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This water just makes things better…

By 6000 | 6000 | April 5, 2012

#NowSharing… This brilliant beer ad from Down Under. Simple. Funny. Clever. It makes me want to drink their beer.

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My Stepmother Is An Alien

By 6000 | 6000 | April 5, 2012

…was a 1988 film featuring Kim Basinger (phwoar!) and Dan Aykroyd detailing the somewhat outlandish story of a female alien coming to earth and trying her hand at parenting. This obviously fictional movie should not be confused with the obviously very real story related recently by Councillor Simon Parkes, who was elected to represent Stakesby ward [...]

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6000 is now on Instagram

By 6000 | 6000 | April 4, 2012

Instagram has finally been released for Android [QR] and I’m giving it a go. You can see my photos, follow me and whatever else you do with Instagram (I’m still learning) here.       I’m just going to see how it goes initially, but already it seems more mobile friendly than Vignette and Flickr [...]

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Blades wins poll “fairly overwhelmingly”

By 6000 | 6000 | April 4, 2012

Yes, I clicked through on this Sport24 story thinking it had something to do with Sheffield United. It didn’t. Instead, I learned that Hugh “Blades” Bladon had been voted SA’s favourite rugby commentator in a poll on the Sport24 website. Apparently Hugh’s was a “landslide victory”, polling, as he did, 34% of the vote. His [...]

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Not an April Fool

By 6000 | 6000 | April 3, 2012

I seriously thought this was an April Fool, but it’s two days too late. This has been all over the UK internet already, but I thought I should share it with my SA readers. And yes, I know. It’s from the Daily Mail – 6000 miles… favourite paper. But it still left me incredulous. On a recent [...]

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