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Police in Vietnam may have done this man a favor when they pulled him over, as it appears that he could stand to be protected from himself. Officers in Hanoi discovered sacks containing 53 venomous King Cobras in the car, each one of the large snakes having enough venom to be deadly. Apparently this was a risk he was willing to take for a payoff of less than $50.

Some consider cobra meat to be a delicacy in Vietnam and the man, who has not been named, was transporting them for the black market when he was arrested. The snakes, which can grow up to 18ft long, were taken to a local wildlife refuge where they were treated and released into the wild.

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Cool, edgy parents who hold their babies with one hand have been observing for years that infants are like drunk people. They can barely hold their heads up! They’re always bursting into tears! They’re steady tryin' to suck on titties in public! Now, New Yorkers have found a way to make their children even more like drunk people: They’re teaching them to pee on the street.

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Don't let its clear color fool you — this is no typical moonshine. Inspired by the white whiskey distilled by founder Jacob Beam, Jim Beam Jacob's Ghost White Whiskey ($22)...

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The Frederick Douglass Bridge became stuck in the open position during routine testing this weekend. [ more › ]

Wanna buy an expensive Tesla electric car? Good luck finding one in Virginia. [ more › ]

Demanding a hefty raise and a fair chance to form a union, workers in Chicago’s growing fast food and retail sectors plan to walk off the job Wednesday morning. The one-day walkout begins at 5:30 a.m. Central Time, and organizers expect 500 workers from a dozen chains to participate. The work stoppage follows similar strikes by New York City fast food workers and by Wal-Mart retail employees across the country, and marks the latest escalation in the struggle between an embattled labor movement and two industries that increasingly dominate and define the new economy.

“At the end of the day,” Macy’s employee Krystal Maxie-Collins told Salon, “it feels like I’ve done all of this to help everyone else, to help the store, help the managers, help the customers, but it doesn’t feel like anyone is looking out for me.” Maxie-Collins, a mother of four who works part-time for the state minimum wage of $8.25 plus a commission, said she had initially been hesitant about the strike because of the risk of retaliation. But “what we are fighting for, the reason for doing it, kind of overrode the fear of doing it.” “Usually the things that are worth it,” she added, “you have to sacrifice for.”

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In recent months scrutiny has intensified over the involvement of Chinese companies in US networking infrastructure, and as a result Huawei announced it's through trying to crack the market. Financial Times quotes VP Eric Xu saying that it is "not interested in the US market anymore" after years of efforts to count US operators among its customers. Ranked as the world's #2 telecom equipment maker, it's now recalibrating sales expectations for the next few years down to $10 billion by 2017 from the $15 billion it projected in more optimistic times. Reuters reports Xu didn't answer questions about any expansion of its handset business, so while Europe may be looking forward to new phones, we doubt the A199 is coming over here.

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Some super lucky people win cars, and some win money, while the rest of us are happy to win a jar of jellybeans for guessing how many there are. And then there's this guy: "Pedro" from Brazil (the only information given about him) won a trip to space today, and all he had to do was guess how high in the atmosphere a balloon got before it burst. More »

  A former congressional staffer is opening a new grocery store specializing in regionally sourced foods in the location of the former "Secret Safeway." [ more › ]

Okay, so the official description "inspired by the costumes designed by Catherine Martin for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby" might not inspire confidence, but seeing yourself in the Brooks Brothers...

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All pretty young things eventually require face-lifts to stay fresh. And the same goes for car models too, which in the SUV's case means a total body lift. Mercedes-Benz is planning to do just that to the category, with an official unveiling of its Concept GLA premium compact SUV planned for the Shanghai Auto Show next week. The sportier, "more coupe-like" vehicle has a 208-horsepower four-cylinder turbocharged gas engine, 7-speed dual clutch automatic transmission, 4Matic all wheel drive and -- wait for it -- headlamps with laser projectors. Oh yes, really. Despite what you may think, the laser light show isn't all just for neat tricks, though you can display any photos or video compatible (shared via phone, hard drive or the wild interwebs) with the car's in-dash COMAND system. No, there's a practical purpose that prompted Mercedes-Benz' German engineers to include the feature: a real-time navigation overlay. And lest we forget, there's one last scintillating tidbit of this concept car's posh perspective. It also features 65-feet of hand-stitched interior leather. We believe the correct response you're searching for is: !#$&%. And we'd agree.

