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Pubes ar hot this year

 

Hello Girlfriend Beautiful People to return to BBC Two

Sitcom based on the childhood memoirs of window-dresser extraordinaire, style arbiter and writer Simon Doonan. The story (transplanted to the 1997 - 2009 time period) follows Simon's childhood reminiscences of escaping the grey gloom of suburban Reading to live amongst the 'Beautiful People' - before coming to the realisation that true beauty, as ever, is closer than we think.


Reading 1997: Simon Doonan has a dream - the dream that one day, he and his best friend, Kyle, aka Kylie, will leave suburban Reading and move to London to be with the Beautiful People. But first of all, they have to wade through their teenage years, brave their extraordinary families and cope with small-town Britain in the Nineties.

Fortunately, home for Simon is far from dull. For the Doonans, every day is an adventure which usually ends either in hospital or at the police station, and nearly always at the bottom of a bottle of homemade chicken and mushroom wine. On top of that, family and friends all feel the need to burst into song at the slightest opportunity.

Bottle-blonde mum, Debbie, and her Irish husband, Andy, fight fiercely to protect not just Simon but also his "ghetto princess" sister, 16-year-old Ashlene. Debbie's best friend, "aunty" Hayley, lives under the same roof and her blindness doesn't stop her driving, looking for love and reliving her protesting days at Greenham Common.
The comedy starts in the present day in Barneys window, New York. Soon though Simon begins to reminisce and we're transported back to 1997 where a thirteen-year-old Simon and his best friend Kyle can't open a fridge door without belting out a show tune. And his family is even more eccentric.
Mum Debbie is a whirlwind of matriarchal warmth in killer heels. Dad Andy is a lovable Irish softy and avid wine maker and older sister Ashlene is a wannabe ghetto queen. Then there's family the lodgers: blind Aunty Hayley, and lobotomised grandma Narg ('gran' backwards) who lost God and found a foul mouth.

 

Beautiful People - BBC2 every friday 10pm

Fallen Princesses

Dina Goldstein

Snowy

Cinder

 Belle

Beauty

 
Not so little Red Riding Hood

Back to Kling Klang: New Kraftwerk Album in 2010...

 

German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk are planning on entering the studio to record their eleventh studio album, their first since 2003's Tour de France Soundtracks.
In an interview with Billboard, co-founder and sole original member Ralf Hutter revealed that the project is "still in its embryonic stage," but that the group are currently hard at work in their Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf.

"There's still time to go but in the winter it's pretty grey here, so it's a good situation to go into the studio," Hutter said.
The album will be the group's first without founding member Florian Schneider, who eight-disc box set due out November 17. The collection is being released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Kraftwerk's breakthrough hit, 1974's Autobahn.

 

Become a Saint

 

Big Top

 

Big Top

A colourful, upbeat comedy set in and around a travelling circus, Big Top stars Amanda Holden, John Thomson, Sophie Thompson, Tony Robinson, Ruth Madoc and Bruce Mackinnon.

What do you do when you've advertised a death-defying stunt that everyone has bought tickets to see, and the performer is just a little bit too injured? How do you manage a group of people who are so jealous of each other that they are happy to sabotage their colleagues' performances? What do you do about others who are so dedicated as performers that they are willing to sabotage their own chances of survival? How do you hold onto your star acrobat when he is being chased by immigration officials?

Fraught with problems and dealing with a cacophony of egos, Ring Mistress Lizzie must somehow keep the whole thing going.

Big Top... Coming soon to BBC One.

Well, I certainly never thought that was going to happen...

 

I mean, he is guilty, but who the fuck cares dude? America can be really retarded sometimes, if you disagree watch this, and let's discuss.

Don't forget the very best Polanski film!

 

Solar trees forecast a future where gadgets are charged on beaches

If our gadget dependency continues to worsen, this could be what our beaches will look like.

Shameless: Series 7 - Preview

 

Filming has begun on sixteen brand new episodes of Channel 4’s drama series Shameless, to air in 2010. Find out what's coming up!

Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall) finds a new love this series with the arrival of local librarian Libby, played by Shameless newcomer Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Jam & Jerusalem). Libby’s passion for romantic literature wakes in Frank something that has been dormant for so long… and then he meets her mum Patty (Valerie Lilley – The Catherine Tate Show) who might just put a spanner in the works.
Eight months on from the tragic loss of Mandy, the Maguire family are preparing to welcome a new addition to the clan, a baby son for Karen (Rebecca Atkinson) and Jamie Maguire (Aaron McCusker). And baby Connor’s arrival doesn’t mean Joe Pritchard (Ben Batt) will loosen his hold on Karen, who soon discovers that motherhood brings on some unwanted Jackson family traits.
The Jockey’s got a new landlady – Mimi Maguire (Tina Malone) so Patrick (Sean Gilder) has to come to terms with their separate living arrangements.

While Kelly (Sally Carman) takes her new godparent duties to the extreme, boyfriend Shane Maguire (Nicky Evans) gets involved with wedding scams – and then thinks about a wedding of his own.
Micky Maguire (Ciaran Griffiths) and Ian Gallagher (Gerard Kearns) now share a bungalow together, as the perfect odd couple.
Meanwhile over at the Gallaghers, Liam (Johnny Bennett) hits senior school and develops his first crush, and Carl (Elliott Tittensor) and girlfriend Maxine (Joanna Higson) get adventurous in the bedroom.

Tron Legacy Trailer

I have to admit, when they first announced a Tron sequel at last year’s Comic Con, I was intrigued but not really all that sure how well the concept would work 28 years later. It’s true that digital graphics and computer animation are a thousand times more advanced than they were back then, but the entire idea of getting sucked into a computer’s grid-like world now just seems dated somehow.

Well, nevermind, you can forget all that because the first trailer for Tron 2 (now titled Tron Legacy) has finally been unveiled online, and it has completely blown me away! I guess this is basically the same footage that they Comic Con attendees got to see last year, and it’s just a single scene showing off an intense light cycle duel. But man, the look and feel of this is absolutely gorgeous… I can only imagine how it will look in 3-D. The movie is supposed to be out sometime in 2010, and I, for one, can’t wait. Check out the trailer after the jump and see what you think.

 

Tent Camping for the City Dweller

 

Fun way to camp out in urban areas with this car shaped tent

 

Brüno is so 2009

DUST off your best D&G thong and Nair your kugelsacks, “the biggest film about a hot white guy since The Passion of the Christ” is upon us.

In case you have been living in a cave, the film, of course, is Bruno, and the title character is Jewish entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest incarnation -– remember Borat and Ali G before him -– an impossibly gay, anti-Semitic, promiscuous, Austrian fashion reporter.
Following an unfortunate incident involving a suit made entirely of Velcro at a runway show, Bruno is unceremoniously dumped from his own TV series about fashion and is “schwarz-listed” from Vienna’s hottest nightspots and glitterati events. 

Bruno heads to LA to become a celebrity, with his former assistant’s assistant in toe.
Once in LA, Bruno hatches a series of harebrained schemes to get famous quickly. He tries to launch a TV show, which is part pornography, part Parkinson he accessorises with an African baby, tries to broker peace in the Middle East and attempts to become a heterosexual “like Tom Cruise”.
There’s something to offend everyone in Bruno, including pygmy porn, fetishism, anal bleaching, dildo fights, a talking penis and Holocaust jokes.
Like 2006’s Borat, Bruno combines mockumentary narrative with his set-ups of unwitting celebrities, clergymen, rednecks, politicians and plain, ordinary folk.

It is the latter where the humour lies, but these set-pieces don’t always fit seamlessly within the narrative arc, although more often than not they are thigh-slappingly hilarious.
The film does suffer slightly from not having a fresh format -– for all intents and purposes it is the same as Borat, but with a different stereotype at its centre -– but Baron Cohen ups the ante, serving up more vulgarity, more peak-through-your-fingers, agape awkwardness and even less regard for his own personal safety.
It’s offensive, grossly inappropriate, and laugh-out-loud funny for the most part, although it does fall away towards the end as the film meanders to its star-studded, but unimpressive conclusion.
While Baron Cohen’s brand of rattlesnake poking still elicits laughs, getting reactions out of some of the bigots and religious zealots he picks on is like fishing at a trout farm.
In fact, sometimes it’s easier to sympathise with the misguided souls Bruno is bating than Bruno himself.
The format is fun, but it’s not cutting-edge any more and while the film suffers slightly from this, there are enough uproariously hilarious moments to keep it humming along nicely.

