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Apple Mittens
Bit of an in-joke. but anyone who's used a Mac will be well aware of it's lack of more than one mouse button. This means that at work we refer to Mac users as mitten-wearers. I made this little animation especially for those Apple Mac users at work.

Kitten games
Here's a whole site full of cute little kitten games. This one reminds me of Frogger. The rest can be found here.

Statue Asses
There really is a website for every fetish.

Programmer or Serial Killer
Genius quiz - Can you tell from a photo which of these people is a Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

Got a spare 10 hours?
This flash game is beautifully designed and will take you hours to play. It's been described by B3ta as 'Did you ever play Myst? It was a mix of sumptuous graphics and tricky riddles. This is a bit like that. Except with tree trunks.
In space.'

Web Sites That Shorten Long URLs
You may have seen me use the tinyurl service to post links when the url contains swearwords that will get picked up by filters or the original url was very long. notlong is yet another service in a similar vein, they handily also provide a list of web sites that shorten long URLs. I'd recommend setting a bookmarklet for one of these services in your browser - you'll be surprised how often they're useful once you get used to them.

Tabs on tap
Pint of Cider, two vodka and cokes, a double wiskey and a half of Marlboro lites

Up-Geeking my 'pooter
Not so much of an upgrade this time, this one is more of an up-geek. I'm about to order the bottom LCD screen on this page for my computer. It's very simple to connect - just one cable, your only choice is internal or external cabling. The idea is to give a WinAmp interface. You simply run this freeware which displays the id3 tags from your mp3s and shows the track and artist information of any song playing on your computer in the display.
Many more cheap displays available from Crystalfontz - Serial, USB, and Parallel LCD Modules are all available.

Ich Bin Ein Anarchist
Despite this cool game being entirely in German, this anarchism sim is great fun. All you have to do is torch cars and smash windows without being caught and beaten to a pulp by the police. Again, the only annoying bit is the music - it sounds like it was made by a man wearing lederhosen.

Risky Whisky
Here's a game that almost console quality - not bad for such a quick loading online game. Risky Whisky is a truck-driving, moonshine-delivering game which is astonishingly addictive - the only bad point was the music that drove me mad! Simply drive around the track without spilling your booze.

Diarrhoea in America
OMG - Here's a photo of a variety of American anti-diarrhoea remedies. Brilliant.

How to Configure Internet Explorer to Have More Than Two concurrent Downloads
Slightly techy one this but it's a worthwhile hack to do if you have any connection faster than a 56k modem and use windows 2000 or XP. Basically Microsoft, in their wisdom, decided to limit the amount of downloads that Internet Explorer could handle (interestingly they claim it was to comply with Internet standards but that's an outright lie - I've checked the standards documents). An even better solution is to download Opera and use that instead of IE - it's faster and much nicer anyway.

Hotel Pelirocco
If you thought that New York's infamous Chelsea Hotel was the epitome of Rock and Roll chic then think again. The Pelirocco Hotel in Brighton is far more stylish with themed rooms designed by artists (Jamie Reid), musicians (Asian Dub Foundation), record labels (skint, Rough Trade) or inspired by icons such as Bettie Page & Leigh Bowery. Every room has a Playstation 2 and internet connection but you won't be needing those in rooms as beautiful as these. If you want to treat your partner then you can't hope to earn more brownie points than taking them here. (& if my wife's reading this then I'm saving up honey!)

The FWord
Here's a hilarious submission to the American courts on the "Constitutionality of fu[k, 'fu[ker' and fu[king fag" from The Smoking Gun - it's funny all the way through to the meniton of Chuck-E-Cheese on the last page!

waitallday
The waitallday website is brilliant! I have no idea how the designers managed to cram it all into the one page. Sheer genius.

Blake's 7 set for return
Never thought I'd see Blake's Seven back on TV but it does indeed look set to return in a couple of years from now.

Guitar Case Mod
Latest bizarre pc case mod I've seen is this guitar-based one. Which is nice.

Code Monkeys
No really, code monkeys.

What the font?
WhatTheFont is an online tool for tracking down the font used in an image. Not a site I'll be visiting everyday, but one that'll be going into my "useful" bookmarks.

Edible.com
Delicately smoked over mesquite wood, canned smoked cobra comes ready to eat in brine. It is best stirred into a Thai style red curry or can be eaten simply on a cracker as an exciting canape. You can buy it from edible.com. Or maybe you'd prefer Reindeer Hash, Tibetan Yak Butter and the infamous civet coffee made form beans collected from wild cat droppings. Mmmm, roasted!

Superb videos
Remember the Flashing Blade, The Goodies, Rentaghost and other memorable British shows from the 70's? Network Video have started to release them all on DVD or VHS at a reasonable price. They even have modern favourites like The High Life ('Ooh deary me!') but my vote goes to the Charley Says series of Public Information films. The one I'm watching at the moment has instructions on burying a body in your garden after a nuclear attack (and it only cost me five pounds from HMV in Leeds)

Feeling horny?
You can't get any hornier than this - it's official!

Bubba Ho-Tep
Bubba Ho-Tep looks like my kind of film. The plot has Bruce Campbell playing Elvis (stuck in an Evlis impersonator's body!) battling an ancient egyptian mummy. Despite winning a scakful of film festival awards around the world, the film is stuck without a proper release at present but you can see the trailer at least. Guess I'm gonna have to wait for the dvd to see this classic.

Duct Tape Superheroes
Imagine the worst costume you could possibly wear to a fancy dress party to impress a member of the opposite sex. It might look something like of these Duct Tape Superheroes.