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MySpace Trawl – Diamarek
By Matthew Laidlow on Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 3:30pm | No Comment
MySpace Trawl – Diamarek

Just when we thought we couldn’t milk this feature any further, we've somehow managed to surprise ourselves. Usually when we browse the internet on cold lonely nights looking for a band to feature, we always find someone good, hence the entire feature, and badly research some stuff about them. 

This week, our band in the spotlight is Diamarek who hail from Belgium - the country usually associated with ginger-haired reporter Tintin and the old sea dog himself Captain Haddock. We actually know more about Tintin than Diamarek. After stumbling across their MySpace page, we were intrigued to hear their gentle sounds. More on these later. However, we also left mightily confused when it came to finding out the history of this band...   

2012 London Olympics Try To Kill Epileptic Viewers
By Shawn Lindseth on Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 1:30pm | No Comment
2012 London Olympics Try To Kill Epileptic Viewers

Apparently murder is gonna be a viable category at the London-held 2012 Olympics. 'bout time, we say.

Swimming is boring and watching people run is only fun if it's away from you and your bodybuilder girlfriend. That's precisely why London has decided to push for this new killing category. It's a financially wise decision too, because if the winner is decided by cage match you'd probably only have to buy one winners platform. Say, London, that's monetarily sound!

Now if honesty is the policy of the day again (lame), we're obligated to tell you that the Olympic killing currently being talked about isn't a category of sport. Rather, it seems like people are worried about the new Olympic adverts killing the likes of you and us via synchronised epileptic seizures.

Did you see the 'us' in that last sentence? Suddenly it's warm in here.

SLACKERJACK – Island Wars 2
By Stuart Heritage on Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 12:30pm | No Comment
SLACKERJACK – Island Wars 2 Like most rational people, if we ever bought a desert island the first thing we'd do is build a massive cannon to keep everyone out, even the indigenous people who made the island their home thousands of years before we decided to live there.

That's why we like Island Wars 2 so much. Although ...
Pacman Remake Launched For Some Reason
By C J Davies on Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 11:00am | 2 Comments
Pacman Remake Launched For Some Reason

There really isn't a more enjoyable way of wasting your leisure time than playing video games.

Oh - apart from climbing naked into a box and mailing yourself to Fearne Cotton's house as a surprise present. But we promised the nice judge we wouldn't talk about that anymore. Or try it again. Ever.

Still - video games, eh? They're titting well brilliant. From the ultra-realistic first-person action of Halo 3 to the upcoming, no doubt addictive-as-breathing next instalment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, console games are becoming more and more immersive and breathtaking all the time.

Which makes Namco's latest release seem a little bit ... well ... redundant.

Pac-Man, anyone?

Big Brother Betting Odds: Emily & Shabnam Up, Emily Out?
By Stuart Heritage on Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 10:30am | 8 Comments
Big Brother Betting Odds: Emily & Shabnam Up, Emily Out?

Some women think that there'd be less wars if the world was run by females, but the events in the Big Brother house over the last few days have proved that that's the stupidest idea ever - the Big Brother housemates are killing each other in there.

The speed in which the mostly-female Big Brother house has gone feral is genuinely shocking. Screaming at each other over hair tools and food, furiously bitching about who's prettier than who, chasing the solitary male Big Brother housemate around the house trying to pull his swimming trunks off - incidentally, how quickly would Big Brother have intervened if a gang of boys had tried to pull a girl's bra off instead - the atmosphere in the Big Brother house right now is incendiary. It'll all come to a head tomorrow, though, as Ziggy has nominated Emily and Shabnam for eviction. Which brings us neatly to what you're here for.

Here are the Big Brother betting odds for Emily to be evicted, with help from Paddy Power...

Ocean’s Thirteen Gang Dip Their Feet In Concrete For Fun
By Stuart Heritage on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 4:30pm | No Comment
Ocean’s Thirteen Gang Dip Their Feet In Concrete For Fun Ocean's Thirteen is almost out, much to the relief of the two people left in the world who want to pay to see a bunch of millionaires swanning about being all smug in the exact same way they did in the previous two Ocean's movies.

But this time is different, because this time the cast of Ocean's Thirteen have all been busy plopping their hands and feet into concrete outside of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Well, not all the cast of Ocean's Thirteen, obviously - the day that Don Cheadle is honoured in concrete for doing the most geographically inept British accent in the history of all mankind is the day we go out and destroy all concrete - but Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and producer Jerry Weintraub all got to dip their hands into concrete, and presumably weren't allowed to take them out until they promised not to make an Ocean's Fourteen.

Akon: Now Throwing Children As Well As Dry-Humping Them
By Matthew Laidlow on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 4:00pm | 11 Comments

These rappers, they think they can get away with anything.

The Game thinks he can wave guns around at people and Eminem seems to marry and divorce the same woman every other month. And now Akon also believes that, when he isn’t simulating sex with the underage children of pastors on a stage in front of thousands of people,

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Larry David Splits Up With His Eco-Warrior Wife
By Stuart Heritage on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 3:30pm | No Comment
Larry David Splits Up With His Eco-Warrior Wife

It must be great starring as yourself in a sitcom all about you like Larry David does - that is, until something sad happens to you in real life and nobody at all is able to picture it without hearing the show's lighthearted circusy Italian theme-tune.

Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm has split up with his wife of 14 years Laurie David. According to the both of them the split is a friendly one, and Larry and Laurie are still living together with their children, but no details have been given about the cause of the split yet. However, based on hours of evidence we'd assume that Larry David went to some sort of social function with his wife and said something rude and embarrassing, kicking off a loose chain of hilariously improvised events with an occasional guest-star spot from Ted Danson.

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