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Use body language to appeal to her limbic brain!© Charles Rodstrom

We all know (and secretly hate) someone who constantly scores upgrades and special perks through nothing more than charm and finesse. I have never been one of those people. Now there is hope for the rest of us. It turns out that you can use your eyebrows, clothes, and even your annoying relatives, to your advantage in getting preferential treatment.

Mark Bowden is a body language expert, and in a video just released by FlightNetwork.com he gives tips on how get an upgrade on your flight by tapping into the subconscious minds of airline employees. He shares his expertise on the most convincing fake smiles, why you might want your hairstyle to be at odds with your outfit, and ways that you can finally benefit from the irritating travelling companions you’ve been saddled with.

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Seeing TNGHT live is a disorienting experience; you don't know whether to dance or lay down and let the whole thing flatten you like a steamroller. In other words, it's the type of show that's perfect for the festival experience, and since it's festival season and the mighty duo of Hudson Mohawke and Lunice are heading to Coachella soon, it makes sense that they'd want to drop a new tune as a teaser for the mayhem that will surely ensue.

A facet of TNGHT's work is that you can imagine rappers jumping on their slamming tracks (and we've already heard a few examples of that occurence, too). "Acrylics" is a bit different, then, as it ditches the trunk-rattling minimalism of last year's excellent self-titled EP and goes all-in on the special effects-- we're talking Clash of the Titans drums, lemon-puckered synths, tons of tangled shouting, and what sounds like a baby gurgling at one point, because these guys have a sense of humor, too. Regardless of what you wish to call TNGHT's planet-destroying sound, "Acrylics" proves that, at this point, they're operating in their own lane.

TNGHT: "Acrylics" on SoundCloud.

Perhaps after wading through one too many bleach bypass photos of someone's scooter, a trio of Swedish developers thought an Instagram-like app would be an ideal way to sell such things. To wit, they developed Osom, an iPhone app that pays homage to the social shooter in concept as well as design by letting you create photos with a variety of filters, price them and put them up for sale. Other users can find your artwork by following you, filtering by geography, watching a global feed or seeing it on Facebook via a cross-posting option. To buy a photo, they'll need to contact you directly through the app, as there's no built-in payment option. According to TNW, the team hopes to keep images in the feed beautiful and upscale, though so far the selection isn't curated -- and we saw a fire extinguisher and other run-of-the-mill goods alongside vintage dresses, antiques and the like. Osom will eventually include "featured" and "Osom'd" ads to make money, so if you want to enjoy the unsullied version while it lasts, hit the source to grab it.

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Source: Osom (iTunes)

While the tech press was obsessively covering the onslaught of Ultra HD TVs and uncovering unlicensed celebrity headphones at CES 2013, the mainstream media were fawning over a fork. Now HAPIfork, the "smart" utensil with an altruistic mission and a healthy helping of tech baked in, is taking to Kickstarter for funding -- albeit two months later than originally reported. Starting today, the first 2,500 backers can get their hands on the Bluetooth-equipped fork for $89, with subsequent backers pitching in $99 for a device. Those who want to get in even earlier on the action can give $300 for a chance to be part of the beta program. The overall goal -- aside from getting you to masticate at a reasonable clip -- is set for $100,000 with fundraising ending May 31st. Devices are expected to ship to backers in Q3 and hit unspecified retail locations in the US and EU in Q4 this year.

We got our hands (and mouths) on a prototype that HAPILABS president Andrew Carton referred to as 95 percent final. To find out how our lunch with the vibrating fork (and the Ahi Tuna) went down, check out our impressions after the break.

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Drinking makes for awesome nights but terrible mornings. Why? Because alcohol evaporating from your body makes your throat feel forever in need of water, your brain's wrinkles feel non-existant and your life being questioned by yourself because of your own drunk decisions. Hangovers, man. What do you do to cure a hangover? Drink more? Eat pho? Anything bacon? This infographic shows what different countries do to cure a hangover. More »

