iRobot ConnectR

No, this is not a picture of a one-parent family clinging to their dog for protection from a scary hoovering robot. This is a promotional shot for iRobot's latest offering, the iRobot ConnectR.

Basically a wi-fi enabled webcam and microphone mounted on a motorised sled, it can be remotely maneuvered over the internet via a joystick.

I'm really, really not sure about this one. How difficult can it be to gather your family around a webcam? I mean, it doesn't even have a vacuum cleaner function.
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London, Lincoln, London 12-01-08

LONDON to LINCOLN
Who's That Girl - Eurythmics
Who Am I - Margaret Becker
Baby Blue '57 - Gene Vincent
When You Give It Away - Bruce Cockburn
Carolina in My Mind - James Taylor
Flexible Head - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The End - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Because Of Toledo - The Blue Nile
Reunited - Peaches & Herb
Jeannie's Diary - Eels
Out Of Sight - Them
Adios - Linda Ronstadt
Lone Rider - Flee-Reekers
I've Loved A Lot More Than I've Hurt - Montgomery Gentry
Not A Lot To Do - The Zutons
Danny Jo Doss - Riptones
Quit Your Low Down Ways - Bob Dylan
Pissed Off 2 A.M. - Alejandro Escovedo
how far we all come away - Phosphorescent
Intentional Heartache - Dwight Yoakam
Easter Parade - The Blue Nile
Hung Up - Madonna
It's A Love Thing - Whispers
Troubled Times - Fountains Of Wayne
Circus Games - The Skids
In The Box - Vigilantes Of Love
Punky's Dilemma - Simon & Garfunkel
My Lady Story - Anthony Johnson
Dusk: A Peach In The Orchard - Eels
Go Revolutions - Gogol Bordello
So Jealous - Tegan and Sara
Panther Dash - The Go! Team
Rip Her To Shreds (live) - Blondie
Tomorrow Never Knows - Jason Mcniff
Who's Afraid Of Thomas Wolfe? - Josh Joplin Group
1974 - Amy Grant
Two Lights In The Nightime - Bonnie Raitt
High Summer - Van Morrison
Evil Ways - Riptones
Alanson, Crooked River - Sufjan Stevens
Picture of the moon - Gary Moore
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Elton John
Unveiled Faces - Sarah Masen
Natch - Cornershop
The Longest Time - Billy Joel
Celebration Guns - Stars

LINCOLN to LONDON
You can do magic - America
Toxic Milkshake - Kelis vs. Britney Spears
Boten Anna - Basshunter
Dizzy - Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff
Merry Christmas from the Family - Robert Earl Keen
I Should Get Up - Teddy Thompson
Hold On - KT Tunstall
Together In Electric Dreams (Ext) - Georgio Moroder & Phil Oakey
Someone To Call My Lover - Janet Jackson
Jacqueline - The Coral
Shame - Evelyn 'Champagne' King
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days
Islands In The Stream - Dolly Parton (with Kenny Rogers)
My White Bicycle - Nazareth
Stuck With You - Huey Lewis & The News
Right By Your Side - Eurythmics
Moving to New York - The Wombats
Jack and the Beanstalk - Children's Disco Musical Stories
Hum Hallelujah - Fall Out Boy
The Name Game - Shirley Ellis
I Can't Go Back To Savoury Now - John Shuttleworth
Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna
That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings
Love You To Death - Kill Hannah
There Is Nothing on My Mind (Pts 1 & 2) - The Teen Queens
The Tide Is High - Atomic Kitten
I'm in the mood for dancing - The Nolans
Some Kinda Rush (Edit) - Booty Luv
We're All Going to Die - Malcolm Middleton
Something's Gotta Give - LeAnn Rimes
Groove Is In The Heart - Dee Lite
Flux - Bloc Party
Dashboard - Modest Mouse
That Don't Impress Me Much (dance remix) - Shania Twain
Gay Idiot - Green Day vs. Electric Six
Lover - Devendra Banhart
I Need A Holiday - Scouting For Girls
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Bliss (I Don't Wanna Know) - Hinder
I Touch Myself (Soda Club Radio Mix) - m*a*s*h feat. Stacie D
Terra Firma (Album/Single Version) - The Young Knives
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Biggest plasma screen yet...

RegHardware reports: [edited]

Panasonic have demonstrated the world's largest HD plasma screen.

Its 150 inch display is composed of 4096 x 2160 pixels (more than four times the current hi-def specification of 1920 x 1080) in an area equivalent to nine conventional 50 inch plasma screens.

