— via deviantART
Don’t underestimate that little scooter. He’s saved the rebellion more than once. Morgan, a Geekologie reader, rides this glorious Vespa:
This was done with adhesive vinyl, some meticulous cutting and a 12-pack of beer. It gets a lot of looks and thumbs up, and often times while I am sitting at a stop light someone crossing the street will pause to take notice. The rear trunk is a real vintage piece and I removed the original faded travel stickers and replaced them with various retro style Star Wars art and posters that I found on the internet.
— via Neatorama
No Way Out from Arcanum Pictures on Vimeo.
Isolated in a place where twisted creatures torment him from the dark, a man desperately tries to find an escape.
If you have a hexagonal-shaped room, decency demands that you turn it into a TARDIS control Room. Jayman White understood this and made one optimised for the Fourth Doctor. It lights up, makes appropriate sound effects and travels through space and time — via Neatorama
Lee Joyner‘s bronze bust of horror writer is ready to slither off its base. It’s one of many sculptures he’s made of the Cthulhu mythos — via Neatorama
Vampires in the modern world. What would it really be like? Take a trip on the night train in this short film produced for Stage 5 TV and find out why the cursed don’t sparkle
A decade after George Lucas said Star Wars
was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy is destined for theatres as The Walt Disney Co announced Tuesday that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion.
The seventh movie, with a working title of Episode 7
, is set for release in 2015. Episodes 8 and 9 will follow. The new trilogy will carry the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia beyond Return of the Jedi
, the third film released and the sixth in the saga. After that, Disney plans a new Star Wars
movie every two or three years. Lucas will serve as creative consultant in the new movies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jimmy Savile, later Sir Jimmy Savile, was a radio DJ, television personality and tireless charity worker, raising many millions for causes like the storied children’s ward at Stoke Mandeville hospital. He was still best known for his TV show Jim’ll Fix It, where he made dreams come true for kids all over the country.
Jim’ll fuck it,
said this person I was with. Jimmy Savile’s a nonce.
If you had the misfortune to grow up outside God’s Own Country, nonce
is a term for paedophile.
Bullshit,
I said. Jimmy Savile’s been around forever. He would have gotten caught. Radio 1 Roadshows? Doing Top Of The Pops on TV since the dawn of fucking time?
What do you think the price of silence is?
What? How could he not get caught? He looks like a nutter. Dripping in gold chains, long silver hair, shiny tracksuits, gurning at cameras with his ‘now then, now then’ like he’s a fucking glam rock Yorkshire miner? Bollocks.
Well, of course he got caught. In a manner of speaking. Especially with the dead kids
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google+ is apparently a success, according to many tech reporters. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most people are using G+ to post inside Circles. Some 11,000 people have added me to G+ circles — but, apparently, none of the ones they post to. Of the 150+ people I had in circles, precisely three of them posted content I could see. When I posted content, only a thin fraction of those 11000 people could see it, because at some point I got tuned out by the system. G+ is therefore useless to me, and I just nuked my circles.
Facebook Pages allow some 16% of the people who clicked Like on a Page to see the posts from that Page. Regardless of whether or not those people specifically requested those posts in their News Feed. If a Page owner wants to access the eyeballs of more of the people who clicked Like on a Page because they wanted to see that Page’s posts, that Page owner has to pay to Promote those posts. I would currently have to pay USD $10 to ensure that all the people who Liked the official Warren Ellis Page on Facebook actually saw one single post. Facebook Pages are therefore useless to me.
(Of the 150+ people I had as Friends on my personal page, maybe five people were aware I was actually there, so I’ve nuked my friends list there, too.)
None of this is important, you understand. But I’ve not been paying a huge amount of attention to social media this year. Until it became time to start thinking about raising awareness of GUN MACHINE. So I’ve had to dig into this a bit — I’ve been talking about this in the newsletter, too — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In July of this year, in an admirable attempt to secure him as a guest on his Nerdist Podcast, Chris Hardwick sent a beautiful 1934 Smith Corona to noted typewriter collector Tom Hanks and popped the question. Within days, Hanks responded with the charming letter seen below, typed on the Corona.
Unsurprisingly, the anecdote-filled podcast that resulted is wonderful. It can be heard here — via Letters of Note
A line-up of the Indiana Jones characters in animated form — via deviantART
— via Leonard Nimoy
Japan-based internet users who download copyright infringing files face up to two years in prison or fines of up to two million yen ($25,700; £15,900) after a change to the law.
Such activity has been illegal since 2010, but until now had not invoked the penalties.
It follows a lobbying campaign by country’s music industry.
But critics said that efforts should have remained focused on stopping users making such material available.
In Japan illegal uploads of copyright infringing music and videos carry a maximum 10 year prison sentence and a 10 million yen fine.
Sales figures suggest the country is the world’s second-largest music market after the US — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian writer Robert G Barrett has died of cancer on the New South Wales central coast.
Barrett started his working life as a butcher at Bondi in Sydney’s east before turning to writing in a deliberately politically incorrect style.
He introduced his best-known character Les Norton in his 1984 novel You Wouldn’t Be Dead For Quids and has sold more than 1 million copies of his books — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hernando Guanlao is a sprightly man in his early 60s, with one abiding passion — books.
They’re his pride and joy, which is just as well because, whether he likes it or not, they seem to be taking over his house.
Guanlao, known by his nickname Nanie, has set up an informal library outside his home in central Manila, to encourage his local community to share his joy of reading.
The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want — even permanently. As Guanlao says: The only rule is that there are no rules.
It’s a policy you might assume would end very quickly — with Mr Guanlao having no books at all.
But in fact, in the 12 years he’s been running his library — or, in his words, his book club — he’s found that his collection has grown rather than diminished, as more and more people donate to the cause — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dan Spitz, former lead guitarist for thrash metal band Anthrax, has sold more than 15 million albums, been nominated for 3 Grammy’s, created over 10 studio albums — and now he is recognised as one of the best watchmakers in the world. After leading one of the greatest metal bands of all time, he abruptly departed Anthrax and pursued numerous courses of study to master the art of watchmaking — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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