We prefer zombies, because we love chainsaws, flamethrowers, and samurai swords.

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Also in the house were three Samurai swords and several books, one titled "NRA guide to the basics of pistol shooting, " another about Asperger syndrome and one on autism.

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Authorities also seized a bolt-action rifle, a .22-caliber rifle, a Marksman BB gun and a .22 revolver starter pistol, along with nine knives of varying sizes, a nearly 7-foot-long pole with a blade on one end and a spear tip on the other, and three samurai swords.

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While Jobs is building his spaceship, Mark Zuckerberg is talking about killing his food, Larry Page is trying to go to Mars, and Larry Ellison is collecting samurai swords.

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In Japan, where there is no native tradition of jewel making, some modern jewellers have resurrected techniques used to decorate Samurai swords. (Historically, the links between jewellers and armourers is close in many cultures.) The distilled and uncluttered purity of new Japanese jewellery is without equal.

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