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More not-look-a-likes
When will these people learn that Look-a-likes are supposed to have even a passing resemblance to a famous person?

My Eyes, My Eyes!
This has got to be one of the filthiest things I've ever seen on the web. mrandmrswheatley are B3ta regulars and have created an obscene animation of dancing c0cks and other even more intimate body parts. It's gross, it's foul, it's utterly NSFW and I think, in some strange way, that it's superb - reminds me of the scene in Clockwork Orange where Malcolm McDowell is forced to watch an onslaught of images.

Thoracic Cavity Cake
It's the goreiest birthday cake I've ever seen! Barbara Jo and Barbara May are sisters who made this amazing (and rather off-putting) cake which resembles an entire thoracic cavity - must be hard to bake with Mrs Beeton in one hand and Gray's Anatomy in the other.

British Military Planned Chicken-Powered Nuke
I can't possibly write anything funnier than the original headline for this story from the National Archives - 'British Military Planned Chicken-Powered Nuke. What were they thinking when they hatched that plan (sorry!)
thanks anistropia

MSN Sandbox If you want to see some of the less public research projects that Microsoft are working on - have a look in the MSN Sandbox.

Banish these people from the gene pool
This week has been a bumper week for what the Japanese call 'cosplay' (dressing up as characters from mange, anime, cartoons or films - sometimes for sexual kicks) - first there was this infamous Tron costume which just reminds me of Milton Waddams from the classic film Office Space (go rent it if you haven't already). Next up is this couple wearing cornish pasties on their foreheads - oh sorry, it's a Klingon Wedding - my mistake.

StationRipper - the streaming ripper
I've used some fairly poor quality software in the past for trying to rip streams from the internet but I've just found out about StationRipper via /.. As long as the original stream is good quality and you're on broadband then it's a good piece of software to run. Although it looks limited to Shoutcast streams, it's not - you can entry any url and it'll capture it.

Back to the Future car on eBay
There's a full recreation of the DeLorean Gullwing that featured in Back to the Future on sale on eBay at the moment. I've seen a few other half-hearted versions but this baby is as close as I've seen - it also has one improvement over the cars used in the movie - this one is roadworthy (time-travel not guaranteed).

Mike West & The Man from Delmonte
Please excuse the personal post for once but I've just received copies of cult 80's indie stars The Man from Delmonte's cds that were reissued by Vinyl Japan. Although I hadn't forgotten quite how good they were, it still brought back an awful lot of memories so I went to track down Mike as I lost contact with him after he left Manchester in the early 90's to move to the USA. It turns out he's now in New Orleans and doesn't seem to have changed - he's still got the magical touch with his evocative lyrics and has released 9 solo albums, is still playing a ridiculous amount of gigs (average is 300 per year), has defined his own musical genre (levee-billy) and is much in demand as a producer. I wish him all the best.

Look-a-not-likes
Another regular feature of pri.me.uk is our addiction to lame Lookalikes. Here's another collection for you all to laugh at. The popstars page alone has enough dodgy looking people to fill the whole of next months Chav of the Month!

Two of these images are not like the others (pt. too many to mention)
Yet another in our ongoing series of spot the odd-one-out on the Google results page - this time it's another image search for 'giant cow'. As per usual, the odd ones out are NSFW and aren't that hard to find.

Carpal Tunnel Onset Accelerator
If you use a computer all day then you should be aware of the condition known as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, caused by repetitive actions. If you haven't got the syndrome and feel left out then why not try the Carpal Tunnel Onset Accelerator - it really works!

Arty stuff
This has probably been blogged before but not in my tenure so I'm going to do it now. Lovely art site, Potatoland has this great website visual shredding facility. If you're not doing much at lunchtime try these.

Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy movie - first details
Here's a rather long interview with the producers of the forthcoming Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. It goes a long way to restoring my faith in it being a decent movie and not the usual Hollywood foobar as they even went as far as only allowing Douglas Adams' biographer and the editor of h2g2 to be the interviewers. I was rather astonished to hear that rapper Mos Def is to star as Ford Prefect but he is an intelligent bloke with a wicked sense of humour so it might just work - I'm especially looking forward to Warwick Davis as Marvin - the test images look like nothing I'd expected but from what I've seen and heard, it'll work very well.

Baaaad Taste - Hitler Youth sing YMCA
Incredibly bad taste but very well done - this version of YMCA features the Hitler Youth choir. (link is to a .WMV file)

Banana Guard - protect your bananas
The Banana Guard is a fantastically pointless gadget. It's a curved box for storing individual bananas in - I wonder if they've taken into account the EU regulation that governs the size of bananas (it states that bananas must be "free of abnormal curvature" and should be at least 5.5 inches long!).

McDonald's Boss Dies of Heart Attack - insert ironic headline here
Almost as ironic as Jim Fixx dying from a heart attack, the boss of evil conglomerate McDonalds has died from a heart attack. Karma's a sweet thing.

Catch the crook
I like this little game on the North Yorkshire Police's website - Catch a Crook is an identikit memory game which isn't as easy as it looks.
thanks anistropia

Two of these images are not like the others...
Another one in our ongoing series of bizarre search results - this time it's a google image search for tintin. The expected results contain two unusual results (both NSFW) and you'll probably need to make sure safesearch if off to see what we're talking about.

Ivan Sarajcic's Flag Identificator
Supurb tool for flag enthusiasts! (not that flag enthusiasts are particularly likely to be viewing this site) If you know what a flag looks like, don't know where it's from, and can't be bothered rummaging through page upon page of image files then this link is for you.