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How Harry Potter was pitched to the publishers

I love the books but just found this funny.

Modern Toilet

This is a toilet-themed restaurant in Taiwan. This, among a few other crazy themed restaurants, was found here.

Benjamin Linus for President

Buy all manner of merchandise from Grubby Tees.

The Flatulent Cat - Yoga Postitions for over 50s

A message for yoga teachers in-training: don't forget that the over 50s have a different yoga experience - they are more likely to feel strain on their back and their knees, more likely to get confused and forget where their legs are and it's quite possible that they will be more inclined to break wind often during classes.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

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Can't. Stop. Saying it.

I don't remember this episode...

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe sneaks onto QVC

Contains rude words...

Hiphopopotamus

Fresh Prince of Persia

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Fun with packaging

So we're going to see the Boosh...

I was a massive fan of the first series and had a few laughs at the second but it has since descended into student-style in-jokes and fashionable band name-dropping now... not to mention Noel Fielding's head (and hair) getting bigger and bigger. However. I was offered tickets to see the live show in Portsmouth, and Bek and me sure as hell aren't missing an opportunity to see Julian Barrett in the flesh! Don't let me down, Moon.

World of Warcraft mentalist

This man clearly lost some marbles some time ago:

"For my keys to send to all instances of WoW on my 11 computers, I use Octopus 1.3.2. Maximizer in Octopus allows me to start up all WoW instances at the same time or any individual instance such as if a WoW instance has crashed. It also allows me to shutdown all of the computers at the same time."

<-----This guy springs to mind, and to quote the old guy at the chicken farm in Napoleon Dynamite: "Son, I have no idea what you just said." AND if I could find her, he'd be getting a 'Greta' right now.

Do you know what makes it worse too? The super-positive comments after the article! "I wish you were my dad!!11". It's a sad world we live in...

Oasis attacked on stage

It's worth the wait trust me. Though I would've gone for Liam first...

The Corpus Clock

"The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building.

It will be unveiled on 19 September by Prof Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of the global bestseller, A Brief History of Time.

The £1 million timepiece, known as The Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honour John Harrison, who was famously the pioneer of Longitude and inventor of the esoteric clock mechanism known as a grasshopper escapement.

The clock has been designed by the inventor and horologist Dr John Taylor and makes ingenious use of the grasshopper escapement, moving it from the inside of the clock to the outside and refashioning it as a Chronophage, or time-eater, which literally devours time." - Chronophage

Apparently it's stopped several times already...

Think about it

A Nicky Harrison dilemma

Who would she be rooting for?

The Creepy Gnome

I first heared about this through Arbroath. In case you know nothing about it:

A TOWN in South America is living in fear after several sightings of a 'creepy gnome' that locals claim stalks the streets at night.

The midget - which wears a pointy hat and has a distinctive sideways walk - was caught on video last week by a terrified group of youngsters.

Teenager Jose Alvarez - who filmed the gnome - yesterday told national newspaper El Tribuno that they caught the creature while larking about in their hometown of General Guemes, in the province of Salta, Argentina.

He said: “We were chatting about our last fishing trip. It was one in the morning.

“I began to film a bit with my mobile phone while the others were chatting and joking.

"Suddenly we heard something - a weird noise as if someone was throwing stones.

"We looked to one side and saw that the grass was moving. To begin with we thought it was a dog but when we saw this gnome-like figure begin to emerge we were really afraid."

Jose added that other locals had come forward to say they had spotted the gnome.

He said: “This is no joke. We are still afraid to go out - just like everyone else in the neighbourhood now.

"One of my friends was so scared after seeing that thing that we had to take him to the hospital.”

The Sun

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Is this for real? If it is, then you've got to feel sorry for the 'gnome'... But they do look very sinister, especially dressed in a 'pointy hat'. Bad choice of dress, I say...

Mac Vs PC

In an article in The Guardian, Charlie Brooker points out that the use of the comedians Mitchell and Webb in the UK 'Mac Vs PC' campaign for Apple is curious. They both star in the sitcom Peep Show in which, to quote the article's author, "Mitchell plays a repressed, neurotic underdog, and Webb plays a selfish, self-regarding poseur". He goes on to say, "So when you see the ads, you think, 'PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers.'"

I love you Charlie Brooker. Though I do have a mac... but that's not the point here.

I spy...