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Sour's new video is interactive, browser-based genius. Watch it.

Sour — a band known for making awesome videos that exploit the powers of the Internet — has really outdone itself with this new one, called Mirror. It uses your browser, webcam, Facebook, Twitter, Google image search, and html5 to create this crazy interactive viewing experience. Try it now!

Sour Mirror main page via Engadget (Thanks, Joe!)

Previously:
Music video by Sour features fans on webcams

Man runs out of toilet paper, tweets for help

An anime DJ was pooping in the Yodobashi Camera store in Akihabara but only realized there was no toilet paper after the fact. So he did what any savvy geek would do — he sent an urgent tweet asking for someone to bring him some. It worked!

I was reading the rest of this guy's tweets, too, they're all in Japanese but really funny. Follow!

naika_tei's Twitter via Foolish Gadgets via Boing Boing

Kanae Kijima, online serial killer

The Independent has a story today about a woman named Kanae Kijima, age 34, who is suspected of killing at least four and conning a dozen men whom she met on the Internet. Many of them were older; she wooed them first with her benign cooking blog and later by acting the part of the perfect subservient housewife. Then she would take their money, lace their food with sedatives, and make it look like suicide. A quote from the article:

in a country where women traditionally play a backseat role, the "Black Widow" case has delivered a devastating blow to male confidence. Bloggers say Kijima has ruined their faith in dating and marriage sites, making them fearful of anonymous encounters with potential online partners.

Kijima was arrested in September.

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Web site shows pretty Japanese girls apologizing

December 10th is Apology Day. To commemorate, somebody made a site called Gomenne.jp (Gomenne means I'm sorry) that counts down to Dec 10 with a hot Japanese girl for each of the 31 days preceding the made-up holiday. You can click on each girl to see a detailed profile of her, as well as a video of her apologizing. This girl, 19-year old Asuka Morimoto, apologizes for eating all the steak at a family dinner.

Gomenne.jp (via Japanator)

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