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For sale: Britain's underground city - Sunday Times - Times Online
240 acres, 60 miles of roads, its own railway station and a pub in Wiltshire, 120ft underground. 5m pounds but you also need to invest in the military base above.
(tags: history underground war property uk)

Rusty is a homosexual
'Rusty is the personification of the little boy inside every grown gay man'
(tags: funny gay glbt humour)

TagTagger | Take back your tags
Tagging is all the rage. TagTagger lets you tag your tags, and even tag your tagged tags. Beta registration opening in November 2005.
(tags: tagging tags metadata software)

Apple's real plan for iPod video? | Engadget
'Apple's (imaginary and far-fetched) plan to use the new iPod to capture the portable video market'
(tags: apple ipod mac video)

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions| Uncyclopedia
How to mod an iPod Nano by installing a 200GB hard drive. Attention: it might invalidate the guarantee ;-)
(tags: apple funny howto ipod nano)

Inside Bay Area - Bay Area Living
The Bay Area is home to dozens of tributes: Izzy Osbourne, Mandonna, Duran Duran Duran, Stung, AC/DShe, Lez Zeppelin…
(tags: tribute music)

Mandonna
The All Male, All-Live Tribute to the Material Girl
(tags: music madonna tribute)

Dr B. and I are leaving tomorrow morning for three and a half days of craic in Dublin.
My Irish ex-flatmate has quickly recommended to us the following (with apologies to Dublin lovers for this incomplete and possibly incorrect list):

visiting the library at Trinity College, including the Book of Kells;
getting something called 'the blue book' from [...]

BBC NEWS | Business | Google drops Gmail address in UK
New users are from now assigned a username@googlemail.com address. And I opened a myfirstnameandlastname@gmail.com mailbox three days ago - odd coincidence!
(tags: google gmail email uk)

Need a Nano Case? Try Chiclets! - Lifehacker
'Simply go to the store, buy a packet of Chiclets and use that to [...]

Dr B. has treated himself to a brand new toy: a shiny top-of-the-range Sony RDR-HXD910 DVD Recorder With 250GB HDD. It pauses live TV, has a massive 250GB storage and lets you watch a programme from the start while it's being recorded. It has a DVD recorder, built-in Freeview and a host of other features [...]

Bruce Lawson's personal site: Future-proof your CSS with Conditional Comments
'The IE development team are calling on people to clean up their CSS hacks that might fail when IE7 is released, so I thought I'd tell you about how I did this for an emergency design I did for a punter a couple of months ago'
(tags: [...]

The movie was preceded by the animated short 'Penguin: Christmas Caper'. Fast and funny CGI, very American in taste and rhythm, after which the main feature felt right from the start like classy, atmospheric subtle fun.
'Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit' is good fun, featuring impressive animation (was it really fingerprints I could [...]

The Nexus of politics and terror - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com
13 'coincidences' in the last three years: 'a political downturn for the administration, followed by a 'terror event' - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning.'
(tags: bush politics terrorism)

BBC NEWS | Magazine | And this is how you vote…
On 1 November, the UK's citizenship [...]

Land+Living: Un-Ikea(ed)
'… third year product design students at the Academy of Arts in Iceland were charged with transforming Ikea products into something that Ikea would not represent. And some were successful in adding humor and irony into their designs.'
(tags: design iceland ikea)

Inhabitat
Iceland's unique take on minimalist Scandinavian design is on display everywhere. Inspired use of [...]

Dear S.
I got your email the other day, the short update you sent to all your contacts.
I am thrilled to hear you are well.
So you are 30 now, and earning your living. You must be chuffed you finally have spending power, and a debit card! I remember how nerve-wrecking it was every time you had [...]

BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple unveils video-playing iPod
The new iPod seems to be doing everything my iRiver has been delighting me with since last Christmas. Very clever of Apple to strike a deal with ABC to sell episodes of TV series the day after they are broadcast.
(tags: ipod video mobile abc itunes tv)

Guardian Unlimited [...]

I am not a science-fiction fan, and yet recently a couple of productions have completely won me over: the latest Dr Who series earlier this year, and then Serenity last night.
I had watched the pilot of the axed TV series from which the movie spins off (Firefly) and was intrigued by it visually, plot-wise, but [...]

