royal Wedding Than to Japan

read it and weep (for Japan and any hope for our nations future)

(Source: reddit.com)

9-eyes

this site has a collection of images taken from Google Street View. everything from illegal activities, to wildlife, to hand-gestures and mooning, to car crashes, to…

(Source: kottke.org)

Life's Too Short for the Wrong Job

these are not new, but this ad campaign is for the German job site, Jobsintown.de is clever.

Norway's tourism stimulation plan

creative way to promote architecture while also boosting tourism.

In 2005, Norway initiated a massive 15-year agenda to generate more tourism. The government turned to architects and designers to concept and build tourist routes and architectural rest stops to enhance the experience of the stunning Norwegian landscape.

this will give you a much better idea of how the destruction from a tsunami works than a few 5 second news clips. just when you think it has peaked, it gets much worse. 

This is the full raw footage filmed by some Japanese people on friday March 11th, 2011, during the tsunami which occured in northern Japan, following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake.

According to the video, it was filmed in the Miyagi Prefecture (宮城) in the city of Kesennuma (気仙沼市) which has 74,000 inhabitants.