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Brett says: I wonder if this is Panasonic moving toward supporting the Super Hi Vision format? With approximately half the resolution of its 7,680 x 4,320 pixel specification, screens like this would be perfect for installing in pubs and clubs. And eventually as Blade Runner-style advertising hoardings.
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Room with a view

Wired reports: [edited]

Werner Aisslinger's 420 sq ft Loftcube is a singular creation, with a singular intent: It goes on an existing roof. It has tall windows and a certain retro look, perfect for taking over the world's rooftops.

"Imagine a place where your neighbours fly and windows are 360 degrees wide, a place where you can work, relax and share your life with your friends," the makers ask. And it's yours for $136,000, deposited in situ by helicopter.

Tata Nano launched

BBC reports: [edited]

Tata Motors has unveiled the world's cheapest motor car at India's biggest car show in the capital, Delhi. The vehicle, called the Tata Nano, will sell for 100,000 rupees (£1,277) and enable those in developing countries to move to four wheels.

The four-door five-seater car, which goes on sale later this year, has a 33bhp, 624cc, engine at the rear. It has no air conditioning, no electric windows and no power steering, but two deluxe models will be on offer.

Tata will initially make about 250,000 Nanos and expects eventual annual demand of one million cars. The Nano release comes as India's domestic car market is predicted to soar in the coming years on the back of the country's fast-growing economy and increased consumer wealth.

Indian car sales are predicted to more than quadruple to $145bn by 2016. Company chairman Ratan Tata said the launch of the Nano was a landmark in the history of transportation. He said the car was "a safe, affordable and all-weather transport - a people's car, designed to meet all safety standards and emissions laws and accessible to all".

Environmental critics have said that the car will lead to mounting air and pollution problems on India's already clogged roads.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3

In June 2006 I bought a Fuji Finepix F30. I was so impressed with it, that by August it had replaced my Sigma SD9 DSLR as my primary camera. Since then I have used it in a wide range of situations, including taking pack shots for commercial work.

In April 2007, I blogged about the release of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3. Its main feature was its impressive zoom range, the equivalent of 28-280mm on a digital SLR, squeezed into a 105 x 59 x 37mm, 232g body.

The thing I miss most about using my Sigma SD9 is the lack of zoom range, and in November I saw that the DMC-TZ3 was selling for under £200, so I bought myself an early Christmas present.

I'm very pleased with it. The low-light ability isn't quite as good as the Fuji F30, and there's no aperture or shutter priority mode. But the build quality is excellent, the ergonomics are good, the zoom lens' operation is smooth and fast and the 3" screen is superb.

Now I'm wondering how long it will be until they manage to squeeze the kind of low-light quality enjoyed by Canon EOS 40D owners into a more pocketable format.
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Fun hoodies

If you're going to be a 'hood-rat', you might as well do it in style.

As well as the Shark Bite model pictured Monster Hoodies also offer Dinosaurus Rex, Neko Gato and Monster Kun. No rats though.
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Sony still not understanding 'DRM-free'

Whatever reports: [edited]

"Sony BMG spokesperson: We’re pleased to announce we are the final major music corporation to release electronic tracks without that pesky DRM!

"All you have to do is leave your house, go to a selected retail outlet, buy a special card there, go back to your house, scratch off the back of the card to find a code, go to our special MusicPass Web site, enter said code, and download one the 37 titles we have available, from Celine Dion to the Backstreet Boys!"

The rest of the blog, featuring some suggested responses by its target audience makes amusing reading.
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What do you get if you cross a cow with a kangaroo?

The Age reports: [edited]

Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroo flatulence contains no methane. Scientists want to transfer that bacteria to cattle and sheep who emit large quantities of the harmful gas.

"Fourteen per cent of emissions from all sources in Australia is from enteric methane from cattle and sheep," said Athol Klieve, a senior research scientist with the Queensland Government.

"And if you look at another country such as New Zealand, which has got a much higher agricultural base, they're actually up around 50 per cent."

Researchers say the bacteria also makes the digestive process much more efficient and could potentially save millions of dollars in feed costs for farmers and graziers.

Even farmers who laugh at the idea of environmentally friendly kangaroo farts say that's nothing to joke about, particularly given the devastating drought Australia is suffering.

It will take researchers at least three years to isolate the bacteria, before they can even start to develop a way of transferring it to animals such as cattle and sheep.
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Logitech Z-2300 system

On the two occassions that I have braved the high street in the past 3 months, I was struck by the plethora of amplification systems available for digital music players.

