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Weird Xmas presents
Still stuck for Chrimbo pressies, even after my previous suggestions?
Well here are some more odd ones you could get
1. a Daddle - a saddle that you strap to your back so your kid can ride about on you (and your chiropractor can earn some extra money)
2. how about a body stapler kit for those wilderness emergencies?
3. or a chcoclate photograph of a loved one - so good you could eat it (actually, I think that's the idea!)
4. or some christmas tree lights made out of shotgun shells.
5. or a purse made out of duct tape (that's gaffa tape to snobs like me!)
6. or, finally, how about a bathroom tennis kit?
All those gifts would be more than welcome by me - well, let's face it, with my mother-in-law staying for Christmas, I need every laugh I can get!

Santa Ski Jump
Here's a seasonal Flash game - Santa Ski - best thing is it's easy to play with a hangover - just press and hold the space bar. Notice that I didn't say it was easyto win, just that it's easy to play.

How Well Do You Pick Noses?
In the same vein as gash or tash, gay or german, ass or elbow, comes How Well Do You Pick Noses? in which you have to guess if the noses (nez?) belong to a bird or a bloke.

Christmas Winking Jeff and His Driving Kittens
Next up is another singing kitten animation entitledChristmas Winking Jeff and His Driving Kittens which features a Chris Rea song. This one isn't by Joel Veitch but is clearly inspired by Joel's style (which is now as seen on tv)

Spot The Clifference
It's Friday, which means the new B3ta newsletter is out.
First up is Spot The Clifference a very silly game indeed.

Headline of the year returns
Sex cannibal dined on flambeed penis
You know you just can't lose with a headline like that!

JCPenney Catalog Fall/Winter 1980
It's a shame you can't still buy these clothes as most of the styles are back in fashion now. Mmmm, spandex!

Yahoo's top 20 websites of 2002
I really don't think that these sites are the best of the web this year but there are some good ones in there like Sharpeworld and their fantastic (but not altogether SFW) 80's biker ads from magazines.

Froogle Google
Yet another toy from those Google people - Froogle is a shopping search which shows you images from the sites. The Google R&D dept must be having some fun at this time of year.

Liv Tyler to marry in Leeds The Lastest gossip from PopBitch is that Liv Tyler will be gettign married in Leeds next year. For those of my readers in Leeds, you may be interested to know that you can quite often see her in Joseph's Well gig venue - I've seen her there once before & a few friends have seen her there for other gigs. If you're wondering why, it's because her fiance is in the band Spacehog who originate from Leeds.
On a side note about Popbitch, they mentioned the next Christina Aguilera video in today's newsletter - my cousin will be the producer of that video (sorry, just had to namedrop that one!)

Oh Dear God!
I assume most people in the UK have heard of the Cheeky Girls by now. There's a really sad game on their website which seems to be about fingering them?!?!
If this is popular culture then I give up!

Popbitch.com
Courtesy of this week's popbitch newsletter;
a photo of J-lo picking and eating a bogey,
The Olivia Newton-John advent calendar,
Spencer from Big Brother has had to give up his job as a 'celebrity DJ' and go back to his old job.
If you still haven't signed up for the popbitch newsletter then do so - NOW!

HOW TO LAND ON A SHIP
Or more accurately, How NOT to land a helicopter on a ship. (video clip)

Need another KitschMas present?
Feeling sad? Want a reassuring hug? How about a hug from Jesus? You could even carry Jesus around in your pocket (if you're the type of freak who buys this sh1te!)

Funereal Oddness
To file under the "WTF" dept;
Here's an Italian coffin makers website which has decided that coffins are sexy (Caution NSFW).
In fact, they think that they're so full of it that they've made a sexy calendar for their customers. But what I really want to know is, who is mike and why is she so upset with him that she's had a restraining order tattoo'd on her back?

Enter The Ninja
No, it's not an instruction to make gay love with a Japanese warrior, it's the Best NINJA site on the planet! It's EnterTheNinja.com

New toys from Google
Google have released two new toys from their labs -
Google Viewer displays your search results as a slideshow of the resulting pages images
Google Webquotes adds comments from other websites to your search results to give a third party opinion about the pages returned.
Both are still experimental so results can be not quite as expected but still fun.

You've had a what?
I'm no football fan so could someone please explain this picture to me?

