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Zavvi, the rebranded incarnation of the Virgin highstreet music shop has suspended most of its online sales after its supplier was hit by the collapse of Woolworths. Woolworths entered administration a few days ago, taking its DVD and music distribution arm, Entertainment UK Ltd, with it. Entertainment UK Ltd supplies Zavvi and WH Smith who [...]

Hanukkah 2008 begins at sundown on 21st December. It is an ancient festival which commemorates the re-dedication of the temple in Jerusalem after it was destroyed by Antiochus - a Syrian King. The Jews who rebuilt the temple lit a ceremonial candle (the Menorah) but didn’t have much oil. However, it miraculously kept burning for [...]

For a while there, we had it very good as bloggers and content producers: we could use YouTube to store our videos, and embed them in high quality on other websites.
On sites such as Remix.vg, we have been doing this for some time now, allowing visitors to find high quality remixes of their favourite popular [...]

Those of us who use CPA advertising in any form (AKA affiliate marketing) which is where advertisers are paid only on sales of those referred through banner and text links should be aware of the new Code of Best Practice that was established for the use of Online Voucher Codes by the Internet Advertising Bureau [...]

Many of us have them. Useless old notes stashed away in an attic, cupboard under the stairs or parents’ garage. But when the time comes, either because you are moving house or clearing a space, you don’t know what to do with your old notes and essays from yesteryear. It might be your GCSE artwork [...]

The Obama girls have been invited onto Hannah Montana, their favourite TV show, according to The Age. Hopefully they will also listen to Bananarama and watch Futurama while they’re at it.
The Hannah Montana film is coming out in April and there are rumours that the Obama girls may feature. However, Barack Obama strictly limits media [...]

We saw today on Paul O’Grady’s Channel 4 TV show (while Martin Clunes was on) a Dingo by the name of Dinky which sang songs to the piano.
After watching that, we thought we’d feature a video of that very same dingo, Dinky, here, on The World’s Greatest Blog as a little bit of light relief.
So [...]

Between 5th and 12th November this year, there will be more shooting stars than normal entering the Earth’s atmosphere. The annual Taurids meteor shower, first discovered in 1869, marks the time when the Earth passes through the dust trail of comet Encke. The stream of debris left behind is the largest in the inner solar [...]

Congratulations go to Barack Obama on being the first black president of the United States of America. 2008 will now go down in history as the year when America at last overcame the ghosts of its past. Despite being the champion of the free world, the USA has been frogleapt in the past by far [...]

Good Morning America!
Americans all over the world woke up today with the knowledge that their country is to be under the hands of new leadership.
And, despite what Tupac predicted, we now have a black president of the USA, perhaps largely as a result of George Bush being so right wing he liberalised America far more [...]