Gift shops were selling them, clothes stores were selling them, coffee shops were selling them, even the oriental people who sit on the pavements selling counterfeit DVDs were selling them. So, when my eldest son decided he wanted an amplification system for his iPod, I knew I wasn't going to be starved for choice.

His main specifications were:

1. Loud
2. Lots of bass (i.e. loud)
3. Usable for a party (i.e. loud)
4. Should sound good

My main specifications were:

1. Should sound good
2. Should cost less than £100

This immediately levelled the playing field. Most of the systems are underpowered, with audio performance that makes musical greetings cards sound good.

After extensive web browsing, we decided on the Logitech Z-2300 system. Currently available from Amazon for less than £90 including delivery, it is a THX-approved system (a performance benchmark set up by George Lucas in 1983), rated at 200 watts RMS.

Two days later a large parcel arrived. The subwoofer (which also houses the amplifier) is a reassuringly solid thing, about a foot square. The satellites are also well-constructed. The volume controller is the usual silverised plastic, but it works well enough. It houses a headphone socket, which seems a little pointless.

Hooked up to the iPod's dock (don't use the headphone socket unless you have to, the sound quality is significantly reduced) via the supplied cable, the sound was very impressive. The subwoofer produces a lot of thump, and responds musically and accurately. The satellite speakers reproduce a wide range of music in a convincing and enjoyable style.

Oh, and it is loud.

For full specifications, visit the Logitech site.
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Sleep in a bottle

Wired reports: [edited]

In what sounds like a dream for millions of tired coffee drinkers, Darpa-funded scientists might have found a drug that will eliminate sleepiness.

A nasal spray containing a naturally occurring brain hormone called orexin A reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys, allowing them to perform like well-rested monkeys on cognitive tests.

The treatment is "a totally new route for increasing arousal, and the new study shows it to be relatively benign," said Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA and a co-author of the paper. "It reduces sleepiness without causing edginess."

The monkeys were deprived of sleep for 30 to 36 hours and then given either orexin A or a saline placebo before taking standard cognitive tests. The monkeys given orexin A in a nasal spray scored about the same as alert monkeys, while the saline-control group was severely impaired.

Siegel said that orexin A is unique in that it only had an impact on sleepy monkeys, not alert ones, and that it is "specific in reversing the effects of sleepiness" without other impacts on the brain.

Any commercial treatment using the substance would need approval from the Food and Drug Administration, which can take more than a decade.
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At last, a decent Dark Knight trailer

The Dark Knight Returns is (along with Sin City, 300 and Watchmen) one of my four favourite graphic novels. So the prospect of it being faithfully interpreted as a movie is an attractive one. Sin City was brilliantly interpreted. 300 was visually awesome. Watchmen is slated for a 2009 release, as it was in 2008, and 2007, and 2006...

The first Dark Knight trailer (No, no... don't click that link!) ranks (apt word) as one of the most disappointing trailers ever. So it was with some trepidation that I downloaded its successor.

To my delight, it is superb. Of course, it is only a couple of minutes long. But my gut-feeling is that the creators and actors of the film are 'getting it'.

Oh, and I want Batman's motorcycle parked alongside the Cloud Strife Fenrir that my kidz forgot to buy me for Christmas.

Warner dumps HD-DVD

RegHardware reports: [edited]

Warner Bros is abandoning Toshiba's HD-DVD format to settle down in monogamous bliss with Sony's Blu-ray. The company today cited 'consumer demand' for its decision to stop selling HD-DVD-format movie titles at the end of May. It is the only movie major to sell high-definition DVDs in both formats, but has already tired of playing the field.

Kevin Tsujihara, president of Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group, said, "Consumers have clearly chosen Blu-ray".
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Images of 2007

The New York Times has published an excellent web gallery titled '2007 - The Year in Pictures'.

The quality of the images is excellent, and any site that features Chicken Dance Elmo dolls is OK with me.
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Most played songs of 2007

Selected from songs released in 2007. In descending order by play count.

