Today's afternoon links, featuring a snow trooper moving on after the Star Wars are done, Ned Stark commenting on 12/12/12, and an awesome cotton candy artist.

A woman in China celebrated her cat's birthday with cat cosplay using cardboard and anime character drawings. That was a perfectly normal sentence.

Conan appears to agree with us: that snot-filled Honey Boo Boo scene is evidence of America's decline

Sun Jifa, a 51-year-old farmer in China, lost both hands in an explosion and has spent the last eight years building new bionic hands.

The subtitles on a Chinese bootleg of 'The Avengers' are hilariously incorrect. We've collected 13 of our favorite mistranslated scenes here.

A woman in China has been sentenced to 8 months in prison for using fake arcade tokens. Harsh.

"Xi'an Up Close," an investigative journalism series that airs in China, recently ran a report about residents of the Liucunbu village digging a "soft, slimy object that looked like a plant" out of the ground.

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Currently, the Chinese farmer who left the family land to seek his fortune, if he doesn't wind up getting brutally exploited in some other horrible way, will turn up at Foxconn, where he'll get a job that pays him, oh, $346 a month or so.