Ronnie Wood, Armin Strom, and Virgin Racing Team Up

Armin Strom, Official Timing Partner of the Virgin Racing Formula One Team, has announced that it will participate in an art project with the Ronnie Wood. Best known as a Rolling Stone, Ronnie is also an artist, and during 2011 he will paint a Virgin Racing Formula 1 car, an Armin Strom watch, and a Virgin Racing driver’s helmet. The Armin Strom “Art Watch” will be auctioned at the 2011 Only Watch exhibition and sale in Monaco — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Johnny Cash jumpsuit brings $50,000 at auction

The Man in Black was dressed in blue as he rehearsed for a 1969 concert at San Quentin.

The embroidered blue jumpsuit that Johnny Cash wore to practice caused a bidding war during a memorabilia auction Sunday, bringing in nearly 10 times what was expected.

The suit was expected to sell for $5,000, but was eventually claimed for $50,000 by a collector from Belgium, said Darren Julien, president and CEO of Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills. He would not name the buyer.

The auction of 321 lots sold for over $700,000, nearly twice what was expected, Julien said Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Be on the lookout for Captain Awesome!

Eugene-Springfield, meet Captain Awesome.

Not that the former Douglas Allen Smith Jr is a newcomer to Lane County.

He was born here in 1983. He graduated from Willamette High School in 2002.

But he officially became Captain Awesome only last month, when a Lane County Circuit Court judge approved his name change petition — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Angry Birds — Plush!

My boys (husband included, but especially the boys!) are obsessed with the game Angry Birds. They like the game, but they really like to play a real life version they invented, where they chuck objects at each other. (Don’t worry! They use safe projectiles for this!) I want to make their game a little more fun for them, so I am creating some Angry Birds and pigs for them to play with — via Obsessively Stitching

Tumblr Is Down

Two hours and counting and the blogging platform is still down. Whatever are we to do without The Daily What and all those other delightful blogs?

According to The Next Web and CenterNetworks, Tumblr has been down for two hours now, causing a lot of derision among folks on Twitter — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

For the past eight weeks, the biggest-selling song in Germany has been a cover version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow by a morbidly obese, ukulele-playing Hawaiian named Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. But any new fans hoping to see him perform will be as disappointed as the song’s publisher, who heard the version a few years ago, realised the lyrics were slightly wrong, and asked Leah Bernstein at the Mountain Apple record label if she could ask him to re-record it. Well I’d really love to, Bernstein replied, but he’s dead — via redwolf.newsvine.com

French court to rule on Concorde crash

A French court will today declare whether who, if anyone, is to blame for the crash of a Concorde airliner outside Paris that killed 113 people more than 10 years ago.

Its verdict, after a four-month trial this year, will determine whether European engineers or a US company and two of its staff were responsible for the disaster, which sounded the death knell for the first era of suspersonic commercial flight — via redwolf.newsvine.com