"Do you ever worry about leaving the gas on, or arrive at work and worry that you've not locked your front door? Perhaps you get anxious before having to give a talk or wake up in the morning and are barely able to drag yourself out of bed? These are normal reactions to the twists and turns of modern life. But all these actions can also be seen as symptoms of mental illness." - Grant Fitzgerald
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I think I might be mental. I'm *sure* I left a fork in the knife section of the cutlery drawer :-P - Grant Fitzgerald
"Valve's classic first-person shooter Half-Life is ten years old. To celebrate its birthday yesterday, the developer has made it available to buy for 98 of your American cents." - Grant Fitzgerald
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"World Toilet Day highlights the plight of five million children who die every year from sanitation-related diseases. This year 10 volunteers from the UK visited a school in Peru to build a new toilet block." - Grant Fitzgerald
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"An Oz driver has been fined AU$600 for "offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction" after cracking one off into a pasta sauce jar even as coppers attempted to subdue him with batons and capsicum spray following a "slow-speed" car chase through Newcastle, New South Wales. A search of Weatherley's motor uncovered "pornography, a homemade sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier"." - Grant Fitzgerald
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The presence of the terrier concerns me. Was it a meat-based pasta sauce? - Grant Fitzgerald
"Google's iPhone application warns users that 'Voice Search only works in English, and works best for North American English accents'. The Telegraph reports that a Scot asking for iPhone was offered searches for Sex instead, while a Welsh accent delivered 'gorillas' and 'kitchen sink'. Even a Surrey accent failed, delivering 'my sister'." - Grant Fitzgerald
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"It's official: Hitler really did have only one ball, confirming the suspicions of Brits who during WWII musically suggested the Führer was a 'nad short of a full lunchbox." - Grant Fitzgerald
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"X-Factor: Either Alexandra or Diana (assuming she recovers) should win. The former because she's got the best voice, the latter because she's got the most interesting voice: sometimes she lets out curious little peeps and whistles when she sings, as though she's accompanied by a baby bird randomly blowing air across the top of an empty milk bottle. Either that or there's something seriously wrong with my television. We'll know for sure when the priest gets here." - Grant Fitzgerald
"Tatler: Once I was safely out of sight, I gingerly opened the magazine and started reading. Three seconds later, I was furious. Before getting to the Little Black Book section, I'd alighted on an article about a "sexy Holland Park billionairess and her fabulous life". She was called Goga Ashkenazi, and she was pictured swathed in fur, diamonds dripping pendulously from her ears. She was clutching a miniature dog that looked like it'd been peeled; one of those scrawny upholstered canine skeleton-creatures with the facial tics of a tiny frightened bird. Given the alarming way these micro-dogs pant 5,000 times a second, I always think they're about to die, that their pea-sized hearts will suddenly burst like a popcorn kernel inside their mousey little ribcage." - Grant Fitzgerald
"A tale featuring Bail Organa, Shaak Ti, Mon Mothma, Kazdan Paratus, Rahm Kota, Obi-Wan Kenobi and a holo-transmission of Yoda, among others chatting about Anakin’s new role as Darth Vader and what to do with those twins." - Grant Fitzgerald
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The fact that Simon Pegg has a Myspace account is a little disappointing...come to the light side, young padawan...although his Star Wars dialogue is absolutely hilarious. Well worth a read. "YODA: 'Up shut!'" - Pete Delucchi
