HELL’S PATH Haitians walk past damaged buildings. The magnitude-7.0 quake hitright near Port-au-Prince at 4:53 p.m. EST and is believed to be the strongest quake in Haiti in more than 200 years.  (Photo: Suero / AFP-Getty via the New York Daily News) (via inothernews)

This is chilling.  There are far more gruesome pictures going around out there, but I’m rather faint of heart, so this is what I can manage.

Buddhist temple resorts to cosplay to draw in visitors

Apparently the Ryohoji temple, in a suburb of Tokyo, was so hard-up for visitors that they decided to setup a temporary cosplay/maid cafe.  Only in Japan.  The shocking result: they have seen a sizable increase in the number of young male visitors to the temple.  Read the article here.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a maid or cosplay cafe (mom), go read this and/or this, or just do a google search for “maid cafe” and you’ll see tons of articles and pictures.  It’s one of the many Japanese cultural things that’s cute on the surface, but really creepy the more you learn about it.

David Carradine: 1936 - 2009 - washingtonpost.com (via rillawafers)

Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay (via indieandyy:ohryankelley)

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