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24th, October 2010 Technology 2

Google Mortified Over Street View Data Harvest: Governments Jealous

Google Street View can also take your passwords and emails from home computers using antennae and enabled to scan for wireless networks... More »

24th, October 2010 Music 6

Kanye West's Runaway Is 35 Minutes Of Credits And Underwear: Video and Photos

West has produced a 35-minute long video for his new song Runaway. The song is three minutes of dry grunting... More »

24th, October 2010 Strange But True

Halloween Costumes For Cats And Dogs In Photos

It’s a look at how you pet fanciers dress up your dogs as superheroes, food, figures from history and stuff best avoided... More »

24th, October 2010 Sports 1

Manchester City V Arsenal: Photos Live Blog

That City fan who sported a Rooney at City top is now the third most premature fan in that blue quarter of Manchester... More »

24th, October 2010 Music

My Chemical Romance Rock Hammersmith Apollo: Photos

My Chemical Romance fans will love these - you might too... More »

24th, October 2010 Key Posts 1

Dragons' Den's James Caan Will Buy Your Baby (Dr Barnardo, Mr Pied Piper And Lindy Chamberlain's Dingo Are Out)

Caan is with a film crew. He’s in a village offering the parents 100,000 rupees (£725) for the baby. He wants 100% of their produce... More »

23rd, October 2010 Strange But True 3

11 Hurt Jumping Two Floors To Escape The Devil

In La Verriere, France, 11 people have jumped from the second floor window of a block of flats after taking a 30-year old man for the Devil... More »

23rd, October 2010 Royal Family 1

Prince William And Katie Middleton Wedding Photos

William and Katie Middleton were at a wedding. We got offered the photos. We thought Wills and middle-class had eloped and dunnit... More »

23rd, October 2010 Reviews 3

Wikileaks Press Conference And Assange Walks Out

Is Julian Assange a problem for Wikileaks? The New York Time profile of Assange says he's divisive.. More »

23rd, October 2010 TV & Radio 1

X Factor 2010 Week 3 Live Blog: Guilty Pleasures

It's Guilty Pleasures night. Which is pretty much sums up the X Factor. Who leaves..? More »

23rd, October 2010 Celebrities

Cheryl Cole Interview: Jelly Baby Flour Pain And Other Heartaches

Today, she still looks a little fragile*. I offer her some of my sweets. “I’ll have a wine gum,” she says. “What’s wrong with jelly babies?”... More »

23rd, October 2010 TV & Radio 2

X Factor 2010: Cheryl Cole Will Use Auto-Tune To Preserve Song's 'Purity'

Want to know why singers use auto-tune? Well, Cheryl will explain... More »

23rd, October 2010 TV & Radio

X Factor: Diana Vickers' Translated

When Diana Vickers sang on the X Factor we too wondered what language she was using. Or was she using them all at once..? More »

23rd, October 2010 Reviews

Britain Plugs In World's First Electric Forest: Photos

Trees love electricity. Just love it. But can you heat and light and entire forest...? More »

23rd, October 2010 Reviews

Julian Assange's Wikileaks Press Conference: Full Text Of Speech On Iraq Civilian Dead

The big news is that civilian deaths are being counted by the US military... More »

23rd, October 2010 Celebrities

Pamela Anderson Advertises Breast Meat For Peta: The Sexy Sexism Gallery

Anderson has been chopped into bits of flesh for her Peta advert. Best to avoid ordering the breast... More »

23rd, October 2010 The Consumer 1

The Live Crab Vending Machine: Things That Exist

The live crab vending machine - coming to a service station near you! More »

23rd, October 2010 Reviews 1

Nuclear Sub HMS Astute Defeated By Sand: Blame Cut Backs And Camilla

Want to see the country's new top- secret, not to be photographed nuclear sub? Heres goes... More »

23rd, October 2010 Strange But True

Rusty Hustler Gives Rhinos The GPS Horn

The head of South Africa’s security for North West Parks Board is called…Rusty Hustler... More »

23rd, October 2010 Key Posts 1

The Iraq War Logs Digested: Wikileaks, Assange And Torture Photos

Wikileaks has released more files on US military actions in the Iraq war. They have been called, rather grandly, ‘The Iraq War Logs’. They arne't... More »

23rd, October 2010 Politicians

Boris Johnson's Boobs And Bums At Big Draw

I have a dream... More »

22nd, October 2010 Reviews 108

In My Pants: Add The Words 'In My Pants' To The Song And Win

WIN prizes in our new competition! More »

22nd, October 2010 Key Posts 1

The Top 10 Near Death Gifs: Animated Close Calls

A wonderful history of animated gifts - the near death experience collection... More »

22nd, October 2010 Reviews

Dead Women Returns To Lift In Divine Miscommunication

Lydie Paillard was pronounced "very certainly clinically dead" at the Bordeaux Rive Droite private hospital. Only.... More »

22nd, October 2010 Politicians

Nadine Dorries' Blogging 'Lies' Are A Public Service

Dorries has a blog. The Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire writes things that are not true. As she says... More »