I Can't Go Back To Savoury Now - John Shuttleworth
Heavyweight Champion of the World - Reverend and the Makers
Oh Creole - The Rumble Strips
Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady
Louie - Ida Maria
Valerie - Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse
She's Got You High - Mumm-Ra
The Monkeys Are Breaking Out The Zoo - Belle & Sebastian
Saturday Superhouse - Biffy Clyro
Take Me - Candie Payne
Men's Needs (single) - The Cribs
Spit At Stars - Jack Peñate
Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
Shoot the Runner - Kasabian
Whoo! Alright - Yeah... Uh Huh. - The Rapture
Picture to Burn - Taylor Swift
Backfire At the Disco - The Wombats
Charlotte - Air Traffic
Girlfriend (profanity) - Avril Lavigne
Cease and Desist - Brakes
Mathematics - Cherry Ghost
Thou shalt always kill - dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip
Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat) - The Detroit Cobras
We're Not Alone - Dinosaur Jr.
Boulevard of Broken Songs - Greenday vs Oasis vs Travis
I Wish That I Could See You Soon - Herman Düne
Chillout Tent - The Hold Steady
Boney Was A Warrior - Jack Shit
Wonderful World - James Morrison
Golden Skans - Klaxons
North American Scum (Radio Edit) - LCD Soundsystem
Skinny (Radio Edit) - Lo Rider
West - Lucinda Williams
Take A Chance - The Magic Numbers
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - Manic Street Preachers
Toxic (Radio Edit) - Mark Ronson
Our Velocity - Maximo Park
Hip Hop Is Dead - Nas
Ice Cream - New Young Pony Club
The Way You Move (Radio Mix) - OutKast & Sleepy Brown
I'm Not Sorry (Single Version) - The Pigeon Detectives
We Danced Together (single) - The Rakes
Fidelity - Regina Spektor
On The Radio - Regina Spektor
Alarm Clock - The Rumble Strips
Australia - The Shins
Patience - Take That
Cheer It On - Tokyo Police Club
Wide Awake - The Twang
Same Jeans - The View
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse featuring Ghostface Killah
The Prayer - Bloc Party
When You Wasn't Famous - Bromheads Jacket
Amylase - Cajun Dance Party
Off the Hook - CSS
Idealistic (Radio Edit) - Digitalism
1234 - Feist
War of the Worlds (New Version) - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Herculean - The Good The Bad And The Queen
Touchdown Turnaround (Don't Give Up On Me) - Hellogoodbye
Foundations - Kate Nash
La la Song - The Kissaway Trail
Well, Love Does Furnish a Life - Larrikin Love
Girls Who Play Guitars - Maximo Park
Real Girl - Mutya Buena
Just a Song About Ping Pong - Operator Please
He Said He Loved Me - Reverend and the Makers
Lady's Bridge - Richard Hawley
Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley
This Joy - Stephanie Dosen
Starlett Johansson - The Teenagers
Shake It Shake It - Thomas Tantrum
Icky Thump - The White Stripes
We Can Be Strong - Willy Mason
Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
Delivery - Babyshambles
Prescilla - Bat for Lashes
Flux - Bloc Party
I Like the Way (Radio Edit) - Bodyrockers
One More Chance - Candie Payne
I Don't Want to Play House Anymore - Carrie Rodriguez
Jacqueline - The Coral
Pony Ride - The Crash
Our Bovine Public - The Cribs
Lover - Devendra Banhart
Put A Penny In The Slot - Fionn Regan
Long Road to Ruin - Foo Fighters
Doing It Right - The Go! Team
Song 4 Mutya - Groove Armada Ft. Mutya
Back When You Were Good - The Hours
The Box - Johnny Flynn
Highway 61 Revisited - Karen O & The Million Dollar Bashers
Talk of the Town - Kate Walsh
Crazy Angel - Kill Hannah
Giddy Stratospheres - The Long Blondes
We're All Going to Die - Malcolm Middleton
The Scaffolder's Wife - Mark Knopfler
Dashboard - Modest Mouse
Take Her Back - The Pigeon Detectives
Dead Sound - The Raveonettes
Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna
The Underdog - Spoon
Run-Away - Super Furry Animals
Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days
How The West Was Won - Tom McRae
Mansard Roof - Vampire Weekend
On My Own - Vincent Vincent & The Villains
Moving to New York - The Wombats
Terra Firma (Album/Single Version) - The Young Knives
Let's Start A Band - Amy MacDonald
Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
Happy Slap - Ashok
23 - Blonde Redhead
Four Winds - Bright Eyes
Hurricane Glass - Catherine Feeny
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) - The Decemberists
Queen Of The Lake - Deerhoof
Candylion - Gruff Rhys
Worst Case Scenario - The Hoosiers
Cowardly Custard - King Creosote
Knocked Up - Kings Of Leon
Hold On - KT Tunstall
Modern Love - The Last Town Chorus
Don't Lose Yourself - Laura Veirs
What? What You Got? - Little Man Tate
What Did I Do? - Lord Large
Save Me - Lou Rhodes
Weight Of The World - Martyn Joseph
This Little Light Of Mine - Mavis Staples
Squalor Victoria - The National
If A Song Could Be President - Over The Rhine
Musical Chairs - The Panda Band
I'm Getting Ready - Patty Griffin
Daddy's Old Sayins, Mama's Beliefs - Porter Wagoner
Merry Christmas from the Family - Robert Earl Keen
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Ixtapa - Rodrigo y Gabriela
Winter - The Rolling Stones
Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. - Ryan Adams
Tits & Acid - Simian Mobile Disco
That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings
NBPD Theme - Ugress
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Hello Kitty contact lenses

