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Chayne Hultgren, nicknamed the Space Cowboy, has set a new Guinness World Record in Sydney today by swallowing 18 swords at the same time.

The 31-year-old beat his own previous record of 17 swords, which he set in 2008. But for all those wannabe sword swallowers out there, Mr. Hultgren warned the stunt has taken years to perfect.

"It's amazing," Mr. Hultgren said. "I've been preparing for this since I was 16. It is definitely one of my greatest achievements so far."

Click through to see footage of the feat.

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"Dante's Inferno" was a literary epic, then a video game epic and finally an animated epic. Gamers know that tomorrow, Feb. 9, is the day EA Games is releasing the much-anticipated "Dante's Inferno" to the public. And Asylum wants you to have one.

Two Asylum readers will receive a copy of the game for the PS3, in addition to a DVD copy of "Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic." In order to be eligible for the contest, all you have to do is fill out the form on the next page ...

... and enjoy your trip to hell.

Required reading from the week in books and comics.

Writer/comedian Julie Klausner dishes on the many stupid men she's encountered in "I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated." Best title of the year? We don't see Nicholas Sparks topping that one anytime soon.

Also in stores:
-- "Tupac Shakur: The Life of an American Icon" is a chronicle of the legendary rapper's life and career, as well as yet another opportunity to ponder whether Suge Knight set him up.
-- The graphic novel "Hellblazer: Pandemonium" celebrates the 25th anniversary of John Constantine. (Yes, the paranormal detective once played by Keanu Reeves.) Not bad for a character who was originally nothing more than an homage to Sting.
-- RuPaul has a new book? Is it 1997 again? Who still thinks being in the RuPaul business is a license to print money?

For most people, the idea of keeping rodents as pets is off-putting, if not downright creepy.

However, it's possible all these reservations could be put aside if we just embrace the capybara as a household pet. The semi-aquatic rodent native to South America can grow to be around 100 lbs. and about 2 feet tall at the shoulder.

Click through to check out the pictures of Melanie Typaldos and her pet capybara Caplin, and try to deny this is the cuddliest giant rat you've ever seen.

Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

People who complain of boredom are 2.5 times more likely to die from a heart attack or stroke than those who don't.

Twenty-five years ago, British researchers asked 7,524 civil servants between the ages of 35 and 55 questions pertaining to their level of boredom. Recently, they revisited that sample group and calculated death rates based on the decades-old responses.

"The findings on heart disease show there was sufficient evidence to say there is a link with boredom," said the study's co-author. He added that some of the increase in heart problems might have to do with bored people being more likely to turn to smoking and drinking.

So you can be bored to death. But can you be tickled to death? Now that would be an interesting study.

How cool is this: a cube-shaped multimedia player that accommodates 3-D space and senses gestures at a distance? It's definitely cool, but you know what would make it better? If it actually existed.

For now, the Gesture Cube is just a big old serving of vaporware. But we imagine a time in the not-too-distant future when we can wave our arms in front of it to play the new Lil Wayne record and do the chicken dance to launch Firefox.

We understand that you need to drum up general interest in unproven tech to get funding, but if you're going to tease us, can you at least give the thing a jetpack, too?

And you thought diapers were exclusively for babies and the elderly. P'shaw!

As it turns out, there are, indeed, grown-ups who get off at the sight of a hot babe all gussied up in one of those giant, white, crinkly pee-and-poop buckets.

And, honestly, everyone should be so lucky to have such a focused passion. If it means that the sight of -- again -- a giant, white, velcro repository for urine and feces is your thing, more power to ya.

But when this kind of thing goes up on YouTube, it becomes our responsibility to ask: Is it, like, porn? Keep reading to watch the video and then cast your vote.

AccuWeather meteorologist Jim Kosek may not be a household name yet, but one of his recent forecasts threatens to change all that. In a clip that has over 300,000 YouTube hits, Kosek fluctuates between flat-lining and freaking out while discussing the impending snowfall in Baltimore.

The clip is full of high-volume, highly quotable potential catchphrases, but our favorite is "Tertiary problem (yeah I've been reading the dictionary) blowing and drifting AAAHHHH!"

Some cynics have suggested that Kosek's wintry diatribe was pure stagecraft, rather than a true spleen-venting. We wanted to get inside the mind of the Mad Meteorologist, so we reached out to Kosek to find out if the tirade was the real deal.

Keep reading to read what Kosek had to say and watch his now-famous forecast.

Just like pop singers, porn stars who go by a single moniker carry a certain mystique. Our favorite one-named adult actress and director is the one, the only, Belladonna, who's built up an impressive list of credits and won a slew of AVN Awards. At the recent Adult Entertainment Expo, we asked her to interview some of the guys who worship at her sexy altar. (NSFW)