So how long have we been waiting for Ricky Gervais’ episode of The Simpsons, “Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife?” After all that time the only truly funny part of the whole damned episode was the song Gervais’ character Charles Heathbar serenaded Marge with. So in true copyright-infringing style I present it to you below; I have to stop complaining about the episode now, as I’m starting to feel like Comic Book Guy.
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Try saying that headline ten times whilst standing on your head; go on, I dare ya….

For those of you who are currently blissfully unaware of the edutainment behemoth known as Blue Peter, it is one of the BBC’s longest running programmes, having started in 1958 and having inspired/guilt-tripped many a young soul into taking action to make the world a better place, thus earning themselves the slim chance of procuring one of those mythical Blue Peter badges. I’ll never forget having to sacrifice my beloved He-Man toys on behalf of the children of Albania way back in the very early nineties, not to mention all those soda cans my cousins and I would collect, flatten and send off to be recycled. All that these heroic pre-teen endeavours ever resulted in was sore feet from stomping cans all weekend long, and dusty spaces on shelves where once there lay such awesome items as my Roton Evil Assault Vehicle.
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We were in New York today, and I spotted this amusing little bit of vandalism as we were walking along East 55th Street; I guess “uncouth blue collar individual or thug” would have taken too long to write.

Good news everyone indeed, from the gob of Billy West himself:

“…The other good news is that they’re doing 26 new episodes of ”Futurama” for TV and we’re hammering out the deal now.The original plan was to have the DVD’s first but that’s no longer the case.I’m totaly jammed dude.

Greetings from the year 3000! It still sucks!”

Now, neither Matt Groening nor the Great Satan itself (aka Fox) have confirmed this yet, so it’s not quite time to order a bumper bucket o’ popplers and sit our fleshy meatbag asses down in front of the TV just yet, but it’s still a step in the right direction.

UPDATE: Apparently, BW was ever-so-slightly misinformed:

“Guys, I’m sorry I gave inaccurate info on the cartoon.I was told on one end that the TV show was a go but DXC enlightened me (with a hammer) that this was not the case.I think there is a Futurama project as in DVD’s but I appearently had bad info.But I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must’ve died or something.”

That really wangs chung. It looks like any future er, Futurama would most likely come in the form of 4 feature-length DVDs - though in a world where Family Guy made a successful comeback thanks in part to a groundswell of support from fans, who knows what’s in store for Futurama?

For some truly awesome ‘before and after’ photography of the 2004 Asian Tsunami, go here (site may be slow/down due to having been Dugg).

After watching the series 6 premiere of The Sopranos, I’ll never be able to look at Uncle Junior in the same way again; especially after watching this video ‘remix’ of the episode from VH1’s “Best Week Ever” programme.

WARNING: contains spoilers… and a repetitive phrase that will get stuck in your head.

EDIT: Bugger, the video is down, and I don’t have another copy of it, so instead you’ll have to settle for this two second clip of the fateful event itself - it’s still funny though… and a little disturbing.

Eurotech have announced a wrist-worn PC (WWPC), which can run either Linux (yay!) or Windows CE (boo!) from 32MB of flash memory, has 64MB of SDRAM, and can be expanded to 1GB of storage space through an SD-card slot.

The nifty looking device also features WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, GPS receiver, motion-sensing standby mode, built-in speakers, internal antennas, and a Predator style self-destruct mechanism (OK, so the last one probably isn’t true - but it should be).

The WWPC is aimed at emergency rescue, security, healthcare and other such fields; all of which are noble endeavours for this awesome little gadget, but what I want to know is can you play Tetris on it?

Eurotech WWPC

These photographs are bound to turn even the most level-headed of gamers into an insanely jealous stalkerjob, hell-bent on tracking down and robbing the house featured within them. The bloke in question has amassed over the years one of the most impressively gigantic collections of videogames that it has ever been my pleasure to lay eyes upon.

Right, where’s my crowbar?

These guys are my new heroes; they’re using a 12-node Linux cluster (with 2 monitors per server), at a resolution of 10240×3072, for the vitally important and pressing task of… playing Quake III.

Yes, they could just buy a really big LCD display, but that’s not the point is it? The point of all these geekish endeavours is to be able to say “Look what I can do with x and y“, not “Look what I just bought”.

In fact, I’m gonna go play me some Quake III right now…