Actor Peter O’Toole, who starred in Sir David Lean’s 1962 film classic Lawrence of Arabia, died on Saturday aged 81, his agent has said.
He was being treated at London’s Wellington hospital after a long illness, his agent added.
O’Toole’s daughter Kate said the family was overwhelmed by the outpouring of real love and affection being expressed towards him, and to us
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He received an honorary Oscar in 2003, having initially turned it down.
In a letter the actor asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to delay it until he was 80, saying he was still in the game and might win the bugger outright
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But when he finally clasped his statuette, he said: Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot.
O’Toole’s agent said he was one of a kind in the very best sense and a giant in his field
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women
— via cartoonpolitics
The first commercial version of the Copenhagen Wheel. Now available for sale.
Own a limited edition, hand-crafted Copenhagen Wheel, invented and built in Cambridge, Massachusetts — via Youtube
Imagine the pitch to the investors: It’s going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait — here’s the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We’ll bill it as a romantic getaway — and call it The Gobbler!
— via LILEKS (James) :: the Gobbler
A man considered to be Fort Atkinson’s own Frank Lloyd Wright has passed away.
Helmut Mike
Ajango, whose numerous creative designs became regionally — and even internationally — known landmarks, died Friday, 15 November. He was 81 years old.
Closer to home, Ajango’s innovative, forward-thinking architectural style was well represented in two Jefferson County restaurants: The Fireside Dinner Theatre in Fort Atkinson and The Gobbler Supper Club and Motel in Johnson Creek — via Daily Union
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Buy the Book of G’Kar for your holiday shopping — from the Season 5 Blooper Reel from the always fantastic Babylon 5
I purchased this gizmo to play a prank on my husband Brad, who still prattles on about his fourth-kind
encounter when he was just thirteen. (The 4th kind involves a probe, if you’re wondering. I keep saying it was likely his redneck neighbor dressed as ET, but that possibility is too dreadful for him to truly accept.)
On the anniversary of Brad’s alleged abduction, I placed the device by our bedside, then set-up an electromagnetic wave generator under the bed, with a timer to go off right at midnight. (If you’re wondering where to get one, I recommend the Skymall Catalog. I also picked up some Motivational posters and fake garden rock speakers to save on shipping. You’re welcome.)
But back to my prank. It was all set to go, and I was as giddy as a six year old waiting for Santa. But like a typical six year old, I fell asleep before the damn thing went off. I awoke to the flashing of multiple LEDs from the UFO-02 Detector, and bolted up, eager to see Brad’s petrified face. Aha!
But Brad wasn’t there.
In fact, I wasn’t even in our bedroom any more. Instead, I stood face-to-face with Leonardo da Vinci. Or perhaps it was Professor Dumbledore, I’m not really certain. In either event, It was a manifestation that the being I shall call the Intelligence
had determined my brain would most easily accept for deliverance of The Message.
You see, the Intelligence had come to convey to us humans that the Imperative was nigh, that what we loosely dub the Singularity was only the beginning of a limitless existence unbounded by physical space and time, and that sugar-free alternatives are actually WORSE for us than the real deal. He made sure that last point was clear by making me repeat it twice.
When I came to, Brad was sound asleep in his tin foil hat, the UFO-02 detector was gone, and, sure enough, all of my Splenda had been replaced with little, brown raw sugar packets. When I tried to tell Brad about Leonardo/Dumbledore and The Message, he rolled over away from me, grumbling that I shouldn’t eat so much ice cream or any dairy product before bed.
by the always awesome George Takei — via Amazon
The internet of things may be coming to us all faster and harder than we’d like.
Reports coming out of Russia suggest that some Chinese domestic appliances, notably kettles, come kitted out with malware — in the shape of small embedded computers that leech off the mains power to the device. The covert computational passenger hunts for unsecured wifi networks, connects to them, and joins a spam and malware pushing botnet. The theory is that a home computer user might eventually twig if their PC is a zombie, but who looks inside the base of their electric kettle, or the casing of their toaster? We tend to forget that the Raspberry Pi is as powerful as an early 90s UNIX server or a late 90s desktop; it costs £25, is the size of a credit card, and runs off a 5 watt USB power source. And there are cheaper, less competent small computers out there. Building them into kettles is a stroke of genius for a budding crime lord looking to build a covert botnet.
