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John Prescott as Hu/ellboy

Somehow the idea of replacing the head of Hellboy with that of the last Deputy Prime Minister and MP for Kingston upon Hull, John Prescott, amused me. Even the slogan kind of works.

• Wordpress for iPhone - It turns out that my recent review of WordPress for iPhone was the four-hundredth post on ZX81.org.uk. Time for a small celebration!
• Font Conference - Typeface adventures…
• Simon Pegg's Geek Roots Show in Spaced - I'm no longer a twenty-something, but I still love Spaced. Now available in the US.

• French version of The Apprentice 'not allowed to fire contestants' - Against my better judgement I got quite into this years (UK) Apprentice. The French version sounds even more entertaining…
• No ID Card Function Creep? Pull the Other One - "Now, tell me again why we should trust the UK government over ID cards?"
• Burma cyclone: Regime turns back US aid ships - The Burmese military junta puts their own position above the lives of over two million people. Sick.

• Senator to ISPs: "Think twice" about 'Net neutrality… or else - It's encouraging that some politicians understand the issues of net neutrality. Let's hope that there are also tech-savvy MPs here in the UK.
• Peep Show for free! - If you're in the UK this is a must-have download: the first episode of the new series of Peep Show. It's perhaps the best comedy show on British TV at the moment. Highly recommended.
• The Free Web: 15 Years Old Today - The subject line says it all! Where would we be without the web?

• London teen orders 'cab, innit' - Barely believable but very funny!
• Billy Bragg: Why should songwriters starve so others get rich? - "I never bought that Home Taping Is Killing Music shit in the 1980s that the record companies tried to lay on us. In fact I printed on the front of my fourth album that Capitalism is Killing Music. And that's what's happening now. The powerful start-ups a
• What Idiot Wrote These Ten Commandments? - "Where's the stuff we can use? Where's 'No pushing'? Or 'Bag your leaves so they don't blow around in your neighbor's yard?' And don't even get me started on right-of-way. Didn't they have real problems back in Bible days?"

• Fifty years of LEGO - Best. Toy. Ever. And still going strong.
• Polish IT worker calculates exact speed of snail mail - Apparently snail mail is actually slower than a snail.
• For those who thought that the MacBook Air had no use… - It’s odd that Steve Jobs didn’t mention any of these uses though.