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Odds and Sods

Apple surrenders the Pink (to Microsoft)

Zune pilfers famous codename

Bootnotes 3 Oct 23:33

Commentard completely loses the plot

FoTW Weighs into Reg readers, fists flying

Bootnotes 3 Oct 15:14

Virgin rejects $1m space sex offer

No grumble flick shoot aboard SpaceShipTwo

Bootnotes 3 Oct 11:53

Revealed: How Street View marks its territory

Google cocks its leg on South London fence

Bootnotes 3 Oct 11:24

BOFH: The Mandelboat virus

Episode 32 A handy excuse

BOFH 3 Oct 10:52

Artist to smoke Cobain's ashes

Smells like... hey, is anyone else hungry?

Bootnotes 3 Oct 10:41

Thomas Crown blagger recruits decoy dupes on internet

Identi-dress Craigslist flashmob caper foils plods

Bootnotes 3 Oct 09:46

Fossett aircraft contains 'minimal' human remains

But enough to provide a DNA sample

Bootnotes 3 Oct 09:11

Catholic priests cane YouTube over blasphemous vids

Video hosting site slated for host slating videos

Bootnotes 2 Oct 14:55

Crashed aircraft is Fossett's, authorities confirm

Updated 'Number plate' identifies adventurer's Bellanca Super Decathalon

Bootnotes 2 Oct 10:08

Interwebs page channels Palin twaddle

Artificial intelligence ineptitude

Bootnotes 2 Oct 04:55

Postman Pat goes postal

Kids' classic gets high-octane makeover

Entertainment 1 Oct 11:53

Full-size Roman siege artillery offered on eBay

Ideal for seeing off local Vandals. Or Goths

Bootnotes 1 Oct 09:14

MS apps division architect to be fired into space, again

Forgot his hat, or something...

Bootnotes 30 Sep 23:59

Meat Loaf gets Q gong

Fat old man continues to flog dead Bat

Entertainment 30 Sep 10:59

Germans give peeking Google one in the eye

Schleswig-Holstein's answer is NEIN!

Bootnotes 30 Sep 10:10

Mayor Boris serves Governator cold revenge

'Schwarzenegger is a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg'

Bootnotes 29 Sep 22:58

Reg competition: Cisco goes isup

Can you solve the mystery of the lost leer?

Bootnotes 29 Sep 18:47

Frenchman's pedalo dirigible Channel attempt blown out

Gentle headwinds foil blimp bicyclist

Bootnotes 29 Sep 12:48

Damien Hirst buys Paris porn collage

Brit artist circle jerk

Bootnotes 26 Sep 18:45

Revealed: Street View's UK invasion schedule

Britain to fall within a year, Orwellian Opel driver log shows

Bootnotes 26 Sep 13:02

Tw*tdangler defends Benito Mussolini stunt

Didn't want to p*ss on fans...

Bootnotes 26 Sep 12:50

Right: Which one of you lot invented 'tw*tdangle', eh?

Lingo police want your biometrics, and sharpish

Bootnotes 26 Sep 09:29

David Blaine tw*tdangle ends in controversy

'I am totally unimpressed', huffs duped New Yorker

Entertainment 25 Sep 11:27

US financial meltdown hits canine thesps hard

Crisis bites Broadway Chihuahua

Bootnotes 25 Sep 10:10

Godfather dons 'best ever film' mantle

Where did all the foreign films go?

Entertainment 25 Sep 08:49

Gay sheep romp turns Tyneside blue

Farmer unaware of ovine boy-on-boy

Bootnotes 25 Sep 08:02

Coming soon: Spider-Man - The Musical!

Peter Parker in eight-legged theatrical extravaganza

Entertainment 24 Sep 12:37

Daily Mail hacks get emergency bird flu jabs

Swan-roasting Albanian H5N1 threat: What every parent should know

Bootnotes 24 Sep 11:00

Oz woman held hostage by pugnacious porker

Authorities move to contain 80kg porcine menace

Bootnotes 24 Sep 10:12

Amanda Donohoe rides into Emmerdale

Not like Lady Godiva, we sincerely hope

Entertainment 23 Sep 14:27

David Blaine does a Benito Mussolini

Hanging upside-down, albeit alive

Entertainment 23 Sep 13:10

Sacked Indian workers beat chief exec to death

Industrial relations, Uttar Pradesh style

Bootnotes 23 Sep 12:18

Dell bundles free fresh air with PC

No anti-virus protection included in price - unless you're Spanish

Reg Hardware 23 Sep 09:56

Hammer Films has risen from the grave

First horror production in 30 years

Entertainment 22 Sep 14:19

MI6 agent's moustache falls off during TV interview

Wicket sticky, stiff upper lip less so

Bootnotes 22 Sep 10:21

Today be talk like a pirate day

Avast, ye scurvy sons o' the IT strumpet

Bootnotes 19 Sep 16:00

Stob latest: IEEE flags dodgy paper

Cleaning up after peer review

Verity Stob 19 Sep 14:15

Dell offers XP option for £44k

Avoid Vista - at any price

Bootnotes 19 Sep 12:04

Noel Edmonds defies BBC's jackbooted enforcers

Cancels TV licence - or does he?

Entertainment 19 Sep 11:45

BOFH: Remote access malarkey

Episode 31 Don't mark yourself as a target

BOFH 19 Sep 11:02

EU slaughterhouses may get animal welfare officers

'Feeling ok? Any last requests?'

Bootnotes 19 Sep 10:35

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