But that’s not what I’m here to talk about — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Shoggoth, with your luminous pustules so bright… It looks like very bad, indescribably terrible weather this year. Santa Cthulhu’s sleigh doesn’t pull itself. He knew just who to ask for help. Pulling the Octi-Sleigh and squirming bag of hugs is a rapidly morphing, protoplasmic vision of a Shoggoth. Don’t stand and look too long, he’s gaining on you — via Etsy
A red fox pinpoints field mice buried deep beneath the snow, using his sensitive hearing and the magnetic field of the North Pole to plot his trajectory — via Youtube
12” long bronze cheetah. Available in turquoise fading to brown speckled patina #4/200 or brownstone patina #5/200. Black granite base — via Etsy
This Chainmail vest is themed around Princess Celestia the vest is mainly a frost white to match her coat and has her Cutie Mark adorning both the front and back. The shoulders are in the colors of her mane and tail and they were done in a diagonal pattern, but I noticed when they drape over the shoulder they appear to curve/wave which I thought was cool. I didn’t feel like making full sleeves for several reasons so these shoulder pieces are more for a flourish — via deviantART
Vers L’infini, originally uploaded by julien.cornette
In homage to the fearless Captain Nemo, this watch shows the dramatic attack of the giant squid from 20,000 leagues under the sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
in the original title). The endless battle between squid and man depicts the time, from hour to hour each appears to be gaining the upper hand. The two men being held by the squid indicate the hours and minutes — via Watchismo
Loki is a very special red fox who came to Turtle Bay Exploration Park at 6 weeks old. He was found as an orphan and could not be released back into the wild. Being so young, he had to go home every night with the animal trainers. Since the What Does the Fox Say
video came out, we decided it was an important educational message to let people know what their vocalisations really sound like. Working to put his talking
on cue this video shows the first time we worked on it with him. He is quite the character and with 28 different vocalisations, he sure has a lot to say — via Youtube
Telecom New Zealand is set to sell off AAPT at a fraction of the price it paid for the company back in 1999, with TPG stepping out to buy the company for AU$450 million.
Telecom NZ this morning confirmed to the Australian Securities Exchange that TPG would pick up the business telecommunications and cloud company by the end of February 2014.
The transaction was said to be free of conditions precedent
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It had been reported that Telecom NZ had been looking to sell the Australian business since at least October, with Goldman Sachs recruited to manage the transaction.
Including the AU$60 million iiNet paid for AAPT’s consumer division in 2010, the total value for AAPT is significantly lower than the AU$2.2 billion that Telecom New Zealand paid for it in the peak of the dot com boom in 1999.
AAPT’s revenue has declined over the last few years, with the company this year reporting earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation of AU$57 million, down by AU$10 million on the previous financial year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A hotel guest emerged naked from a storage cupboard of a Premier Inn with a fire extinguisher hose up his bottom, a court was told.
Joseph Small, 20, stripped off and grabbed the appliance on the fourth floor corridor of the budget hotel.
He then put the hose between his buttocks and began touching himself, Westminster magistrates’ court heard.
Small also urinated on the carpet before a hotel worker wrapped him in a towel and escorted him down to reception.
He then hurled abuse at the Bangladeshi member of staff, telling him: This country has been taken over by al-Qaeda — go back to Pakistan.
In the lobby, Small again urinated in front of tourists, shouting: I come from Sheffield in England.
He caused £450 damage, the court was told — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via Steve Niles Tumblr
Fossil Rim Wildlife Centre is proud to announce the birth of three new cheetah cubs. The litter was born on 12 October 2013 and consisted of one male and two females. All appear to be in good health.
Their mother, Gracie, is a first-time mother who has proved to be a natural at taking care of her young. The father is Bruce, an 8-year-old male born and hand-raised at Fossil Rim. This was his first litter of cubs and animal care staff is pleasantly surprised by his ability to reproduce; this is uncommon for hand-raised males. Bruce and his brother Moose were pulled from their mom for hand-raising due to illness at a young age.
Video courtesy of and copyright by Fossil Rim Wildlife Centre — via Youtube
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