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MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | DJ suspended for playing Cliff Richard: “suspended from the Classic Gold digital radio station for the heinous crime of repeatedly playing Cliff Richard records.”

anything but ordinary: “Think someone is trying to tell people to switch to the better browser?”

Switch to Firefox. Even the universe agrees. Actually, I’m using Mozilla at the moment, but it’s the same core, and they both beat IE.

DVD Rewinder: “I bought two to go with my centrifugal LP re-flattener and my cotton-tipped radial laserdisc demux pre-cleaner.”

F1Racing.net – Every day updated Formula One news! (For Formula 1 news, results, photos and more!): “Microsoft is lining-up to be Toyota’s principal F1 sponsor. Germany’s ‘Bild am Sonntag’ newspaper reported on Sunday that the company’s chairman Bill Gates is willing to spend $40 million a year on the new deal.”

Come on, bring on the jokes. They’ll crash all the time. Each car will have 12Gb of RAM so it can run Longhorn. They’ll have to come in to the pits at the end of each lap to activate the gearbox online. The cars will get viruses. Etc.

Thanks to Scoble!

PCs throw nine sickies a year | The Register: “As far as we are aware, this is the first time that jogging and circuit training have been mooted as a solution to spam.”

Contains some interesting statistics. Only 46% of those asked knew that they could get a virus by running an attachment from an email, and 70% have actually had a virus over the last year.

Boing Boing: Fantastical timepieces: “The Wrist Fashion Blog has a stunning roundup of super-sexy new timepieces, including this melting Dali clock”

Some really nice designs, well worth a look.

New Scientist: “Melvill’s first frightening moment on the historic flight came at the very instant he flipped the switch to turn on the hybrid rocket motor. The craft suddenly lurched over 90 degrees to the right, and as soon as he brought it back to level it then rolled 90 degrees to the right.”

Presumably followed by an unpleasant smell, and an alarmingly full and wet feeling in his underwear.

jwz – Photographers’ Bust Card: “Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography “

A UK version would be nice, but probably less needed – we’re not quite so jumpy over terrorism here.

Wired News: Blind Get Earful of Spam Daily: “For the millions of blind and visually impaired Internet users around the world, using text-to-speech software is often the only way to check e-mail. But as the spam problem gets worse, more and more of those users are finding that having their e-mail read aloud can be a minefield. Listening to the next message in the inbox may reveal an important letter from an old friend or, more often, an embarrassing ad for penis-enhancement therapy.”

There’s only so many times in a day I could stand to hear the word ‘Viagra’.

Peakaboo: “Perfect for Exhibitionists”

Yes, boingboing got there first, but the link didn’t work, and sensoryimpact managed to nab a pic.