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Though he may not sport that rather capricious comb-over, it seems that the make-up savvy Napoleon Perdis and American business magnate Donald Trump may have a thing or two in common. The charismatic entrepeneur has recently signed up with the folks at Fox TV to star in his own reality show, Face On, in a move to win over the US cosmetics market. Rumour has it that the show will pit aspiring make-up artists against each other in a bid to uncover a new head of US operations for Perdis' iconic label. Sure, it's been done to death, but we bet it'll make for some addictive closet viewing nonetheless.

Have you ever found yourself draining the last of your mini champagne bottle, having just danced for 13 hours straight surrounded by sweaty masses of people and thought “Yeah, this is OK, but I wish it was contributing”.  Well it seems your prayers have been answered with a London club opening up with what I can only imagine is the first ever club to take advantage of piezoelectricity.  This natty little diagram explains it all really; energy from dancing moves the floor in such a way that electricity is generated and piped back into the venue.  Powering up to 60% of the building in this case.  The club is also using recycled water for its toilets and if patrons can prove they walked, cycled or caught public transport, their entry fee will be waived.  The whole venture is being backed by an outfit called Club4Climate; who’s other ambitions include a planned self sustained party island by 2010.  Just make sure to bring a change of clothes and some (carbon neutral) water.

After many years in the vault, lost footage, various public screenings, blood, sweat, tears
and laughter... I have finally uploaded my videos to Youtube.
I know it's blatant self promotion, but hey, they were made to be enjoyed and shared.!
So when you have a spare 10 minutes, log on to CHANNEL CK and smile.

The classy numbers you see above are "Heelarious" heels. Heels for babies. Here is a direct quote from the company website on how this important innovation came to be:

“Britta Bacon & Hayden Porter are childhood friends turned business partners. While Hayden was completely obsessed with high heels, Britta wasn't even sure if she owned a pair. On her way to her daughter Kayla's 4th birthday party, Britta was reminiscing about when Kayla was a baby and Hayden's shoe obsession crossed her mind. She thought to herself "That would have been hilarious if I could have brought Kayla to a party in high heels when she was a baby". It was at that moment that Heelarious was born”

Wow, see what they did there with the name?! Call me Miranda Devine but I would argue that any parent who finds hilarity in sticking their baby in leopard-print heels does not deserve to be a parent.

Like an ID mag editorial come to life, BBC's Class of 2008 showcases the cream of LDN's Shoreditch-dwelling, mad ligging, SuperSuper reading beautiful young hipsters. Centered around the current GF of Mark Ronson and - in my opinion one of the most gorgeous women in the world - model, Daisy Lowe, Class of 2008 follows her and five equally beautiful friends as they try to make it big in '08. Kesh Kumar is known world-wide as a stylist, fashion designer and DJ; Will blondelle sings in rock and roll band Blondelle and is also the on/off boyf of Daisy (with whom she did a rather saucy shoot for ID magazine not too long ago); Flash Louie is a DJ and narrator of the show; Portia Freeman is an up-and-coming model and the rather dim Daryl is a boxer-turned-model-turned aspiring actor. I know it all sounds rather shallow and Hills-like but, trust me, the characters are all just really sweet, aspirational and normal 20/21-year-olds. It's quite interesting to see these supposedly too-cool-for-school kids lugging clothing samples on the bus, checking MySpace pages at internet cafes, going to the pub and cooking dinner in their pokey Hoxton flats. You can watch all the episodes of Class of 2008 at the BBC website.

Don't you just how in certain mags they have a page on which a celebrity of some description spills forth the contents of their Chloe Bay bag so that we can see a pic of their boyf, a book they'll describe as "inspiring" and that they carry Lucas' paw paw ointment just like us? Well, I do anyway and now my handbag voyeurism is being enabled by this particular Flickr pool. Entitled "What's in Your Bag?" the pool encourages regular folk to upload a pic of their handbag/manbag surrounded by it's contents; thus allowing us a peek at what brand of sunglasses "Scarls17" wears or what flavour gum is chewed by "Miss Havok" (who, btw, appears to be whoring her handbags out like a celebrity pregnancy to a hag-rag). Seriously though, it's quite addicted browsing. And what would my hand bag show? Hmmm food crumbs, sachets of sugar, half a tube of moisturiser (the other half will be lining the bag itself), bus tickets....

I am an Apple fanboy. There. I said it. I’m not ashamed of it and I don’t try and hide it. I get a certain type of glee whenever a new Apple product is announced, my mind immediately thinking of ways to scrimp and save money so that I can be there, front of the queue when the latest and greatest products go on sale. Last night (technically 3am this morning) that
anticipation reached fever pitch with Apple announcing an update to one of their most successful gadgets ever, the iphone. Dubbed iphone 3G, it offers much needed 3G wireless capabilities (for faster internet browsing) and an in-built GPS (think facebook style applications that lets you not only communicate with friends instantaneously but also see where they are!) along with the usual ipod and email functions of the previous iteration. It will be available sometime next month on Optus and Vodafone (Telstra have yet to make an announcement) with Apple predicted to sell approximately 1 trillion phones before the year is out. Now if you will excuse me I’ve got a piggy bank to break open and a queue to join.