The BBC has finally set up a podcast for "The Archers"!!!!!!!!!   The page for it is here.  If you're not familiar with The Archers, it's the world's longest-running radio soap opera - six 15-minute episodes a week set in a rural English town - and truly one of life's great simple pleasures.  If you're not already listening, you owe it to yourself ( Read more... )

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Put your player on shuffle and write about the first 10 songs.

1. Iced Earth, "Jeckyl and Hyde" - This is from their album Horror Show, where they took a number of classic tales of terror and recast them as power metal songs.  This really captures the feeling of internal division between Jeckyl and Hyde.  I think everyone can relate to this in some way ( Read more... )

Ganked from illuminated_sin:

The Everything Test
There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all.

Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a ( Read more... )

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Are you a vegetarian? Hahaha!  Not even.  I tried it for a while, but it doesn't really work if you're not really that fond of vegetables.
Have you ever come close to dying? Yes.
What jewelry do you wear 24/7? My wedding band.
Would you ever have plastic surgery? Under normal circumstances, probably not.
Have you ever done anything illegal? Um... that' ( Read more... )

From the startrek.com e-newsletter:
George Takei, Wil Wheaton and writer Andre Bormanis, along with FanLib, the company who specialize in "people powered entertainment," will be joining forces with CBS Interactive and the Star Trek franchise for a collaborative storytelling event that uses fan-submitted content to fashion a new online story. This ( Read more... )

A funny video for "Cat Macros" by Tom Smith (aka
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Short interview with Orlando Bloom at scifi.com.