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Font resource
If you've ever tried finding a specific style of font you'll know exactly what I mean when I say "ARGH!". Having to trawl though thousands of the bu99ers in alphabetical order to find that those few fonts that might suit your requirements. Well gone are those days of pain and anguish! This is a site which organises in a sensible and accessible manner for the font hunters among us.

Tulip to revive CBM 64 as games console | The Register W00-Yay! The Commodore 64 is being (partially) revived - it'll only cost about a tenner which is cool.

Dictionary of Japanese perversions
It's well documented (certainly by us) that the Japanese are peculiar people (which is why we love them so much), but even dedicated followers of the unusual can get confused with all the intricacies of Japanese oddities. Luckily I've found a Hentai dictionary of Japanese perversions and fetishes. I just hope I never meet a practitioner of Tamakeri - the testicle kicking fetish.

Hey Hey 16k -an ode to old skool computing
Anyone of a similarly advanced age as myself will love Hey Hey 16k a B3ta ode to the first days of home computing - it contains the first reference to Oric computers I've seen for a long time - brilliant stuff for anyone who remembers giggling at 'peek' and 'poke' whilst copying out programs from magazines and praying that they could finish off the coding before the machine crashed or their mum called them to dinner.

Pinhead Lives!
Jim Rose's Circus came mighty close but even they couldn't compete with Isidro Mejia who had an 'accident' with a nail gun at work recently. Now, one nail would be an accident in my works but to fire 6 nails straight into your skull is pretty damn careless!

Cockeyed.com does it again - Smallest Ad on the Internet
Cockeyed - a perennial favourite of ours, have managed to sell the Smallest Ad on the Internet. It's a one pixel hyperlink to wherever the buyer wants.
Will the genius never end?

The Poop-Safe
Want to ensure you don't get your valuables stolen whilst out travelling? Invest in a Brief-safe - it's a pair of white Y-Fronts with realistc skidmarks and a secret pocket to stash your valuables. Even the most desperate of crackheads would think twice before rummaging in them. It will lessen your chances of pulling holiday though.

The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies.
We posted the Exorcistin 30 seconds with bunnies a couple of months ago and now there's a new one to amuse you - this time it's The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies. Top stuff.

Kylie Incontinence Pants
I knew Kylie Minogue had her own range of underwear but I didn't think it would incude Incontinence Pants! They don't exactly fit in with the rest of her range.thanks anistropia

Pac Manhattan
When geeks have too much free time they create things as silly as Pac Manhattan. Much like the Japanese live version of th eMatrix that we've posted many times before, Pac Manhattan is a 'live' version of PacMan played out on the streets of Manhattan. The geek factor is what brings this higher than 5 people running around in silly costumes - 'Using cell-phone contact, Wi-Fi internet connections, and custom software designed by the Pac-Manhattan team, Pac-man and the ghosts will be tracked from a central location and their progress will be broadcast over the internet for viewers from around the world.'
Now, if only they could integrate online betting then it's be much more fun.

Rainbow Smut
Did Freddy rod Jane? Did Geoffery play with his balls or someone elses? Why is George's twanger only small while Zippy's is big and red?This link should clear up these great unanswered questions (well, maybe) - the famous unexpurgated 'play with someones balls' Rainbow episode. This is a movie that's previously done the rounds, but here is a smaller 'coupla megs' version. If any of our guests have never encountered Rainbow before, it was a 1970's kids entertainment programme - aimed towards the toddler market. This clip requires sound. And , believe it or not, this childrens programme is quite NSFW!

Gun Safety Lesson- The No-Nonsense Way of Teaching
A federal drug agent shot himself in the leg during a gun safety presentation to children in Florida recently. "Everyone was pretty shaken up," a witness said. "But the point of gun safety hit home. Unfortunately, the agent had to get shot. But after seeing that, my nephew doesn't want to have anything to do with guns." That's ok then!

FTP is dead
Ok its not, but for those of you without an FTP site or huge bandwidth etc etc Dropload is fab.

The Dot Game
You'll hate me for posting this one! The Dot Game sounds dead simple - all you have to do is click the black dot. Trouble is, there's a lot to distract you. Great fun.

Don't eat that Butterfish!
Here's a cautionary tale for any foodies amongst you. I'd never heard of Butterfish until a few months ago but it seems to be a hot new item on a lot of restuarants' menus as I've seen it numerous times since then. The first time I ate it, it was a delicious oily fish & I'd have highly recommended it. I decided to have it again this weekend at a different place and I must admit that I enjoyed the whole meal but the Butterfish did taste a little different , which I put down to the style of cooking. It was only the next day after some very unpleasant side -effects that I did some research on the net and found that it was highly likely that what I had been sold as butterfish was actually a different fish called Escolar which has some very unpleasant side-effects. Now, I know that I had drunk a fair bit of wine but even so, I'd have remembered seeing words like 'purgative', 'diarrhea', 'excessive indigestible oil' and 'anal leakage' on the menu. I've since found that it's actually illegal to mis-label Escolar as Butterfish in the UK but I don't believe that the restaurant sold it knowing that it was Escolar not butterfish so I think I'll just mark this one down to experience (unlike this bloke in America who's sueing a fish supplier and restaurant over it).

The radioactive boy scout
David Hahn was a typically intelligent, law-abiding student until he decided to get his Boy Scout merit badge in Atomic Energy by building a breeder reactor in his shed. This happened 9 yrs ago but it wasn't ever widely reported mainly due to the lack of understanding of what he had been attempting and how serious it could have been. This article isn't too heavy on the chemistry but there's enough to answer most questions the brainiacs amongst you will have.
thanks Mark