JennyChoo "loves everything Hello Kitty, including these freakish Hello Kitty contacts. You probably won't even notice at first, but a closer look will reveal the inner kitty in front of you. Do you dare to look at Hello Kitty's eyes?"

Jennychoo is from Florida.

The really terrifying thing is that I know at least two people who would love a pair.
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Tangled cables – they really do 'just happen'

Science News reports: [edited]

Call it Murphy's Law of knots: If something can get tangled up, it will. "Anything that's long and flexible seems to somehow end up knotted," says Andrew Belmonte, an applied mathematician at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Belmonte has plenty of alarming anecdotal evidence. "It certainly happens in my house, with the cords of the venetian blind."

But the knot scourge is a global one, as anyone who owns a desktop computer can confirm after peeking at the mess of connection cables and power cords behind the desk.

Now, scientists think they may have found out how and why things find their way into knotty arrangements. By tumbling a string of rope inside a box, biophysicists Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith have discovered that knots — even complex knots — form surprisingly fast and often. The string first coils up, and then its free ends swivel around the other coils, tracing a random path among them. That essentially makes the coils into a braid, producing knots, the scientists say.

Raymer's interest in knots began as an answer waiting for a question. Two years ago, he was an undergraduate student working in Smith's lab at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Raymer fancied taking a class about the abstract theory of knots, offered by UCSD's math department. Smith told him that he should take it only if he could find a practical use for it — some kind of knot experiment.

Raymer never took the class, but he and Smith did come up with a simple idea for an experiment. They put a string in a cubic container the size of a box of tissue. By tumbling the box 10 times "like a laundry dryer," as Raymer puts it, the researchers hoped to observe knots forming spontaneously on occasion. They didn't have to wait for long: Knots formed right away.
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iPhysics

Some nice ideas making use of the iPhone's motion detector.
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Super Mario Galaxy

One of my kidz Christmas presents was the third Mario 3D platformer (after Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine). The game takes Mario on a quest to save the ever-needy Princess Peach from the ever-evil Bowser.

It is one of the few games to have received a '10' score from Edge magazine (the others are Super Mario 64, Gran Turismo, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Halo: Combat Evolved, Half-Life 2, Halo 3 and The Orange Box).

The game is a delight to watch (I'm not allowed to play the games, cos I'm far too rubbish), with Mario scuttling around a series of mini planets, fighting a wide range of weird enemies.

As I observed Brook working his way from planet to planet, I was once again struck by the uniqueness of the Nintendo gameplay, the way it transports you into a world that is 'other', in a similar way to which Tolkien, Lewis and Pullman do with their narratives.

Where games like Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare are copying reality, Super Mario Galaxy takes you into an Escherian super-reality, providing excitement, intrigue and fun without the usual gore quotient.
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London-Somerset-London, 27-30 Dec 2008

