31/5/01 - The worst lyrics in pop.  This would get my vote:

"I like to singy singy singy / Like a bird on the wingy wingy wingy." Madonna, Impressive Instant

"Bring the multinational drugs and health supply companies, as well as private health companies such as BUPA, into public ownership."

30/5/01 - Another great election game. [warning: requires Flash]

30/5/01 - The US sport of mailbox baseball. (via Spike Report)

"To walk down the driveway and discover one's box crushed and canted, its door lying in the road ten yards away, produces complicated feelings of despair and vengefulness. At that moment an aggrieved homeowner understands, in a small way, how Margaret Thatcher must have felt when the Argentines occupied the Falkland Islands."

30/5/01 - A brand new interview with Jarvis Cocker.

30/5/01 - The only Michelin-starred restaurant in Sheffield, The Old Vicarage.

24/5/01 - Police aim to cut violence by encouraging all those late night discussions that made the first year at university so great: 

"Police are organising for the theme tunes to children's TV shows to be played to revellers leaving pubs and clubs to prevent fights."

"A veteran peace activist was yesterday found guilty of distressing several American airmen by waving and standing on a defaced Stars and Stripes flag."

24/5/01 - Chickens that play 'Tic Tac Toe' (noughts and crosses, for us Brits). Well they would have until they were stolen: 

24/5/01 - Do you have a story about Low? Then this is for you: 

"So if you or someone you know is a Low-head, Gartman asks that you or that someone contact him at pushpinmusic@hotmail.com. He says you can share your particular Low experience-- like that time you stole Zak Sally's half-finished latte and took a sip-- any way you like: on camera, over the phone, self-recorded footage. As long as you're talking about the band."

20/5/01 - Pulp are back. 

20/5/01 - From the Independent caption competition: 

Another Prescott punching game. 

19/5/01 - 'American Gothic' rendered in jelly beans! (via Pop Culture Junk Mail) 

19/5/01 - Another oppressed minority? 

"Blonde Legal Defense Club - Our Mission: To stop the widespread belief that blondes are dumb and incapable. To destroy blonde stereotypes and publicize blonde accomplishments throughout history, dispelling the myths and mistakes about blondes, both natural and chemically created. To ultimately make sure hair color isn't a factor in any work or social environments."

"JULIA Roberts is being lined up to play the part of ‘Bakewell Tart’ murder victim Wendy Sewell, in a multi-million pound Hollywood movie of the affair."

"Ladbrokes are giving 50-1 odds that Prescott will fight former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, 33-1 that he will battle with the formidable shadow home secretary, Anne Widdecombe..."

19/5/01 - The dates for Neil Gaiman book signings in the UK. (via UNPOPULAR.com) 

19/5/01 - Excellent slideshow article on the decline in fashion photography: 

19/5/01 - Tattooed pigs! (via metascene) 

19/5/01 - The evils of tea (and the virtues of beer): 

"Put it to the test with a lean hog: give him the fifteen bushels of malt and he will repay you in ten score of bacon or thereabouts. But give him the 730 tea messes, or rather begin to give them to him, and give him nothing else, and he is dead from hunger, and bequeaths you his skeleton, at the end of about seven days."