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. (more…)

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.” (more…)

Flash Forward - By Robert James Sawyer

The plot is remarkably similar to that of the hit ABC TV series. Additionally, have a look at the name of the author, then think of one of the principal characters in the series…James “Sawyer” - a remarkable coincidence or not.

Escapework.net have just ordered a copy from Amazon - as usual we’ll ley you all know what we think.

This is what the good people at www.Amazon.com say, it seems remarkably similar to the plot of the series as it stands at the midway point of the 4th series…

What would you do if you got a glimpse of your own personal future and it looked bleak? Try to change things, or accept that the future is unchangeable and make the best of it? In Flashforward, Nobel-hungry physicists conducting an unimaginably high-energy experiment accidentally induce a global consciousness shift. In an instant, everyone on Earth is “flashed forward” 21 years, experiencing several minutes of the future. But while everyone is, literally, out of their minds, their bodies drop unconscious; when the world reawakens, car wrecks, botched surgeries, falls, and other mishaps add up to massive death and destruction. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

The celebrities making their way down the air walk this week are. . . . .

Seat #7: Ulrika Jonsson

What can I say…..anyone who stands by their man after a public beating in a Paris Bar during the 1998 World Cup deserves to board this flight…….also involved in Svengate….that Swedish Bizarre Love triangle, whilst doing little for this talentless Swede, cost another one the biggest job in football….what a turnip!

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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). (more…)

Console History

A Console History is the term used when describing ones own history of electronic game playing throughout the ages.

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