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The best of my Google Reader shared clips:

• The differences between Japanese cartoon characters and American-made Japanese cartoon characters are explained at Japanmanship.
  
• TV Squad encourages us to watch the sexy zombie melodrama that ABC passed on.
  
• A Sleep With Me-era Quentin Tarantino explains why Top Gun is gay.
  
• Astro Boy makes the transition from good, two-dimensional cartoon to questionable three-dimensional movie, from 4 Color Rebellion
  
• A porcupine! Eating a banana!
  
• Boing Boing shows us how get our dirty, criminal hands on our FBI records.
  
• The eels "best of" album to be expectedly cool
  
• The worst twist endings of all time, from Cinematical
  
• A Special Way of Being Afraid encourages us to call MC Hammer
  
• Nintendo further victimizes its most famous female character, on Girl in the Machine
  
• Yesterday's Faces Today looks at how time has washed over Troop Beverly Hills
  
• Stimpy, Rocko reunite... for a video game?

As always, you can always check out my public Google Reader page to see what's caught my attention recently.

Also, a few not from Google reader but nonetheless noteworthy:

• Echidnas have horrifying, four-headed penises, from Boing Boing via Other Other Drew
  
• The New York Times traces unisex names that eventually lean one way or the other, via Dina.
• The world's strangest plants, also via Dina.