Get your £3 off at Blackstar voucher at Tiscali, and then order it here Blackstar: £3.99-£3.00=99p!
Have just ordered and it seemed to go through fine.

All we need now is somewhere to practice holding a conversation without making an arse of yourself, and climbing the stairs without making a noise - Practice Being Drunk

Since the last post, Prince Charles has denied the allegations that have yet to be published. He says that the man making the allegation, presumably George Smith, is a depressed former alcoholic, and that 'the allegation is entirely untrue'. The man doth protest too much, methinks.

--UPDATE-- I'm getting a lot of people ending up here from search engines who are presumably trying to find out exactly what was supposed to have happened. I'm not going to put it here because I don't fancy being sued, but you can find the exact details here The Straits Times.

I must be very naive - even after the Guardian won its right to name Michael Fawcett, I still had no idea what the story he was trying to surpress was. Then I found this, which seems to confirm what people are saying on alt.gossip.royalty. Well, well - I wonder if we'll miss a step in the line of succession.

After boring us all by sitting in a box for 44 days, David Blaine has announced his next stunt will be the Dive of Death - jumping hundreds of feet from a helicopter into a river. Apparently 'only a few had survived the jump', so let's hope that record continues. Take that how you will.

One of the most linked to pages at the moment is of a guy on ebay, thedrunkensailor, who sold a box full of Beanie Babies. His story was that his ex-wife had left them behind when she moved out, that he knew nothing about them, and that he didn't care if he only got $10 for them; the winning bid was $860. Since the original auction he's gone on to sell 'Buy the Drunken Sailor a Frost Mug' certificates of appreciation, and even has his own website.

To be fair to the guy he never claimed that the Beanie Babies were all originals, but some people were having none of it and reported him to ebay and The Trader List. Their complaints were dismissed, but it seems they might have been right after all.

In an interview with thedrunkensailor, Florida news site Sun-Sentinel is reporting that the ex-wife story was made up after all. He is actually 32 year old, happily married, Steve Kay. His wife and him had picked up the Beanie Babies over a number of years and found them when they were packing to move house. So, not quite the honest bloke he's made himself out to be then.

It's unfair to say that he is a crook who was deliberately set out to con people, but probably as equally unfair for him to say that he had no idea of their value - the guy is a regular ebay user. Whichever, it was a pretty clever way to sell a box of stuffed toys.