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No b3ta today. This time it's the truth. I have a serious deadline to meet at work and am thus not available for web-dilletantism.
However, this lovely little snippet from PopBitch caught my eye...

Channel 4 bukkake documentary
God bless C4, finally they have found their level. Next week the channel is filming a bukkake event for a forthcoming documentary. I'm sure plenty of PBers want to take part in this television event of the decade. If you do, e-mail via the contact page on the very office-unfriendly www.fuckfaye.com. Me, I'll just sit here shaking my head and trying to imagine what the Daily Mail are going to make of it all.
golostruda, 11:41 10/4

The media's lessening of coverage in Baghdad belies their incessant assertions that "the war is still not over". Of course I agree that there is still much to be done, not least in the restoration of law and order, but I'm always suspicious of a shift in news emphasis when the dramatic images are no longer coming. Regardless of the political and social upheaval that now necessarily befalls Iraq, pictures of isolated clear-up operations and civil procedures cannot compete with the the tearing down of Saddam's statue. Jenny Tonge and Mark Steel on last night's Question Time were both quick to argue that the biggest problems in Iraq and the Middle East have yet to be faced and that the West's hypocritical stance on Iraq does not entitle the US and Britain (or France for that matter) to effective sovereignty in the region. A UN initiative is the only acceptable solution... and this is even before the issue of Israel and its close ties to the US are taken into account.

The rant's over, but more bollocks now as I refer you to the Montana Testicle Festival and Pepsi announce a competition with the world's greatest ever top prize, $1 billion... except that there's no guarantee the jackpot will actually be won (in any case Pepsi are insured against this happening!).

Also of concern is this site which lists the big record companies' links (indirect or otherwise) to arms manufacturers. This is the kind of thing that makes me sigh in despair - is no area of public life safe from the corruption and greed of big business? Long live file-sharing software!

To round things off, here's a link for Red Snapper, still travelling round Mexico and surely missing home a bit by now. Her random quote from this week's missive sounds like a Freudian slip: "...but Mexican men are suckers for a large pair of breasts." I wasn't aware that Central American milking practices were so innovative...

EDIT: Just time to add this link, which offers a critique on the settings for amateur porn pix which abound on the internet. If you've seen one dodgy duvet too many, this incisive analysis proves to be a breath of fresh air. Most of the people here seem to buy their furnishings in Wal*Mart.