• The 50 Best Pun Stores … a collection of funny shop names.
• Wine bottle FAIL… Lorem ipsum on a French wine label
• Flash Fun: “When the guy stops running, place the cursor about 1 inch above his head.”
• Google Reader Sanity for Greasemonkey … Makes Google Reader useful.
• Goths Up Trees … a tumblr exploring Goths in their natural habitat – up a tree.

• Here are some things you can use on your favorite internet forum … from BeaucoupKevin(dot)com …
  
  
• IndestructoTank! … addictive side-scrolling flash game – use your tank as weapon! [via Blah Blah Flowers]
• A Tour of a Fictional Solar System … Matt Webb describes a science fictional solar system.
• From West Wing to the real thing … the similarities between the West Wing character Matthew Santos and Barack Obama … ‘For what those West Wing fans stunned by the similarity between the fictitious Matthew Santos and the real-life Barack Obama have not known is that the resemblance is no coincidence. When the West Wing scriptwriters first devised their fictitious presidential candidate in the late summer of 2004, they modelled him in part on a young Illinois politician – not yet even a US senator – by the name of Barack Obama…’
• Smokers of the Marvel Universe … cute illustrations remembering when comic characters smoked. [via Neilalien]
• BedPost … the Web 2.0 application for your sex-life. ‘Ever wonder how often you get busy?’ [via iamcal]

• Akira Fansite … ‘TETSUOOOOOOOOOO!’ [via Metafilter]
• Use Your Mac Mini as a Media Server … I’m very tempted by this…
• YouTube: The Simpsons Evolution Intro … watch the evolution of the Homer and check the comments: ‘ Matt Groening created “The Simpsons.” That’s probably as much creationism as is relevant for this video.’
• Create a Safely Remove Hardware shortcut … useful tip for using USB Devices with Windows.
• The Top 50 Productivity Blogs … So, you can cure procrastination by reading productivity blogs?
• YouTube: Lazy Sunday UK … ‘Tea, Motherfucker!’
• Ask Metafilter: Women comic book authors … ‘What are some good comic books written by female authors?’

• Modern Living / Neurotica series … brilliant but slighty creepy Flash Animations.
• Apple Qucktime Trailers: V for Vendetta – Trailer 2
• The Price of… Liquid … ‘Here are 47 liquids and their prices, in order, from cheapest to most expensive.’
• The Nine Faces of Comics … a diagram looking at the various factions in comicbooks.
• Time Cube … ‘You are educated as a stupid android slave to the evil Word Animal Singularity Brotherhood.’
• Art Film of a Fox in the National Art Gallery … in WMV format.
• What Everybody should Know about Blog Depression … an amusing look at blogging.

• Headacher … various in-browser animations which make your head go funny.
• Joe Matt’s How to be Cheap … A one-pager from before he was obssessed with porn, got a deal with HBO and disappeared!
• LMG Mirrored: GenihcaMkniL
• Sony Bravia – The Advert … the Bouncing Ball Advert from off the Telly.
• The Fatal Consequences of Masturbation … ‘The Worst Sin According to a 19th Century Book’
• Breaking Free … the famous Socialist Worker version of Tintin. [via Pete Ashton]
• Interview with Franklin Crowe – a Sidewalk Comic-book Vendor and Speed Chess Player … from Gothamist.

• Screen grab! … a Firefox 1.5 extension which saves entire webpages as images (requires Java)
• Secret Santa 2005 … ‘ALL HAIL MITZY BUTTONTOES! CRYSTALLINE LORD OF ELF LIBERATION!!’
• Ultimate Eye for the Vertigo Guy … Bendis, Millar and Austen makeover John Constantine.
• Flickr: From an Australian bar receipt…
• Maunsell Towers … Haunting Pictures of Derelict WW2-era Army Sea Forts in the Thames Estuary.
• DealAZ – Find deals on Amazon.co.uk … might be useful for Christmas…
• Woz on the Apple 2 … Steve Wozniak’s decription of the Apple II from Byte in 1977. ‘To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive.’

