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~ ? ? ? ~ ________________________________________________________________ Nature can be as horrific as it can be lovely. After wildlife officials in Hamburg, Germany, had been notified by concerned locals a full investigation was launched into what appeared to be animal abuse. After exhausting several avenues of possibilities, ruling out various potential sources such as contaminants, poisons, rats, etc.. the cause was traced to crows. Crows living in a park with a small pond discovered that there is a way to harvest the delicious livers from these toads without facing the consequence of touching the toxic secretions from their skin. _________________________________________________________________ Click the link to watch the National Geographic documentary on Hamburg's  exploding toads. This segment is approximately seven minutes. _________________________________________________________________ On another note, what's more terrifying than

    At long last Obsidian's Jason Campbell has agreed to chat! Distracting the public with an abundance of live shows, they've secretly been working on a new album. Giggling like teenagers we talk about the band's multinational origins, Jason's start in music and inability to walk away from the back end of things, as well as the distant future playing the casino circuit. DK: How long have you been with Obsidian? JC: Four years this September. We got our first lead guitar player shortly after we formed. It would have been       less than a year after that when he left to go back to school. Daniel came into the band and we haven't       looked back since. He's been in the band for about three years. The "original guitarist" didn't play on any       of the records. He didn't write any of the music so he sort of existed, but he didn't. DK: (laughs) He was a dream. JC: (laughs) Yeah, he was more of a vapour. (laughs) DK: He'