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Three small limestone islands off the Amalfi coast of Italy are known as La Galli or The Sirenusas (The Sirens). Tradition holds that it was here that Odysseus of Homer’s Odyssey encountered the tempting songs of the Sirens. Now the islands hold privately owned resorts and luxury homes. Some of the wealthiest people in the world own seaside homes on these islands or spend time at the expensive rental estates there.

When viewed from the right angle, one of those islands looks like a dolphin.

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Board game maker Cryptozoic Entertainment is ready to serve all your supernatural elimination needs, at least in the realm of tabletop gaming, with Ghostbusters: The Board Game. The game-maker's latest, the first Ghostbusters board game in some 30 years and officially licensed by Sony, is currently on Kickstarter seeking funding.

Ghostbusters: The Board Game is described by Cryptozoic as an episodic adventure game for one to four players that is "customizable, cooperative and highly re-playable." The board game features the original four Ghostbusters (Venkman, Stantz, Spengler and Zeddemore) as playable characters, each with their own traits, tools and talents. The game will also include dozens of spooks, specters and ghosts, including...

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Given the government's love of mergers and acquisitions in the broadband space over the last decade, Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner Cable initially seemed like a done deal. But as Comcast has taken repeated fire for horrible service and anti-competitive behavior (not to mention what seems like an endless stream of half truths about the merger's benefits), doubts have started to creep in on many fronts.

Investors have started to wonder if the deal is going to get approved, and it's been hitting Time Warner Cable's stock pretty hard:

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Time Warner Cable s stock has dropped precipitously in recent weeks, falling more than 10% since the end of 2014. At $136.56 per share, its stock is also trading more than 10% below the value of Comcast s offer, which gives Time Warner Cable shareholders 2.875 shares of Comcast for each share they own. Concerns are mounting that the Federal Communications Commission or the Justice Department could block the merger outright or that the FCC could try to get major concessions out of Comcast to approve it. If it does the latter, some analysts think that Comcast might simply walk away.

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Similarly analysts like BTIG's Richard Greenfield have noted it's not looking great for the Philadelphia-based cable giant:

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"After the Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal was announced, it seemed a forgone conclusion to us and the investment community that regulators would take the local approach--leading to the approval of the transaction with an array of strict, but not onerous conditions in a consent decree," Greenfield wrote. "However, a populist groundswell in favor of net neutrality emerged last summer, along with media/technology industry and press noise surrounding net neutrality, peering/interconnection issues and general opposition to the Comcast-Time Warner Cable transaction has brought a whole new level of scrutiny."

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It's entirely possible the FCC could apply some meaningful conditions, but it's also entirely possible the FCC argues that a larger Comcast isn't good for anybody other than Comcast. The merger has seen particularly heated review in New York State, which just passed a new law requiring that mergers must serve the public interest. Comcast, historically awful customer service in tow, has had a hard time selling the merger as a boon to users.

Less scrutinized for some reason has been AT&T's proposed acquisition of DirecTV, despite the fact that that deal would eliminate one of AT&T (and Comcast's) direct pay TV competitors in a sector that already struggles with price competition.
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Next to Rick, the best character on The Walking Dead is Daryl Dixon. If you have been watching the show since it began, you might recall that early in his zombie killing career he made a necklace out of the ears of the zombies he did in. It was gross and would have to be really stinky.

Thanks to Gentle Giant, you can own your own prop replica of Daryl’s zombie ear necklace. Only 1,676 of these will be made. Each of them is displayed in a wood and glass shadow box and looks really cool. The necklace was digitally sculpted from the original prop worn in the show.

Each of them is hand numbered on the bottom of the box and has a certificate of authenticity. You can get your own set of zombie ears for $99.99(USD) at ThinkGeek. Perhaps the coolest part is that you can actually take the ear necklace out of the box and wear it and put it back without messing things up.

Cut.com asked seven cute kids from the U.S. to taste test traditional breakfast meals from other countries, including Korea, Brazil, Finland, Poland, and more.

Previously from Cut: Parents Talk to Their Kids About the Birds and the Bees

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They got into their Fiero and made their way to Uncle Joe's cabin.
There they found...

I’m just waiting for a NASA Lunar Rover to come out of nowhere and land on that moon.

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