Thursday, 16 August 2012

This new Metal Gear trailer should satisfy your gamer pr0n quota for a whole week


There's even a sneaky Dr. Who reference thrown in toward the end.



But in the unlikely event you're still left wanting more, here's two and half minutes of actual gameplay for your enjoyment.

UK threatens to raid the Ecuadorian Embassy and remove Wikileaks' founder Assange by force

The British Foreign Office has informed Ecuador that it can revoke the diplomatic status of the embassy in order to fulfil their obligation in extraditing Julian Assange to Sweden.


The threat was revealed at a press conference by Ecuadorian officials:


Ignoring the diplomatic consequences of forever bringing into question the protected status of embassies in Britain, there's clearly only one man for the job.

With their '5 people on 1 guitar' cover of Gotye nearing 133 million views on YouTube, what's next for WOTE?

Creators of one of the most viral videos of all time Walk Off The Earth's cover of "Somebody that I used to know" probably helped Gotye far more than themselves
If you have somehow failed to see it yet you can click the picture to watch the video.
Here they team up with Julia Nunes, who returned with a new video earlier this week, to cover "Some Nights by Fun, who released their video for the track last week.

If you knew then what you know now, what would you change?



I'd use my two minutes to try and save a life.


A few years ago a friend of mine died suddenly due to an undiagnosed AVM, and given the chance I'd do anything I could to get her to an MRI and give the doctor's a chance to find it before it killed her.

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

If every Underground station had a Biblical name

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I quite like working between 'Leviticus Square' (the irony of it being in SoHo) & 'Thou-shalt-not-covet-thy-neighbour's-Ox-ford-Street'.

Source: Londonist | Via: Sean on Facebook

Why you shouldn't steal people's bikes

I think the hatred for bike thieves is universal. I've had two stolen from me over the years, one from my garage while I was away on holiday and the second from outside a supermarket while shopping.


The anger this raises in the victim can be of epic proportions and the internet is full of stories (like this one) detailing the lengths they will go to get their bike's back or seek revenge. Here is a rare case where the tale unfolds on film.

Chatroulette Me Maybe

Every time I think that the internet has finished with the covers and parodies of Carly Rae Jepsen's earworm, another one arrives and blow me away in spectacular fashion.