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Last login: 14 hours agoPhil-m94: Phil is a 23 year old guy from Bristol, England, UK.; Likes 1,623 pages, 67 videos, 117 photos • 113 fans • Received 12 reviews; Member since Apr 23, 2005

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YouTube - Sneezing Panda: May 6, 11:39am 26 reviews animals, video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk; Baby panda, nearly exploding. Oh go on, have a look!

nine inch nails: the slip: May 5, 2:15pm 32 reviews music
http://theslip.nin.com/; Oh Trent .. this is exactly what the end of my bank holiday needed!!

As 24/96 too? That's unique ..

FSTDT Top 100: May 5, 10:46am 61 reviews atheist
http://duggmirror.com/comedy/100_Greatest_Quotes_from_fundamentalist_christia...; From the page: "One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues differently against a law that is accepted EVERYWHERE BY EVERYONE. Evolution says that we started out simple, and over time became more complex. That just isn't possible: UNLESS there is a giant outside source of energy supplying the Earth with huge amounts of energy. If there were such a source, scientists would certainly know about it."

Haha .. nice one. I mean, that's just crazy. It would need to be, I don't know .. as hot as the Sun? Probably about as far away too ...

YouTube - Star Wars according to a 3 year old.: May 4, 5:10am 50 reviews movies, video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0; A convincing 90 second commercial for having children!

YouTube - lyrebird-immitating sounds: May 2, 3:43pm 17 reviews bizarre, video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc6x4vy5X5U; Absolutely real (see Wikipedia) and absolutely amazing.
Have been looking for this for years, since I first saw the life of birds on BBC1.

Must see!

US Dept of Justice IP address blocked after vandalism edits to Wikipedia - Wikin…: Apr 29, 4:03pm 10 reviews politics
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_Dept_of_Justice_IP_address_blocked_after_%27va...; "Wikinews has learned that a United States Department of Justice (DOJ) IP Address has been blocked on Wikipedia after making edits to an article which were considered "vandalism"."

Hmm .. not sure what to make of this. *SURELY* no one from the DOJ would be stupid enough to do this from a machine that resolves on a DOJ IP address if they were attempting to do so covertly. Especially after the previous wikipedia editing "sensation."

verbalintercourss profile - StumbleUpon: Apr 29, 12:18am 1 review stumblers
http://verbalintercours.stumbleupon.com/; From the page: "We need to remember that music is an art, not a business. If you have a problem with people listening to your music and sharing it with others, you need to find a new job."

I wholeheartedly agree. I completely disagree with the notion that the music "industry" should really be an industry at all. Why *do* music artists deserve millions of dollars / pounds? It seems to be far too a socially accepted norm.

In the modern day, a music artist can self distribute and reach their target audience, and earn more than enough money to live on, via the internet and touring.

The music industry is like no other, are we charged such high rates for art, theatre? Do those artists earn as much? Only when the RIAA can tell me why music is *the* special art form, will I agree that a single recording costs �10 or more.

Granted, I do still buy music, but rarely pay the exorbitant sticker price, unless I want to directly support sales on a particular artist. (Recently Portishead, for example)

Third – Portishead & Listen free at Last.fm: Apr 27, 11:52am 1 review trip-hop
http://www.last.fm/music/Portishead/Third; Listen to the whole new and unreleased Portishead album here, for free. No registration.

What do you have to lose?*

*Portishead fans only.

*EDIT* Ok, so it's out now - but try before you buy eh?

VLC media player - Overview: Apr 27, 9:35am 109 reviews open-source
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/; The best media player .. bar none. Plays any region DVD, and will even skip the unskippable watermarking / FBI message / trailers.

Aside from anything else, this makes legal DVD's bearable again.