That'll do it every time.

Do what? Lose your licence to practice law in Idaho, that is. Read on, peasant.

Pukephone

I like Richard Tingley. One of the new breed of multimedia artists that seem to spring up all over the place these days, I last featured him here at AAH when I mentioned the 200 project - an insanely ambitious project to make 200 short animations - which used one of my songs as number 3. What a nice man.

Anyway - what is there to dislike about this man? - he's now getting into the whole idea of circuit bending; the black art of customising musical toys to make renegade electronic instruments. He calls his first instrument the Pukephone. It looked like this before, and cost £2.35 on eBay:

Go here to see what he did to it and how it ended up.

I can't wait for the first MP3, me.

Slot racing heaven

When I was three, my dad bought me a Scalextric set. Three. I ask you. Have you ever seen a three-year-old's motor control? No prizes for guessing who it was really bought for. And playing this, well I can't blame him.

It's utterly addictive. Play RallyTrophy by clicking on the differently coloured word.

Woo.

Project C-90

Project C-90 is, pretty much, what it says on the tin - an online archive of cassette tapes. They even have Boots Audio and the Winfield Alpha Plus cheapies from Woolworth's. Awww.

Bookmark it to show to your grandchildren.

Sugar Crash

Haha! Silly game alert! Keep the child bouncing with sugar to burst the balloons and send your kid through hoops.

Daft, silly fun. Play Sugar Crash here.

Odd news from Indiana

...Northwest Indiana actually; where it seems a teenage boy got hit for refusing to share his underwear - with his sister.

Ulp.

Go on. Buy yourself a Bipedal, Exo-Skeletal Semi-Robotic Vehicle!

And I don't see why you shouldn't, as it's only $40,000. You know you want to.

Planarity

It's a favourite theme of mine, the maddening game; and Planarity is a superb example.

You get a bunch of dots joined by lines. You have to move the dots so that none of the lines cross. Level 1 (pictured) is easy. Don't be fooled: it gets difficult really quickly.

One for the type of person who gets excited by möbius strips, I feel.

(Er, that'll be me then.)

Eddie's Head

Eddie Breen is a right rum 'un, as we would say oop north. He buys paintings and then overpaints them to create something he calls "Piggyback Art". It's pretty interesting. Take a peek here, and don't have nightmares.

You have to wonder, don't you?

In the world of product marketing there are all sorts of boo-boos out there. There's the legendary Pocari Sweat that everybody brings back from Japan and no doubt there's a car out there that's called something rude if you read the name in Portuguese.

Then there's Semtex. Breathtakingly odd piece of product naming here. Why in heaven's name would you want to call your energy drink after a notorious type of high explosive? Misjudged is not the word.

All the same, I am tittering: but quietly, and wincing at the same time.

Babies With Beards

Babies. With beards. What else can I say?

Fun in Tennessee

Oh yes. Teenage mother with two kids has blazing row with 21 year old hubby. Can you guess how it ends? Ouch.

The iPod Flea

It seems to be another of those zeitgeisty weeks, doesn't it? This week, it's the iPod.

So, ladies and gentlemen (or whichever one of you is reading this this month) give a big "booyah" and raise your right hand in submission for the iPod Flea.

Fantastic.

Gorgeous, big-nosed beauty

Bored with your tiny, Japanese nose? Then buy a peg to deform it.

Given the size of my konk, I must be a sex god.

Wood iPod

Now here'a a brave man. Zapwizard has made a new case for his iPod. Out of wood.

A genius, obviously.

I'm bored with my dog

So I bought a disguise for it.

Wah!

Oh look. A man who can inflate his own forehead.

Do it yourself animation

Somrthing to keep you happy here - a nice creative pursuit. Draw your own animations, flipbook style - no talent required. Pop over to FLIPBOOK! for the skinny.