• Spotted on Flickr: V for Vendetta Sleeping
• The 50 Worst Hairstyles of all Time … ‘From the old standbys of ugliness like, The Mullet and Comb-Over to new additions to the bad hair lexicon like, The Career Terminator and The Gangsta Pimp- they are all here.’
• Doom Ported to iPod Linux [via Waxy’s Links]
• Wireless hijacking under scrutiny … ‘…the outcome proves that borrowing someone else’s network is not as harmless as the hobbyist wi-fi user might think.’
• Feed Digest … ‘…mix, filter and republish or syndicate feeds to HTML, JavaScript, WAP or PHP, or to a new feed.’
• … and finally: Jesus Swimming.

• Roger Ebert’s Top Movies of 2004
• Concrete TV – from Concrete Ron ‘…perhaps the greatest video editor of all time’.
• The Accidental Guru – Fast Company on Malcolm Gladwell.
• Regular Sucking Schedule – blog about bandwidth issues caused by RSS feeds.
• The weirdest Palm OS programs – On Hal9000: ‘This program displays, realistically and worryingly, the electronic eye and the affable voice of HAL9000, the evil computer in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey”.’
• The Grapevine – ukblogs history: ‘The real dirt on UK webloggers’
• The 100 Oldest Currently Registered .COM Domains – ‘1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM’
• Why Women Live Longer Than Men – mainly crazy people at work.

» Trailer: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
» Magneto Was Right [via plasticbag.org]
» Ping-O-Matic! … useful… especially if you’re still using Blogger [via yoz]
» Like The Wind — Tips and Tweaks for Winamp 5.
» Windows Software Compendium — summary of useful Windows software for the iPod.
» Winamp 5.0 iPod Plugin … Works for Me – YMMV.

» Curveball … 3D Ping Pong Distraction.
» The 10 Worst Album Covers … Joyce scares me.
» This week’s UK TV … Telly Listings [via Mo Morgan]
» alt.binaries.nl …‘Search the Latest Files in Binary Newsgroups’

» WikidPad … Wiki Notebook / Outliner for Windows [via del.icio.us]
» Plep Redesigns! … the linklogger’s linklogger!

• LEDhead… Classic handheld electronic game re-creations.
• Corporate Blogging … Flash: Blogging Goes Corporate — from Wired.
• Perpetual Bubblewrap … Hours of Fun.
• AtariAge … ‘Have You Played Atari Today?’
• Eric Raymond’s Blog … ‘ Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life’s simple pleasures.’
• Phone Bashing … Classic. ‘We support the Solid Gold Chart Busters and their anti mobile phone sentiment, but we are prepared to take it one step further.‘

• Buffy Guide … The Complete Buffy Episode Guide.
• Comics — NCRL … New Comic Book Releases for this Week.
• Eddie Stobart + Porn … Another Disturbing Search Request.
• Blogjam’s Portal of God … ‘Hopefully by following the links on this page and learning a little about those good samaritans who’ve dedicated much of their time to Christ, you’ll gain a better understanding of life in the Church, and perhaps you too will go on to the make the World a better place to live in.’
• Mefi: Free Comics Day … Metafilter on the Free Comics Day 2002 Promotion.
• Young Ones FAQ … Frequently Asked Questions about Rik, Neil, Mike and Vyvian. [via Fark]

• Disturbing Search Request: I’d love to fuck Elizabeth Wurtzel – I mean, wouldn’t you?
• Mefi: Reagan’s Death … THESE PAGES ARE EMBARGOED UNTIL REAGAN’S DEATH.
• Distraction: Mini-Mizer … Lego Mini-Figs [via Robot Wisdom]
• Benny Hill Bio … ‘[On television] this intensely private, financially cautious, emotionally stunted and socially inept man was given the opportunity to develop characters he could hide behind.’
• Office Supplies Attack! … [via meish.org]
• Weblog Cliques … [via Evhead]

• White Castle — This had been sitting on the homepage of LMG for ages…
• Weird Science@E2 — I loved this film when I was a kid.
• Metafilter: Room 101 — What would you take into Room 101? A thread I kicked off.
• Comic Book Guy File — a personal role-model of mine… :)
• Watching: Point Blank — ‘There are two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can’t tell them apart.’
• Alterslash — Slashdot.org Digest.

