That's How It Happened

I bring terrible news: Mr Sinners/Winners has taken on an apprentice mini-megaphone menace. For non-Londoners, or perhaps for those Londoners that lurk only in the suburbs, Mr Sinners/Winners is an evangelical demon, who makes Oxford Circus his pulpit by means of a fricking annoying megaphone. His constant refrain is to ask the shopping populace to look into their hearts and consider whether they are "a sinner, or a winner" (hence the name). He's become a bit of a meme in his own right. LinkMachineGo are fond of him, and briefly they linked to an online confessional from the fool who first bought Mr Sinners/Winners his megaphone. Anyhow, I can now confirm that after two recent sightings there is a Mini-Sermoniser apprenticed to the master. This young colleague not only distributes infuriating leaflets, reminding consumerists of their pending damnation, but also gets to front on the mega-phone. His timing and delivery need some work, but I assure you he's shaping up to take over the mantle as the scourge of Oxford Street.

On July 10th A Proper Site are organising a shoe drive for the kids of Long Beach: Sneakers for Snotnoses. They are inviting sneakerholics to donate shoes for needy kids. I'm not sure they'll persuade many denizens of NikeTalk to line up and hand over their vintage Air Jordan IIIs, but perhaps it's the thought that counts.

Hatebeak: the first metal band in history with an avian vocalist! I quote from the liner notes from their debut 7" "Beak of Putrefaction": "Hatebeak pecks your eyes out and assaults your ears in a flurry of pummeling riffs and grey feathers that leaves you lying in a pool of blood begging for more."

A picture of a toaster made from toast. I haven't made that sound very interesting have I? Take my word for it, it's worth the click.

The John Kerry campaign may have suffered due to this spoof action figure, but he's surely delighted to be represented in this genuine Star Wars Hoth Rebel Base Commander diorama.

Eggheads only take note: not content with 3-D eight level chess, brains can now be frazzled by 3-D Go. Way to go nerds, taking the world's most complex board game, and making it many orders of magnitude tougher.

Prior to Thursday night in BB5 and Stuart's outburst to Marco: "Don't fucking disrespect me, gimp boy Gollum", my all-time reality TV highlight was Richard Blackwood's colonic irrigation Celebrity Detox Camp. Now thanks to the wonder of PinkBoard you can re-live Celeb Detox Camp in the comfort of your own home. I like their claim that PinkBoard: "will have paid for itself after four sessions". Are they suggesting that the 7-21 pounds of hard impacted waste that PinkBoard helps you to recover has a resale value on the open market?

Bopano.net has an online exhibition of fake roadsigns designed by 40 international artists. I couldn't give a rat's ass about that, it's frankly sophomoric. However their GUI is awesome. You get to guide a little UFO around the menu, and vaporise stuff with a deathray. So relaxing.

BeNothing are doing a very creditable job of documenting the London sneaker scene. Mostly they seem to just visit stores, then blog about what's in stock. But that's cool anyway.