Bathtime In Clerkenwell - (The Real) Tuesday Weld
Jerk It Out - Caesars
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day - Wizzard
Take Her Back - The Pigeon Detectives
Touchdown Turnaround (Don't Give Up On Me) - Hellogoodbye
I Want To Be Your Boyfriend - Rubinoos
Believe (rhythm promo) - Cher
Jeepers Creepers - The Puppini Sisters
Hey Ya - Outkast
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Won't Let You Down - PhD
Louie - Ida Maria
Knock On Wood - Amy Stewart
Cinnamon - The Long Winters
Lazy guy - Slobberbone
Sunday Morning After - Amanda Marshall
Build Me Up Buttercup - Foundations
I wanna be sedated (Ramones cover) - The Offspring
Dude looks like a lady - Aerosmith
For America - '87 - Red Box
Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
Bing Bang - Lazy Town
Afternoons And Coffeespoons - Crash Test Dummies
Cotton Eye Joe (remix) - Rednex
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Smoke From A Distant Fire - Sanford Townsend Band
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, Please - Splodgenessabounds
Murder on the dance floor - Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Baby, Now that I've Found You - Foundations
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
The Christians And The Pagans - Dar Williams
Hey Mickey - Toni Basil
When You Are A King - White Plains
Oh Lori - Alessi brothers
Too good to be forgotten - Amazulu
Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Andy Williams
Marilyn Monroe - Santa Baby
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Crying at the discotheque - Alcazar
Girl All the Bad Guys Want - Bowling for Soup
I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis
Pop Goes The World - Men without Hats
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle of the Road
Magic - Pilot
She's So High - Tal Bachman
One More Night - Yellow Dog
Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan
Centerfold - J. Geils Band
Crush (new) - Jennifer Paige
Do You Believe In Magic - Lovin' Spoonful
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Zambesi - Piranhas
Wombling Merry Christmas - The Wombles
Feuer Frei - Rammstein
Daddy's Girl - Red Sovine
Frankie - Sister Sledge
Nellie the elephant - Toy Dolls
Come Back My Love - The Wrens
Alisha Rules The World - Alisha's Attic
Shang-A-Lang - Bay City Rollers
Rasputin - Boney M
Metarie - Brendan Benson
Are You Ready for Love - Elton John
Hey Whatever - Westlife
welsh-potato - Lee Mack, Edinburgh Fringe 2006
bum-look-big - Lee Mack, Edinburgh Fringe 2006
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
It's Getting Better - Mama Cass Elliot
I Can't Wait (extended) - Nu Shooz
Secret Smile - Semisonic
Yes Sir I Can Boogie - Baccara
The Ketchup Song (Asereje) - Las Ketchup
I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance
Hey There Georgie Girl - New Seekers
Don't Start Me Down - Pink vs. ELO
Bread and Butter - NewBeats
Resurrection - PPK
(I Hate) Everything about you - Ugly Kid Joe
Take On Me (techno remix) - a-ha
Japanese Boy - Aneka
I Dunno If That Milkshake Is Worth 5 Dollars - Cameo vs. Kelis
Sk8r Boy - Avril Lavigne
Robert De Niro's Waiting - Bananarama
Rollin' (Ballad of Big and Rich) - Big & Rich
The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang
You Spin Me Round (like a record) (ext) - Dead Or Alive
Dragostea din tei (Mai Ai Hii) - O-Zone
Leader of the Pack - Shangri-Las
Let Me Be In the Mood - Eminem vs. Glen Miller
Help Yourself - Tom Jones
Good Looking Woman - Joe Dolan
Good Weekend - Art Brut
Everytime We Touch - Cascada
D.I.S.C.O. - Ottawan
Sign Of The Times - Belle Stars
Kitty In The Basket - Diana Dekker
Mary's Boy Child - Boney M
He Said He Loved Me - Reverend and the Makers
I Like the Way (Radio Edit) - Bodyrockers
All Through The Night - Cyndi Lauper
Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
Just a Song About Ping Pong - Operator Please
Downtown - Petula Clark
It's Not Over Yet - Grace
Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney & Wings
Calling You - Blue October
Don't Call Me Song 2 - Blur vs. Madison Avenue
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone - Paula Cole
Tropical-Iceland - The Fiery Furnaces
B.A.B.Y - Rachel Sweet
Happy Slap - Ashok
It's Not Over Yet - Klaxons
Are You Gonna Be My Animal - Jet vs. The Muppets
Jolene - Strawberry Switchblade
You Talk - Babyshambles
Christmas Countdown (The Twelve Days Of Christmas) - Frank Kelly
iPod Xmas - Hello Saferide
Away in a Manger - Hyperbubble
Oi To The World - The Vandals
2000 Miles - Pretenders
Brother Louie - Modern Talking
Sandstorm (Italian DDR Poison remix) - Darude
We Wish You A Merry Christmas - John Denver & The Muppets
Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) - The Darkness
Gonna Make Betty Sweat - Ram Jam vs. C&C Music Factory
Six white boomers - Rolf Harris
Little Town - Cliff Richard
Step Into Christmas - Elton John
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Hooked on a Feeling (Ooga Chucka) - Rusted Root
Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets Girl
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