So you failed to win the auction for Cameron Frye’s Dad’s red Ferrari last year. Now what? Well, if that $1.65 million is burning a hole in your pocket, you could always buy the glassy Ferris Bueller house, recently reduced — via Gizmodo
…more tea, darling
– Nextwave 01 (Director’s Cut) – art by Stuart Immonen 2006 — via A Moment of Ellis
If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later torn down — via Jetson Green
Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, best known for the hits Stuck In The Middle With You and Baker Street, has died aged 63, The Guardian reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian music fans are forging foreign iTunes accounts to make big savings on their purchases.
The practice, which is a direct breach to iTunes terms and conditions, has exposed the inflated price that Australians pay to access songs off the popular music and entertainment site.
By creating an American iTunes account through the use of a US credit card or gift card, users are saving up to 80c per song and $7 per album.
The recently released Beatles box set collection can be bought with a saving of more than $A100.
Deals offered on the internet also include $US50 vouchers on sale for $US40, increasing the savings further for music buyers — via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
If I saw someone coming down the street wearing this Cthulhu-inspired ski hat, I’d either think they were nuts, or they were really nuts.
It was knit by CraftyPA, and she’s also made one in red, in case the traditional green Cthulhu isn’t for you. For some reason, the red version looks more like Dr Zoidberg than Cthulhu to me, though. I always wanted to go as Zoidberg for Halloween, so maybe I’ll get that one for my costume for next year. I’ll just need some lobster claws to go with it — via Technabob
Oscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite has died at the age of 64, a spokesman has announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Drive your friends insane with this fez featuring the mind warping visage of the Great Old God! — via Fez-o-rama
Blogger Acornbud knitted a toilet paper roll cozy shaped like the titular character in the anime movie My Neighbor Totoro — via Neatorama
Cthullu Christmas by Oliver Wetter, aka Fantasio — via John Freeman
Bobby Farrell, front man of the 1970s disco group Boney M, has died at the age of 61, his agent has announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version of the video game Frogger
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A pagan celebration for everybody! Necronomipod is a creation of Charlie Stross, for the Fuller Memorandum — via Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)
Dresden Dolls singer (and Neil Gaiman inamorata) Amanda Palmer has released a cheeky low-budget reinterpretation of the 1980s cult hit Labyrinth. Palmer plays Jennifer Connelly, sock puppets replace Muppets, and Gaiman assumes David Bowie’s role as Jareth, the Goblin King — via YouTube
The music industry is changing rapidly. On the one hand there are tens of thousands of artists who use the Internet as a distribution channel and share their music online for free, but on the other side of the spectrum Big Music and Apple are tightening the bolts. We discuss the upside of the Internet and the evil ways
of the corporate interests with Benn Jordan, one of the first musicians to embrace BitTorrent and turn free music into a business — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I had just finished reading some HP Lovecraft, so his flavor of awesome was still fresh in my mind. Usually when thinking about making these I go through lots of failed ideas before connecting something random to something else that could relate in shape or texture. I landed pretty quickly on Santa’s beard being similar to Cthulhu’s tentacle mouth. After that, I just needed classic scene to befoul, like a child in Santa’s lap — via Scott Brundage
Christmas in Funcom’s upcoming paranormal MMO The Secret World is just as festive and terrifying as it is in the real world — via Kotaku
British defence company BAE Systems recently unveiled a concept vehicle whose design it says was inspired by the Batmobile (The Tumbler) from Batman Begins
and The Dark Knight
. The world’s second largest defence company is thinking about using the so-called The Raider
design for a small, highly agile autonomous reconnaissance and attack vehicle which can carry a variety of payloads
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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