Yibber Yabber

This week, Radio 1 will be broadcasting live from Scott Mills Flat through Six different webcams all around his place, live on the internet, for most of the day. He’ll also be doing the show live from his flat each day.
Viewers will be able to watch what hes up to when hes not doing the [...]

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Movies are my favourite past-time. I watch them like some guys do sporting events and I get equally worked up. I like a great idea that’s been written well, directed well, acted well and shot well. I have my own laundry list of actors and directors that I follow as well. The only aspect of [...]

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[IF]
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give [...]

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My roommate, Dawn, is learning to play my electric guitar. She’s sitting on my futon, going through a Beatles playbook and teaching herself chords. I figure that when she gets it all down pat then she’ll be able to teach me. I got the guitar as Christmas present from my father. Lovely idea. I was [...]

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Nation’s Poorest 1% Now Controls Two-Thirds Of U.S. Soda Can Wealth
WASHINGTON—A report on growing disparities in the concentration of U.S. aluminum-can wealth, released Tuesday by the Department of Commerce, revealed that 66 percent of the nation’s recyclable assets are now held by the poorest 1 percent of the population.
According to the sobering report, the disproportionate [...]

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There are two things that the US media seems a bit baffled by: 1) Barack and Michelle Obama’s fist bump and 2) Sascha Baron Cohen (aka Ali G.). Observe the following clip…

Posted by: Christopher F. Lapinel, The Diamond Spade
Obama, Ali G., Fist, Bump, Terrorist

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Hey there, Star Trek fans! Have you heard the latest? George Takei, who played Hiraku Sulu on the original Star Trek series in the sixties, is to soon wed his longtime partner Brad Altman. The nuptials will take place this autumn. The Telegraph reported: “Takei, 71, announced that he would marry his partner of twenty [...]

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Penis Envy?
Flying penises? What next? The ice-caps melting? Oh yeah, that’s already happening. So just how did a flying penis disrupt the (marginally) democratic process in Russia? Read below and find out:

ITN - Wednesday, May 21 03:27 pm
A political rally has been broken up in Russia by a remote-controlled flying penis. Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov [...]

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Hey! I want to apologise for my recent absence here. Life got the better of me this past week. You have not been forgotten, however. During the interim a number of fascinating things have come to light and I’m not talking about the dozens of socks I’ve ‘rediscovered’ at the bottom of my laundry hamper. [...]

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Without this man, we would never have The Onion or The Daily Show. Yet even these cultural istitutions are but pale reflections of Huster S. Thompson’s sawed-off shotgun ethics and reporting style, which were somehow very nearly the same thing. The reason that Thompson’s reporting was superior to the types of gonzo journalism we are seeing [...]

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Little did I know that I would one day feel compelled to write about this show…
‘I love being with Matt,’ she said. She sounded so earnest. My mouth dropped open slightly. It was hard to believe that someone would do this in front of a camera. Still, people have done worse. I’m just sensitive, I [...]

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Sorry…perhaps if I explain things you’ll rest easy. What? Nevermind. This is bat country!
Word of explanation, this happens to be one of my favourite movies of all time. Random? Yes. Necessary? Without doubt.

Posted by: Christopher F. Lapinel

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Watch this little spoof on Rupert Murdoch and then read, if you have time of course!

Oh, the month has been rife with spoofs, I think anyway. It is April, after all. Some people must feel that the first day of the month is not enough to make a few people feel a bit foolish. In [...]

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Vice-president Dick Cheney’s sunglasses seem to have aroused political internet bloggers. A recent photo posted on the official White House website, from a series portraying Cheney as an outdoor loving old coot, has an interesting detail. Many political bloggers have spotted a naked woman reflected in Cheney’s sunglasses. The White House is not amused. They [...]

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Today is the anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. This man in every way transformed the landscape of the civil rights movement. Who he was as a man, a reverend and a leader is nothing short of a miracle. He exists in our collective mind, in this new century, primarily as an [...]

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