The floating house that was used as MacGyver's home in seasons 3-6 of the TV series MacGyver is for sale. The 1200 square foot house is not a houseboat, but is meant to be at least semi-permanently docked. It has two sleeping  lofts and one and a half baths. The home is moored on the Fraser River in British Columbia, and the buyer can take immediate possession.

Link to eBay listing.
Link to owner's site.
Link to more pictures. -Thanks, Kristina!

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This tribute to old-school video games will take you back to the arcades of your youth, if that's where you spent it. The music, "A Wild And Distant Shore" by Michael Nyman, makes each game seem like an epic quest. -via Geekosystem

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Did you ever get one of those neck massagers for Christmas, but never find time to use it? Hey, they can double as a cat petting device! After all, your cat is never too busy for a massage. -via Tastefully Offensive

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The food is rapping about food! This short was produced by BankShot with music by DJ Nick Castle, featuring food-related rap samples from Biggie Smalls, Guru, Raekwon, Q-Tip, Action Bronson, Method Man and others. -via Laughing Squid

These colorful piñata cookies are as tasty as the candy inside them! Color the dough, roll it out in layers, bake, cut, build the hollow burro, fill with candy, and be sure to take pictures before they are eaten. Sandra Denneler has the complete recipe and instructions at SheKnows. Link -via Boing Boing

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I think I'll stick with the sugar cookies. This bake sale is brought to you by the comedy troupe Awkward Spaceship. -via The Daily What

Officials in Adelaide, Australia, were not happy to see the honor they bestowed upon singer Cher for sale at eBay. The Key to the City was sold early today on the auction site. Mayor Stephen Yarwood said he was "exceptionally disappointed."

"It must be very embarrassing for her if she is selling it because she needs the money," Yarwood told the city's Adelaide Advertiser newspaper.

The man who presented Cher the key, former mayor Steve Condous, said the award had been in recognition of her performance at the 1990 Formula One Grand Prix and the fact that she "added a lot of charisma" to the event.

"I'm disappointed. I would have thought that getting the key to a city like Adelaide would have had some value to her, but obviously it doesn't because she wouldn't have got rid of it," said Condous.

"If she didn't want to keep it she should have returned it back to the city."

The bidding is is now closed; the key sold for over $95,000. Link -via Arbroath

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Anders Behring Breivik is currently on trial in Oslo, Norway, for killing 77 people during a rampage last summer. In a square near the courthouse, around 40,000 people gathered today to refute Breivik's stated opinions by singing the song "Children of the Rainbow," which was made famous by Norwegian singer Lillebjoern Nilsen (who led the crowd in Oslo). The song was adapted from the Pete Seeger song "My Rainbow Race" (lyrics). Breivik had mentioned the song as an object of his scorn. The demonstration was organized through an internet campaign, and other groups sang in cities all over Norway. Link -via Metafilter

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Warning: this video may induce nausea, nightmares, or possibly some weird hypnotic state in sensitive people.

Last night, Zeon introduced you to the bizarre game Octodad with the trailer for the sequel Octodad: Dadliest Catch. Even funnier than the game is the record of physics and animation glitches encountered during the game's development. Link -via Geekosystem

If you read enough of the signs at any sizable demonstration, you'll eventually run across one with an obscure cultural reference or an internet meme. Whether you agree with the politics behind them or not, those signs are always a treat! But you don't have to look for them yourself, because Jill Harness did that already, and posted 18 of the funniest at Oddee. Link

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Watch three minutes of morphing dogs from various works of art, both old and new. Yes, the poker-playing dogs are there! Moira McLaughlin at Dog Art Today put this together, inspired by Philip Scott Johnson's Women in Art. -via Nag on the Lake

Many cities adopt a "sister city" across the pond. These matchups between the New World and the Old World serve as a sort of cultural exchange. People in the village of Dull, in Perthshire, Scotland, have shown their sense of humor by seeking out a partnership with the Oregon logging town of Boring.

Elizabeth Leighton, from Grandtully in Highland Perthshire, came up with the scheme to form the partnership between two of the world's least "exciting" communities when she was on a cycling holiday.

She passed through Boring and thought it would be an ideal partnership with the community of Dull.

She sent an email to her friend Emma Burtles, who lives in Dull, and got in touch with Steve Bates, who chairs the Boring Community Planning Organisation.

Community councillor Marjorie Keddie said: "It might seem like a joke, but this could have real benefits for Dull. Everyone has been smiling at the prospect of the very eye-catching road sign this will inevitably require."

Warning: linked story has autoplay video. Link -via reddit

For many years, I "knew" that the Volkswagen was invented by Ferdinand Porsche. But the story is actually much more complicated. In 1923, long before auto companies were competing to offer Hitler a "people's car" (Volkswagen), Josef Ganz was working on a design for a small, beetle-shaped car. By 1930 he had a prototype, and by 1933 a manufacturer was making Ganz's Standard Superior model pictured here.

Hitler by then was determined to support the development of a Volkswagen for the German people. Having found no cooperation amongst the big car manufacturers, an independent development consortium was created, led by Ferdinand Porsche. As a Jew, Josef Ganz was an impossible choice. Porsche was now set the task to design a people’s car for 1,000 Reichsmark – a maximum selling price propagated by Ganz in Motor-Kritik.

The Nazis made sure that any Jewish connections to the Volkswagen were erased from history. They banned Ganz from publishing, as well as the entire German press from publishing anything about him. Overnight the name Josef Ganz disappeared from the German motoring scene.

You can read the story of Josef Ganz and his auto designs at Dark Roasted Blend. Link

Forbes has announced its annual ranking of the world's richest fictional characters.  They say the collective fortunes of those ranked at the top have surged tremendously over the past year.

On top of the list is the ancient red-golden dragon Smaug, known by hobbits and dwarves across Middle Earth as “Smaug the Tremendous” and “Smaug the Unassessably Wealthy.” Smaug’s personal fortune jumped 16% from last year to $62 billion after wyrm watchers crafted a more detailed analysis of his massive hoard of coins, jewels and antiques.

In case you'd like to skip the slideshow, here is the list:

1. Smaug
2. Flintheart Glomgold
3. Carlisle Cullen
4. Jed Clampett
5. Tony Stark
6. Richie Rich
7. Charles Foster Kane
8. Bruce Wayne
9. Forrest Gump
10. Mr. Monopoly
11. Lisbeth Salander
12. Tywin Lannister
13. C. Montgomery Burns
14. Robert Crawley
15. Jo Bennett

Scrooge McDuck and Santa Claus, who topped the list in previous years, are nowhere to be seen. Link -via Blame It On The Voices

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What happens when you pit Darth Vader against a 21-century Terran fanboy? Well, you can see it turns out a bit different from the movie. This is the trailer for the Star Wars Kinect game. -via Boing Boing