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Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers

Evan Williams: How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

Discuss: Good Music From Mediocre Films

Eddie Murphy To Star In Richard Pryor Biopic

The Worst Performancers By Rappers-Turned-Actors

Revealed: The secrets of belly button fluff

This week thousands flocked to a vast used book warehouse to grab whatever titles they could. The lease had ended and the firm, Bookbarn in Bristol, left the entire stock to be given away for free.

It begs the question: is the internet spelling the end for book sales?

Bono calls Chris Martin of Coldplay a wanker live on Radio One. Bono’s outburst, also calling Martin a cretin and dysfunctional, left listeners shocked and presenter Jo Wiley asked him to apologise for his language.

The waterslide film features a group of students creating a miniature version of the Barclaycard waterslide TV ad, using household items such as buckets, mops, empty water bottles, baked bean tins and even a set of legs from a shop mannequin! The students then launch ‘Dangerous Dan’ down the slide and across the road to the local off licence to pay for some goods. The film was shot in Shoreditch in London.

This week, Tom looks at people who play with food. From the cinnamon challenge to donut snogging.

The Helix Nebula, a shell of gas and dust blown off by a supernova, has been dubbed the “eye of God”, because of its uncanny resemblance to an eye. It has a blue pupil on a white area, and is even fringed by flesh-coloured eyelids. Lying at a distance of about 400 light years from Earth, it is one of the closest of all planetary nebulae.

Take a trip from Los Angeles to New York, or watch a tomato rot to a moldy pulp. Time lapse videos offer a view of life in a different perspective. By viewing moments speeded up, we can see things in a different light than in real time. Here are 10 wonderfully creative time lapse videos…

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Ole and Lena had married under none too happy circumstances, and their married life had not been anything to brag about either. But when, after they had been together for thirty-five years, Ole went to the local judge to ask for an annulment, the whole town gasped with amazement.

A date for the hearing was set and when the time came, the judge demanded to know the grounds on which Ole based his request for an annulment.

“It’s like this, your honor,” answered Ole, “I’ve just learned that Lena’s father never had a license to carry that gun!”

Every company, brand, website needs a logo, one that reflects their identity and is instantly recognisable. There’s certainy an art to good logo design. I always enjoy seeing new and creative logos, so I like visiting Logo of the day, a site that showcases a new logo each day.

You can suggest your own logo for their archives, and also hire a logo creator for your own design.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Techcrunch have done some neat tag clouds by taking highly popular website’s TOS.

Here’s one made up from the Highena RSS feed.