The earliest ever version of the board game Monopoly has sold for a whopping £90,000.
The set was one of 5,000 made in 1933 by Charles Darrow, the purported inventor of Monopoly, and is the only one to have survived to this day.
The dog-eared set is made out of a piece of oilcloth and is in the form of the original circular shape that is 33 inches in diameter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nicholas Courtney, passed on today, aged 81. The actor is best known for his appearances in the British sci-fi TV show Doctor Who, and has performed with more actors playing the Doctor than anyone else (William Hartnell as Space Security Agent Bret Vyon, Patrick Troughton as Colonel Lethbridge Stewart, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Pater Davison and Sylvester McCoy as Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, a role he reprised last year in the Sarah Jane Adventures. He also played the role in a number of audio plays from Big Finish, with Colin Baker and Paul McGann — via redwolf.newsvine.com
have you ever dreamed of being entombed in the sunken city of R’lyeh?
rising from the depths of the Pacific ocean to evoke terror on the world?
being Cthulhu, one of H.P Lovecrafts most well known characters, the high priest to the Great Old Ones?
A horrific combination of octopus, dragon, and human characteristics that can instill fear with just one look?
then this is the ski mask for you! — via Etsy
June Gilbank made a crocheted presentation of Discworld in the amigurumi style. When Sir Terry Pratchett saw this work, he commented Well, if you’re going to crochet Discworld then that’s the way to do it
— via Neatorama
West Australian Newspaper Holdings is in a trading halt after offering $4.1 billion to buy the Seven Media Group — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A film which cost just $80 to make was the surprise winner at the Tropfest short film festival in Sydney on Sunday.
Damon Gameau’s film, Animal Beatbox, is an animated short starring cellophane animals with a catchy lyrical and poetic narrative — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Urr ye sittin’ comfortably? Then we’ll tairt. Itchy Coo, the publisher in Scots of well-loved children’s books such as AA Milne’s The Hoose at Pooh’s Neuk, Geordie’s Mingin Medicine by Roald Dahl and Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious and the Puggies, is to close after almost a decade — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yes, copyright can be a tricky thing.
Apparently the take-down team at the major US television network CBS have taken drastic measures to take infringing videos offline, including a video on the CBS website — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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The sassy senator has been portrayed many different ways in the original Star Wars trilogy: virginal, strident and sexy. But Leia’s rarely been as boldly retro as in this series of posters.
Hungarian illustrator Szoki crafted these images, as well as studies of various denizens of Mos Eisley’s cantina, for his personal enjoyment
, and they look a bit like fashion illustrations from ’60s magazines like Vogue.
Which is not a bad thing at all — via Blastr
Bestselling author Neil Gaiman – author of awarded science fiction and fantasy short stories, novels, comic books and more – makes a case for piracy in a recent interview with ORG Zine.
Initially Gaiman got annoyed by people who put his stuff online for free, but later he realized that it’s actually the best promotion an author can get — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Over the last few months, Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement warnings from MPAA-affiliated movies studios: most are directed at users of Google’s public Wi-Fi service but others are meant for Google employees. The MPAA is thus warning the search giant that it might get disconnected from the Internet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tura Satana, an actress who gained a cult following for her role in the 1965 movie Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, has reportedly died of heart failure in Reno, Nevada — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Get your sea legs ready. Google’s latest interactive logo, to go live on Tuesday, celebrates Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday, and it may induce seasickness. In honor of Verne’s most famous novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
, the logo has been transformed into the portholes of a submarine. A driving panel allows the viewer to take on the vaunted role of Captian Nemo and dive the submarine to the depths of the digital ocean, where shipwrecks and a giant squid dwell. The logo duplicates the swaying of the sea so accurately, wooziness may ensue — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Charlie’s Angels
star Farrah Fawcett would have turned 64 yesterday, and to celebrate, her iconic red bathing suit and the poster that launched a million adolescent boys’ fantasies were given to the Smithsonian — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Bandmates of former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore have paid tribute to a great player and great guy
following his death on holiday in Spain.
The 58-year-old, originally from Belfast, was found dead in a hotel room on the Costa del Sol in the early hours of Sunday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Knithacker points us to this rad amigurumi Greedo from Flickr user BackyardBirderWa. The shaping of the head is spot on! I love it! — via CRAFT
Guy Hands this afternoon surrendered control of EMI – handing ownership of the music giant behind Coldplay and Tinie Tempah to bankers Citigroup after his venture capital firm Terra Firma could no longer support the company’s debts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Add some fun and whimsy (and perhaps just a bit of Chaos) to your next afternoon tea with this Cthulhu tea cozy. This original design is sure to keep your tea toasty warm and put a twinkle in your eye.
This Elder God of a cozy is hand knit using a moss green wool and merino blend to keep your tea nice and hot. He is sized to fit either a 6 cup or 8 cup teapot — via Etsy
A commission of a Dr Who ceph and a TARDIS! Something got lost in translation between the sketch and the final art – straight lines and perspective are tricky like that — via CrashOctopus Blog
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