Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

This PETA advertisement (which is NOT SAFE FOR WORK) was supposed to run during American broadcaster NBC's coverage of the Superbowl on the 1st of February. NBC decided to ban the commercial instead, as it "depicts a level of sexuality exceeding our standards". A PETA spokesperson responded by saying “PETA’s veggie ads are locked out, while ads for fried chicken and burgers are allowed, even though these foods make Americans fat, sick and boring in bed.”

Speaking as a vegetarian, I can confirm that everything the advert says is completely true. That said, however, I would not recommend using a head of broccoli as a sex toy.

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• Jump London
  Another film that's recently been put online in it's entirety, for free. This time it's "The original Parkour or Free Running documentary"
  (tags: film free london parkour)
• Carts of Darkness by Murray Siple
  The Canadian Film Board have put this film online for free - "Murray Siple's feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture depicts street life as much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk. Shot in high-definition and featuring tracks from Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Vetiver, Bison, and Alan Boyd of Little Sparta"
  (tags: free online cult film canada)

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• "RT" vs "via". Round 2.
  I agree. Posting a "RT" and then the exact thing that was Twittered in the first place is like posting someone else's blog post, in it's entirety. Even if you link to them at the bottom, it's still essentially spam. "Via" works better, and encourages you to think about what you're typing. [/nerd]
  (tags: twitter etiquette interesting)
• Physics doesn't apply to much of the universe
  I've been hoping this was the case all along. The phrase "not physically possible" no longer applies.
  (tags: science nature physics)

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www.myspace.com/abamband

www.downloadmusic.ie/abam

[Disclaimer: ABAM are friends of Babs]

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First Attempt At Quiche, originally uploaded by Matthew Verso.

Broccoli and mushroom quiche. A product of us getting a new Magimix
and pressure being put on me to get with the baking. Looks pretty
good, we'll find out how good it really is shortly!

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• Planetary Nebula NGC 2818
  Doesn't it look like you're peering through space, and seeing the sky?
  (tags: cool space nasa astronomy photos)
• NASA - The Reviewing Stand
  And astronaut walks past Obama during the inauguration parade. NASA's next-generation spacesuit looks like something from a 1970's sci-fi movie. A good movie though.
  (tags: nasa photos)
• Microsoft Songsmith Remixes [Videos]
  Actually, the Songsmith version of "Roxanne" by The Police is actually pretty "not bad". The rest of them though, are hilariously awful. If this is Microsoft's answer to Garageband, they didn't understand the question.
  (tags: funny weird microsoft music software video remix)

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• "Who is Watching?"
  Best Obama rip-off/homage I've seen so far. And it's a Watchmen reference too! On a t-shirt! Double awesome.
  (tags: 2009 Obama homage tshirt comics)
• Organ donor (see inside for details)
  Best shirt I've seen on Threadless in ages. I haven't bought a Threadless shirt in over a year, mostly because most of the new designs are a bit crap.
  (tags: cool tshirt threadless)

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• The Remnants on Vimeo
  "The pilot for The Remnants, written and directed by John August. Starring Justine Bateman, Michael Cassidy, Ben Falcone, Ze Frank, Ernie Hudson, and Amanda Walsh. It was shot during the WGA strike in February 2008, using the SAG internet agreement."
  (tags: funny tv video movies ZeFrank scifi)

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• Stupid Tech Support
  Another huge collection of hilarious tech support stories. These ones you haven't seen before though. ROFL.
  (tags: stupid funny internet geek humour technology)
• Runnin' With The Songsmith
  A Metafilter member took David Lee Roth's vocal track from Runnin' With The Devil and put it through Microsoft's new "Songsmith", a future failed "music" software product. Press "play", think "wtf?" for about 20 seconds, then burst out laughing. That's what I did anyway.
  (tags: funny software music mashup stupid microsoft)
• Olly Moss?s Poster Remakes
  Movie posters old and new, reinterpreted "in a kinda minimalistic post modern German-ism style". I want them. I want them all.
  (tags: cool movies poster art culture)
• Zero Punctuation : Tomb Raider: Underworld
  "keeps giving me the troubling feeling that Lara's bum needs wiping"
  (tags: funny videogames review yahtzee video)

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• In the Shadow of Saturn
  I'm sure I've linked to this before (Big Picture, perhaps?) but this is simply one of the most incredibly beautiful images of space ever recorded. The most beautiful planet in the Solar System as you've never seen it before, in stunning high-resolution (and "ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus" sounds like something from Star Wars).
  (tags: cool astronomy space nasa cassini)
• The Hood Internet Mixtape Vol. 3
  A huge pile of 2008 mashups for your listening pleasure. A bit poppy in places, but still rather good.
  (tags: 2008 pop music mashup)

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• NGC 2736: The Pencil Nebula
  LOOK AT IT! It's like a giant ethereal red dragon-beastie in space! And it's moving at over 500,000 kilometres per hour! [APOD, 2009 January 8]
  (tags: cool space astronomy nasa photos)

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• People Who Deserve It
  "Socially responsible reasons to punch someone in the face". Everyone you hate is on this list.
  (tags: social stupid lists funny culture)
• Top 50 movie special effects shots
  Lovely stuff. Agreed on every single one.
  (tags: movies SFX cgi animation lists)
• 3-2-1 Contact Opening Theme/Intro
  Remember 3-2-1 Contact? I do, and my nostalgia glands are quivering as I watch this video.
  (tags: 80s tv theme nostalgia)
• Milky Way Transit Authority
  Map of the Milky Way, done in the style of the London Underground (Tube) map. Educational!
  (tags: cool maps astronomy space interesting art homage)

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• Dotter Dotter
  3-D representations of classic 8-bit (and under) video games. Inspired, and quite brilliant in places.
  (tags: cool oldSkool videogames retro nostalgia art)

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Free-Range Estonian Christmas Decorations, originally uploaded by Matthew Verso.

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• Mercedes Benz SLR Stirling Moss
  Totally, utterly bonkers (it doesn't even have a windscreen!), and yours for just ?750,000.
  (tags: weird cool cars Mercedes racing tribute)

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While driving through Dunlaoghaire the other day I spotted this in a shop I used to frequent. Home Bakers, Home Chefs...And Chancers. What the feck. Ok I know some people are chancers and make total balls ups of things and try to sell them on to the uneducated consumer, but really, do they want to actually advertise to chancers??

(*Please note: I was stopped at traffic lights when I took this photo with my phone, it was not a drive by shooting!)

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Yesterday was a wild day for me for many reasons.
It's been nine years since I met some of my very best friends completely randomly at a party and I am so so glad that I went there and that we all found each other because my life would not have as many laughs in it if it weren't for them.

Instead of sitting around the house today in my PJ's wishing that I wasn't feeling so shite, I walked to my friends house in the cold wind to retrieve my baba car from the New Years Ever festivities, almost got eaten by two savage beasts (her neighbours labradors are a tad on the barky attacky side) and then I was a farmer in Rebecca and Seans field for the rest of the afternoon which was actually really enjoyable, despite the smell of the cow poo and the hay bales, and the muck and the cold and the crazy cows buck leaping about, as Rebecca put it, my eyes were on stalks with the fear, but it was great and I feel good for doing it, imagine me, who owns practically a million pairs of high heels, messing about in the wellies with a pitch fork and not really giving a shit how mucky I got when Isobel asked "carry me Sah-Yah".

Happy 2009, lets hope its as good if not better than last year!

(*PS: Sorry about the crap phone camera quality photo but we were out in the fields so no choice for that really!)

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