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For BB pals Gil and Steph, here's a fan-made video for alt-country group Lambchop's wonderful folky, loungy cover of "This Corrosion," the epic 1987 triumph of goth bombast by The Sisters of Mercy. And if it makes you yearn for some Sisters, check out the original video below.

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In an excellent NYT story, Sarah Lyall reports on "lights-out London" -- the phenomenon whereby ultra-wealthy foreigners (often from corrupt plutocracies like Kazakhstan and Russia) are buying up whole neighbourhoods in London, driving up house-prices beyond the reach of locals, and then treating their houses as holiday homes. They stay for a couple weeks once or twice a year, leaving whole neighbourhoods vacant and shuttered through most of the year, which kills the local businesses and turns central London into something of a ghost town.

“Some of the richest people in the world are buying property here as an investment,” [Paul Dimoldenberg, leader of the Labour opposition in Westminster Council] said. “They may live here for a fortnight in the summer, but for the rest of the year they’re contributing nothing to the local economy. The specter of new buildings where there are no lights on is a real problem...”

Meanwhile, prices are rising beyond expectation. For single-family housing in the prime areas of London, British buyers spend an average of $2.25 million, Ms. Barnes said, while foreign buyers spend an average of $3.75 million, which increases to $7.5 million if they are from Russia or the Middle East...

The most visible, and also the most notorious, of the new developments is One Hyde Park, a $1.7 billion apartment building of stratospheric opulence on a prime corner in Knightsbridge, near Harvey Nichols, the park and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, which functions as a 24-hour concierge service for residents. Apartments there have been purchased mostly by foreign buyers who hide their identities behind murky offshore companies registered to tax havens like the Isle of Man and the Cayman Islands.

It is rare to see anyone coming to or going from the complex, and British newspapers have been trying since it opened two years ago to discover who lives there. Vanity Fair reported recently that as far as it could discern after a long trawl through records, the owners seem to include a cast of characters who might have come from a poker game in a James Bond movie: a Russian property magnate, a Nigerian telecommunications tycoon, the richest man in Ukraine, a Kazakh copper billionaire, someone who may or may not be a Kazkh singer and the head of finance for the emirate of Sharjah.

A Slice of London So Exclusive Even the Owners Are Visitors [NYT/Sarah Lyall]

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Ever wonder what Darth Vader’s most famous quote from The Empire Strikes Back sounds like in other languages?

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Ordinary commuters are transformed into celebrities, cartoon characters, and animals with the help of a strategically positioned newspaper in these hilarious photos by an anonymous London commuter. According to the Daily Mail, the mystery photographer takes the photos to entertain coworkers. For more photos, see this gallery at Shortlist Magazine.

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Zach Prewitt, creator of this supercut of movie temper tantrums, has created a new supercut of characters with their backs to the camera looking out at something amazing. Science fiction and fantasy movies and television shows seem to make particularly frequent use of this type of shot, though the supercut includes plenty of films outside those two genres.

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dancemommamaniac:

I AM ACTUALLY IN TEARS CRYING FROM LAUGHTER I HAVE NEVER LAUGHED SO HARD AT A VIDEO IN MY LIFE OH MY 

DEAD.

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So you've been bitten by a zombie. So long, conscious brain activity, hello craving for human meat. But the protagonist of the short film Cargo has bigger problems than his impending demise: he has to find a way to save his infant daughter, even if he has to die first to do it.

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Photographer Dan Marker-Moore shot a dramatic time lapse video of the full moon rising behind downtown Los Angeles, and then turned the video frames into a collage and animated GIF.

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“Tie Chi” is a comic on Incidental Comics by Grant Snider that demonstrates how to tie a tie using martial arts (Tai Chi).

“A Man’s Game Of Thrones World” by DJ Rozroz is a musical mashup of the Game of Thrones theme song and “This is a Man’s World” by James Brown. The song is available to download online.

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