With apologies to Lou Read, the BBC and George A. Romero, I created the Perfect Day (of the Dead) music video featuring the undead of Zombiecon. The video can be found on YouTube as Perfect Day (of the Dead). The BBC video I was taking off can is here: Perfect Day by Various Artists. My version was recorded on an eTech Dig-850XS camera that came free with a £30 order of stationery from Stables. As you get what you pay for, the quality is not that great, especially when people move. But it was free so I’m not complaining. It was edited together on an old Thinkpad with a free, 45 day trial version of ULead Video Studio. In short, this cost nothing to make other than my time and the time of my priceless assistant Jess.
The logo, in 4:3 ratio, as used in the video can be downloaded here.
A friend of mine, Hawkida, has posted a Making of Perfect Day of the Dead video with behind the scenes footage.

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Stylish merchandise for TintinMovie.org. Taking inspiration from the cover of Tintin in Tibet, probably the best of the Tintin books, you can show your support for Tintin Movie.org with these T-Shirts, Mugs and Icons.

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Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld novels, has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s. In response he has donated half a million pounds (approx $1 million) to Alzheimer’s research and appeared on TV highlighting the low levels of research funding it receives. His readers and Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans from around the world are helping to match Terry’s donation. Buy this T-Shirt and all the profits (roughly $10) will go to Alzheimer’s Research or donate directly.

UPDATE: There is now a web site: www.MatchItForPratchett.org

UPDATE 2: The T-shirts have no longer available. Thanks to every who brought one. It has raised approx $3000 for Alzheimer’s research. Please go to Match It For Pratchett for information on how else you can help the fight against Alzheimer’s.

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If you find yourself having make a difficult moral decision, such as whether it is acceptable to lock people up for 56 days without charge. Stop and think to yourself, what would nazis do? And then do the complete opposite.

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Very little is known about the strange Long-eared jerboa. It is only a few centimeters tall, hops like a kangroo, has a tail 3 times the size of its body and has that some of the largest ears relative to size. Like many other creatures today, it is in danger as its habitat on the barren steppes of Mongolia is under threat. Recently, Jonathan Baillie of Evolutionary Distinct & Globally Endangered (EDGE) foundation was able to film these creatures for the first. You can see the amazing footage here.

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Its Goodbye Kitty and Hello Allah from this suicide bomber cat. On its way to heaven and its 72 vestal virgins. Though what a cute female kitty-cat will do with seventy two virgins I’ve no idea.

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T-Shirts not available. For some reason CafePress won’t print them. I can’t imagine why not. [NOTE to Americans. I'm being ironic].

What happens when two of the most important images of the 20th Century collide? Duchamp’s Fountain challenged the very nature of art and introduced the idea of conceptual art. Magritte’s The Treachery of Images is a surrealist masterpiece that explores the different between what is real and what is art. The Treachery of Urinals is an art mash-up that brings these two seminal pieces together.

The text, Ceci n’est pas un fontaine (This is not a Fountain), questions what the image is. In Magritte’s original Treachery, the pipe was not a pipe, it was a picture of a pipe. However Duchamp’s Fountain was not a fountain but a urinal that was turned onto its side and called a fountain. So not only is it not a fountain but an image of a fountain but the it not an image of a fountain either.
See also The Treachery of Popes

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Catmacro or lolcat, call them what you will but they are everywhere. And what better to do with them than mix them with Apple’s iPod posters and adverts. Two memes for the price of one.

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New! GummIcons! Your favourite cultural icons, your favourite flavours. Together for the first time! Strawberry crucifix! Lime Sydney opera house! banana flavoured toffo swastika! Gummi goodness from Baribo, the name you can trust.

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T-Shirts unavailable because CafePress won’t print anything with a swastika on it.

When you hear the phrase “Shooting Fish In a Barrel” what do visualise? Is it a barrel full of water with live fish happily swimming in it. Or is it a barrel full of dead fish? Its an important question about your psychology. If its live fish, the shooting fish in a barrel is a easy task but one with the possibility of failure. On the other hand, if you are shooting a barrel full of dead fish the result is a foregone certainty.
There seems to be no consensus in the online dictionaries. Using English defines it as “If something is like shooting fish in a barrel, it is so easy that success is guaranteed.” but Slang City has it as “an easy success”

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