So the latest big brother racism row hows kicked off the debate on double standards. Here's a nice article "Big Brother race row — Can only white people be racist?" 

So, this leads me to a discussion I had with a black friend regarding double standards regarding racism. Specifically, after watching the movie 'Whites Chicks', a comedy (I use the term loosely) about two disgraced male, black FBI agents that go undercover in an abduction case, disguised as the two spoiled white daughters of a tycoon. Both are disguised in full make-up.

So I asked her whether she'd consider it racist for a remake of the movie be made, called "Black Chicks". This version would have two disgraced male, white FBI agents that go undercover in an abduction case, disguised as the two spoiled black daughters of a tycoon. Again both would be disguised in full make-up.

She said she'd be okay with it if it were done tastefully.

So how do two white guys, in full make up, pretending to be black chicks do it tastefully? Are the boundaries different with a "Black Chicks" movie than the "White Chicks" movie?

Discuss.

Great idea if they can get the SMS text alerts out before the local cell phone network is flattened. Beep, Beep, "You're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy"

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So I have a PayPal account I use for occasional web purchases. Had it a while and it's been verified through their process of despositing a few pennies in to my bank account etc.

Two weeks ago I get an email from them, regarding a Prize Draw they're running. The email contained a list of their approved merchants. Big names such as Boots and Betfair. Everytime I buy something from one their aprroved merchants using my PayPal account, they will enter me into a prize draw to win £1000.

So my wife and I bought a bunch of goodies for our baby from Boots.com and opened up a Betfair account and dabbled at online blackjack. Two days later I get an email from PayPal telling me my account has been suspended due to the suspicious activity of my two recent purchases!

WTF. So they tell me to go spend with xyz merchant, then suspend me when I did. Wankers.

I'm not along though, read more at www.paypalsucks.com

A good friend forwarded me an email containing some of the most incredible pictures I've ever seen. I dare you not to say WOW out loud to at least 2 of these.

These are ALL chalk drawings on the path/sidewalk.

There's more. They just get better and better...

So mybloglog.com has been aquired for $10 million dollars by Yahoo. Well done boys. Nice one, we're all chasing that dream. But is this the begining of the end for mybloglog.com?

I'm not going to get tied up in the whole issue of big business acquiring a small time operation. All I know Is that I just tried using my account (see it here) and it ain't working as it should.

Come on fellas, I know what's it's like. You sell out and get distracted by the cash. I sold an internet business for more than $2 million, on a retained service, just a couple of years ago, I was too busy buying the Porsche, the house, the holidays and taking half days to notice that the product was slipping.

Keep it together or Yahoo will want their cash back.

"Big Brother is most unpredictable and exciting TV programme there is"

No, that's not my take of the biggest pile TV dog shit to have emerged in recent years. That's what James Kydd, Virgin Media's managing director of marketing said in a statement today, confirming that Virgin Media is the new sponsor of Big Brother.

Kydd said: "Big Brother has always come under the spotlight and courted a lot of attention.

"Virgin is known for facing challenges head on and we know that our customers enjoy Big Brother because it's the most unpredictable and exciting TV programme there is."

If he fucking serious? This from a guy who is responsible for marketing cable TV to millions of potential customers in the UK.

We're all screwed if this so-called 'industry player', has anything to do with our viewing.