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I found this image on WTF Japan, Seriously!? with no description. A bit of Googling led me to a 2008 post on Pink Tentacle explaining that a young celebrity in Japan who goes by the name Shokotan had taken to decorating her hair with dead cicadas.
But keep in mind: that was three years ago, which is a long time in fashion. Don’t rush out put cicadas in your hair in order to be hip and trendy. People will instead just look at you funny.
Link via WTF Japan, Seriously!? | Photo: Shokotan Blog
Sorry folks, Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream in Missouri will not be making any more cicada ice cream for the time being after receiving advice from the public health department. This will disappoint the many customers who made this unique flavor a runaway hit. It was so popular that it sold out Wednesday, June 1 before it was to make its grand debut on Thursday.
Employees collected the cicadas in their backyards and removed most of the dead bugs’ wings. They then boiled the bountiful bugs and covered them in brown sugar and milk chocolate. The base ice cream is brown sugar and butter flavour.
Does this sound like a tasty treat to you?
It may have taken some time to decide them, but the last votes have been cast and the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 has been chosen. This extraordinary set of images certainly puts to rest the notion that the best pictures on the internet are always copyrighted by their owners.
Photo credit: T. Nathan Mundhenk (personal website)
4chan has animated gifs of a certain kind but the ones on Wikimedia are of a completely different ilk aka education. This amazing gif shows the transformation of the cicada from its pupa to the adult form. Although the whole process took over two hours there is a gap in the middle of about thirty minutes while the cicada took a rest from the strenuous activity of becoming an adult. Other than that gap the shots are at intervals of thirty seconds and this builds up beautifully in to a record of one insect’s emergence.
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