My rating:  

Upload bigger Youtube videos & new HD embed option

 

Youtube is getting loads of HD (high definition) video content. As expected, to prep up more HD content on the website Youtube has doubled the allowed video size uploads. Now you can upload videos upto 2GB in size as against 1GB. This means you can upload videos with higher resolution and longer duration on Youtube.

Besides the bump in video size, Youtube now has new embed option for displaying HD videos. On video page click on customize button on the right side. Check or tick the play HD option and copy the embed code to display HD video on your blog or website. This is welcome addition to existing HD video link sharing hack discussed earlier. Youtube gets bigger with better HD sharing options, cool! [via Youtube Blog]

The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010

 

The web has been abuzz the past few weeks with chatter about Microsoft’s announcement today at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans about the new version of Microsoft Office 2010. There’s even a mini-movie about its debut. Facing potential challenges from Google’s browser-based Apps products and its new Chrome OS, Microsoft has been touting its three screens strategy, which is the ability for products to synchronize across the phone, browser, and desktop, for some time now.

With the release of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Visio 2010, we finally see the implementation of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s mantra. We had the opportunity to see an in-depth demo of the new suite of products from Microsoft’s Group Product Manager for Office 2010, Chris Bryant. Here’s a complete breakdown of all the functionality that has been added, including screenshots:

The Move To The Browser

Most certainly a direct response to Google Apps, Microsoft is rolling out lightweight, FREE, Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. All based in the cloud, the web-based versions of these products have fewer features than their desktop cousins but still give users basic tools to edit and change documents.

PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint has been upgraded not only with a new browser version, but also a slew of bells and whistles have been added to the desktop version. Users now have the capability of editing video and images within PowerPoint with a basic video editing tool (not so different from the capabilities of iMovie) and an image editing tool, which is like a basic, simple version of Adobe Photoshop. Microsoft has also added the ability for users to launch a WebEx-like live sharing feature with other users. So if you create a slideshow in PowerPoint, you can share it with other people in real-time (which can be run on top of Sharepoint).

Here’s what the video editing tools look like in PowerPoint:

To share a deck with other users, you send an email to individuals with a link. Once they click the link, they will see the slideshow within the browser. This feature can also be used on a mobile phone’s browser. You can also create a slideshow in the desktop version and then publish it to the web version to access it via the browser. The browser version of PowerPoint doesn’t include the video editing features, but most of the functionality of 2008 is included in the browser version.

Excel 2010

Excel spreadsheets can now run in the browser, and similar to PowerPoint, spreadsheets can be published to the browser via the desktop version. The browser version of Excel has limited features, but offers more in-depth functionality than Google Spreadsheets. Microsoft has added a particularly innovative feature called Sparklines, which gives a visual snapshot image of a data trend over time within a cell. You can also share Excel via the browser with other users and set special permissions on who can access the document.

Here’s what the web version of Excel looks like:

Word 2010

Bryant says that the number one piece of feedback from users producing documents on Microsoft Word is that they want to preserve the look and feel of a document created in the desktop version in the browser. Microsoft calls this “document fidelity” and created the browser version of MS Word accordingly. In the browser, documents retain the same look and feel as in the desktop. The browser version still has the “ribbon user interface,” where you can change fonts, size, formatting, styles etc.

An image of the web version of Word:

Microsoft has also updated the desktop version to have collaborative features so that multiple users can be editing a document at once. This collaboration is not available in the web version, unfortunately. Microsoft says that users don’t want this feature but this might be a move to protect the Office revenue model.

When two people are editing the same document (in the desktop version) at the same time, Word will notify each user when there are changes that need to be synced with their document. The copy/paste function of the desktop version has also received an upgrade, where you can see see a live preview for the paste function. The paste function also has an advanced option to create and insert screenshots. To make moving around a long document easier, Word now has a visual navigation pane and section header breakdown which makes it easy to jump around different sections of a document.

Outlook 2010

Outlook 2010 now has a ribbon user interface, like Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The UI of email conversations has been upgraded to look almost like a message tree, allowing users a more visual view of sent and incoming emails. Search functionality has been improved as well, making it much easier to find content. Also, you can preview calendars in emails and choose to ignore selective email conversations.

