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Christmas Jumper-orama: The Hideous Gremlins And Fargo Sweats
READY for Christmas? Ready for your seasonal sweater?
Mondo have greated designs based on the 1984 film Gremlins and the 1996’s Fargo.
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Hatred Presents The Most Joyously Violent Video Games Ever
THERE’S a bit of hubbub around a new video game that’s knocking about called ‘Hatred’. It is being hailed (or accused, if you prefer) as the most violent game ever.
Of course, fans of video games will roll their eyes at such a suggestion as there’s a whole host of gory splatterfests in the gaming canon.
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Posted: 17th, October 2014 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
North Korean Airline Koryo Air Rejects The Ryanair Steak Sandwhich And Anger
THE Telegraph says North Korea’s state-owned Koryo Air is thre world’s worst ailrine. It must be joking. The jets, staff and food all look fine, a world above the crap served aboard Ryanair by its barking, angry staff. Photos of the airline comes from Aram Pan, who travelled to Juche Travel to North Korea – “now the only country in the world where you can reliably fly on all major Soviet-era aircraft in one place”.
I’ve been to Cuba with Aeroflot in the late 1990s. The guard opened the plane’s hold with a crowbar. The entire air system fell from the ceiling when touched. The seats folded flat back and never came back up. The plan dived and soared to ‘save fuel’. But we lived. And it was cheap.
And it had no flies on the (barf!) poached salmon like on Air India.
It’s no frills simplicity with grace and poise:
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Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Along The Underground Railroad At Night
“Cypress Swamp” Middle Mississippi
WE can travel down the Underground Railroad with Jeanine Michna-Bales, who created Through Darkness to Light, the slaves’ journey to freedom in Canada:
Finding that there were few visual records of the secret stations along the escape route, she herself traced the steps taken by many of the 100,000 slaves between the Southern plantations of Louisiana to the border of Canada, where slavery was prohibited. Along the way, she creates an archive of historical sites both famous and obscure, discovered through academic inquiry at historical societies and oral histories passed down through generations. …
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Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Who Drew This Massive Knob On The Banksy Artwork On A Folkstone Wall?
SAD news for art fans. A critic has augmented a Banksy artwork on Folkestone’s Rendezvous Street with a generous penis.
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Posted: 13th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Jack Kerouac’s Google Driving Directions: On the Road for 17,527 Mile
THIS is what you need: a copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road map .
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What Makes the Titanic Museum Attraction the #1 Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
ALL aboard the Titanic to relive the horror of frowing in a freezing ocean.
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Posted: 11th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
How To Photograph Black-Eyed Children
THE Black–Eyed Children (aka Black-eyed kids: BEKs) have been making news.
But how do you take a photo of a BEK or, indeed, any other kind of ghoul?
Well, thatnls to this 1979 tome from Usbourne Publishing, we know how to take snapshots of the SUPERNATURAL WORLD.
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Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Books, Strange But True | Comment
This Advert For Thorne Travel Has The Lot
“EXCITING TIMES: at Thorne Travel in Ayrshire, Scotland:
Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
San Diego’s McKamey Manor Is Bloody Terrifying
LOOKING for scary thrills in California? Then San Diego’s McKamey Manor has what you’re looking for:
Here are a few requirements you must pass to even be able to enter: you now must be 21 years of age (previously was 18), you’re required to sign a wavier, and you must be in excellent physical condition. Only two people go in at a time, and get this… it can last anywhere from 4 – 7 hours. They actually now only take four people through the haunted house each week.
Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Nobel Academy Uses Gobbledygook To Praise Literature Prize Winner Patrick Modiano
PATRICK Modiano wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
The Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to the French author “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation“.
@LadyLegalWriter reviews that announcement:
Not to take away from this amazing accomplishment, but I have no idea what the committee means…
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Posted: 9th, October 2014 | In: Books | Comment (1)
Unsavoury Snacks: From Meat Sweets To Biohazards
ANORAK looks at unsavoury snacks, from meat sweets to biohazards.
When we think of sweets, we tend to think… well, SWEET.
OK, we might think of a shrimp…
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Posted: 8th, October 2014 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
50 Famous Faces Reveal Their Favourite Book
FLAVORWIRE has a cracking list of the favourite books of 50 famous faces.
Bill Murray: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Dolly Parton: The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper.
Joan Didion: Victory by Joseph Conrad.
Hillary Rodham Clinton: The Brothers Karamazov
Robin Williams: The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.
Michelle Obama: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.
Nikola Tesla: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Jennifer Lawrence: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.
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Alex Chinneck’s Architectural Illusion In London’s Covent Garden (Photos)
ALEX Chinneck’s architectural illusion in London’s Covent Garden. The structure is copied from the facade at the opposite end of the market and gives the illusion of taking off into mid air.
The housing bubble:
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Posted: 7th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Manchester United Balls: 7 Hateful Extracts From Roy Keane’s Autobiography
PIES has some good bits from former Manchester United captain Roy Keane’s second autobiography. Ghost written by Irish novelist Roddy Doyle, The Second Half picks up where his first left off – in that basically it’s a long, extended list of the many, many things and people he hates.
Here’s the best of what we’ve stumbled across so far…
1. From the very first chapter. Has Roy’s view of Alf-Inge Haaland softened over the years?
“There are things I regret in my life and he’s not one of them.”
No. No it has not.
2. On the fond treasured memories he has of his emotional United exit:
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Posted: 6th, October 2014 | In: Books, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Marketing Watch: Spam Brand Is Blocked For Spam
SPAM. @Pundamentalism aks:
Do you think they’d view this as a good or a bad thing?
Posted: 6th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Things That Exist: Scroguard For Your Genital Protection
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Posted: 6th, October 2014 | In: NSFW, The Consumer | Comment
Peter Thiel: Competition Is Bad And America Is Slow
PETER Thiel has written a book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters. Peter Thiel is worth $2.2 billion. He co-founded PayPal. He ploughed a big chunk of the millions he earned for its sale to eBay inyo a site called Facebook.
Peter Thiel is 46 but looks about 37.
The book is based on notes from a course on high-tech start-ups that he used to teach at Stanford University. The notes were posted online by one of his students and quickly downloaded by 300,000 readers.
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Eleanor Lutz Combines Design And Science To Magical Effect
ELEANOR Lutz uses design and an education in molecular biology to create lovely moving images.
Posted: 5th, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Focus On The People Who Handle Show Animals
LONDON-based photographer Toby Coulson has trained his eye on animal show judges, who “examine each paw, claw, beak, and ear looking for the animal with the perfect dimensions”.
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Posted: 1st, October 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment
What There Is Before There Is Anything There: A Scary Story
WHAT is the power of nightmares?
Argentinian cartoonist has created the delicious What There Is Before There Is Anything There: A Scary Story.
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Posted: 26th, September 2014 | In: Books, Reviews | Comment (1)
Condom Meals I Want to Make for You: Cooking With Rubber Johnnies
AS Fanny Cradock might have put it: “Having a Johnnie around the place is awlays useful”: “Condom Meals I Want to Make for You.”
