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500 channels and nothing on? Well nothing, unless you drive an Audi.

I've learnt my lesson. I shouldn't have been channel-hopping between all those odd little channels just under the movies.

Because I found it there: The Audi Channel.

Nothing but Audi content on a low-bandwidth satellite channel. While media organisations like Future Publishing built their market position on niche magazines, it seems odd that there's market space for a manufacturer-run advertorial channel. Sure, sponsor a show or send a DVD out to the world in a mass-mail shot, but fill bandwidth with your own advertising? Has channel space on the Sky satellites suddenly got cheaper than a prime time advert? Or is this just going to be a short-lived PR stunt?

What will be next? The Wiskas Channel? The Cillit-Bang Channel? The All New Ocean Finance Loan Channel? The Yes Car Credit Channel?

I think I'm scaring myself...

...just not the way you might expect it.

How about an IDE cable belt, a naked CAT5 friendship bracelet, a capacitor necklace, or a MIDI plug keyring (male or female!).



I quite like the idea of the transistor ear studs

Poison frogs don't make their own poison - they have to get the poisonous alkaloids they secrete from a diet of alkaloid rich ants.

They examined the stomach contents of 21 frogs from the genus Mantella and found that alkaloid rich ants made up 67 percent of their food intake.

If you keep your own, they can be perfectly safe.

But they can’t make more without eating the right types of ants. Frogs kept in captivity and fed a steady diet of flies, for example, don’t secrete alkaloids.

From Live Science.

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