Hammer House of Horror was a 1980 British anthology television series produced by the eponymous film studio. It was followed by
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense and there were a couple of other notable, similar themed, series around at the time,
Beasts and
West Country Tales. They might now seem a little crude and simplistic, but they employed an interesting array of writers, directors and actors and the best can still raise a definite chill
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posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Oct 31, 2012 -
8 comments
October 30, 1987 is the anniversary of the release of Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou's first solo album. It would go on to sell over 8 million copies in the first year of its release in the US alone, spawn six Top 5 singles (including four which hit #1, another reaching #2), would reach the top of the album charts in countries around the world, and to date has sold over 25 million copies across the planet. That's right, ladies and gentlemen,
George Michael's Faith is 25 years old.
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posted by hippybear
on Oct 27, 2012 -
78 comments
"Dog owners have a dog park where they can show off their dogs, but cat people don't have that," she says. "The Internet is where people who love cats can go to say, 'Look how cute my cat is.'" On
cat videos on the Internet, and maintaining the popularity of Henrí and
Maru, while
designers of the
Scratching Post note how how some owners start writing in a first feline style.
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posted by Wordshore
on Oct 24, 2012 -
31 comments
Kim Han Sol is the son of Kim Jong Nam, who is the eldest son of Kim Jong Il, the recently deceased North Korean dictator. In this English interview for Finnish TV with former United Nations Under-Secretary General Elisabeth Rehn, he talks about his life, refers to his uncle and current DPRK Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Eun, as a 'dictator,' and says he never met his grandfather. [
Part 1 (interview begins at 1:35)] [
Part 2]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken
on Oct 18, 2012 -
22 comments
comfytube: Hours and hours of YouTube videos of crackling log fires in fireplaces. Click the raincloud to add the sound of rain, and the music note to add some soft music.
posted by ocherdraco
on Oct 18, 2012 -
23 comments
"The psychology of the dare is that the dared person is caught in a double bind. They have the choice of either accepting the dare or appearing as a coward and suffering a social lowering in status. Faced with such a choice, many people accept the dare, attracted as much by the potential kudos as the fear of ridicule."
^ Now available in
Web 2.0.
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posted by maxwelton
on Sep 24, 2012 -
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In 2005, Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks produced a 6 episode miniseries that spanned the period of expansion of the United States into the American West, from 1825 to 1890. Through fictional and historical characters, the series used two primary symbols--the wagon wheel and the Lakota medicine wheel -- to join the story of two families: one Native American, one White settlers, as they witnessed many of the 19th century's pivotal historical milestones. The award-winning
Into The West can now be
seen in its entirety on YouTube.
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posted by zarq
on Sep 20, 2012 -
12 comments
Poetry Reincarnations. "I hope you may enjoy these glimpses at some of the long-gone poets and literary figures, etc., in the form of scratchy old movies, as if they had been filmed by candle light."
posted by Iridic
on Sep 20, 2012 -
6 comments
