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Phosphor

Phosphor is a fantastic 3d first-person shooter game in the style of Quake, and it’s entirely built in Shockwave.

Tesco DVD player for under £18

Tesco has released a DVD player that costs £17.97

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will cost you £14.99.

The final great escape

Eric Foster, a former Air Force squadron leader who claimed he was the real life inspiration for Steve McQueen’s Virgil ‘The Cooler King’ Hilts in The Great Escape, died at the weekend, aged 102.

Foster escaped seven times from German prisoner-of-war camps, including the notorious Stalag Luft III.

Beatles take Apple to court, again

Apple Computers are set to meet the Apple Corporation in court on Wednesday.

“The companies clashed again in 1989 after Apple Computer introduced a music-making program. The computer company settled in 1991, for $26 million. Apple Corps was awarded rights to the name on “creative works whose principal content is music” while Apple Computer was allowed “goods and services . . . used to reproduce, run, play or otherwise deliver such content”.

Critically, however, the agreement prevented Apple Computer from distributing content on physical media. This was designed to cover CDs and tapes, but it is unclear whether it included later inventions such as digital music files or devices used to play them.

Apple Computer will argue that its music service, which has sold more than a billion songs since 2002, is merely data transmission.”

Keep off the grass

Fifteen-year-old Larry Mugrage was on his way home to get a video game when he was shot dead for walking on a neighbour’s lawn.

Savage Chickens

Savage Chickens is a blog with cartoons drawn on Post-It notes.

Unearthed Python footage From 1975

A very rare US public service TV interview with the Monty Python team has been unearthed and made available to watch online.

It’s about 14 minutes long, but worth watching – apart from the annoying phones ringing in the background.

Feck, Drink, Arse, Girls

Doogle, the Irish version of Google.

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