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How to pick up hot chicks… almost.

Darran — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:49:28 +0000

Via Dear Jane Sample

Honda creates ad live on Channel 4

Darran — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:12:38 +0000

Honda broadcast a 3 minute sky dive live on Channel 4 (UK) from Spain… check it out.

Via: dvorak.org/blog

Our Freedoms in the UK…

Darran — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:21:02 +0000

Via Curry.com

Colbert Report O’Reilly Followup

Darran — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:49:27 +0000

If you haven’t seen this, it’s well worth it, Colbert reacts to O’Reilly’s leaked video… by showing his own ancient leaked video!

Colbert Report Site

Video: O’Reilly Meltdown!

Darran — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:57:14 +0000

Just in case you didn’t get my O’Reilly reference the other day, this is the nutjob going, well nuts on his old TV show:

Fuck it, we’ll do it live!

Update: Replaced the video with a working version, though it may go down again.

James Bond gets a new set of covers…

Darran — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:01:18 +0000

Penguin are releasing some brilliant looking new editions of Ian Flemming’s James Bond series of books. Check them out here.

O’REILLY? FOX Picks up The Colbert Report in the UK

Darran — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:54:25 +0000

Everyone loves Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, recently awarded a Webby Award, the brilliant punditry parody of the Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor is loved by many, but for far too long it has not been broadcast in the UK.

The Daily Show, presented by Colbert’s ex-boss Jon Stewart has been aired on More4 since 2005, but no love has been shown for Colbert here. Until now, but be prepared to be shocked, as the network that will broadcast Colbert’s comedic genius will be none other than FX, Fox’s very own UK entertainment channel. I can only hope they wont cut out all the Fox News jabs - there’d be no show!

As I don’t have a TV I will be continuing to watch Colbert on his brilliant website, but for those who have televisions, you’ll now get your Colbert fix… from Fox.

For a review of Colbert on FX go here.
To see the show for yourself check out the official site, here.
For the FX Colbert Report Site, go here.

Belgian girl’s offer to take Net Neutrality fans Virginity (unsurprisingly) a response to Virgin’s Stupidity

Darran — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:59:29 +0000

You may have read around the web about the Belgian woman, Tania Dervaux, offering to take the virginity of any Net Neutrality supporting guy. What you may not have realised from the (largely American) coverage is that it was a direct response to a story I posted earlier this month, about the Virgin Media CEO calling Net Neutrality “Bollocks”.

You can check out their anti-Virgin Media campaign page, naturally named “Stop Virgin” here, the site everyone else is noticing though is the ahem registration page.

Further research on Miss Dervaux revealed she seems to have done a lot of press stunts before, she runs a fake suicide blog, and allegedly did indeed give out all those blow jobs to fellow Belgians who supported her political party in last year’s elections (though Wikipedia says it was entirely virtual).

Is this girl for real? No of course not, but she’s achieved her cause.

Via: Engadget Switched (plus a bit of research, whodathunkit)

Steve Ballmer’s Presentation Laptop?

Darran — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:27:51 +0000

Via Gizmodo

What you need to know: China tricking Africa? (Dvorak)

Darran — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:27:34 +0000

John C Dvorak has a great blog post about a how a new ‘win-win’ deal the Chinese have done with the Democratic Republic of Congo could cause untold problems for the country. The deal (originally reported by the BBC) is to swap the Congo’s resources (needed by China) for much needed infrastructure. The deal, however, has numerous loopholes, such as the fact that the Chinese don’t have to pay any taxes until they complete the building work, and as Dvorak says “Any bets that they get started on the mining before the 32 hospitals?”

For more, check out the must read article here and the original BBC article and report here, please decide for yourself.

Dvorak will be discussing it on his podcast with Adam Curry ‘No Agenda’ later today, you can download that from here or on iTunes here (both free).