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Is this surprising? I don’t know.

The brave souls who dare to enter Bangkok’s chain of Hajime restaurants can place orders on touchscreens, and in return watch a lanky humanoid deliver the dishes, followed by some slick dance moves if its not too busy serving others. Oh, don’t worry, these samurais are tied to a track so they can barely reach you, plus you get to cook your own food in the style of Shabu-Shabu (Japanese hot pot) or BBQ, so enjoy your freedom before they take over your cooking as well.

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I throw business cards away too, just not with this precision.

This video of little boy crying after dad says he shouldn’t sing along to Beyonce’s “All the Single Ladies” is pretty cute.

Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive. Here’s his answer:

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Seriously? Online dating is bigger than porn? Wow.
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Meet Makmende. Kenya’s biggest blogosphere sensation and most dangerous Chuck Norris challenger to date. People in Kenya are saying things like:

• They once made a Makmende toilet paper, but there was a problem: It wouldn’t take shit from anybody.
• The world is not ending because Makmende killed The Antichrist.
• Makmende is the only guy who can drink boiling chai from a sufuria.

Learn why they’re saying these things by watching the video below:

See an article about the phenomenon written by Africa blogger Ethan Zuckerman.

“Cunning, clever, conniving, and creative,” as one prosecutor would call him, Blanchard eluded the police for years. But eventually he made a mistake. And that mistake would take two officers from the modest police force of Winnipeg, Canada, on a wild ride of high tech capers across Africa, Canada, and Europe. Says Mitch McCormick, one of those Winnipeg investigators, “We had never seen anything like it.”

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And there it was: In a cavernous room, in an alarmed case, behind bulletproof glass, on a weight-sensitive pedestal — a delicate but dazzling 10-pointed star of diamonds fanned around one monstrous pearl. Five seconds after laying eyes on it, Blanchard knew he would try to take it.

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Whoever caught this probably took a lot of pictures:

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