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Successful online scrapbook Pinterest boasts 48 million users. But 83 per cent are women. Manteresting.com allows users to 'nail' pictures on to a virtual 'workbench'.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' fourth album, Mosquito, is coming out on April 16th. But their new single "Sacrilege" is already here. The video, starring Lily Cole, is pretty creepy. It involves a masked man, some ritual sacrifice and a handful of sketchy townspeople. Oh, and the story unfolds in reverse. Was that a spoiler? Whatever, it's great. The band played on The Late Show With David Letterman on Friday and brought the Broadway Inspirational Voices gospel group along to keep everyone honest. So ready for this album. More »

Tourist time is upon us, which means people from out of town see things that they might not have back home: ornate government buildings, monuments, museums, traffic circles and big statues. There are also strange and foreign things like streets and crosswalks. [ more › ]

A passenger on the Green Line caught a racial slur-filled fight on camera. [ more › ]

Whomever came up with these type of plane pillows - congrats. This is THE shittiest product thats ever been created.

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It's not quite a minivan fit for a technophile, despite the standard lineup of 2014 in-vehicle gadgets, such as HondaLink with a smartphone interface, HD Radio and an updated center stack. But Honda's 2014 Odyssey does ship with one very practical addition: a built-in HondaVAC, designed with assistance from the good folks at Shop-Vac. The integrated vacuum cleaner lets you tidy up around the van and outside as well, and with integrated power, it doesn't need to be plugged in for use. It can suck indefinitely when the engine's running, or for up to eight minutes with the car turned off. It's integrated within the rear cargo area, and includes a replaceable filter and a canister bag, for easy rubbish disposal. The Odyssey just made its debut at the New York Auto Show, and pricing and availability have yet to be announced. You can check it out for yourself this week in NYC, however, or take a closer look in the promo video embedded just past the break.

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Wounded Knee© Jimmy Emerson

No one seems to know what should be done with the land in South Dakota where scores of Native Americans were massacred by American Soldiers at Wounded Knee in 1890.

The land is currently in private hands, but the 74-year-old owner of the parcel has decided to sell it once and for all. James Czywczynski has owned the land since 1968, but has not lived there since Native activists staged a forceful takeover of the area in 1973 and his home and store were burned to the ground during the protest.

Members of the local Oglala Sioux tribe are up in arms that the land might be sold, but the tribe is already deep in debt and would have to borrow the money to meet the asking price of $3.9 million. The elderly Czywczynski claims to have been trying to sell the land to the tribe for 30 years and has grown fed up with the process, which never seems to reach any kind of conclusion. He now says that if the tribe does not reach an agreement to buy the land by May 1, then it will be put up for auction on the open market.

There is little consensus among the tribe about what should happen to the historic parcel of land. Many resent having to buy back land which they view as rightfully theirs in the first place. Others have qualms about the price. Among those in favour of acquiring the land, opinion is split on whether any development should take place and there are valid arguments on both sides.

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The 29-year-old, who was fired from xoJane.com last summer, will divulge her drug-addled life in New York, 'numerous' sexual conquests, four abortions, and battle with bulimia in How To Murder Your Life.

James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson star in Trance, directed by Dawson’s now-ex Danny Boyle. It’s about art thieves and hypnotism. McAvoy’s character, Simon, can’t remember where he stashed an art piece after a heist so he visits a hypnotherapist (Dawson) who places him in a trance. More central to the story, however, is Rosario Dawson goes full frontal in it. And she’s shaved. James McAvoy talks to Vulture about it.

Good to know. She had it a little tougher than you, just because she had to go full-frontal because of your character’s preferences regarding pubic hair.
Yeah, I know! Tough gig! Even when I watched the movie, I was like, “Wow! That’s … ” Hold on for a second. [Says good-bye to someone.] Where were we? Ah, shaving the vagina, as people do.

Well, usually as women do. Men, not so much, at least not for the movies.
I don’t know if that’s true! I think a lot of men shave their, um, their balls and their shaft, but that, that’s just for pornos, which are still technically movies. With Simon, a woman shaving is what he prefers, it is part of his fantasy, but the reason why he likes it is a little deeper than why most guys apparently like it. He has a particular classical and artistically related aesthetic. I don’t know if most guys do like it, by the way. I think most people in porn films seem to like it! But I don’t know if it’s necessarily what people want. Maybe it is.

Of course, where would we be if there weren’t photos of the supposed nude scene already leaked (NSFW). Not on the internet, that’s for sure. If there’s one thing the internet is good at, it’s finding shaved vaginas. Trust me, I’ve done a lot of research.

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