- The Amityville Horror house is up for sale. Anybody wanna go halfsies? [via]
- Well, there goes my dream of paying for the house by wearing a costume on Hollywood Boulevard. Are sights like this now really a thing of the past?
- And I guess I also won’t be able to afford a spot aboard this $1.1 billion “sea castle”. (In all seriousness, though, divorced from the politics and ridiculous price of the thing, a part of me does think the whole thing looks very cool.) [via]
- Maybe I can get a job pretending to be a foreign investor in Japan. [via]
- And finally, if I do, maybe I’ll be able to count myself among the luckiest people on Earth:
Well, maybe not. [via]
videos
Tuesday various
- Want another reason not to like 3D movies? The glasses are filthy!
- Speaking of going to the movies, should we really be encouraging people to use their phones in the theater?
- Continuing a theme…that giant octopus scene in Goonies? So glad they cut it. [via]
- Charles Schulz’s Teen Comics [via]
- And finally, the Internets Celebrities on “Stadium Status” [via]
Stadium Status from Internets Celebrities on Vimeo.
Wednesday various
- Stieg Larsson is turning out to be an incredibly prolific dead man.
- Scientists have created software that can recognize sarcasm. Now if we could just figure out a way to transfer that ability to more people… [via]
- Whatever your feelings about deaf culture and cochlear implants — personally, I sympathize, but I still believe deafness is a disability — it’s hard not to be a little moved by this video of an eight-month-old deaf baby hearing sound for the first time. [via] And that child later would grow up to be…Iron Baby.
- And finally, Lorne Michaels on being Canadian and comedic [via]:
“I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it’s challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy. It’s allowed. It’s not encouraged, but it’s definitely allowed, and you stand very little chance of being shot.â€
Thursday various
- Is swimming with the dolphins bad for the dolphins? [via]
- “Fish stores are just small, free aquariums.” – Small Victories
- And when are these book vending machines going to make there way to my neck of the woods, too? [via]
- This may very well be the coolest Coke machine I’ve ever seen. That said, it’s unfortunately only available in CA and GA right now. [via]
- And finally, a very cool tour of the International Space Station.