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This Week in Lumps
#51 [13/05 - 19/05]

Following on from last Tuesdays Über post, here’s the next large lump in the celebration of reaching 50 weeks not out, there or thereabouts.

· The limited UK release of Rock Band is now just days away. The music video game, in a similar vein to Guitar Hero, allows players to perform in “virtual bands” by providing up to four players with the ability to play three different peripherals modeled after music instruments (a guitar peripheral for lead guitar and bass guitar gameplay, a drum peripheral, and a microphone). The release features lots of different rock songs to attempt, and also contains lots of downloadable material should you ever get bored of the original list. The release will be out on XBox360 on May 23rd, whilst Playstation 3 owners will have to wait until August 29th.

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· It is proving so popular in the US that rumours are around that Guitar Hero 4 will be very identical to this release. This article also talks about the user base being 40% female, so maybe a lean in the feminine market for the future may also be planned.

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· Sigur Ros are in the studio writing a new album. Wow, yes please.

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· Dr Who’s latest enemy: Knitwear.

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· Strong tea is to be reclassified as a category B drug, according to home secretary Jacqui Smith.

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· Flock, the social web browser built from Firefox code that I reviews about a dozen or so weeks ago keeps getting more social. Flock 1.2 beta has added Digg, Pownce, and AOL Mail into its growing list of web 2.0 integration techniques.

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· The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Internet Users couldn’t be more spot on if it tried. Brilliant.

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· In the US this week (where else), a man left a toddler in a car whilst he visited a strip club. He was arrested Saturday on charges of neglect. On the funny side, the name of the club: Shotgun Willies.

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· A few weeks back I mentioned that Gavin and Stacey stars Matthew Horne and James Corden were writing a different series for themselves. Details have emerged that the show will be called Lesbian Vampire Killers. Sounds amazing already.

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· PC World have made a list of the 10 things they hate about Social Networking. Some good points, but in honesty the list could have been much bigger, no?

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· Hate is a strong word. Simon Cowell only came 5th?

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· Obese people are not only being blamed for the food shortage, but also global warming, too. Damn you, fattys.

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· A Swiss man fell from a hotel balcony during a spitting match with a friend, a Swiss newspaper has reported. The 29-year-old man took a run-up from inside the room so he could spit further, but lost his balance and plummeted 6.4m to the street below. He died in hospital.

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· Roughly one-fifth of all U.S. households are disconnected from the Internet and have never used e-mail, according to research firm Parks Associates.

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· As talked about on HIGNFY, Sloth’s aren’t lazy at all.

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· Transformers II looks set to be released in 3-D.

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· Facebook is getting a facelift. The current top rated comment on Digg explains the gist:

“I’ve noticed that they have been using considerable user feedback in developing this new look, something I didn’t necessarily expect from a huge site like Facebook. I do however, congratulate them because they are seeing what their bulk user base wants and building to suit them, too little social networks are doing this recently.”

If you want to have a sneak peak, click here to see the fan Page.

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· When an article starts like this, you know it’s going to be both interesting and controversial:

“It’s a pretty well known fact that most women – attractive women – will happily date ugly men.”

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· One of the best online gaming sites on the net, Kongregate, is about to launch a Facebook Games minipage.

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·Birmingham footballer Olivier Kapo shows that not all professional sportsmen are selfish money grabbing fools, by handing his 19 year old boot boy the keys to his £30,000 Merc, as a thankyou.

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· She was married last week, now this week she’s getting it on with Penelope Cruz in a new film. Sigh. Still, Josh Brolin pulls off being more sexy in the latest BMW advert. The whisper is definitely louder than the shout.

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· GMail, although still technically in beta stage, will start getting Themes and customizing options within the next few months.

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· Celebrating the fact that Indy 4 is just days away from getting its worldwide release, here’s the filmschoolrejects top 10 Indy moments so far.

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·A farmer, a bit perplexed as to where his sheep were disappearing to, put up an electric fence to keep the remaining ones in. A day after, he found this… how scared would you be if you saw that roaming around your garden looking for dinner?

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· And to end, a bit of spam: Fond of Facebook? You might like to join the Fan page, to show the world how damn cool you are, or that you appreciate the lumps. You can find the fan page here. Trying out Twitter for the first time? Add me at this link and here my random sprouts of nonsense from time to time. I’m sure I have more links I could share (such as my Google Reader shared items, or my digg account) but that’ll do for now.

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Back to normal next week, my friends.

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