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With any luck, I'll be moving the site to a new webspace today in preparation for a redesign. Hopefully you won't notice any difference but please make sure that you refresh (hold CTRL & press F5 on pcs) regularly or you might find yourself staring at the old page for a few days whilst the DNS changes occur. Please also let me know if you spot any errors in things like the comments, RSS feed, archives or even if you just can't see the site - if you don't tell us then we won't know so all feedback is appreciated.

Robochrist
Went out last night to a club in Leeds for an old friend's wedding bash (congrats Youngy!) and saw RoboChrist. This guy was superb - a one man industrial cheese-monger. He stood on stage alone except for a guitar, his backing tape and a face full of paint and blew everyone there away with his thrashy noise interspersed with a genius use of samples - Ministry never sounded this good (but then they didn't have Johnny Vegas, Grange Hill and Count Duckula samples!). If you get the opportunity to see him then I guarantee that you won't fail to be entertained by him. Definitely a star in the making.

High-rise chicken farming
Are you into your Apple Mac design? Love your chickens? Live in a high rise? Why don't you try this incredible product! Fresh eggs every morning and the delicate scent of manure is nowhere to be smelt!

Diamond forever lost for F1 team
This weekend the world of Formula 1 went to Monaco - the single most flamboyant and extravagant race of the season. The Jaguar team struck a sponsorship deal with Steinmetz (classy diamond dealers) and embedded £0.14m diamond in the nose cone of their cars... This is what happened... (btw, congratulations for Jarno Trulli for his first win of his career and for kicking Schumachers butt)

Kylie Minogue - NSFW
Lots of pictures of everyone's favourite pocket size sextoy Kylie Minogue - mostly NSFW (which is nice).

Eric Idle's FCC Song
Eric Idle doesn't like the FCC - so much so that if this song is played on tv or the radio then it could cost him a cool quarter of a million dollars! This is because the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) are the people who fine you for swearing on the air in the States. The FCC amusingly describe themselves as 'an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress' although quite how they can be independent when they are appointed by the government and report directly to the government is a mystery known only to themselves).

Futurama Panoramas
Futurama is quite well known for it's animation techniques and when the cartoon was originally aired, it was the first fully 3d rendered tv cartoon. This meant that there were some impressive techniques used such as long tracking or scanning shots. Punkasspunk website have taken a load of framegrabs and stitched them together into some cool panoramas perfect for multi-monitor desktop piccies.

£200,000 diamond lost in Formula One Grand Prix
Yesterday's Monaco F1 Grand Prix was a fantastic race for many, many reasons (mostly involving the fact the Schumacher didn't win!). One news story that didn't appear until after the race was that the diamonds in the front of the Jaguar cars that were implanted to advertise the new Ocean's Twelve movie were actually real diamonds worth about £200k each. Apparently, after Christian Klein crashed early in the race - the diamond on his car went missing. Perhaps the plot for Ocean's 13 might have just written itself.

Inuyasha Demon
I'm not a fan of any of the whole trading card thing - like Dungeons and Dragons before it, it seemed like too much of like hard work doing maths to try to win a game that only exists in your head and that you seem to have to make up as you go along (sorry if I'm offending any nerds here). I did, however, manage to waste about half an hour tomight playing Inuyasha Demon which I assume is based on a cartoon of a trading card of a game of an animated manga film of a comic book or something.