What the heck is wrong with Japanese people? They made a pizza with hot dogs in the crust.

In Asbury Park, New Jersey:

The Associated Press

BARNEGAT, N.J. – It’s the case of the nonexistent ninja. Public schools in Barnegat were locked down briefly after someone reported seeing a ninja running through the woods behind an elementary school.

Turns out the ninja was actually a camp counselor dressed in black karate garb and carrying a plastic sword.

Police tell the Asbury Park Press the man was late to a costume-themed day at a nearby middle school.

The lockdown began shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday and lasted until 9:30.

It’s beer for astronauts, and Sapporo is going to brew it with barely grown in space (or at least from the lineage of space barley).

So Sapporo is going to brew about 100 bottles of the stuff which will only be available to astronauts on the space station.

The question is will NASA allow them to drink it?

And what does a hangover feel like at 0 gravity?

Customs officials at Narita Airport were doing a test of their ability to find drugs. They put 142 grams of marijuana in a passengers bag as it was coming off the plane and let the drug sniffing dogs loose to try and find it. The problem is the dogs couldn’t find the weed and the guy who planted it forgot which bag he put it in. Doh!

I’d like to see the passengers face when he/she opens that bag and finds a big sack of weed sitting there.

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SNL did a Japanese version of the popular US television show “The Office”. What do you guys think about this? I thought it started out really funny but then kind of creeped me out towards the end.

View the video here (it’s a flash video at hulu.com)

Takashi Murakami’s life sized hentai action figure has sold for $15,161,000 according to Sotheby’s website.

The piece of part of his show currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum. I went to see it a couple of weeks ago and it’s a really fun show.

A picture of the piece is below (NSFW):

It’s not completely off topic, there’s sushi.

I’m a big fan a fuel cells and I was excited to hear that 2200 homes in Japan are now using fuel cells to generate electricity.

The Japanese government is strongly supporting this fuel cell technology. So much so that it has earmarked $309 million a year for fuel cell development and plans for 10 million homes–about one-fourth of Japanese households–to be powered by fuel cells by 2020.

According to this stupid website, Japan is #58 on the list of things white people like.

Here I am thinking I like Japan for the culture and the people, and now I find out I’m actually predispositioned to liking it!

(Thanks Dave Chappelle)