Link roundup

1. It's 60% off posters at Zazzle with the code ZBDAYPOSTERS -- I recommend posters by Steve Thomas, Franco Brambilla, and Adam Koford.

2. Apparently there are 60,000 unsolved murders in Rio de Janeiro, and 24,000 victims haven't even been identified. Via.

3. An assertion that China will lose interest in the NBA with Yao Ming retiring. (It's certainly interesting that there's been no other Chinese players to make an impact in the NBA since him.) Via.

4. Portal to another world. And a similar photo from the same street.

5. Remastered children's books of questionable taste.

Link roundup

1. Bow and arrow used to send phones into Brazil jail. Via.

2. Venezuela is the murder capital of the world.

3. "While some complain it is unfair, district officials have decided that the ban on short skirts on girls does not apply to cheerleaders."

Special version of Clue based on The Office (link roundup)

The Office Clue Game is on sale at Entertainment Earth and Amazon. The description says, "The Office Clue game is the first and only Clue game that allows die-hard fans of The Office to experience one of Michael’s 'team building' events where each employee has to solve the mystery who murdered Toby with what office weapon and where it happened."

And a few more links:

1. Great story in Rolling Stone by David Kushner about blind phone phreaker Matthew Weigman. How's this sentence for describing a mysterious world:

He spent most of his time on party lines like Jackie Donut and Boston Loach, which teemed with lowlifes, phreakers and raunchy girls whom Weigman calls "hacker groupies."

Read on. Weigman's life story is as good as any comic book super villain's. Via.

2. And speaking of good sentences, in regards to a report that Venezuela is supporting Colombia’s largest rebel group, Thomas Barnett asks, "Does that mean we inevitably get it on kinetically with Venezuela?"

3. Homemade Snake Eyes mask with magnetic visor.

*Previously: Super Mario World board game concept.

*Buy board games cheap at eBay.

Photos of Chile's Chaitén volcano erupting AND creating lightning

The Daily Mail says:

As clouds of toxic ash and dust tower into the sky, they ionise the air, generating an explosive electrical storm. Colossal forks of lightning spark around the noxious plume as it spews from the volcano's crater, creating an image of raw, terrifying energy - as if the air itself were ablaze.

Now, the worst-case scenario is the collapse of the volcano accompanied by a "pyroclastic flow" - a devastating super-eruption of scorching dense gas and molten rock that would roll down the mountainside at 100mph or faster, incinerating and flattening all in its wake.

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