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With the inevitable time-drain caused by Toad (only doing the lighting, mind), a lapse in updates was only to be expected. Fear not - some of my precious time has indeed been allocated to trawling the web for crap. That's not to say I haven't been helped a little by cyber-accolytes and trusted sources:

  • Wilverine came up trumps with this previously unenvisaged splicing of Strindberg & Helium. I find the combination of a po-faced Swedish dramatist and a noble gas irresistible. Top marks.

  • Unfailing source of mildly xenophobic new items, Ananova once again picked up on some Slavic antics. This time, the story concerns late night nude antics, but it's this quotation that gets me: "Local media speculated the men could be walking naked either after losing a drunken bet or for health reasons"

  • Some targets are almost to easy to pillory... but the Bushku generator adds enough of a surreal element to lift it above the humdrum Bush-chimp comparisons. One of the results I recently generated:

guns moan... deep
pure George thinks... nerd dreams
strangely green

  • While we're on the subject of Dubya, I must admit to having been rather slow off the mark with one recent story. It wasn't till I read Sidney Blumenthal's piece in the Grauniad that I'd even heard of Jeff Gannon. Fortunately, The Daily Kos was able to fill me in on Gannon's dodgy journalistic record, but when this White House stooge was revealed to be a two-bit rentboy, advertising his services online my lust for schadenfreude was satisfied. Needless to say, the New York Times' Op-Ed writers are having a field day.

  • hellovetica supplied me with another online gem - Save Toby appears to be an excellent means of extorting money from gullible gushy-eyed animal lovers worldwide. I had a good mind to send creator a few recipes in congratulation...

  • I had a funny feeling the April Fool's Day mob had got in 5 weeks early when I saw this graphic in the Times. Given recent security scares, effective data disposal may be a very useful and informative topic, but bashing your hard disk with a hammer? How long before someone opens up a PC crematorium?

Follow-Up: Last week's "IKEA crush" has been extensively analysed in this article - and my feelings on the Swedish furniture retailer chime with those of blinkit. I wonder if the brazen thuggery exhibited in Edmonton clashes with the toungue-in-cheek style of IKEA's last ad campaign? And where would we be without another mention of the heir to the throne and his equine bride-to-be? An old idea, well realised, methinks.

Um... that's it, for another week, I suppose. I'm off to sit in a small dark room and press buttons all evening.