After scoring what I thought was the perfect gift for jwz, this weekend he bought me an even crazier present. I can't say exactly what it is, but it's very 007.

After surviving the last visit to IKEA, I was determined to complete the IKEA levels faster - and we did, even negotiating the hidden 'Returning Items For A Full Refund' bonus level.

It's almost time to get Burning Man tickets again - and this time there's an even more arcane structure. Thankfully, most will be available directly through the internet, at tickets.burningman.com, starting 1st March 2004.

An engine burning clean, white-hot hatred will release few harmful byproducts into the atmosphere—bad vibes and a small amount of water vapor will combine to be released in the form of human spittle. In addition, anger technology will turn the standard fuel-economy paradigm on its head: An anger-powered engine is actually more efficient in heavy urban traffic.

New Anger-Powered Cars May Revolutionize The Way We Drive [The Onion]

Here's an excellent tool: an online pub crawl generator. Type in a word - your name will do to start with - and get your own list of pubs to visit.

Here's my list, and by chance contains three pubs I used to drink in regularly when I used to work in Bloomsbury: the Lamb, the Enterprise, and the Yorkshire Grey. Anyone fancy a pint?

The Ashley pub crawl, Bloomsbury

TiVo has previously annotated its audience spikes during the superbowl, denoting significant events. This year's notable superbowl only got a short press release, but it did note:

TiVo said viewership spiked up to 180 percent as hundreds of thousands of households used TiVo’s unique capabilities to pause and replay live television to view the incident again and again.

There seemed to be significant spikes through Janet Jackson's right breast too.

"Wardrobe Malfunction" Most Replayed Moment TiVo Has Ever Measured