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Freddie Mercury’s Birthday Honored With Google Doodle [VIDEO]
To commemorate what would have been Queen singer Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday this weekend, Google published a Mercury-ized doodle on their homepage, along with an accompanying animated video. The clip imagines the late star (who passed away in 1991 due to AIDS complications), cavorting through a heavenscape packed with 8-bit objects and some of his most iconic outfits.
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Working Batmobile Available to Buy on eBay for $620,000
A turbine-powered Batmobile replica manufactured by Pusch Racing Designs can be yours for $620,000. Owner Casey Pusch posted the car on eBay, but thus far, we suspect the listing has attracted more bloggers and comic fans than serious buyers.
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David Thorne’s Epic Office Pranks Revealed in Coworker’s Complaints
Australian humorist David Thorne, best known on the internet for trying to pay a bill with a drawing of a spider, has taken his mischief to the workplace.
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Comedian Covers Himself in Bird Seed, Lets Pigeons Feed Off His Body [VIDEO]
Comedian Mark Malkoff already made a scene Stateside when he pulled a series of pranks in an Apple store, and now he’s moved on to Holland, where he recently allowed pigeons in Amsterdam’s Dam Square to feed from his prone body.
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Boy Throwing Rocks Shot Drive-By Style with Crossbow
A couple kids playing a dangerous game with rocks and a passenger in a car went medieval on each other in a bizarre incident which left one of the boys hospitalized.
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‘Amityville Horror’ House for Sale – Look Inside! [VIDEO]
The four-bedroom home featured in scary movie classic ‘The Amityville Horror’ is up for sale. The asking price is $1.35 million for the Tom’s River, NJ house, which features a pool, theater and killer lakeside view.
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Watch Every Death Scene From Every ‘Final Destination’ Movie in 12 Minutes [NSFW VIDEO]
‘Final Destination 5,’ hits theaters this weekend, and the sick minds at Screened put together a supercut of every death sequence from the first four films in the series, complete with a death count ticker.
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Yikes! Amazon UK Sees Giant Spike in Sales of Aluminum Bats, Clubs During London Riots
As the London enters another day of rioting, looters and bystanders have taken to the web to arm themselves. Amazon’s UK site has seen scary-high spikes in sales of blunt objects over the past 24 hours, including a 50,000% spike in clubs and a more than 35,000% spike among different aluminum baseball bat models.
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The 10 Worst Album Covers of 2011 Are Not Your Grandfather’s Terrible Album Covers
Our friends at PopCrush assembled an epic list of the worst album covers released in the top half of 2011, including atrocities from Lady Gaga, Limp Bizkit and 311. We must say, there’s something about the digital age that makes artists release pretty awful cover art — could it be that in the age of Spotify and iTunes, they think these’ll never actually get seen any larger than thumbnail-size?
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‘Pearl Jam 20′ Documentary Trailer Hits the Internet [VIDEO]
Director Cameron Crowe had access to more than 1,200 hours of Pearl Jam footage to make his upcoming documentary about the band.
A small taste of those vast video archives can be seen in the new trailer for ‘Pearl Jam Twenty,’ now on the web.
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Shameless Pet Video-Corgi Frees Fellow Dog From Cage [VIDEO]
Cutest rescue ever! Like a scene from a Pixar adventure, Ferris the Corgi embarked on a mission to free his sister, Dot Matrix, from a cage. After assessing her enclosure, Ferris neatly unhooked the clasp on the cage’s door and Dot scrambled (well, ambled) out.
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Barack Obama Calms Crying Baby With Presidential Magic [VIDEO]
First he found Bin Laden and now he’s quieting the cries of our nation’s babies. In an official White House video that’s circulating today, Barack and Michelle Obama are greeting a crowd of visitors when the first lady picks up a fan’s baby. The infant is wailing, but when she’s handed over to the president, her cries instantly stop. Watch the clip below: