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Johnny Cash 1932-2003
Johnny Cash has died.
I hope he's reunited with June now.
Rest In Peace Johnny - thank you for the music.

Dubya's Funny Money
Check out this 200 dollar banknote that was spent in an American shop recently. The funniest thing about it has to be the 'We love Broccoli' bit on the back. Even better was that the guy was given 50 dollars back as change!

Sell your soul!
Strapped for cash? You could make ££££ from your useless, pesky soul, if only you knew what it was worth . Well, these people might be able to help. (Incidentally, my soul is worth £35K. A mere 22% of people have a better soul than me. Woohoo!) I'm surprised there aren't any for sale on e-bay.

Disney Reanimates Dali's Flick
Disney have risen in my estimation again by finally completing the 1946 animation 'Destino' - a Salvador Dali film. As you can see from this still, it looks to make Dali's work come alive.

Blind Blaine-athon
I guess this is one of the more morally dubious things that FARK have done. At 9pm tomorrow (Friday 12th Sept 2003) Farkers from the UK are being urged to participate in a 'Flash Mob' to descend on London and point Laser pointers at David Blaine. Now normally, I'd abhor this because I'm not sure that you couldn't blind someone by doing this. On the other hand, Blaine himself has shown a fondness for shining lasers into other people's eyes whilst he's being interviewed to distract them.
Oh, yeah and 'cos he's a cunt.
Check out the Fark comments on this for a laugh.

Teens blame killings on Grand Theft Auto
More stupid lawsuits from American kill-joys trying to blame their own stupidity on others and ruining things for the rest of us. This time it's a lawsuit against the makers of Grand Theft Auto by the family of a victim of a shooting by teenagers who said they were 'bored' and thought they'd emulate their favourite game.
As the article says, nobody is questioning the ease of access the teenagers had to guns - 'Or perhaps the answer to the perennial problem of delinquent teenagers dropping bricks from motorway and railway bridges is to sue the creators of Tetris?'

Smuggling Peanuts
Feel your breasts need perking up? Want to look cold? Are you so ugly that you'd rather every man on the planet stared at your tits instead of your face?
Maybe you need some bodyperks nipple enhancers.

www.aquarterof.co.uk
I just have to mention this fantastic Online Traditional Old Fashioned Sweetshop once more. I've just taken delivery of almost 9Kg of sweets at a cost of almost 80 of our English pounds and I'm in heaven. I'd recommend the hand made pear drops as the best of the bunch but don't discount the Spearmint Chews which taste exactly like the classic old 'Stripey Pacers' which are no longer available.
Easy ordering, prompt delivery and good customer service (I got an apology for it taking 3 days for my order to arrive!) - tell them where you heard about the site from and I may get some free sweeties (yeah, like I need any more!)

This week's MS Vulnerability that'll 'destroy the interweb' is...
Today's must-fix patch is for a ' serious new Windows vulnerability. Quel surprise!
Best get patching guys and gals.

Blaine pelted with eggs
'David Blaine thought he was ready for anything. The US illusionist suspended in a glass box over London had prepared himself for 44 days of starvation, loneliness and boredom.
But there was one thing he had not planned for - Londoners.'
If any London readers are near then please go down and either throw more eggs at him, ask him if he has glucose in his water (since there are no tests done on his 'water' or best of all ask him how come he keeps on insisting that he's the first ever person to do this when hundreds of Prisoners of War or even the IRA hunger-strikers lasted far longer (Bobby Sands survived a total of 65 days on only water). This is not magic or an illusion - it's just lame - go and create your own dirty protest down there.

Pixies Re-animated
W00-Yay! Black, Kim, Joey and David - better known round this neck of t'woods as the Pixies are expected to reform and tour next April. After the tour Kim will finally move to Leeds and marry me like she promised all those years ago.
(I know, I know - a man can dream can't he?)

Fcuking Bollcoks
This post from Funjunkie made me spit my coffee over my monitor again. But I do love mocking the afflicted.

Stealth Disco
Nice idea - Stealth Disco is a site dedicated to the office japery that is Stealth Disco dancing. It's simple to do, just creep up behind someone and bring a bit of the 70's back by dancing like a goon behind them with out them noticing.
Very funny (although I'm not totally convinced that it's not an advertising stunt).

Plusdeck - the PC Cassette Deck
Plusdeck is a Cassette Deck for your PC. There are two cool things you can do with it;
1. convert all your old audio tapes into mp3s or
2. pretend your pc is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum by recording hours of computer loading noise and playing the tapes back on your pc.

Reflectoporn
'Objects in the mirror may closer than they appear'.
Reflectoporn would seem to be a well-documented new fad if the images didn't all seem to be the same fat bloke and his wife. Maybe this kettle is the same one but this time it was his wife taking the (naked) photo. (SFW where I work but maybe not everywhere - reflected tiny naked people)

Wesley Willis - dead
Further proof that God doesn't exist. Wesley Willis died over a month ago. You probably never heard of him or his music but I had a soft spot for the producers of such classic songs as 'Alanis Morrisette', 'Cut the Mullet' 'Casper the Friendly Homosexual Ghost' and 'I Whooped Batman's Ass'. Wesley was an intimidating man being extremely large (one classic song was called 'Sorry I Got Fat') who was schizophrenic and liked to greet new friends with a headbutt. He has left a legacy of over 50 albums and 3 greatest hits albums.
RIP Wes - we loved you like a milkshake from the Rock 'n' Roll MacDonalds.

X-treme keyboard
eBay silliness; Would you want to buy a keyboard that has had every key replaced by the 'X' key from other keyboards? That's an entire keyboard of X's!
(Coming soon, 25 more auctions from the same guy featuring every other letter of the alphabet)

Scientists prove ducks not quackers
Bet that headline makes no sense.
Oh well, from the dept of pointless research; Scientists have proven that a duck's quack does indeed echo. The research is even more pointless when you consider that research has been done many times in the past already.

Symantec Security Response - Irish Virus
I can't believe that Symantec actually have this hoax listed on their site!

Macs are sh1t
Some pc users hate Macs more than me apparently. Don't get me wrong, I've said many a time that I think Macs have some very good features - the main one being the ability to use the Apple mouse whilst wearing mittens. This guy, on the other hand sees no such redeeming features.

Even More Japanese Optical Illusions
They just keep on coming, those mad Japaense optical illusions. (still not recommended if you're not sober).

Blind Pr0n
Ok, listen up - this link is totally NSFW - That means Not Safe For Work so don't come running to me when you get the sack for looking at pictures of naked women doing things to each other when you're at work.
Got that?
Ok then, Blind Porn is a way for web geeks to give something back to the disadvantaged. (that something being pr0n).
(needs headphones/speakers - otherwise it's just naked women - duh!)

Japanese Optical Illusions Superb set of optical illusions.
Caution: Do not look at these if hungover or still under the influence of drink or drugs - you won't feel good.