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I just received a voicemail from Qais, who was appointed this week’s Toontwink via lottery, pleading, and feats of strength. The message was mostly garbled screaming, which I take to mean he’s still busy with his Flynn DeMarco sleepover or whatever.

Seeing as I am currently at my day job, dreaming about my real job, propped by a tripod fashioned of human femurs over a sweltering keyboard, this is really all we can afford: a casually perverse Japanese TV drama about a scorned woman who finds a beautiful young man half-dead in a cardboard box, and then, wait for it, drags him into her apartment.

Originally intended as a Japanese remake of the Seattle documentary film about my quest for Ectomo’s new writers (“Bughunter Q: Eliza Gauger and the Search for the New Scum)”, something is lost in the translation, here. But the essence, the geist of the tale is the same.

Please enjoy, with our compliments, the first episode of Kimi Wa Petto.

Some wars are timeless, their beginnings receding into the haze of aeons past. None are so bitter as the ages old feud between the regal unicorn and the gentle Monodon monoceros. Here, now, a final battle is to be fought, upon hallowed ground to which both claim as their birthright. Can anyone stop these two foes before the annihilate one another? Will Cecily and her trusty dragon-steed Windstar, make it in time to broker some sort of peace between these two? Why is Cecily’s boyfriend on a date with some other girl? The answer to these questions and more lie within Unicorn vs. Narwhal!

Unicorn vs. Narwhal [YouTube]

In the history of secret weapons programs and government cover-ups, none is so chilling as Germany’s Volkswaffe program. It was begun sometime before the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, under the guise of producing a cheap, reliable automobile for the common man. Instead, Ferdinand Porsche’s bulbous design was used in an effort to produce an agile, lightweight fighter car for use as an elite airborne unit in Hitler’s plans to bring Europe under his control; a squadron of death-dealing Herbies emblazoned with the Balkenkreuz.

Seen here for the first time are documents, declassified footage, and eyewitness accounts of an unknown chapter in German aerospace history, and a testament to the extent of Nazi ambition and hubris. For the first time, the story of those madmen who attempted to build a car that would touch the sky will be told; and hopefully those who would attempt the same will take note, lest history be repeated.

Volkswaffe: The Flying Cars of Nazi Germany [YouTube] : poetv

Yes. Yes, I’m pretty sure you’re doing it wrong.

Cthulhu Cosplayer [My Confined Space]

The Telegraph has a series of Digg/filler articles up, listing “The 100 ugliest cars of all time” — currently they have reached number twenty. The veracity of such a list is not something which I care to discuss, the subjective nature of such an endeavor making criticism moot. Surely, there are some truly hideous cars on this list, but there are also automobiles contained within that do not strike me as “ugly” per se.

The one vehicle that really stood out, however, was the Mohs Ostentatienne Opera sedan, a car who wore its luxurious absurdity on its sleeve. Powered by a truck engine, the car could only be entered from a large, rear hatch as the long, steel bars that ran the length of the car prevented the use of side doors, and the tires were filled with nitrogen. The name of the car refers to the extras one could request for the interior, including gold inlaid instrument panels, Ming style oriental rugs, and refrigerators.

Yet, while the Ostentatienne is nice, it pales in comparison to the Mohs SafariKar, perhaps the closest a car manufacturer has come to producing a real life Transformer.

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Now here is a simple, classic looking beverage container. 15 ounce stoneware cups, with an octopus silhouette in bas-relief. A worthwhile addition to any cephalopod-centric dining experience.

octopi cup [Supermarket] : core77 : Thanks, Spiraltwist!