William Gibson is the dad in Calvin and Hobbes

Via William Gibson.

Wooden octopus puzzle

ImagiPLAY Counting Octopi on sale at Amazon.

"Nissan Has Turned Real-Life Driving Into an Environmentally-Friendly Game"

Gizmodo:

achievement system Nissan worked into the Leaf's software, which ranks your energy efficiency against other owners.

In addition to comparing the amount of miles you can travel for every kilowatt hour consumed, it will also give you platinum, gold, silver or bronze distinctions for maintaining a certain standard on the road.

Stanley Kubrick's Lord of the Rings, Starring the Beatles

By Jason Chalker.

Hidden Mother photos

In the 1800's, mothers would take photos with their children, cover themselves with fabric, and then be cropped out of the photos with mattes or frames. But remove the matte and frame, and you get some very creepy photos.

"Social dungeons"

From a review of Mass Effect 2:

The first thing I notice when I’m playing the second time is that interactions aren’t decisions — they’re social monsters that need to be killed to pass quests. When they die, you get experience toward paragon or renegade levels, which allow access to higher level conversations, which are basically social dungeons. The second thing I notice is, once you know, for certain, that someone won’t add any interesting new information to their initial, perfectly clear summary statement of their role in the story and your expectations regarding them, the game gets alot shorter. Except for when these people are expositing about some shoehorned summary that seems completely out of context, unless you pumped them for redundant information, earlier.

Angry people in local newspapers (the blog)

Angry people in local newspapers (the blog).

Dracula Lego Cubedude

Gary Oldman Dracula Lego Cubedude by Angus MacLane.

Panther swimsuit

"We Are Handsome's black panther-print swimsuit is a fierce poolside piece."

Red Matter specimen

Red Matter specimen by Brian Chan.

Wolves in Sweden

From an article in Rolling Stone about Stieg Larrson:

As a boy, Stieg lived in his grandparents' cottage in the woods. At the time, an old Swedish law was still in effect that barred children from attending school until they were seven. Written a century earlier, the law was intended to protect little boys and girls from being devoured by wolves while walking through the forest on the way to school.

Also, there was a serial killer in Sweden known as The Laser Man.

Secret Cinema showing of Alien

There was a Secret Cinema showing of Alien Halloween 2009.

DC Comics: The 75th Anniversary Poster Book

300 covers, although only 100 are poster-sized.  34% off Amazon.

Lego alien

Lego armored alien by Legohaulic.

Domino and Lil' Deadpool

Deadpool Max #6 cover by Kyle Baker.

Zarana

Zartan's sister, Zarana, by Chris Johnston.

Wine celebrating the rescued Chilean miners

Chilean Winers:

To celebrate the rescue of the 33 Chilean Miners during the autumn of 2010, Unreal have created a limited edition of 33 bottles of Chilean Wine. Each bottle is named after one of the rescued miners and numbered in order of their resurfacing. Each bottle comes in a tube representing the Fénix 2 rescue capsule, and is buried beneath a layer of rocks. As recipients dig out their wine, they reveal a replica of the message sent up to rescuers which exclaimed "Estamos bien en el refugio los 33", meaning "We are okay in the refuge, the 33 of us".

Laura Palmer Bearbrick

Pharoah

Psusennes MMXII by Eric Zelinski.

Christmas sweater

On sale here.

Olly Moss's Star Wars posters

Time Travel Mart Goods

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Some of the goods on sale at 826 LA's Echo Park Time Travel Mart.

"Kosovo's prime minister is the head of a 'mafia-like' Albanian group responsible for smuggling weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern Europe"

"Figures from Thaçi's inner circle are also accused of taking captives across the border into Albania after the war, where a number of Serbs are said to have been murdered for their kidneys, which were sold on the black market."

New rules for the boring board games everyone owns

The Boardgame Remix Kit:

Liven up your Christmas by remixing the boardgames in your house to make brand new games. The Boardgame Remix Kit works with all the great family favourites. It's got twenty five games that you can play using the boards and pieces you've already got. As well as smoothing out or speeding up a standard game, the kit can turn Monopoly* into a family poker tournament, Trivial Pursuit* into a surrealist parlour game; Scrabble* into fight between a wasp and a robot, and Cluedo* into a zombie invasion.

Venture Bros. storyboards and crew jacket up for bid

Stephan DeStefano was hit with a huge medical bill for his cat, and put up a bunch of Venture Bros. storyboards and other goods fro sale.

UK covers for Stephen King's Under The Dome

Goods on sale at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co.

Quidditch tee

Detroit Gold Wings t-shirts by Steven Anderson.

Portland 77 t-shirt

Portland 77 t-shirt for Spirit of 77 on sale here.

There were a lot of cubicles in Tron

Charlie Jane Anders looks at the original Tron, and notes that there were a lot of cubicles at Encom.

Plush Cobra Commander

Plush Cobra Commander by Kittyzilla.