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Mingpod#3

Welcome to The Seddonism Mingpod#3, the all singing, all dancing e-zine (*1) that gives you the detail on the sites that have bin queering my camel, cool gossip, jokes and things stollen from other websites. If you want to be taken off this list or want someone to be added, then email:[email protected]
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>> Music <<

* Ultimate Band List
There are lots of Excellent music related resources on the net, but one of my favourite is UBL. It has the detail on vast amounts of bands, and is especially useful for the more obscure ones.
http://www.ubl.com/
For example, one of my favourite bands "Me 1st and the Gimme Gimmes":
http://www.ubl.com/fp2.asp?layout=artist_card&artistid=97054&p_id=P+++293526

* Eminem
MM has created his own cartoon series, reportedly similar in tone to South Park and available only online at www.slimshadyworld.com. Whether this venture, where Em voices three different characters, leads to a flurry of lawsuits remains to be seen.
http://www.slimshadyworld.com/slimshadyworld/index.html
Eminem was not in court today.

* Mark Recommends:
Stone Roses/ "The Remixes" (�8.99 at CD-Wow)
Tampering with classics? Maybe. As the Roses' one decent album is plundered once more, this album is a little hit and miss, but there are some real gems to be found here.
http://www.cd-wow.com/detail_results.php?cat=normal&item=ROST101

* It's almost Christmas...
A guaranteed parent pleaser is the new Beatles best of album, "1". Every track a classic to be enjoyed by young and old alike.
http://www.cd-wow.com/detail_results.php?cat=normal&item=BEAT009

* The Backstreet Boys new album is called "Black and Blue". How appropriate, then, that their Tokyo promotional appearance caused hysteria in their crowd of fans, resulting in several injuries.

>> Joke of the Week <<

What to you call a dog with 5 dicks?
Mariah Carey and Westlife

>> On The Net <<

*MC Hawking
This site is your ultimate resource for information about Stephen Hawking the gangsta rapper. While there are dozens of other sites on the web devoted to Stephen Hawking's scientific achievements, this is the only one devoted to his career as a lyrical terrorist.
http://www.mchawking.com

*Eric Conveys An Emotion
The concept here is simple, this is a humour-oriented interactive website. Eric acts out emotions that have been sent in by visitors, ranging from "anger", "fear", all the way thru to "Coming to the Conclusion that Eating Razor Blades isn't Healthy..."
It's weird, but it works.
http://www.emotioneric.com./

*Nostalgia
The web allows us a great resource- we can widen our minds, have access to a vast encyclopaedia of knowledge. But most end up looking at porn or sites about TV programmes from their youth. So, find out all about those shows that you used to love, from Batfink to Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, and download their theme tunes.
http://www.tv.cream.org
http://www.sausagenet.co.uk
Elsewhere, Bubblegun gives nostalgia a razor to its face like so thouroughly deserves:
http://bubblegun.com

*Adbusters
Naomi Klein's book "No Logo":
http://www.nologo.org
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0002559196/qid=974478291/sr=1-1/026-6066604-4828435
has lead, many believe, to the popularisation of "Culture Jamming" as a form of protest.
Adbusters is the best example: informative, and darn entertaining.
http://www.adbusters.org
Particuarly their spoof adverts:
http://www.adbusters.org/spoofads/

*thenoshow
If you listened to my radio show last year, you'd have heard me being ably assisted chirpy young Mr. Tom Davies. He's now got his own show and an amusing little site to go alonh=g with it:
http://www.geocities.com/thenoshow/index2.html
Especially check out Craig David's secret diary:
http://www.geocities.com/thenoshow/craigdavid.html

*Mark Seddon. Com
You may know and tolerate my own website, http://www.MarkSeddon.com
but have you had a look at the freaky painting page?
Play the amateur psycologist at:
http://www.markseddon.com/Painting.html

Find more links at:
http://www.markseddon.com/morelinks.html

>> Random Web Search <<
This week: The Paperclip

*The paperclip homepage
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/3611/paperclip.html
*Ode to the Paperclip
http://www.lowplaces.net/surreal/paper.html
*Paperclip Art
http://www.thedose.com/clipgallery/
*Paper Clip Sex
www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/HBS/BOGUS/p-clipsex.html
*Paperclip Magic
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/zoom/phenom/papercliplink.txt.html
*Pointless paperclip project
http://www.history1900s.about.com/homework/history1900s/library/holocaust/blclip.htm

>> Politics <<

* Top marks go to The Onion for their "Mayhem 2000" coverage of the US election debacle. With headlines like: "Serbia Deploys Peacekeeping Forces To U.S."
http://www.theonion.com/onion3641/serbia_deploys_forces.html

* President Bill Clinton said after the election that "the nation had spoken". "It was now a matter of finding out what they had said", he added.

