Shaking That Brass

I like this - the Central Band Of The Royal British Legion's re-working of Gravity's Rainbow by lovable Nu-Rave mop-tops, Klaxons:

Gravity's Rainbow

Remember that Acid Brass CD by the Williams Fairey Band from back in the day? 2001!

Fuzzy Felt Fries?

After the plush meat, this is the obvious next level:

Interactive Cheeseburger

"This Interactive Cheeseburger plush plaything is 100% fat-free but full of fun! Activity cheeseburger teaches building skills and stimulates baby with textures, crinkle, squeaker, rattle, button, and Velcro. 5" tall."

Yes, even in his/her earliest months, your child can start practising for that McJob :)

No Direction

So Dylan you know like man just totallyyyyyyyyy.

(insert punctuation as necessary)

Onoz! Teh Spaartanz!!!111

Excellent! Your favourite worst films condensed into half a kilo of words and fully l33T h4X0r'd up for the youth by b3ta regular (and 2002 winner of some Grauniad award or something), Scaryduck:

Scaryduck: Condensed Filmz

"Princess Leia: You'll never take me alive! Oh. You have."

"Foreign: Ah hahahaha! I have got away from J. Bond with my camera-friendly l33t running-and-jumping-about sk1llz and by hiding in my country's embassy, where I am supposedly safe. ROFFLE!"

"Hooper: I'll help! I hav l33t shrk kllng sk1llz! LMAO"

Six so far, hopefully more to come - how about "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being"...

Down To A Tee

Another one for Andy:

Nerdy Shirts :: The Most Awesome Shirts in the World

Look - it's MacGyver, the most handsome man in the world!

Awesome.

MetalRex*

Billy Corgan has taken the latest incarnation of The Smashing Pumpkins on the road again for the first time since December 2000, ahead of the July release of the new album, Zeitgeist:

And ThePumpkins.net has some bootlegged recordings of the Paris gig:

Smashing Pumpkins; The Grand Rex, Paris

* long story...

More Smoke On Camera Six

I've only recently discovered Pickard Of The Pops, a weekly column on the Guardian website in which promotional music videos of the popular genre are dissected and analysed like an unsuspecting frog in an O-level Biology practical. Laid bare, scene by scene, they really are exposed as either (a) pompous heap of overblown pretentious tosh, (b) feeble excuse for pre-watershed semi-nudity or (c) shoe-string budget gibberish made by orang-utangs on uppers. My choices, in the aforementioned categories, are:

(a) I Don't Love You
(b) Umbrella
(c) Nuff Buzzin

Enjoy (or something)...

Overheard #13

An absolute classic - in my office, lunchtime today:

"Ah, I know what it is, I've just bought a field"

Can I Kick It? No.

This is a very beautifully designed football by the acclaimed Japanese Poku artist, Takashi Murakami. However at $400 a pop, I think you'd have to team it with cashmere jumpers for goalposts and a platinum whistle to do it justice. And then stand around dissecting its relevance to Otaku culture in the context of disenfranchised Tokyo youth and their obsession with the unattainable goal of perfection. But whatever you do, don't get it muddy :)

[via Boing Boing]

EC peasy

I must be a middle-aged Dad. Whilst perusing the excellent Strange Maps blog just now, I found this very interesting Postcode Map of Great Britain.

In the comments is an explanation of how they got numbered in London which was initially based on the alphabetical order of the area names (except W1, N1, E1, etc which were the areas closest to the City). So, for example, SE2 = Abbey Wood; SE3 = Blackheath; SE4 = Brockley; SE5 = Camberwell, etc.

However, once they needed to create some more postcode areas beyond SE20 it all went a bit wonky, which is why our home in SE23 (Honor Oak Park) is squeezed in between SE4 and SE6. Fascinating (but YMMV, obviously...)