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Fainting Goats!

It is all in the title really, check out the video hilarious stuff.

Man I wish I had a herd of these, it would be so much fun just sitting on the patio with an air horn and every now and again... HONK... thud.thud.thud.thud. and then they all run off again.

Other possibilites include:

• Fainting Goat Racing - heckle your opponents goats to get ahead
• Ten Goat Bowling - Try and knock down as many goats as possible no contact allowed!
• Goat football - When the heat is on they hit the floor, just like real footballers

Extreme weather stops trains

Another example of the UK rail network being brought to it's knees by extreme weather conditions. What was it this time? Hurricanes? Earthquakes? Flooding?

No apparantly condensation is the culprit. This most extreme weather condition brought trains in hampshire to a standstill after all of the signals were changed to red.

It seems leaves just aren't scary enough anymore, all bow to our new water vapour overlords!

New ipods arrive along with new iTunes

As predicted new ipods have been announced.

The big changes are coloured nanos in up to 8gb sizes and a new tiny shuffle that holds 1gb. Video ipods now have spotlight search (looks a bit clunky to me but I haven't got to play with it yet) and downloadable games including the ever addictive classic Zuma. They are up to 80gb max size now.

Other announcements included new iTunes with automatic cover art downloading and a graphical browse to flick through cover art to choose albums. Also a mac mini based set top box is in the works that will allow you to stream your iTunes bought tv shows and movies to your tv.

Oh yeah thats the other thing, you can now buy full length movies from iTunes. Although at $12.99 for a new movie at 'near DVD quality' and with no extras it doesn't seem like a very good deal to me. Older movies are $9.99 but still not up to DVD quality and no extras. Sounds cheap but you can get dvds that are only a few weeks old for as cheap as £7.99 on the high street and even cheaper online.

Apple to announce new iPods

Only a rumour at present but they have sent out press invitations so some kind of announcement is certain. Speculations over at Think Secret suggest that Apple will be announcing higher capacity nanos in more colours as well as higher capacity 5g ipods for the same pricing. No sign of the widescreen video ipod everyone (apart from me) seems to think would be a wonderful idea.

Also likely are new iMacs based on Intel's Core 2 Duo processors. It is expected that Apple are going to try and cheat by sneaking the notebook version into iMacs instead of waiting for the desktop chip. Performance hit? Who cares they have the same name so i'm sure no-one will notice......

More on exploding powerbooks

Just a quick follow up on the Apple Hindenbook story.

It seems that the Japanese aren't too impressed with exploding powerbooks. Their Trade Ministry is calling for answers from Apple.

As pyrotechnics aren't going down so well in Japan maybe Apple should try some new ideas to appeal to a more japanese audience.

iBukkake anyone?.

Paris vs Pensioner

It seems that internet democracy has spoken again. Paris Hilton launched her own channel this week on YouTube to promote her new music album. But it seems that people would rather here the grumpy musings of an old man that tune in to see what Paris is turning her nose up at lately.

The article over at TheReg has more details but it really is all down to the numbers:

Subscribers : Paris - 2549, Pensioner - 23267
Views : Paris - 285572, Pensioner - 720418