Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Weirdo School
This is a commercial for a private school somewhere in Japan. Supposedly it’s to help students trains for their massive university exam, the test high school students take that pretty much determines the rest of their life. I’m trying to think what kind of Japanese parents would send their kids to a cram school where the teachers apparently dress up like aliens, and all I can think of is “bad ones.” (Via Kirainet)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.