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Welcome Jude Roman Fairbanks
OK. When the delightful Gromsprog was about to enter this world I recall Grom getting all gooey and posting the odd baby-based link. Well now it's my turn. This is what happens when a photographer and a web designer have a child. I'm afraid it is all rather soppy and lovely and it's probably not worth checking out if you're not, shall we say, "baby-oriented"... but I must confess to having experienced a little moistening around the ocular organ when I watched this lovely flash animation. Welcome Jude Fairbanks! *sniff*

ChavScum of the Month
The classic guide to the UK's Burberry-sponsored youth movement, ChavScum, have updated their Chav of the Month pictures - surely the award must go to Slasher or whoever owns this car.

Calvin and Hobbes
Hopefully our readers are discerning enough to have discovered and enjoy the wonderful creation of Mr. Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes. Well, somebody somewhere has created a lovely selection of animated gifs from his strips. My particular faves are this one, this one, this one and that one. Lovely.

How to get out of a Speeding Ticket in style
Justin Lee from Auckland, New Zealand has style - lots of it. He exhibited the largest cojones I've ever seen when he managed to wriggle out of this speeding ticket. I've done some checking and it all seems genuine so top marks to Justin for either mastering the art of time travel , learning to drive when he was less than an hour old or just blagging his way out of this ticket.

One of these things...
Is not like the other. What would you expect if you did a Googlie for flea? A flea perhaps? Maybe the bassist from the Chili Peppers? Click the odd link out and check out the unusual erotic "art" by Frogdot (NSFW)

Randomised Dance CD Titler
Simple but effective Randomised Dance CD Selecta - just refresh for a new title or type in a 5 digit number and come up with a 'Classic Urban Disco Anthems 2003' of your own.

Anyone want an old Amiga, Atari, spectrum,C64...
There's a fantastic opportunity for old-skool nerds on eBay at the moment - it's a huge collection of vintage computers and consoles. The photos make it look like my old bedroom before my wife 'had a tidy-up' (her words, not mine!). It really is a geek's wet dream and although the price doesn't seem cheap - for what you get, it's phenomenal value for money but you'll need a big truck to cart the lot away with you.

Full fps game code is under 96Kb
Small is indeed beautiful (according to my wife) and this is proved by .the .produkkt who have just released a beta of a full fps game called .kkrieger - the most amazing thing is that the file size for the code is only a mere 96Kb which would fit inside the readme file for Unreal!
(I've just tried to run it on my work pc and it crashed before it could run but I'll try it again later at home.)

Glastonbury 2004 Tickets - new batch available
If you read this within the next few hours and you're after Glastonbury tickets then go to seetickets.com and you'll find some available for ordering. They've only just gone up and I don't know how many are available but a load of people at work here have just got through to order them. Phone number is 01733560075. Enjoy!

Cool clock
I like clocks... they tell the time and everything. Remember the flash clock with the pencils writing the numbers? Pah! Thing of the past. Here is a lovely little javascript clock by a chap called Kurt Grigg... [span class="geek"] lovely creative bit of coding. [/span]

Computers for luddites
Do you prefer your shiney new cars with walnut dash? Would you rather your new stereo had a fetching wood veneer finish? Well Luddite Industries make the computer just for you! Let 'Nature's Computer Company' lovingly craft a computer to your specifications out of the finest mahogany money can buy...

Underoos - pants for kids
Underoos are back apparently - retroCRUSH report seeing them in the shops once more. These fine garments consist of a vest/t-shirt and pant* combination with designs on them to look like a superhero, tv character or even the morally dubious Daisy Duke. If anyone knows where to buy these please let me know - I'm intrigued to see what the new designs they've decided to inflict on children are.
*pant is used here in the UK sense of the word ie: to indicate an item of undergarmentage and not the US derivation meaning an outergarment (or trousers to everyone else).

There are a sextillion ways to spell Viagra
Certified (and certifiable) genius Rob from the best use of the internet ever - Cockeyed.com has calculated that there are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell Viagra - that's somewhat appropriately over a sextillion (although I doubt such a word exists).

Windows Sounds Remixed
Even though the standard Windows sounds are enough to drive you crazy, the remixed version is actually pretty good - give a minute to get going and you might be surprised to find yourself tapping your toes along with the tune.

Transparent Gaffa Tape
No! This shouldn't be allowed! Clear gaffa* tape is a transgression of everything that makes the universe work and should be banned.
*Gaffa= gaffer, duct, duck, scotch tape etc - it just depends were you're from as to what you call it so please don't pick me up on the spelling!

Mean Kitty
Not all cat related websites are about voting on the cutest kitty or putting kittens in bottles. Here is a site for cats who are just plain mean!!

Illuminated Umbrellas
Coming from Manchester originally, I fully appreciate the need for an Illuminated Umbrella - it's an umbrella with a built in torch - perfect for letting muggers know exactly where you are in bad weather!

Splut
These photos are cool (if you can ignore the fact that they look a little like 1980's Athena posters). Must have been a lot of fun smashing stuff to get the perfect shot!

Google Fight
Following in the footsteps of googlewhacking we have Google Fighting! I don't know quite how long this new fad has been about but it's news to me! On this site you will discover that the pen certainly is mightier than the sword and Hutch beats Starsky by a narrow margin.

Subservient Chicken
Now this is just plain odd! Have you ever met a Subservient Chicken before? I can't tell whether this is live webcammery or prerecorded flashery. Sadly I fear the latter as I've had it on for several hours now and I think I spot some repetition (besides, the site has something to do with BurgerKing so I can only assume that they don't actually employ a man in a chicken suit to be at the beck and call of millions of random interwebnet users)

Photoshopping joy
So I'm trawling the net for pictures of a liver and I stumble upon a site of photoshopping joy. It doesn't quite have the expertise of human descent but it does have a twisted view of life that is rather enjoyable! (I assume the animals and people sections are the authors latest creations as they exhibit a little more technical know-how)

One of these things is not like the others
Well - I've only just got back from my hols in Cornwall so I've got a little catching up to do. I liked the Chernobyl post from a few days ago and then I spotted this google image search. See if you can spot what I saw (no prizes)

Diggerland
These days you can pay to drive anything... Caterham 7's, TVR's, Ferrari's - hell, even Formula 1 cars if you've got (a) enough cash (b) cajones (kahonies) the size of watermelons (an excellent example of a paying driver is Pedro Diniz. Believe it or not he survived this to drive again!). However, I never thought I'd see the day where you could pay to drive a JCB. Fantastic! This site says it's for 'the whole family' - I think it's for the dad who never grew up!