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The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Collector's Edition
By: System Administrator  on: Thu 31 of Jul, 2008 [15:07 UTC]  (65 reads)
Comics & Books

Available for pre-order exclusively at Amazon "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" Collectors edition will retail for £50.

• All five fairy tales from the original The Tales of Beedle the Bard • An outer case disguised as a wizarding textbook from the Hogwarts library • Handwritten version of J.K. Rowling's new introduction • 10 new illustrations by J.K. Rowling • Velvet bag embroidered with J.K. Rowling's signature • Metal skull, corners, and clasp • Replica gemstones • Emerald ribbon

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Low Tech Animation at the V&A
By: System Administrator  on: Wed 25 of Jun, 2008 [14:14 UTC]  (145 reads)
Animation

Simple low tech animations produced using a Record turntable, utilising the frame rate of a camera instead of a Victorian Zoetrope. The results are quite wonderfull. The guy describes how he's done it but is a little drowned out by the backing music.

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Exorcist on the Stairs
By: System Administrator  on: Wed 25 of Jun, 2008 [13:48 UTC]  (135 reads)
Toys

Available at the end of this month at Forbidden Planet is this delightful figure of Regan from the Exorcist doing the spider walk down the stairs.

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A Barbie for the Birds
By: System Administrator  on: Sat 14 of Jun, 2008 [22:43 UTC]  (156 reads)
Toys

Here's a pairing no-one saw coming, Mattels "Barbie" and Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" together at last!

Estimated to arrive in late October 2008 at Forbidden Planet

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Are eBay Auctions Dead?
By: System Administrator  on: Wed 04 of Jun, 2008 [00:44 UTC]  (402 reads)
Auctions

Bruce Hershenson, who auctions vintage posters online, is hanging up his eBay gavel. For almost a decade, Hershenson's business epitomized the e-commerce that made eBay (NasdaqGS:EBAY - News) famous. He sold rare, collectible, sometimes kitschy memorabilia in online auctions that had a starting bid of 99%. But as the business of buying and selling over the Internet has matured, the thrill and novelty of auctions have given way to the convenience of one-click purchases. Hershenson will hold his last eBay auction June 3. "The auctions are nothing like what they once were," he says. "They won't ever come back."

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Inventor Burried In Pringles Can
By: System Administrator  on: Mon 02 of Jun, 2008 [21:34 UTC]  (180 reads)
Oddball

Fredric J. Baur, designer of the Pringles potato crisps container, was so proud of his accomplishment that he wanted to be buried in it!

Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles potato crisps that he asked his family to bury him in one.

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Royal Mail Takes Sizable Charges
By: System Administrator  on: Sat 31 of May, 2008 [14:36 UTC]  (185 reads)
Business & Finance

Many customers are confused by the new pricing system and feel that surcharges levelled against them by the Post Office are excessive. An oversize envelope which incurs an extra 6 Pence charge will also be liable for a further £1 handling fee and you will not be allowed to see it until after you have paid up.

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Tennis for Two - First Video Game
By: System Administrator  on: Sat 31 of May, 2008 [13:57 UTC]  (192 reads)
Retro

In 1958 William Higinbotham invented "Tennis for Two" which proceeded "Pong" by 14 years (first released by Atari Inc. on November 29, 1972). Tennis for Two uses an oscilloscope and two control pads.

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New Wacky Packages Book
By: System Administrator  on: Wed 28 of May, 2008 [00:35 UTC]  (205 reads)
Retro

“Wacky Packages" was a series of collectible stickers featuring parodies of consumer products and well-known brands and packaging—were first produced by the Topps company in 1967, then revived in 1973 for a highly successful run. In fact, for the first two years they were published, Wacky Packages were the only Topps product to achieve higher sales than their flagship line of baseball cards. The series has been relaunched several times over the years, most recently to great success in 2007.

For the 35th Anniversary of Wacky Packs, The Topps Company and Harry N. Abrams have published a fun book that is designed beautifully and available on both amazon.com as well as amazon.co.uk . The look and feel of the dust jacket resembles the original wax paper used for Wacky Packs. Art Spiegelman, an original artist for the stickers, wrote the foreword “Wacky Days.” The book is a nice size, almost 250 pages (233 Wacky Pack stickers are shown in 4-color) with approx a 5 x 7 trim.

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A Scratchblock Video, circa 1991
By: System Administrator  on: Sun 25 of May, 2008 [19:48 UTC]  (456 reads)
Internet & media

In 1991 or thereabouts I made a Video composed of TV footage which was set to the music of B23. Most of the editing was done on conventional VHS Video decks and VHS Scratch tapes, the final edits from the scratch tapes were spliced together in a day on a professional editing suite. I made two videos of which "Crash" is the first. They were released under my old pseudo name of "Scratchblock" and shown around various venues in Bristol.

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