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Found at waxy.org - Items on Amazon you probably shouldn’t buy.

Not the kind of score line that looks any good, is it? Fimoculous reports that 54 of the 100 music videos from Pitchfork’s 100 awesome music videos from last summer have been removed from YouTube. As he says - who wins? No one.

Hmmm…. Is Wikipedia too frightening for you? Then why not try Conservapedia instead? Guaranteed to have excised any facts that may hurt your ever more fragile faith.

Gah!

USB Sellotape dispenser

Hmm… People who know me in First Life will now exactly how underwhelmed I was with Second Life. I was told (and yes, I’m a fool for believing) that it was (and I quote) “like Snowcrash“.

“That,” I thought to myself, “is something I have to get a piece of. I can get a Tron motorcycle. And maybe we could open an office there. With sliding Japanese paper doors. Man that would be cool.”

You can imagine my disgust, then, when I discovered that in fact it’s a jerky, laggy, dull place for the sexually depraved. A bit like the Internet in 1995, I guess. Hey ho. Maybe in 10 years. Anyway - this guy’s account of his first visit sums my feelings up rather nicely:

How do you hit people?