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We are pleased to announce the launch of Kate Beatty’s web site. Kate is an award winning Birmingham based photographer who has developed some outstanding personal projects as well as working on impressive commercial commissions.

She is also a great friend! see her new web site www.kate-beatty.co.uk

Selly Sausage was Substrakt’s very first client, we developed a web site for them 2 years ago. We have just updated Selly Sausage’s web site with a new style and a content management system, as they are now hosting events so needed the ability to keep a what’s on page regularly updated.

www.sellysausage.co.uk

A friend linked me to this the other day.

If you’re like me (with not the most photogenic of faces), I’d hope that the end user has some control over which images are automatically uploaded, as I wouldn’t be too pleased if some of the unsavory candid snaps that appear on my camera, especially after a night out, magically appear on my facebook profile for all to see.

Other than this, I’m amazed at how what was once a expensive commodity can now fit inside a device 1mm thick.

With regards to my last post…I would like to admit muppetry on my part with both hands held high! Forget-me-not-panties is infact a hoax (which I’m sure many of you already knew).

It is just one of the project campaigns by The Pantyraiders, which include Plastic Assets, Christians against Hip-Hop and Goodbye Bitch.

Well hats off to you ladies…yet another one to add to the fooled millions!

www.pantyraiders.org

On a more serious note, and this one’s for real…

A fish at a Scottish museum has undergone surgery after visitors complained it was too ugly.
A harmless but unsightly growth was removed from the goldfish, which was on show at the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 
The operation was paid for using coins thrown into the fish pond atthe popular visitor attraction. A spokeswoman for the museum would not say how many complaints had been made about the fish. 
Scientists decided to remove the unsightly growth after people expressed concern. The lump, which did not seem to distress the fish in any way, was removed along with one of its eyes.

As reported on BBC News online.

I was browsing the interweb and happened to chance upon this extraordinary website, advertising a highly advanced piece of technology, the “forget-me-not panties” (yes American).
Here’s a testimonial as featured on the site:

David:
“When my daughter hit puberty I nearly had a heart attack. She started looking like a woman and suddenly she was wearing revealing clothing and staying out late with her friends.

Rather than become an over-protective parent , I decided to try forget-me-not panties™.

They work wonderfully. My wife and I bought our Sarah several pairs so we can watch her around the clock, and if we see her temperature rising too high, we intervene by calling her cellphone or just picking her up wherever she is. My only comment is it would be great to have a video camera, maybe you can work that into V.2.

Thanks forget-me-not panties™, now we have true peace of mind.”

Highly disturbing more like.

www.forgetmenotpanties.com

“Forget about colour swatches, colour swatch mugs are the way forward. A quick and easy way to brighten the kitchen or the office.”

By W2 sold at Urban Outfitters.

£10 for a pretty bog-standard mug, but it sure screams ‘esoteric design geek-chic’ when suggestively placed on your coffee table.