Sharepoint 2010

Like Outlook, Sharepoint now gets a ribbon UI, making the document-hosting product more similar to Microsoft’s flagship products, like Word. You can tag authors of documents now and can share documents and files more easily.

Microsoft says that its browser versions have been tested on all major browsers aside from internet Explorer, including Firefox and Safari. Office 2010 is still being tested and reworked to function on Chrome. Microsoft also announced that it is streamlining the number of Office editions from eight to five. Office Web applications will be available in three ways: through Windows Live, where consumers will have access to Office Web applications at no cost; via on-premises versions; and via Microsoft Online Services, where customers will be able to purchase a subscription of MS Office. Microsoft says Office 2010 will be available in the first half of next year.

The key part of all of this news is the free, browser-based versions of Microsoft’s most popular Office products. Bryant says that Microsoft expects the browser products to be especially popular amongst student, but I think that the web-based applications will be hugely popular in the enterprise space as well, as long as there are security precautions taken to put documents in a secure part of the cloud.

But as more and more businesses are becoming comfortable with trusting cloud environments, Microsoft’s move to the browser could pay off in a big way, especially because it’s so easy to use both the desktop and browser versions of products interchangeably. The more successful Microsoft is in its browser strategy, the more they validate Google’s approach in the space, which will eventually put price pressure on Office.

Wikipedia a book?

 

Psychoville to air on BBC2

Psychoville, directed by Matt Lipsey and written by The League of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, is a seven-part, cliff-hanging comedy thriller that weaves the lives of several apparently unconnected oddballs into a complex tale of blackmail and thwarted desire.

The series features an embittered one-handed clown; a desperately misguided midwife; a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf; a blind avaricious collector; and a serial-killer-obsessed man-child, all of whom are being blackmailed by a mysterious black-gloved stranger. 

Starring alongside Pemberton and Shearsmith, the cast includes Dawn French, Dame Eileen Atkins, Nicholas Le Prevost, David Bamber, Janet McTeer, Christopher Biggins, Daisy Haggard, Debbie Chazen, and Adrian Scarborough.  

The series is also being supported heavily online - with a website promising "The Psychoville Experience" - including video and interactive comedy related to the show.

Psychoville begins on BBC2 on Thursday 18 June at 10pm

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The landing

 

Nieuwe bevlagging Christinastraat

Ik heb de nieuwe vlaggen ontworpen die de volledige zomer zullen wapperen boven de Christinastraat.

 

     

Amazing Chewing Gum Sculptures

Over the last 10 years, italian artist Maurizio Savini has been creating a series of sculptures using thousands of pieces of chewing gum. His works have been exhibited internationally and some of his pieces have sold for over € 55,000. Some of his best artworks below.

 

 

 

Ça plane pour moi ?

 

Lou De Pryck wordt de laatste jaren vooral geportretteerd als bon vivant en notoire vrouwengek, maar hij heeft in zijn rijk gevulde carrière bijna 20 miljoen platen verkocht. Lou is nu 59, resideert een groot deel van het jaar in Pattaya, maar brengt de zomermaanden nog steeds door in zijn geboortedorp Lessines.

Lou & The Hollywood Banana’s kennen we ondere andere van de hit ‘Kingston, Kingston’ lou was ook de ontdekker van muzikale ontdekkingen zoals Viktor Lazlo en David Linx.

Van hun ander hit ‘Disco Samba’ verkocht Two Men Sound plots 1.000.000 platen  Mexico?

Maar Lou heeft nog meer op zijn palmares staan. Vaak werd hem verweten dat hij niet echt muziek kon maken. Hij was dan ook gefrustreerd dat hij in het wereldje niet serieus werd genomen. Met die reden in het achterhoof maakte werd hij de man en zanger achter de  wereldhit ‘Ca plane pour moi’. Hij vroeg Plastic Bertrand als gezicht van het nummer.  Later echter toen het liedje al lang een monsterhit beweerde Plastic het nummer zelf te hebben ingezongen. Met als gevolg dat de strijd werd uitgevochten voor de rechtbank.  Het vonnis sprak in het nadeel voor Lou. Volgens de rechter kon Bertrand bewijzen dat hij de zanger was.

Japanse space-saving kitchen appliance