A regular on public transport or in bars (or, frankly, anywhere)? Got a bluetooth device? Up for a bit of rumpy? You’ll be wanting to read up the murky but satisfying world of Toothing. And then go spread your wild oats.

Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about Silica Gel.

There are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell Viagra. Those poor spam blockers…

Motion Induced Blindness – become blind, in complete safety.

Two videos for the broadband junkies, and those with a spare 10 minutes:
- Watch the finest radio helicopter flying I’ve set my eyes on (14mb). And for that matter, a ruddy good cameraman too.
- A breakdancer that really knows how to jiggle his limbs (5mb).

Ian’s Shoelace Site – “It was just over 21 years ago that I invented a super-fast way of tying my shoelaces. I named this technique the Ian Knot”. A knotty nut solves something that never needed solving. Not that that’s stopped me practising this devilish lacing technique…

The Girl Who Played Dead – an extremely moving and well-written real life account of a drug-fuelled, murderous night, and the aftermath. Good stuff about bad, bad stuff, if you’ve got a spare half and hour.

Pricenoia – compare Amazon prices on anything, at every Amazon store available, adding shipping costs to your country. Highly useful.

Years ago, when I was 8, every major change in the weather merited a bizarre claim from my mother: “Must be Chernobyl.” Chernobyl, I eventually learnt at that naturally inquisitive age, was possibly the best illustration of a disaster we’ve had in recent times. The nuclear explosions that blew up the Chernobyl power station in 1986 caused devastation to Russia and its economy and widespread concern for the whole world. This pictorial visit to Chernobyl shows how, 18 years on, it’s still a bleak, desolate place. After you’ve got past the endearingly poor English, you’ll find some of the saddest pictures from the aftermath. (more info on the disaster here)

Next time bible-bashers come a-knocking, quote a few of these at them: Bible Absurdities