Moving Pictures | Yahoo! News
'Thanks to digital music players, listening to MP3s is commonplace. But what if you want video on the go? Here's how to pull it off.'
(tags: mobile video player mp3)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blooker rewards books from blogs
'The best books based on blogs are to be recognised in their own literary [...]

eBay: TV ABC Emmy Winning Show "LOST" 7ft bamboo raft prop (item 4774486070 end time Oct-06-05 00:19:00 PDT)
Auction closed with no bids (unsurprisingly, as the starting bid was 2,000 USD for a few pieces of tattered bamboo)
(tags: lost prop raft ebay auction tv)

Some Rabbis Criticize New Madonna Song | ABC News
New album features 'Isaac', a [...]

Gay men can be priests if celibate | Boston.com
Leaked document indicates the Vatican will allow gay men into priesthood if they can show they have been celibate for at least three years. And how exactly do they plan to test that?
(tags: church religion gay vatican priesthood catholic)

Kate Bush: Video Exclusive | channel4.com
Sat 15 Oct at [...]

Google Online RSS Reader: Worst Than Having Nothing At All
'If this is how Google plans to contend on the RSS market, they might as well not do it at all.' I agree; importing my feeds from Bloglines was painless. Finding and reading them in Google Reader is a nightmare. Will wait for it to get [...]

Queerduck | Online flash animation
Started like this on the web, then became a series on Showtime that got axed. Now it's going to be a movie. Theme song by RuPaul and Queerduck voice by Jim J. Bullock ('Monroe' in 'Too Close For Comfort')
(tags: gay cartoon flash queerduck showtime)

Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible | Times Online
'THE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.' – No, REALLY? Who'd have thought it, eh?
(tags: church religion bible history)

I Hate 'Tags' | The Net Takeaway
Why [...]

Thirty years go by, things change and you think you are a responsible and mature adult. Then something happens that makes you realise you still behave exactly like when you were eight.
Yesterday I left work early because I was knackered from three almost sleepless nights in a row.
I went home and watched my first [...]

Ever since I started having a more serious approach to weight training, I have tried to eat at least one gram of protein per pound of body weight per day. Opinions vary on the subject, but this amount seems to draw some consensus.
Naturally, I try as much as I can to get most of my [...]

Passport to the pub: a guide to British pub etiquette | Social Issues Research Centre
'[...] the bar counter of the pub is the only place in Britain in which anything is sold or served without the formation of a queue.'
(tags: uk pub etiquette britishness)

Kate Bush's Album Artwork Contains Cryptic Message | GIGWISE.com
The cover for 'Aerial' [...]

I don't care much for interrupting work for lunch. However, since the law requires me to take a minimum of thirty minutes off (or so I've been told), I usually plug my headphones in and set off, walk very briskly for fifteen minutes, turn around and walk back.
Earlier this morning, as I was warming up [...]

SnakeOil Labs | Top 10 Windows Freeware tools for 2005
Winamp 5.1 makes it at #10. I used to be a staunch Winamp supporter, then went cold when they uncovered security issues regarding digital attacks using skins for camouflage. V. 5.05 upwards correct the flaw.
(tags: download free software windows winamp)

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | [...]

Salvation is a gay club that takes place at Café de Paris on the first Sunday of each month, from late afternoon until about midnight.
What most people I spoke to had to say about it was mainly stuff like 'Café de Paris is a fantastic venue', and 'Salvation is full of impossibly handsome men, possibly [...]

Creatine and the athlete
Creatine is produced naturally by the body and helps to improve muscles' performance during exercise. It is particularly beneficial for sports that involve short bursts of intense exercise.
(tags: creatine supplement health food fitness muscle)

Still I Rise - A poem by Maya Angelou
Now I know why the lyrics of Peyton's latest release sounded [...]

On Cillit Bang and a new low for marketers… (plasticbag.org)
Tom writes about making contact with his father after 28 years, and receives a support comment complete with product placement from a marketing firm. To be followed, as Tom chases it down.
(tags: advertising blog marketing)

Google MyWay - How to search Google efficiently
From basic boolean to the [...]

These four actors are taking screen tests this week for the lead role in Casino Royale:

Henry Cavill
Daniel Craig
Goran Visnjic
Sam Worthington

I know who I would choose (hints: I appreciate home-grown talent – and twinks don't do it for me).

Will & Grace kicks off season 8 with live episode (5-minute highlights)
Sitting through it made me feel like I was in drama school again, with actors cracking up and having to repeat lines. Unprofessional yet funny.
(tags: will7grace sitcom tv live)

3D Pong
Totally crap at this (perhaps due to trying it out on laptop with trackball). Makes [...]