Winky Linky

Foreigners: big talking point news in NZ right now is whether the gigantic creepy Santa in the centre of our biggest city will unwrap the bandages on his face to reveal a disturbing winking eye. We are a strange wee country.

From Black and WTF
Love this: a huge collection of 80s straight-to-video box art. I remember some of these from those weird little corner video stores you used to get in the 80s.
Johann Hari’s Independent article about jihadists who have changed their mind about jihad deserves as wide an audience as possible.
Jonny Nexus’s entertaining gods-play-D&D novel Game Night is being serialized free on EN World. First chapter is here.
Awesome: Kid Beyond performs Portishead’s “Wandering Star” all by himself.

Did you hear that story the other week about the remnants of a lost army being found in the Egyptian desert? Turns out it’s probably a wind-up. Rogue Classicism has the knowledge.
And finally… Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, in lego. Surprisingly disturbing.