Scalextric races on to the Net:

Music site tries floating price tags
An interesting approach...

A little known online music store is experimenting with a new pricing system in which most songs start out costing a dime, and their prices fluctuate from there based on customer demand.

Tolkien Barbie and Ken

Flatulence Deodorizer

it is my birthday present, my precious: "Gollum has a new precious, my precious"

My other VAX is a VAXbar: "the VAXbar!"

Monochrom Brandmarker
Very intersting survey into the reality of brand recognition. I think the BP one is particularly interesting, as they have spent a lot of money on rebranding to their new "greener" image, and yet many people seem to still associate the older "classic BP Shield" logo.

Bowie not interested in "honours"
"Bowie said he was not interested in gongs. 'I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that,' he said.
'I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for."

Holiday Snowglobe

Who's in charge of the Internet?
Interesting essay on the control and management (or lack of) of the internet.

Very funny "alternative" London Tube Map tubemap.jpg. I love the stream of conciousness naming of the stations as you follow a tube line along.

Two nice MS Word parodies...
BBspot - Word 2004 to Pioneer AutoUnsummarize Feature

"Microsoft announced a revolutionary new feature will appear in Word 2004 called AutoUnsummarize. The technology works by taking short, concise sections of text and expanding them to any specified length."

Northern Word

"All the usual Word menu option are there, but in a language your Northern England employees can understand"

Thunderbirds are Go!
I loved thunderbirds as a wee lad, and I suppose I still do !
I noticed this Thunderbirds trailer is go! at BoingBoing (a blog worth regular visits). The trailer is pretty big, but the thunderbird craft (the stars of the show) look pretty authentic.
It prompted me to check here: comingsoon.net which has some stills and blurb, and then here: IMDb Forum: Thunderbirds which contains some worrying stories about a butchered screenplay... :-( lets just hopw they're wrong.

St Trevor of Brooking tells it like it really ought to be !
Trevor's opinion piece in the Guardian Our good health is refrershingly spot on.

"The relationship between sport and alcohol does not have to be a disaster for the nation's wellbeing"

The World's best looking bands
Another to add to the "Worster Album Covers Ever" collections.
[see See earlier item]

David Byrne turns PowerPoint into art.
Wired News: Turning Heads With PowerPoint

Mr. Picassohead Great Fun - have a go !

elgooG Funtastic mirroring technology... take a look - and try a search (watch out you hit the right button).

The CIA Assassination of John Lennon
Just because you're paranoid... single page comic strip on the death of Lennon.

George Monbiot on the oil crisis.
This article Bottom of the barrel addresses the most critical issue facing our "civilisation". I have been (semi) following this for a couple of years, since seeing a BBC Monry Program TV show, and then hearing a Radio 4 science show, which in both cases even the most rose-tinted optimistic predictions of oil reserves vs peak usage had seriously scary implications.
Read this article, and see if you can answer the question:

"The world is running out of oil - so why do politicians refuse to talk about it?"