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Halo for the PC
Microsoft have just annouced that I don't need to buy an X-Box. Well actually, that's not exactly what they said, they merely annouced that Halo will come out on the PC and Mac.

From the Dept of stupid scientific funding dept.
The winners of this year's IgNobel Awards for the most pointless research include a study on belly-button fluff, a study into farmed ostrich courtship behaviour and a machine to translate dog barks into human speech.

Nerd Movie Quiz
I'm ashamed to say that I only got a score of 3 out of 12 on this quiz.

an Important test
Do you have Parkinson's disease? Well do you?

Call me Russ
Remember there was a maths geek at school who worked out who you fancied by doing some maths on your name? Well, b3ta member Casey has done an online version called nom d'amour. Not sure I like it though as it says I have only 45% natural compatibility to my wife & need to change my name to 'Russ' to get 98%. I think not.

Cheap laugh
It's a real town in Austria and it really is a cheap laugh (NSFW)

Friday Flash Game
This is a hard one to play but gets quite involving once you do get into it - Flash Table Tennis. While you're there you might want to have a look around the rest of albinoblacksheep.

Peas in our Thyme?
Here's a novel solution for resolving the Iraqi/USA situation. All the Iraqis need to do now is sell the TV rights to the Americans as a kind celebrity boxing show.

Proof of the Harry Potter vibrator
Now, I normally don't like prank telephone calls but this one is pretty funny. theserialcaller.com phoned up Mattel, makers of the Harry Potter vibrating broom stick that was all over the web recently, and complained about it's other use. (need to d/load a small mp3 file to listen)

RIAA proves its ass-ness factor
I know it's a satire piece but it was too funny to miss - The Onion claim that the RIAA will sue radio stations for giving away free music.

Cartoons on cliffs
A simple idea & a weird one - 'the Cliff Guy' asked some cartoonists to do him a drawing of their characters on a cliff. Amazingly he's had a huge response.

From the 'I want one of those' Dept
Remember the old Speak and Spell? You can buythis one modified as an insanity machine. Nice.

Make Dubya into Jesus
If you've ever seen those pictures that look like one picture when viewed from a distance but are actually made up of lots of little pictures you may want to know how to do it yourself.

What was Basher's brother called?
NTK.net have pointed out an amusing twist on the Nigerian email scam. This is the result of a Google search on "escaped along with my husband" (one of the consistent lines used in the scam.)

Viking Kittens
Joel 'Rathergood' Veitch has done it again, this time his kittens take on Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song.

Arresting Images
The Smoking Gun have done us proud again with their round-up of Celebrity mugshots.

UN upholds 'Dwarf-throwing' ban
Instead of trying to talk some sense into Dubya & Blair, the UN has decided to make a declaration onDwarf-throwing. They must have a better pressure group.

Shiny, shiny...
... shiny car of silver. (sung to the tune of Venus in Furs).

Cthuugle Ph'nglui Search Fhtagn!
If H.P.Lovecraft ran a Search engine.

I can now take off the clown shoes
From the Scientists can get funding for anything dept.:
Finally, there is proof that shoe size has no relation to penile dimensions. I can finally admit that I only have size 9 feet.

Hair Bear Web!
Yes, yes, yes! One of the best sites I've ever seen (but I am biased) All the best Hanna Barbera cartoons are on this site. Including Hair Bear Bunch, Hong Kong Phooey, Banana Splits - go on name Hong Kong Phooey's real name or all of Top Cat's gang?

Roger's Profanisaurus
An oldie but reposting again since they've just published an up-dated version of the classic Roger's Profanisaurus (many, many words NSFW but no images)