• Graph and Forecast for the SARS Epidemic … ‘The slope of red curve implies that the number of reported worldwide deaths due to SARS will double every 12 days. The number will be 100,000 on about August 9, 2003. A million deaths will be reached on about September 19, 2003, and ten million on about October 31, 2003. This forecast will change every day as new data changes the slope of the curves. Note that the world deaths appear to be doubling faster than the world cases. Either the number of deaths will double more slowly in the future, or the number of cases will double faster.’
• Ask Warren Ellis … Slashdot Questions for Warren Ellis … ‘Transmet drew details from current events, but not the big picture. In a year where one news corp. runs attack ads against another for not being pro-administration enough, and Helen Thomas is sent to the back of the bus for not being a simpering twit, the most famous journalist today is… Geraldo. What makes you think a competent muckraker will have any kind of influence at all…’
• Little Blog Buttons … ‘Steal These Buttons!’
• New X-Men #139 … Barbelith discusses the latest issue of Morrison’s New X-Men. ‘Xorn, in the conservatory, with the candlestick.’

• All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy
• All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy
• All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy
• All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy
• All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy

• Cory Doctorow’s Sad Mac Tattoo … ‘The sad Mac icon, taken from the ROM of his MacSE/30 (inset), measures 27 pixels square.’ [via Aprendiz de todo]
• Read Comics in Public — another comics weblog. [via Bugpowder]
• What is LMG? ‘LMG is a video recorder that jams mobile phone frequencies, crushes ice and never gets tired.’ [via Lukelog]
• The Quiet Man Speaks — Steve Bell on Iain Duncan Smith.
• Comment from Sri Chinmoy supporter regarding the Sri Chinmoy Project … ‘When I look at this curious confrontation between weblog culture and yoga culture in cyberspace, in reminds me of a Star Trek episode. Aliens from planet Chinmoy are flooding the ship’s computers with poetry for some unknown purpose. At first this is seen as a potential threat (such as a DoS attack); but by the end of the episode we discover that the “aliens” are humanoid, and that they are in fact a peace-loving race who simply choose a different way of life. They are sending out vast quantities of poetry because this is their instinctive way of defending themselves against attacks by Vogon-like anticultists.’ [Related: Original Post]

• You Shone Like the Sun — backgrounder and brief interview with Syd Barrett … ‘Then, a sound in the hall. Has he come in from the back garden? Perhaps it needs mowing, like the front lawn – although, judging by the mound of weeds by the path, he’s been tidying the beds today. I knock again, and hear three heavy steps. The door flies open and he’s standing there. He’s stark naked except for a small, tight pair of bright-blue Y-fronts; bouncing, like the books say he always did, on the balls of his feet. He bars the doorway with one hand on the jamb, the other on the catch. His resemblance to Aleister Crowley in his Cefalu period is uncanny; his stare about as welcoming…’ [Related: Metafilter Thread]
• Hoax! [Part 1 | Part 2] — Jon Ronson meets America’s Anthrax Hoaxers … ‘Terry first realised that he was in very big trouble when no less a figure than the US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, made a speech about him in a press conference to the world on October 18. Ashcroft announced that the FBI had “arrested Terry Olson for committing a serious crime in connection with terrorist hoaxes”. “What did they charge you with?” I asked him. “Weapons of mass destruction,” he said. “Life imprisonment.” “You must have said to them that Nesquik and sugar aren’t weapons of mass destruction,” I said.’

