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Sci-Fi geeks form permanent queue
Superb satire from the BrainsTrust as usual - today they bring us news that, after the rash of blockbuster movies this summer, Sci-Fi Geeks have now bonded to form a permanent cinema 'Permaqueue'.

Mirror, mirror..
Mirror, mirror on the wall - are you a pc monitor, a television or a mirror? This one is all three.

L!VE TV Returns!
L!VETV, the UK tv channel which was started with the aim of becoming like 'Hello magazine on acid', is set to return to UK screens. Hopefully it won't have the News-Bunny (a bloke dressed in a rabbit outfit reading the news) but may well be bringing back such delights as Topless Darts on Ice

The Ultimate Gay & Lesbian Cars
How gay is your car?
Should you really be driving that VW Golf?
Check out the top ten Gay & Lesbian cars in the world.

Wannabe a wannabe?
One-stop resource to getting on UK tv - beonscreen.com - your ticket to appearing on television shows (mostly as an audience member but you've gotta start somewhere). If you're a fame-whore then get all the info you need here.

Darth Vader Case Mod
Geekdom hits new heights with the Darth Vader pc case mod. It's a good one folks.

New keyboard for the txt generation
can u txt ur m8s quickr thn mailin thm?
Then perhaps this new keyboard from Japan might be down your street. Keyboard & mouse all controlled with the one tumb.

As my Japanese is a bit limited I can't workout which is the "remove all vowels" button, but I think it's top left.

Fish pr0n
Ah, so that's what Swiss scientists do, research pr0n for fish

Now with hastely added possibly-NSFW, due to various rude words, all used in a totaly scientific maner

Crap Town
Think your town is crap? Take part in the Idler's crap town survey and win nothing at all.
The entry for my town reads;
"Go to any city at 2am and you'll see drunk people stumbling about, shouting, perhaps engaging in mindless violence. Go to Leeds and you'll see all this and more, 24 hours a day. " which is actually fairly accurate.

Jane's Addiction
Quick Public service announcement:
Jane's Addiction have a new album coming out in about a month. I'm listening to it as I type this & so far, it's as good as anything they've done before - well worth listening to. I'll go and buy it when it comes out but be warned - if you try to download it, they've 'seeded' the p2p networks so chances are that you won't get a proper copy - I went through about 7 blank songs (or versions that had 30 seconds of the new single repeated over & over). Look for a filename that ends with -orn.mp3 & it should work.

Explosive rooster taunts cops
News from New Zealand today that police there have been having to deal with 'Explosive' suicide chicken bombers - is this the start of a halal jihad?

Kill yourself with an XBox
If you remember the World-domination electro-shock game that James Bond played against the villain Largos in 'Never Say Never Again' then you'll like this tip on how to build an Xshok Controller - a mod for your XBox that doesn't just rumble - it gives you an electric shock as well. Probably the only way I'd ever win anything would be to give my mates the rigged controller!

Mobile Asses
The Real Reason Mobile Phones have Cameras.

Karma
Just been trawling through server logs again last night and found that the site seems to be gaining even more popularity - we've broken our previous record for number of unique visitors in a day but the best news is the amount of regular visitors - we now have over 250 regulars (people who come 4-5 times a week). Some people even kindly link back to me so in the interests of Karma - please feel free to go and have a look at any of these nice people and tell them that I sent you.

Can you spell b.a.n.a.l ?
To quote my mate Olly;
Whilst cruising around BBC's website I found this and had to share it.
It falls into the "NO FKING WAY!!!!" category, I think!
Quite possibly the lowest a TV producer has ever sunk....

A celebrity version of Wife Swap will go ahead, featuring Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheats Major Charles and Diana Ingram and former Big Brother star Jade Goody and her boyfriend.

AIRZOOKA
I mentioned the AIRZOOKA before but I've finally ordered one (actually two - my mate Si wanted one to destroy his office with as well). Ordered it from I Want One of Those even though it isn't the cheapest.

This is Haywards Heath
Sandy Toksvig (of No. 73 & Call My Bluff fame) & Neil Morrissey, (of Boon & Men Behaving Badly fame) have both stayed near Haywards Heath, but not together........she's a lesbian.
This and other astounding facts about Haywards Heath brought to my attention by Carl (thanks m8)

Cube Buster To quote from funjunkie (one of my favourite sites)
Click click click click clicka clicka clickety click
Level up.
Click click clickclickclick clicka clickety click click "Ah fuuuuck!" Clickclickclick
Level up.
Clickety clickety click clicka clickclick "Argh!" click clicka clicka click

"Sh1t!"
...and so on...

Rorschach Test
You'll all have heard of the Rorschach test before I'm sure - it's the inkblot test where you have to interpret marks on a piece of card. What you probably didn't know is that when you see the blots reprinted anywhere, they're normally fakes. There are actually only 10 real blots which (thanks to the wonders of the internet) can be found here on a child-custody site. The really odd thing is that I hadn't realised that the test was still administered and seen as valid in court. Now that's scary (and yes, they do all look like willys and fannys!)
You can take an online version (using common fakes of the real test at this site.

Worst Company name ever
Someone really should suggest to the owners of swimming pool company Poolife that they should change their name - maybe add a hyphen?

Gollum's acceptance speech
If you haven't seen it yet then here's Gollum's acceptance speech from the MTV Movie awards where he/it won 'Best Digital Performance'.
One day soon I'll be obsolete judging by the quality of this!
(If the d/load speed is too slow then try this or this link for the large 8Mb version)

Building a pc?
Ok, so the prices are in dollars but the information & availability are still valid. Ars Technica produce a regularly updated recommended system spec to help you build your own pc - for me, it's a very handy article to refer to whenever people ask me what system to get/build.

Acts of Gord
Gord works in a video game store, he writes the Books of Gord, amusing stories of a bloke that works in a videogame store, the idiots that he has to serve, and the extremely smug abuse he gives them. It's funny.

Was the Rubik's cube too easy?
If you thought the 43 252 0032 274 489 856 000 possible combinations of faces on a Rubik's cube was too easy then perhaps you'd like 4D Rubik's cube. It's free to download and it's got a stupid amount of combinations.