All evidence points to 2012 not being the year we finally get it right.

So don't get the year right. Get the next minute right. Build something, enjoy a song, or tell somebody you love them. Maybe even tell yourself that. Get another minute right and another. Get a streak going and watch yourself break it. Start another one when you're ready.

Get as many minutes right as you can and don't feel bad about the other ones.

Something amazing made you. Whether it's God, multiple gods or just an absolutely mindblowing cosmic coincidence in a universe we're just starting to understand, you are here - and I am so thankful for that.

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As nerds, it's one of our favorite guilty pleasures in life: swirly anime missile storms, best known to us through giant mecha battles in the various incarnations of Macross. But who knew it had a name? A lot of people, apparently - we appear to be the last people on Earth that didn't know this particular animation flourish is called the Itano Circus in honor of its originator, animator Ichiro Itano.



The Itano Circus is even better than the thing where one dude cleanly slices through another dude with a sword, there's a dramatic pause, and then the blood starts to fly. Does that one have a name?

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Pretty cool guy. Rock star physicist, or at least... former professional popular musician physicist. Apparently, in the United Kingdom, they can have smart people on television? Hmm.

In this clip, Brian Cox explains why atoms are mostly empty space. Simon Pegg assists.

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Part One. We understand that your intestines are a little bit like a track.

Your digestive system is sort of like a racetrack for nutrients, right? Little vitamin race cars rev up in your stomach and then it's off to the nourishment races. It's exciting.

However, it's your "intestinal tract" and not your "intestinal track."

Like, what's the defining characteristic of a race track? It goes around and around and you wind up where you started. And we really hope your digestive process is not like a NASCAR track. That would mean you're eating your own shit 200 times in a row while a bunch of people cheer you on.

Part Two. Your second knowledge drop for the day comes in the form of this chat with Stephen Colbert and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Neil is an excellent humanizer of astronomy and science in general. He grew up in the Bronx, wrestled in high school, and now fights passionately for science in NASA and beyond.

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Much like OtakuBooty itself, a lot of the charm here stems from seeing a cute, nerdy girl talk about queefing and how much she wants you to fuck her mouth.

Kristin is quite the sign language educator, and this is highly practical stuff: Bullgod once pointed out to me that sign language is so useful for communicating in bars and other crowded places that it almost feels like you're cheating. Via Metafilter, who seems to be our muse today.



It seems to me that there are two ways to be really good at using profanity. One is to swear so sparingly that a single, tactical "What the sistertouching fuck is going on here, you dickless kitten shit?" hissed through clenched teeth is devastatingly effective, like a priest punching you in the mouth through the screen in a confession booth while you're crying with your eyes closed.

The other route to success is Deadwood-style saturation in which the undulating tides of profanity rolling out of your mouth become their own filthy rhythm; profane waves defiling a dirty beach under a delightfully debauched sun.

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We're big fans of hugging.

Yahoo's excellent Puck Daddy blog has a weekly review of Hockey Hugs, possibly the only thing on the Internet we look forward to more than scanslated chapters of teenage manga we ought to have outgrown by now. MetaFilter offers a nice roundup of hockey hugging action.

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I hope OtakuBooty never gets so big that I can't post a PlayMobil version of Joy Division playing on the BBC on the front page.

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MOTHERFUCKING ROCK LEE SPINOFF CARTOON

PRAYERS ANSWERED

SERIOUSLY WHAT IS THE CATCH, GOOD THINGS LIKE THIS DO NOT HAPPEN

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-02/naruto-rock-lee-spinoff-anime-to-air-on-tv

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