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1. Hugh Jackman is supposed to bulk up even more for The Wolverine:

GB: Are you going to have to go back to that intense diet, eating whole chickens so you can get that muscle mass back up?

HJ: I’m on it right now, mate, already doing it. It’s 6,000 calories a day, it’s rough.

GB: How much you weighing?

HJ: Right now, I’m at 210.

GB: Wow, so you’re going to be bigger this time? Last time, you looked about, what, 190?

HJ: Yeah, right, I was 190, something like that. I don’t know how much I want to give away about it, but Darren said with the last one, ‘Hey you looked great, but you’re so tall that in those long shots you looked kind of like Clint Eastwood, and that’s not Wolverine.”

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2. "Kids Sail Free on Seven-Night Alaska Cruises Aboard the Disney Wonder."

3. Tyler Weeks:

Weight loss advice is only good if someone listens to it. If you tell people they can't have pizza, they'll ignore you and keep living "fat and happy."

I'm telling you, I'm going to start a movement in this country: eat the foods you want, just less, and move around. You'll be healthy and happy as a clam.

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Link roundup

1. Stunning incompetence prevented the police from stopping Jeffrey Dahmer sooner.

2. From one of Bill Simmons's readers:

(Baltimore Ravens kicker) Billy Cundiff has 38 touchbacks. That is insanely high. I didn't recall him having a particularly strong leg, so I looked over his past stats: 38 of 75 kickoffs for touchbacks (this year); 11 of 209 kickoffs for touchbacks (previous five seasons).

3. 25% off art at Bear and Bird.

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A Beginner's Guide to the Endocrine System

A Beginner's Guide to the Endocrine System by Raymond Biesinger on sale at Etsy.

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Link roundup

1. Comment and win a calendar.

2. "Interview with Scott Summit of Bespoke Innovations, creator of kick-ass prosthetics."

3. Shaking Man sculpture.

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Link roundup

1. "Entire generations of crabs, worms and other deep-sea animals can survive for years on a single whale carcass."

2. A Song of Fire and Ice fan art.

3. Lisa Hanawalt illustrates popping a pimple, under ideal conditions.

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Link roundup

1. Comment and win some Mario Kart-esque cards.

2. Fun magnet set.

3. Seeing meat calms men down. Via.

Link roundup

1. Grant Morrison:

People don't want to pay money to watch some guy pretending to be someone else when they could be doing it themselves. In games, anyone can be a superhero or a soldier, and the gaming experience doesn't follow strict narrative rules. You can do things on your own, and move in directions you choose. So I wanted to follow that concept: We are now the heroes, and we can look through their eyes. . . Look at Facebook pages: Everyone is a hero or star in their own story, and the inevitable next step is to become superheroic.

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2. Michael Arrington writes in detail of his disastrous relationship with Jason Calcanis. For example, "When Jason realized we were very serious about ending our relationship with him he began to spread rumors that I was abusing prescription medications."

3. Here's a claim that the size of Neanderthals' fingers indicate that they were promiscuous.

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Link roundup

1. Outrage over taxpayer money being used to pay for pornography. Plus, a medical explanation for why the expenditure is warranted.

2. Galactus as a vampire.

3. The kid who played Alfalfa on Our Gang apparently used to play horrifying practical jokes on people.

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Link roundup

1. Not from The Onion: the prestigious Cannes Lions awards for advertising will add a new category that honors effectiveness.

2. Horrifying new photo by Joshua Hoffine. As always, he posts several photos showing how he achieved the final result.

3. Psychopaths are particularly adept at spotting people that will make good victims. Via.

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Link roundup

1. The Demon Hunter class for Diablo III looks great in this trailer (like an armored Lara Croft with double crossbows) and got a strong write-up at Kotaku.

2. Tricking your taste buds:

Last week, we had a little fun partying with* Miracle Fruit, which tricks your taste buds into thinking that sour things taste sweet. Tra-la-la! Isn't life grand, all rose-colored glasses, when you can nibble on a lemon and have it taste like candy? Unicorns and ponies and kitty kitty kats yay!