• The Secret Passion that Staggered Westminster … ‘Back to Basics has come back yet again to haunt him, a phrase that must now go down as the most unfortunate, misinterpreted and now clearly misjudged three-word soundbite ever. It was launched at the Conservative conference of 1993. Currie was in the hall. ‘I listened in absolute amazement,’ she said. ‘And if you’re asking me whether I thought that policy was a mistake, absolutely. Not least because it was very cruel to people who were otherwise excellent Ministers, who didn’t deserve to have the magnifying glass turned on their lives at that time by their own leader. If it had been my choice, we would have had a very different policy. It was going against the tone of the times and it was also handled in an extremely cruel fashion. ‘It was cruel to single parents, it was cruel to women left on their own with children, it was pompous and facetious and stupid.’ And, a fact the public only know now, the height of hypocrisy.’
• Don’t Laugh. This is the Real Office — A visit to a real office in Slough … ‘ I have come to the people at Swan to find out what they think of the programme and whether any of them resemble the grotesques on screen. And, of course, they don’t, Gervais’s comedy being a fierce distillation of every lousy trait – jealousy, ambition, self-deception, witty ties – found in every office in every town in Britain today. Instead, their chat represents fairly perfectly the minutiae of life in what Napoleon should more accurately have called a nation of service-sector retail distribution outlet co-workers: house prices, last night’s TV, the drive to work and the perennial search, in Europe’s biggest trading estate, for a decent lunchtime sandwich.’

• Defender … a pixel perfect conversion of the original arcade game. [via FunJunkie]
• Advertising Safety Guide … ‘ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A NEW FUCKING HAIR-DO?’ [via plasticbag.org]
• The Thatcher Illusion … Not really a distraction more a ‘What the Fuck?!’ [via Cult of Orbyn]

• You Are My World — Really well done Stone Roses Fan Site.
• Yet another Link from my Favorites: Watching the Detectives — an hypertext guide to Watchmen.
• Subport.Org — for all you g@m3b0y r0m d00dZ.
• Distractions — Mr T Soundboard … ‘Shut up, Fool!’ / Hitlerdance.
• UK Blogs: Who is The Grapevine? / I Love Everything — Excellent redesign. / Barbelith Server Fund — Show Tom the Money!
• Warren Ellis’ Ministry Of Space #1 downloadable in PDF format. ‘MINISTRY OF SPACE is an English science-fictional idyll: a fantasia on the notion of a British space programme that outraced the rest of the world, as found in such as Dan Dare. Now that Britannia rules the waves of space, a utopian green-field England plies ships to the Moon, to Venus, to Victoria Station in low Earth orbit. This is the Ministry that sent a colonisation flotilla to Mars in 1963. The Ministry that destroyed a city and ran an exploration program unseen in human history. A Golden Age – and what it cost.’

• Einstein Quotes … ‘There’s a wonderful family named Stein, There’s Ep, there’s Gert, and there’s Ein. Ep’s statues are junk, Gert’s poems are bunk, And nobody understands Ein.’ [MF]
• Excellent Paul Thomas Anderson Fansite — he’s the director of Magnolia and Boogie Nights. ‘You’re not the boss of me, Jack! You’re not the king of Dirk! I’m the boss of me! I’m the king of me. I’m Dirk Diggler! I’m the star! It’s my big dick and I say when we roll!’ [MF]
• Eric conveys an Emotion — does exactly what it says on the tin. [MF]
• Things you would never know without the Movies. ‘A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.’ [MF]
• Cabeem — another time-wasting game. [MF]

• Livia Soprano: ‘Why does everything have to have a purpose? The world is a jungle! And if you want my advice, Anthony, don’t expect happiness. You won’t get it — people let you down … and I’m not naming ANY names — but in the end, you die in your own arms’ [from Sopranos Sounds]
• Dylan Horrocks… Sketchbook and Website.
• Displacement Activity — ‘An activity shown by an animal that appears to be irrelevant to its situation. Displacement activities are frequently observed when there is conflict between opposing drives. For example, birds in aggressive situations, in which there are simultaneous drives to attack and to flee, may preen their feathers as a displacement activity.’
• Atari Lives! — Great article about how the Atari 2600 console lives on 24 years after it’s release…. ‘The programmers stretched the hardware to limits unintended and unimaginable even by the hardware designers! A lot of times while I’m programming, I’ll throw on some disco music, pretend it’s 1979 and imagine what the designers had to work with.’
• Last two days of MP3’s on Filepile…