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For all you Londoners out there this story was on metro.co.uk yesterday.  Seems that the Tube is the place to be if you want to find love. . . .

Forget ‘misery line’ – the Northern Line should be dubbed the tunnel of love.

In a result that will no doubt add to its overcrowding, the Tube line has been found to have the sexiest passengers.

More than a third of people thought its combination of ’spiky-haired indie kids’ and ‘hot city types’ gave it the edge over other lines.

Surfing the web we found this little story on the BBC.  Enjoy. . . .

A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard.

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. They suffered minor injuries.

Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted “Darth Vader!”

Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: “I hope the force will soon be with him.”

Here’s the latest celebrities boarding the 747 to oblivion.  Only three at the moment but there will be a second lot going through passport control over the weekend.

Seat #13: Tom Cruise (aka Thomas Cruise Mapother IV)

I’m kind of tired of Tom Cruise and I particularly dislike his vocal support of the cult Scientology.  His career has been financially successful but has he really done anything worth watching since Top Gun?  No.  That’s over 20 years of drivel and he gets a seat on that basis alone.

Now, the Scientology thing.  I’m not a fan of cults and I don’t think someone in the public eye should be trying to get the weak and vulnerable to part with their cash.  And, I’m also tired of being offered a free stress test by Scientology cult members every time I walk down Tottenham Court Road.

Worse than the homeless begging for skag money.

On 25th April, fat and lazy people can get their hands on the latest Wii add-on called Wii Fit and then combine playing on the console with actually getting some exercise.

The Wii Fit comes with a “Balance Board” which looks like a set of bathroom scales and is filled with pressure sensors that measure weight and body movements.  There are 4 different training categories (aerobic exercises, muscle workouts, yoga and balance games) and about 40 different games to exercise to.

Whilst wasting time at work the other day I came across the website FractionalLife.com and thought it was an interesting concept that was worth sharing with you.

Essentially it is a kind of directory that links to other sites offering “fractional ownership” of assets.  Rather than owning something yourself, you are a shareholder with a number of other people.

With the economy in the state that it is (i.e. Credit Crunch) it isn’t always worth purchasing something outright when you will not use it everyday.  Or it might simply be way beyond your means but you still want to feel like you’re living the life of the super rich.

We’re all aware of the T5 and British Airways shambles of the last week or so and how their combined incompetence has left thousands of people miserable.  We have a first hand account (and a justified rant) from friend of escapework.net, Sally.

Enjoy. . . .

“Yes indeed, I can safely say it was indeed first hand… We witnessed the queues of people at cash machines because, quelle une grande surprise.. they’d forgotten to set up the phone links to the card machines in the shops, the lifts not working, all the escalators going in one direction (in the convenient direction of all the super expensive shops I might add).

The time has come to check in our first 6 so-called celebrities onto flight CLB100, the celebrity 747 that we all want to see filled up and crashed into the side of a big mountain.

There will be no seatbelts, oxygen masks, emergency lighting or big inflatable slides.  We really want to make sure they are going down with the plane and not surviving like they did on that film Alive.

The celebrities making their way to check in and through security this week are. . . . .

Seat #1: Amy Winehouse

Further to an earlier article, it would appear that Kylie’s PR team saw our news and have responded saying that Kylie will not marry.  Here’s the full article from SuperiorPics.com. . . . . .

KYLIE MINOGUE will not announce her engagement to on/off lover Olivier Martinez during a live concert, according to the event’s organisers.

Media outlets in the Czech Republic have been speculating the Spinning Around hitmaker will announce the news at a concert in Prague on 12 May (08) - because she asked for an “unusually high” number of tickets for family and friends.

However, concert organiser Jarda Hainzel insists she has been misquoted.

I found this whilst surfing the interweb earlier this evening.  It happened a few days ago but well worth reading. . . . .

A school was forced to help girls get emergency contraception after an end of term party saw under-age pupils having unprotected sex in a village square.

The event is said to have involved “a disturbingly high number of girls” having sex while they were too drunk to know what they were doing, and also left one boy hospitalised.

What impact could this morning’s publication of Dr Tanya Byron’s review on video games ratings have on the release of Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV)?

The study recommends that video games should have cinema style ratings and this should be a statutory requirement instead of the voluntary code currently in place.  This could mean big changes in what games are available and whether they can even make it into the shops without having large parts of the gameplay experience cut from the final release (as happens with films).

Rockstar Games, the developer of the GTA series and other popular games including the Manhunt series, is well known for releasing games