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This is brilliant: enter anything and it will sing it to you.

Oh my word, this is superb.

Take 20 musical YouTube videos, start them at any time, mix them using the volume sliders and you've made your own song.

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.

It's just fabulous.

Links:

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This is so incredibly fabulous.

A letter has been handed out to pensioners at the Odeon, in Leicester, accusing them of "unacceptable" and "juvenile behaviour" at a Senior Screen event. The three-page, unsigned, document was passed out to customers at one of the weekly showings at the cinema, in Freemans Park, earlier this month. It said the behaviour was having a "negative, Draconian impact on what was once a happy occasion".

There are either some wonderfully youthful senior citizens in Leicester, or the economic downturn has had a large effect on their pockets...

Customers were accused of threatening, pushing, poking, bullying, harassing and intimidating staff, saving seats for friends and queue-jumping. Concerns were also raised about guests abusing the free tea and biscuits handed out, with the letter stating "...guests have been known to line multiple pockets of clothing and Tupperware boxes with biscuits..."

What is wrong with that? The biscuits are free, take advantage!

One woman, who asked not to be named, said: "I think it is unnecessary. I'm sure it is just a few people and only on the odd occasion when these things happen.
"There is no need to make us all feel guilty."

However, Christine Hewkin, from Aylestone, said she felt the cinema was right to highlight the behaviour. She said: "I think the Odeon has made a fair comment. This type of behaviour has been going on for a long time and it will continue to go on if the cinema doesn't make a stand. It is annoying when you have queued and waited to find all the good seats have been saved for people who haven't even arrived yet."

A spokesperson for Odeon Cinemas said: "Odeon Leicester would like to apologise for any upset caused to its Senior Screen customers. "In response to a significant number of specific requests, a letter was issued by the cinema to its Senior Screen customers based on the feedback the cinema had received in relation to customer behaviour. Odeon Leicester would like to reassure guests the letter was only issued in an attempt to ensure everybody could continue to enjoy the same positive experience at Senior Screen performances. Odeon is committed to entertaining film fanatics of all ages and is extremely proud of the Senior Screen season. Odeon's Senior Screen sessions will continue to operate as normal."

How amazingly petty.

Via: BBC Radio Five Live and This Is Leicestershire.

This site contains step by step details on how to transform your toothbrush from useless implement of dental
hygiene to a robot. It may even be quite fierce.

If only the Transformers movie was this good...

Weebl's Stuff is a place of many strange and wondrous things. Not least this (piccy clicky time) You need sound on, the music isn't great, but you'll love blimps after it!

Fun!

While merging the entries, I came across many interesting old ones. This was one I'd completely forgotten about. Well worth a fresh read.

Originally linked to on 24th January, 2005.

Not the Law and Order bullshit you have all grown so fond of.
Not CSI. Not Miami. The real deal. href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/chi/53956630.html" target="_new">A
veteran Chicago homicide detective pours his heart out on Craigslist in the
"rants and raves" section, and it is a fascinating read.

"I've doing it for several years. I can think of roughly a dozen cases
in the last three years that wrapped up in a nice tidy package. Until this
year, the unit I work in averaged about 170 murders a year."

"I always think of a confession as going to a bar and trying to get a
beautiful woman who has no interest in you to agree to a one time hook-up. Its
really a twisted romance. You talk for hours and hours about meaningless shit,
all the time trying to bring the offender back to the murder."

"Never trust a detective who dresses like one of those TV
characters".

How excellent is Bill Bailey?

For those of you saying/thinking, "Actually, not very," go and get a brick to hit yourself over the head with, or even better a compass... then watch this clip. It's his love song... a slice of brilliance.

Clearly a genius. Sensible now?

Right, Bill Bailey has announced he's going to enter next year's Eurovision Song Contest. He's a wonderful musician and it might just work. Although I do worry that he'll ruin his reputation but he'll produce something magnificent I'm sure.

The citation below links to the full entry on his blog but:

What the public wants, the public gets. And it seems that the question on the lips of the nation at the moment is: "Will Bill be entering Eurovision?"

Well thanks to the demand created by online groups, Bill has decided to put himself forward for the next contest. And being the man of the people that he is, he's going to let you choose his entry and will be working on some new songs which you will have the opportunity to vote for.

So if you'd like to see Bill step onto the Eurovision stage to the accompaniment of Terry Wogan's wry commentary, and deliver a great UK entry for once, then keep watching the website for your opportunity to vote.

[via BillBailey.co.uk]

This has nothing to do with the title...

...it's another bloody survey.

OK, so the general feeling is that if I get all of these things out of the way now, no one will ever have to ask me anything ever again.

A third.