But then -- boom! -- here comes Miracle Fruit's evil Bizarro-twin brother, Gymnema Sylvestre. Yes, that's right, he's so bad he doesn't even need a name you can pronounce. And his magic power is similarly antisocial: A little sprinkle of his putrid powdery self on your tongue, and you will lose the ability to taste sweetness. Which means that Coke will taste only of its flavoring agents, oranges will taste as sour as lemons, and sugar won't taste like much at all.

If you're thinking that doesn't sound very delicious, well, you're right. But the ability to turn off one of our tastes offers a unique look into how we respond to the others, how important sweetness is to flavor, and, conversely, what we can taste in food once the masking effect of sweetness is taken away.

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3. Matt Buchanan at Gizmodo says the iPad is pretty much useless for the type of blogging I do. (Too bad, I was intrigued.)

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1. I've had the same experience as this Consumerist reader - - Barnes & Noble apparently likes to promote great deals, and then simply cancel orders.

2. Is Picabo Street pregnant? The question is a lot more interesting than it sounds.

3. Tomopop is giving away another Dunny.

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1. Gregg Easterbrook:

The U.S. Treasury is seeking to save $100 million per year by removing nickel from the nickel; nickel lobbyists are fighting this in Congress. The International Zinc Association is lobbying to maintain the existence of the penny, which is mostly zinc. If the United States, at a time of record mega-deficits, can't even get rid of pennies because members of Congress fear the loss of donations from the zinc lobby, how will fiscal sense ever be established?

2. Some absolutely fascinating observations about human sexuality.

3. Now maybe donuts for breakfast is a good idea? Via.

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Link roundup

1. WizardRSS supposedly turns a partial feed into a full feed. Via.

2. From an article about Herschel Walker, who is 50 years old:

He eats once a day, skipping breakfast and lunch. After a long, intense day of training, he eats salad and bread for dinner. He doesn't care for meat or fuss about getting enough protein. Walker's a vegetarian.

"It's a mindset -- something I've been doing for a long time," he said. "I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew up in south Georgia. They didn't worry about cholesterol or protein. They went out and worked and lived a long time, so I don't put a lot of worries in my mind. I just get it done."

Sometimes, Walker doesn't have an appetite and will go through seven hours of wrestling, kickboxing, sparring and practicing jujitsu without having eaten for three or four days.

"It's just unbelievable," said Mendez, who trains Walker at the American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, California. "He shouldn't be able to do what he's doing. I don't think it's possible to eat as little as possible and work out the way he does. There's no way. He's an unbelievable athlete."

CNN should have to report that they followed him around for several days before reporting those claims as truthful.

3. A look at the new Green Lantern and Young Justice cartoons.

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CrossFit's repulsive mascots

Meet Pukie the Clown and Dr. Rhabdo, mascots for exercise program CrossFit. Pukie is pretty obvious - - exercise programs for men commonly boast of pushing participants past tolerance. But Rhabdo was a new one for me. Wikipedia explains:

Rhabdomyolysis is the rapid breakdown (lysis) of skeletal muscle (rhabdomyo) due to injury to muscle tissue. The muscle damage may be caused by physical (e.g., crush injury), chemical, or biological factors. The destruction of the muscle leads to the release of the breakdown products of damaged muscle cells into the bloodstream; some of these, such as myoglobin (a protein), are harmful to the kidney and may lead to acute kidney failure.

CrossFit is used by the military, and at least one sailor has sued, claiming that participation in the program destroyed his kidneys.

T-shirts are available.

Here's my favorite parody of body-building supplement ads:

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Link roundup

1. The gloves astronauts wear during spacewalks make their fingernails fall off. Via these sites.

2. "Routine prostate cancer screening does not appear to help men live longer, according to a new study that pooled the best available data on the controversial topic." Via.

3. The new Martha Stewart show is pulling in dramatically less viewers than the Golden Girls reruns that used air in the same time slot. Via.

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Link roundup

1. How to make a Luke Skywalker pinata.

2. What to do if a body part falls off (like an eyeball, or tooth, or toe...).

3. Use a pen to rethread a drawstring.

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Link roundup

1. Rick Bayless says the Top Chef Masters producers really, really tried to get the competitors drunk.

2. Tyler Cowen explains why being interesting and responsible are more important values than happiness.

3. You're wasting your time stretching before running.