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Doctor Who 10th Doctor kigurumi/romper suit Looking for a stylish, science fictional romper-suit/kigurumi to lounge in this winter? Thinkgeek's$40 tenth Doctor lounger is just the thing. Read the rest... Crowdfunding Blood and Snow: indie zombie movie Thom sends us an "Indiegogo flexible funding page for BLOOD & SNOW, a horror thriller creature feature film set in Alaska at a lonely ex-military research station, where 5 scientists discover something beneath the ice that is alien in origin." They're trying to raise $100K, $15 gets you a pre-release signed DVD of the movie. Read the rest... X-Wing Fighter knife-block Thinkgeek's $100 X-Wing Fighter knife-block comes with five kitchen knives of unknown quality (my guess is fair-to-middling, but they sure are shiny) and is a striking (if potenitally dangerous) way to display your kitchenware. Read the rest... 1,000-room palace for Turkey's President Erdogan will cost twice initial $615M pricetag The White Palace in Ankara has 1.6m square feet of floorspace, and features thousands of trees imported from Italy at a cost of up to $10,000 each; the taxpayer-footed electricity bill from the palace will run $313K/month. Read the rest... Old Tabasco ad Sets the mouth to watering, it does. An image of the one true sauce, before which all other sauces are mockers, from the Vintage Ads LJ group. Read the rest... Japanese maglev train goes 311 mph The Central Japan Railway Company has invited members of the public to take test rides on its new magnetically levitated train, which goes over 300 mph. Read the rest... Rightscorp is running out of money Rightscorp is a business based on the extortion business-model, founded on the idea that your ISP would lock you out of the Web unless you paid Rightscorp the arbitrary sums they decided you owed to them (but who was too scared to defend their business in court) -- but it looks like sleaze isn't as lucrative as they hoped. Read the rest... Homemade soft pretzels are easy to bake. Here's how. My daughter and I just baked a batch of our favorite, Bavarian-style, soft pretzels. Making them is so quick and easy. Read the rest... Series of photos documenting a dog's rescue is pretty inspiring Faith in humanity: restored. Read the rest... Zombie book-ends Thinkgeek's $20 Zombie Bookends are reminiscent of the Knob Creek Metal Arts line, but are less than one third of the price (though Knob Creek has much better sight-gags). Read the rest... Caturday “Winston's Raspberry.” Boing Boing reader Andrew Walsh shared this photo in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Read the rest... LISTEN: Man records crickets, discovers angels and humans singing to God Composer Jim Wilson has recorded the sound of crickets and then slowed down the recording, revealing something so amazing. The crickets sound like they are singing the most angelic chorus in perfect harmony. Read the rest...