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It Only Works Because You’re Here – More MJ Hibbettage
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WATCH THIS VIDEO. It’s a LOVE STORY. It’s like REMAINS OF THE DAY 2.0. The greatest love story ever blogged. erm, set against an epic backdrop of the deep south and the american civil war CSS standards compliancy and web-browser wars.[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 43. Stina Nordenstam – Little Star
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If you haven’t heard this song just go and listen to it. (You may recognise it — it was used in the sproutface DiCaprio Romeo and Juliet). That’s all I should say.

However, to make the your perhaps-momentous discovery more possib[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 44. The Selecter – On My Radio
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The edition of Top of the Pops on the 8th November 1979 featured The Specials (A Message To You, Rudy), Madness (One Step Beyond), and The Selecter (On My Radio). UK pop buyers officially loved the “2 Tone” label. The distinctive checkere[…]

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Scooter ‘Jumping All Over The World’
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Kim Wilde, Limahl, Quo, OMD, Sisters ov Mercies, and er Sailor. All jumped up and fabulous style.[…]

Come Dine With Me – Awesome
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The Guardian’s “not Nancy Banks Smith” TV reviewer Sam Wallaston is a reliable sort of guy. I watched last night’s Come Dine With Me and was agog. “This is the best thing I’ve seen on Channel 4 in a long time&#8221[…]

HitchHikers Text Adventure Sequel – Oh Em Gee
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waxy.org – Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
From an anonymous source close to the company, I’ve found myself in possession of the “Infocom Drive” — a complete backup of Infoc[…]

MJ Hibbett & The Validators – Do The Indie Kid
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It’s a song you can buy with money. Here’s the professional video:[…]

Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer
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An April 1st (2009) release, but if it is another joke it’s an amazingly good-looking one! There have been previous fake Zelda movie trailers, mostly by fans, and you can tell.[…]

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MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Mighty Boosh’s Future Sailors come to life! Sparks impersonating Neil Young. All over the place marvellous.[…]

Twisty little passages – mazes re-solved
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Maze War is the grand-daddy of not only first-person shooters, but also networked multi-player games like World of Warcraft. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are mazes in WoW, Second Life etc, as they are the nursey-slopes for 3D environment cr[…]

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