Unless you’ve been living under a rock, and by the way if you are, who’s your letting agent? I’m looking for somewhere similar, you’ll no doubt have heard of new trendy picture sharing website Pinterest. 

The site, which is still in invite-request only beta, is somewhere between Tumblr and Twitter and even as you read this, it’s full of trendy young things ‘repinning’ and liking pictures of Ryan Gosling and French macaroons.

The basic premise for the site is that you share images (known as pins) on your personal boards, and these pins get collated, based on popularity, on more general themed boards which everyone can access.

I’m going to level with you, I am no fan of Pinterest. From my experience, it’s all hi-res-pictures-of-goats-that-look-like-they’re-smiling and not much else at all.

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Ken Livingstone: “A gay banker in Dubai could have his penis chopped off”

Ken Livingstone, who caused controversy last week by saying that the Conservative Party was “riddled” with homosexuals, has made headlines again after saying in an interview, that a gay banker living in Dubai would have his penis cut off.

The Labour London Mayoral candidate was talking to the Metro about fears of a possible banking exodus in the light of potential new business legislation.

Livingstone had deemed Geneva too boring and Shanghai too risky (revolution apparently), before he unleashed his comment about Dubai.

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I imagine this t-shirt was put forward as a joke, designed possibly by an intern working at, what I imagine, is one of those faceless corporate clothes designers; churning out, slightly different sweater designs for places like TK Maxxxxx (I never know how many xs there are) and Next (just the one x).

I hope so. I don’t know exactly how Disney’s merchandise works.

But, for a company who signed up to corporations against piracy, PIPA-supporting, petition, I find this pretty galling.

I don’t know whether The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy or Peter Saville and Chris Mathan, the designers of the original Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures album sleave, were asked their permission to copy their work, but my instinct is that it’s unlikely.

The words: pot, kettle, dirty rotten hypocrite, spring to mind, don’t they?

Also, they do know that Ian Curtis hung himself, right? And where the name Joy Division came from?

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Angus Deyton isn’t a man unfamiliar with sting of ignominy, but he suffered probably his greatest public humiliation this weekend, as his Submarine side were torn by a rampant Vera’s team, 10 2 in the Quarter Final of the Divisional Musical Associations Cup.

Submarine had the hilarious temerity to even go ahead early on, before a quick-fire Oli Jones hat-trick turned the tables. Submarine got a goal back from a well-worked freekick, and threatened to draw level, with only the goal keeping heroics of Tarn Willers and some last ditch defending keeping them out.

But Veras were in no mood to fanny about: A beautifully flighted Andre Lazos corner found Barney Thomas at the front stick who buried his header, before the two linked up again for a mirror image goal from the other corner, putting the Veras 5 - 2 up at halftime.

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This cool as fuck, intelligent, talented man?

Or this fucking moron?

Okay, so Perry probably won’t get the Republican nomination, but I still thought it was a powerful comparison. And I know which way anyone worth respecting would vote.

Under SOPA, you could get 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson song. One year more than the doctor who killed him.

— Raghda Elsayed (@Skulled) January 18, 2012

If you’re anything like me you’re probably sick of reading broadsheet articles about the implacable appeal of Lady Gaga and her effortless charisma.

I just can’t abide these broadsheet claims that she is something other than just a pop star and this ever expanding vein of cloying articles seem to me, part of a sinister cultural land-grab designed to hoist Gaga onto a middle class pedestal of pop acceptability.

Firstly may I say, I don’t hate Lady Gaga. Sure, I find her music utterly insipid, her “image” gratingly dull, but I’ve got nothing against people who are engaged by her.

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