360 Degrees of Capitalism
This is very cool - you'll need Quicktime 5 to view it but assuming that you have it already, pop on over to this site to see a Full Screen QTVR of Times Square in New York. Very nice indeed. Loads more on the main page of the site if you like that one.

Marvel Comics to unveil gay gunslinger
Marvel comics have just announced that they are to introduce the first gay title character in any of their comics. Apparently whilst they won't explictly refer to the character as gay, a lot of euphmisms and double entendres will be used. Sounds like the Lone Ranger meets Are You Being Served!

Canada expected to have 'high' influx of American tourists
It looks like Canada might be about to legalise cannabis in the very near future. Expect a whole lot less jokes from the Americans in the future about their far more intelligent neighbours. (was that partisan enough?)

Courtney Love fails again.
The eternal failure that is Courtney Love has attempted to serve a Cease & Desist order on thesmokinggun.com after they posted a report on a 'doctor' who allegedly was very free with his prescriptions to famous people. Funnily enough, the Smoking Gun has decided to ignore the order. ;)

Gadgets for God
Wondering what to get the bible-basher in your life for Xmas? (note that I said bible-basher, which is different to a bishop-basher!) Try buying some Gadgets for God or try one of their specially themed Kitschmas gifts.

0-227mph in 15 secs...
...on a motorbike!!! You'd have to have some balls to ride on one of these at that speed!

Pixel Pr0n
Adam Connelly is an artist who makes pr0n pictures that you could show to your mum (possibly) - just hold them very close to her face and she won't notice a thing! (SFW as long as no-one looks too closely but be careful!)

Remix Relays
This is a new idea to me but it's one of those that I can't believe I never thought of. A Remix Relay is an album where the second track is a remix of the first track, the third track is a remix of the second track etc. The only bone of contention with the relay participants seems to be "where does the original source come from?" Stereolab (haven't heard from them for a long time) released a relay album a few years ago called Chinese Whispers where the first track was done by them anonymously and consisted of samples from a DAT tape.
Another example of this remix relay is endlessnessism - if anyone has either of these albums then I'd love to hear them.

X-Mas toys
Still not sure what to buy me for X-Mas? well, here are some ideas. Firstly, how about a Dual Screen Laptop PC?
Or an aluminium 17" flat monitor?
If you're feeling really flush then you could combine the two?
At the cheaper end of the market, how about a USB-powered torch to eat up my laptop power even quicker than before?
Or how abuot helping my addiction to online gaming with a flash new claw-like controller which is similar to this hand pad and not too dis-similar to this hand pad. (sad aren't I?)

gCubix - GameCube Emulator
This made me laugh - this guy reckons he's made a A Nintendo GameCube Emulator for *nix systems. The screen shots should make you wary enough - he's got it running on a ZXSpectrum and even on a pinball machine. Hmmm.

I can smell your brains
Odd animation - featuring Mittens the cute kitten who can smell your brains. Aww, int' that cute?

Astronauts' view of eclipse
Today seems to be a science day - here's a cool image of an astronaut's view of a solar eclipse.

KerbCrack
Just to prove how inherently insecure the Windows Kerberos security method is, here's a tool called KerbCrack which has just been released. It's frighteningly easy to use.

Molecular computers draw closer
Scientists working in America have managed to store 1k of data in a molecule by manipulating the atoms inside. They can only store the data for 1 thenth of a second but this is amazing considering that you can build an entire website in only 5k.

"Hi, my PC is making odd sounds"
Not your usual tech support problem this one - a student at the University of Queensland in Australia found out why his computer wasn't working - it had a snake in the power supply. Here's the piccies of the dead snake as it was found in the machine. I can only guess that it liked the heat from the power supply but I can tell you that I'd have run away crying like a little girl if I'd found it!

Arcata Eye Update
“Oh, I was hoping you were over 18, Do you know where I can score some weed?" NOT the best line to pick up girls. Yup, the Arcata Police Log has been updated again. This is one of my consistently favourite websites.

Tony Hawks vs Tony Hawks
Ok, most of you know the name Tony Hawks but when you hear the name, who are you thinking of? I'd probably guess that most people think of the American skater but there's also an English comedian/author/Chart-topping recording artist (remember Morris Minor & the Majors? No? That's probably lucky then). The English Tony gets lots of emails that mistake him for his far 'cooler' namesake. I bet the American Tony never recorded a hit single with Norman Wisdom (well, it was a hit in Albania), travelled round Ireland with a fridge or played the entire Moldovan football team at tennis to win a bet.