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Angry Cephalopods / Meg Lyman
12×24? oil on gallery canvas — via CrashOctopus Blog
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It’s a Snap! / Henry & Aaron
Written and Directed by Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann for Central Institute of Technology
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Harpo Marx + Amelia Earhart
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God Bless America
Loveless, jobless and possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and decides to off the stupidest, cruelest and most repellent members of society with an … Continue reading
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Take On Me / a-ha + Pyongyang Kum Song School of Music
a-ha’s eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordion players from Kum Song School, filmed in Pyongyang, North Korea
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Amigurumi Freddy Krueger / Olá Olá Bonjour TragedyTrousers!
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Ash / Brett Parson
Yet another sketch for Planet-Pulp.com’s January Comic Sketchjam show — Bruce… one of my all time faves. pencil sketch with colors in PS Brett Parson artwork — via deviantART
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You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You
Now that the SOPA and PIPA fights have died down, and Hollywood prepares their next salvo against internet freedom with ACTA and PCIP, it’s worth pausing to consider how the war on piracy could actually be won… Continue reading
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HP Lovecraft / Meghan Murphy
A portrait of the author HP Lovecraft. And friend — via murphypop
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Ash Sketch / Brett Parson
Brett Parson artwork — via PLANET-PULP
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Angry Birds boss: ‘Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business’
Rovio Mobile learned from the music industry’s mistakes when deciding how to deal with piracy of its Angry Birds games and merchandise, chief executive Mikael Hed told the Midem conference in Cannes this morning… Continue reading
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MegaUpload Users Plan to Sue the FBI over Lost Files
In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven… Continue reading
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Dimora Trial: Puppet’s Court Day
Channel 19 in Akron, Ohio was disappointed that it wouldn’t be allowed to take cameras into the corruption trial of Jimmy Dimora, a former county commissioner. But when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla: they bring the courtroom proceeding … Continue reading
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Stop ACTA: secretive treaty will bring in the worst of SOPA through trade obligations
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is the notorious, unprecedented secret copyright treaty that was negotiated by industry representatives and government trade reps, without any access by elected representatives, independent business, th… Continue reading
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Cthulhu Carpets / Kirill Rozhkov
Denmark’s EGE Carpets sells a line of carpeting inspired by HP Lovecraft illustrations called Dark Water. They were created by Kirill Rozhkov, who has a nice gallery of them on Behance — via Boing Boing
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Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend?
The Canberra Wikileaks cables revealed the US Embassy sanctioned a conspiracy by Hollywood studios to target Australian communications company iiNet through the local court-system, with the aim of establishing a binding common-law precedent which wo… Continue reading
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SOPA lessons for Australia
PIPA and SOPA may be dead in the water for now, but it’s worth remembering that the most controversial part of the legislation is something the Australian Government has been thinking about for years… Continue reading
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Howto typeset Call of Cthulhu spells
The only thing cuter than this Game Master asking TeX gurus for help making his RPG notes look like they were scrawled by a gibbering madman, unhinged by the horrors he has witnessed is the serious responses, with examples of … Continue reading
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Gary Oldman + David Bowie + Edward Norton
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TARDIS Purse / LIMOchi
A TARDIS purse to carry with you time and space wherever you want and bigger on the inside — via Etsy
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SOPA: copyright industry threat to internet in Australia
What initially sounded like a somewhat gormless idea — ?blacking out websites to draw users’ attention to the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP acts before US Congress — ?has turned out to be dramatic intervention in the battle aga… Continue reading
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Dalek Camouflage
Six Daleks, labeled as Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne engines from the space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis are invading being shipped to Stennis Space Centre in Mississippi to be refurbished for use in NASA’s new project, the Space Launch System (SLS) — … Continue reading
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The Great Martin Luther King Copyright Conundrum
Believe it or not, to legally watch that famous Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” speech — arguably one of the most hallowed moments in American history — costs $10 thanks to the twisted state of United States copyright law… Continue reading
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Jenny Craig cancels Kyle & Jackie O sponsorship
Weight loss brand Jenny Craig has pulled its sponsorship of the Kyle & Jackie O Show after just one day, admitting that it “badly misjudged public perception of Kyle Sandilands”… Continue reading
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Reginald Hill obituary
On the publication of the 21st Dalziel and Pascoe novel in 2007, an interviewer asked Reginald Hill if this was his 48th published novel to date. Hill replied: “That sounds very reasonable”… Continue reading
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Cthulhu Hat / GrapeVineFires
Make Cthulhu a part of your every day life with this stylish fleece hat — via Etsy
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Margaret Cho Rightfully Loses Her Shit
I have some wonderful new tattoos on my ass by the incredible Cris Cleen, who I love, and I posted a picture of them on Twitter, which got many favourable comments — but there were two negative ones, and I blew a fucking gasket… Continue reading
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The writer who made millions by self-publishing online
When historians come to write about the digital transformation currently engulfing the book-publishing world, they will almost certainly refer to Amanda Hocking, writer of paranormal fiction who in the past 18 months has emerged from obscurity to best… Continue reading
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Hobbes / seamster
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Palestinian Sesame Street falls victim to US Congress
With its colourful band of Muppets preaching tolerance and neighbourly love, the Palestinian version of the children’s television programme Sesame Street had become a beacon of hope for children in a region ravaged by decades of unrest… Continue reading
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US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law
In a leaked letter sent to Spain’s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment for not passing a SOPA-style file-sharing site blocking law, Spain risked being put on a United States trade blacklist… Continue reading
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Canadian Government Considers Plan To Block Public Domain
Canada celebrated New Year’s Day this year by welcoming the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Carl Jung into the public domain just as European countries were celebrating the arrival of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, 20 years after both entered … Continue reading
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St Trinian’s cartoonist Ronald Searle dies
British cartoonist Ronald Searle, best known for his spiky drawings of the tearaway pupils of the fictional girls school St Trinian’s, has died in southern France aged 91… Continue reading
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James Ellroy Hates Everything
A glorious routine by novelist James Ellroy. And I think he was reining himself in, too — via Warren Ellis
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Secret Agent Calvin Hobbes: Meet Dr Robin / kizer180
As children, these two had constant feuds after Calvin literally stepped into Christopher’s neck of the woods. That’s when the Battle began, the test of their imagination. Calvin would talk about his friend and his abilities and Christopher would counter … Continue reading
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Secret Agent Calvin Hobbes: World’s a Playground / kizer180
Thought I’d show ol’ Cal and Hobbes in action — via deviantART
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Mystery behind Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ solved?
Whodunit? A final mystery surrounding the work of film legend Alfred Hitchcock — what triggered the crazed bird flocks that helped inspire his 1963 thriller The Birds — appears solved by scientists… Continue reading
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Cthulhu Tentacle Xmas Tree
This is a Christmas tree with a Cthulhu plushie on top and a bunch of tentacles stuck on branches. Because why shouldn’t Christmas be more about scaring children? — via Geekologie
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