Nothing makes you feel more like a telly-addict than when someone makes a geeky reference to a Sci-fi show and everyone knows exactly what they mean. This site has a list of Simpsons scenes and which films they came from. It looks like Matt Groening's even more of a telly-addict than me.
Source [Via: nodomain.cc]
It might seem like a lot of money, but when you think you could have your own road-legal panzer to protect you from the agony of being hit by paintballs, £8,000 doesn't seem that much. It also has a working paintball cannon.
I Want One of Those [ Via: Gizmodo]
An excerpt from a Dutch TV programme called 'Boemerang'. The presenter apparently lost his job for laughing at a guy with a funny voice. Actually laughing is probably an understatement…
Source: YouTube
A group of Pygmy musicians performing at a festival were put up in a zoo by Congolese officials, attracting tourists and prompting a protest from a human rights group.
Authorities said they were trying to make the indigenous musicians feel comfortable. But after a flurry of media coverage, they moved the visitors to a high school dormitory. The Pygmies are now being housed with musicians from elsewhere in the Republic of Congo, while foreign artists performing at the Festival of Pan-African Music were lodged in hotels.
Nice try, but how did they think they'd get away with this?
Source: NY Times
The creators of the Simpsons have made this spoof of World of Warcraft. It's actually pretty impressive, not like the Dominos advert they did.
[Via: WoW Insider]
K-Mart's own brand of bacon looks to be a bit on the streaky side, even if you like crispy bacon. I don't know which part of the pig they cut this from, but I'm guessing it's somewhere near the arse.
[Via: The Consumerist]
These seem to sell out within a few days of coming into stock. This time though, I managed to grab one. There are still a few left at the moment, but they'll probably be sold out again in a few days, so buy one quick!
Two Atlanta men survived an attempt to kill themselves on Friday by cutting off their arms with a circular saw, according to Atlanta Police Major Lane Hagin.
The men managed to sever three of their arms about six inches above the wrist, he said.
The two men — aged 40 and 41 — left a suicide note saying they were committing suicide because their business had failed and they had been diagnosed with HIV. The manager who read the note called police who found the two men in their apartment with “a lot of blood,”.
I can think of less agonising ways to top yourself. 
I've been having problems with my Inspiron overheating lately, so I might give this a go 
. Pat Dori, a disgruntled customer who phoned Dell 19 times eventually decided to take the company to court for 'failing to adequately address the problem'. He had the legal papers delivered to a Dell kiosk in a shopping centre, and not surprisingly, no one from Dell turned up in court. Mr. Dori won the case by default, and won $3000 and a ruling allowing the repo depot to close the kiosk and seize everything there if the judgement wasn't paid. Dell decided to settle out of court.
Probably not the best idea, these Lego shaped gummies are an accident waiting to happen. What's next, gummy razor blades?
An artist from Montreal, Canada, plans to build and launch a giant 300metre long Banana into space, the project that is called the Geostationary Banana over Texas, and the goal is to float the Helium filled Banana over Texas for just one month. So why would anyone want to float a giant banana in space? The 'goal' of the project is to promote contemporary art, but wouldn't the money be better spent on helping the homeless or building something that would last a bit longer?
In a rush to buy a stamp? Tape the right amount of postage to the front of it and the US postal service will deliver it anyway. They didn't bother stamping it either, so it doesn't cost you anything.
I checked my server logs last night, just to see if there was anything interesting. I use two different domains, one for my blog and one for images I use on forums and the like, so the logs for mi6.nu, my images domain are like a breadcrumb trail of my last month's browsing. I was pretty surprised to see a few URLs I'd never heard of as the referrers. A finnish site about Lordi was one and MySpace.com was the other. I hate MySpace, and there's no way I'd have wasted my bandwidth hosting pictures for it. The images being linked was Contemplating Existence, a wallpaper I made last year. Some Idiot was using the image as his background. It's great that he liked my wallpaper but firstly it's my property, he can't use it without my permission, and secondly, it's over 200KB, and was loaded 350 times in December. That's 65MB of bandwidth I've paid for!
I decided to teach the leech a lesson using .htaccess (info in read more), which lets you serve up a different image for specified referrers. Inspired by a recent blog post I'd read, I thought the Goatse pic would be a good choice. For anyone that doesn't know, Goatse was a site available at the turn of the millenium which scarred millions of impressionable AOL kiddies. Now whenever someone from an external site tries to use one of those images, they'll get a nice surprise. Let that be a lesson to anyone else who's thinking of leeching my bandwidth!
Lordi, the Finnish monsters who won Eurovision have released their own brand of cola.
“The Lordi phenomenon has brought the whole nation together”, said Ritva Sinisalo, of the beer company which makes the drink.
The lead singer, Mr Lordi designed the label featuring the five members of the band in their monster costumes. Lordi kick off their Bringing Back the Balls to Europe tour in Stockholm on 16 September, and play five UK dates in October.
Urinals shaped like an opera singer's mouth have been removed from an operahouse in Vienna.
The urinals included a set of lips, teeth and a bright red tongue, but a spokeswoman for the Vienna Department of Womens' Affairs said they were “tasteless and offensive”.
The owner of the operahouse, Neuhard Gerhard said he found it odd that the urinals, which had been in use for three years had only become an issue in the run-up to Austria's national elections.