>> In the News this week <<

*Hawkings had his wings clipped
News reaches us that famous rapper Stephen Hawking has had a number of mysterious injuries:
http://www.itn.co.uk/news/20001112/britain/03hawking.shtml
One can but wonder if they are as a result of his crime fighting.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3123/hawkingexo.html

*What a drag.
Wendi Plains is a drag queen trapped in a woman's body, a female impersonator who has the misfortune of being female herself. Tragic? Not quite. For Plains and others like her, there is the "Faux Queen Pageant" in San Francisco where a gaggle of real-life ladies strut their stuff at the contest billed as the world's one and only event for women perfecting the drag queen's cocky swagger. "It is a chance for the women to be outrageous, get up on stage and do stuff way over the top," said Toosday, dressed in a slinky black mini-dress and black garters. "As far as I know this is the only event of its kind anywhere."
It also gives the women a venue to realize their drag-queen dreams as many clubs featuring female impersonators do not allow real women to perform, Toosday said.

*Where there's smoke there's crazy folk
A report from the Harvard Medical School released on Tuesday estimated that people with diagnosable mental illness account for nearly 45 percent of the total cigarette market in the United States.
"Perhaps mental illness causes smoking by making people more vulnerable to tobacco advertising or nicotine addiction," said Karen Lasser, lead author of the study. "However, other studies have called the direction of causality into question, suggesting that smoking may cause mental illness and our findings are certainly compatible with that as well."

>> Insult of the week <<

When you walk down the street, people point at you and call you "stinky boy". (from Mingpodder Tom D.)

>> Things 2 Do <<

In the light of the Wu Tang Clan finally releasing am absolutely kick ass record, its time to become a member of the Wu Tang Clan.
First you need a name:
http://www.recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl

>> Things 2 Say <<

This week, try working the following exchange into conversation:
You: ... well, people have been saying...
Him/Her: Who's been saying?
You: Actually, me mostly.

>> Things 2 Buy <<

In a literal interpretation of some Cornershop lyrics, you can now buy the tit pillow:
http://www.titpillows.uklinux.net/cgi-bin/test.pl?goto=tits

>> Competition <<

*The URE Christmas party is just coming up and I'll be doing a little set. What fat joints would you like to see me dropping? (*2) The best suggestions will appear here, and possibly on the dancefloor.

*SBN's Fatboy
SBN (http://www.sbn.co.uk) are offering tickets for the Fatboy Slim tour.We have tickets to give away for the following Fat Boy Slim dates. These are the first UK live dates in support of his latest brilliant album 'Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars'. For a chance to win simply e-mail [email protected] naming the title of FatBoy Slim's latest album, and which date you'd like tickets for.
DATES
Fri 24/11 Slam, GLASGOW
Sat 25/11 Cream, LIVERPOOL
Thurs 30/11 Bomb, NOTTINGHAM
Fri 1/12 Fabric, LONDON
Sat 2/12 Matrix, READING
Fri 8/12 Big Beat Boutique, BRIGHTON
I think you'd be in a good chance of winning, so give it a go.

>> Last week's competition <<

What should URE's new name be?
"Fuck Off" (T.D.)
The URE Forum: http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=view_archive&list_id=ureforum
It's current favourite is "XS FM".
Whis is better? You make your own mind up.

>> Special Mention <<

Thanks to Jon Groves for inventing the word "Mingpod".

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Finally, Mingpodder, Gary M contributes an excerpt
from the most recent British Medical Journal on Cellular development in the human feotus:

All babies start out with the same number of raw cells, which, over nine months, develop into a complete female baby.
The problem occurs when cells are instructed by the little chromosomes to make a male baby instead. Because there are only so many cells to go around, the cell necessary to develop a male's reproductive organs have to come from cells already assigned elsewhere in the female body.
Recent tests have shown that these cells are removed from the communications center of the brain, migrate lower in the body and develop into male sexual organs. If you visualize a normal brain to be similar to a full deck of cards, this means that males are born a few cards short, so to speak. And some of their cards are in their shorts.This difference between the male and female brain manifests itself in various ways.
Little girls will tend to play things like house
or learn to read. Little boys, however, will tend to do things like placing a bucket over their heads and running into walls. Little girls will think about doing things before taking any action. Little boys will just hit or kick something and will look surprised if someone asks them why they just punched their little brother who was half asleep and looking the other way.
This basic cognitive difference continues to grow until puberty when the hormones kick into action and the trouble really begins. After puberty, not only the size of the male and female brains differ, but the center of thought also differs. Women think with their heads. Male thoughts often originate lower in their bodies where their sex-brain cells reside.
Of course, the size of this problem varies from man to man. In some men only a small number of brain cells migrate and they are left with nearly full mental capacity but they tend to be rather dull, sexually speaking. Such men are known in medical terms as "Accountants." Other men suffer larger brain cell relocation. These men are medically referred to as "Engineers."
A small number of men suffer massive brain cell migration to their groins. These men are usually referred to as....."Mr. President."

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Seddonism Mingpod#3 24/11/00