Summer Of Smut II: This week’s best Marketing story involves Trojan’s new condom ad. The 20-second ad, which will go out in a Big Brother break, is apparently the ‘first ever’ to show an orgasm on UK TV. Can this really be tru[…]

I don’t really care who the boy “belongs” to, I just want you two to stop caterwauling about him. Feel free to get out the claws and have a girl-on-girl, finger in the eyes fight, no-one ever won the right to date a guy just by sing[…]

WMD reports based on lame spook’s BAD SCIENCE shockah zzz
“As veterans of the Iraqi bomb program have subsequently revealed, Hamza grossly exaggerated his nuclear bombmaking credentials while downplaying the role his Ba’athist con[…]

The Onion AV Club runs through some scenes which were rightly deleted from films which hopefully DVD has saved us from official inclusion as some form of directors cut. This subject came up the other day after an experiment between watching Terminato[…]

NEW! FreakyTrigger RSS
It lists the last 15 posts across all the FT blogs &ndash hurrah! It’s Atom (cos we’re Blogger, innit). I was getting a bit self-conscious of having the FT page open on my desktop all the time at work, so now I[…]

Microsoft pay peanuts to keep Opera quiet
Another tiny round in MS’s attempts to wrap up criticisms of its anti-competetive practices.
This one is for all the web-designers out there that have to sabotage their own neat coding just to make it w[…]

The Russian army has rescued 10 tons of beer trapped under Siberian ice!! “The lorry carrying the beer sank when trying to cross the frozen Irtysh River, and a rescue team of six divers, 10 workers and a modified T-72 tank have managed to save[…]

RIAA v Nielsen FITE!
A companion to the ingenuous “oo downloads might be good for us” piece linked by Tom below, is an article from Kensei News earlier this month.
According to Soundscan, the service that Nielsen runs to measure actual Po[…]

Music industry recovering: biz gropes for explanation – “I have a theory that there is something about these services such as iTunes and Napster which is sparking an interest in music which is leading to increase physical sales.” &#[…]

new products corner (not nicked from the Grocer honest)
new ice creams for the summer – Yorkie and Toffee crisp from Nestle (that’s pronounced Nessels)
new walkers flavours (limited edition)
greek kebab
Tomato and Basil
feta cheese
An Aus[…]