Regional pay TV operator Austar says it has reached an agreement with Foxtel and Liberty over their $2.5 billion takeover offer.
Foxtel and Liberty are offering Austar shareholders $1.52 per share in cash, which is a 54 per cent premium to Austar’s trading price of less than $1 before takeover speculation started — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Under the banner of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, the big Hollywood studios are flexing their muscles down-under. If the latest rhetoric is to be believed, the country’s ISPs have less than 48 hours to commit to talks on a graduated response system to tackle illicit downloads. Failure to comply, they warn, will result in yet more legal action of the type being suffered by iiNet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you’ve always wanted to play angry birds in real life, just get a sling shot and then crochet some birds and pigs like Flickr user deadcraft did — via Neatorama
Senior officials in Spain’s Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE), the country’s leading collection society for songwriters and composers, face embezzlement charges in the wake of a Friday raid on the organization’s offices. (A collecting society collects licensing fees for public performances of music and distributes them to artists and record companies.)
According to Spanish newspaper El País, the investigation is focused on José Luis Rodríguez Neri, the head of an SGAE subsidiary called the Digital Society of Spanish Authors (SDAE). Neri faces charges of “fraud, misappropriation of funds and disloyal administration.” On Monday, a High Court judge grilled him for more than four hours over the charges — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Instructables user, Kaisei13, made this embraceable Alien Facehugger Pillow Pet for her daughter.
My daughter is obsessed with the AvP game. She has beat it at least 20 times and loves to run around the house hissing and trying to run up walls like a Xenomorph. So for her 8th birthday I made her a plush Alien, and that lead to the idea for a facehugger pillow pet. But to make it a little more unique I added a egg shaped sleeping bag that could be rolled up and put in the tail.
Not bad for a human — via CRAFT
Joanne Woodward baking sweet rolls, Paul Newman making eggs, Anthony Perkins dancing — via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
Restored silent Alfred Hitchcock films will be screened complete with new orchestral scores as part of the build-up to the 2012 London Olympic Games, the British Film Institute (BFI) announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Montoya is a fairly common Spanish surname. Inigo is a much less common, but still not unusual, first name. The Princess Bride is not very popular on the Continent. Therefore, when the new guy starts and introduces himself with “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya,” bursting into laughter and choking out the words, “You killed my father, prepare to die!” will not be funny. HR will have serious words with you. #LFMF
— via Learn From My Fail
Duncan Kitchin is an amateur astronomer in Oregon. Like many of us, he has a telescope that’s kind of a pain lugging outside (my old ‘scope was the same size and shape as a water heater, leading to much hilarity as it sat in the living room). Duncan got tired of dragging it out when it was clear, then hauling back inside when the observing was done.
What’s a guy to do?
Well, if you’re an astronomer and a Doctor Who fan, the solution is obvious: pour a concrete pad, install the permanent mount for the ‘scope, and then make yourself a protective shell around the whole thing… shaped like the TARDIS! — via Bad Astronomy
Peter Falk, the American actor most famous for his role as TV’s scruffy detective, Columbo, has died at the age of 83.
The actor died peacefully at home in Beverly Hills on Thursday night, his family said in a statement.
He had been suffering from dementia for a number of years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the tradition of the Chocolate Cthulhu Idol and the Giant Cthulhu Chocolate Bar comes our first foray into the world of hard candies. We offer you… Loathsome Lovecraftian Lollipops! Included in this first wave are Cthulhu, a Deep One, Nyarlathotep and the Elder Sign — via Cryptocurium
Tracy Widdess knitted this Bender balaclava along with other quirky masks inspired by horror and science fiction. It just makes sense to commit crimes in this — via CRAFT
He’s best known for a whimsical email exchange, offering to pay a $233 bill with a drawing of a spider. When that email was posted on his site in November 2008, traffic soared from several hundred visits a day to half a million, and the post became fodder for David Letterman’s show.
Though the spider email exchange may be real, it uses a stock photograph and a generic, untraceable name, Jane Gilles
. But former colleagues from advertising agency Demasi Jones, whose real names and faces are used throughout Thorne’s website and new book, say they have been hounded by his fans, many of whom believe that every word is true — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sean at MAKE has an awesome new project over on Make: Projects.
Fans of Patrick McGoohan’s classic BBC spy series The Prisoner will recognize this gimmick from Episode 15,
The Girl Who Was Death. It’s a pint glass with words etched on the bottom (in authenticVillagefont) that appear line-by-line as the liquid is imbibed. My version is the closest reproduction of the original I could achieve.
— via CRAFT
Photo taken following Welles’ radio dramatization of Wells’ book, The War of the Worlds
which sparked widespread panic from listeners who thought the alien invasion described in the story was real. Read more about it here.
Bonus Audio: Radio interview of Wells by Welles — via Awesome People Hanging Out Together
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