The internet once again proves its time-wasting worth with me with sidetaker.com. Think of the first thing you do upon breaking up with your boyfriend (and by the first thing I mean after the crying, requisite messy night out and attempt at getting back together)? You argue to anyone that will listen about how you were essentially the perfect girlfriend and they were just a lazy, commitment-phobic cad or whatever. Now, replace "friends" with "the entire computer-using population" and you get the he said/she said gist of Sidetaker. Here's one gem of an example:
He says
"Straight to the point...my girlfriend is jealous of me watching porn. She hates the fact that I get off on strangers.
I can't really write more cos I don't get her problem. I'm not with someone else!!! WTF!?!"

She says:
"All the girls I know hate it too. It's like 1 step away from cheating. If he's looking at girls in the porn, then he's obviously doing the same when he's out.
I refuse to do the things that get him off from the porn. I won't watch it with him cos it's gross. I just think its wrong for him to want to watch porn instead of be with me. I mean, I don't always want it when he does but does he really need to watch strangers? Can't he just think of me?"

Readers can decide who's at fault in these sort of situations via comment posts. Such addictive, and wrong, reading.

From this Thursday, the omnipotent Oxford Art Factory will spread a little further up Oxford Street; taking over an empty shopfront for 17 days as part of the City of Sydney Art & About Festival. Nicknamed Little OAFY, the space will host all sorts of stuff - including performance art, video art, installations and music from the likes of the China Heights boys, Exquiosite Corpse and the Sydney Underground film Festival. If the above poster is to believed we can also expect pigs heads, chocolate and – as Sydney-siders have come to expect from their art openings – free booze. Those OAF folk sure know their demog. Little OAFY opens this Thursday at 7pm.

The amount of ink spilt over the current slump in the economy may have many of us   crying "bread line" but in reality, having to cut back on a few luxuries is nothing compared to the poverty faced by millions around the world. A group of 300 university students from around Australia, NZ, the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea are this month coming together to illustrate this point and push for Australia to play a bigger part in eradicating extreme poverty. The Intervarsity Summit On Australia's Role in Ending Extreme Poverty (ISAREEP' 08) coincides with National Anti- Poverty Week and encompasses a number of events, talks and debates. One of the highlights of the summit is the Big Night Out; held on Saturday, October 11 at Sydney's UTS, this party-with-a-cause is hosted by The Chaser's Chris Taylor and will feature yummy food and drink, good conversation, entertainment, an auction and raffles. Tickets for the event are $140 or $120 for students, with all proceeds going to the 40K Home Foundation to assist in completing their mammoth housing project in Bangalore, India. To purchase tickets or foind out more about ISAREEP, head to the website.

Hot off their support slot with Supergrass, Sydney's Cloud control are set to headline their own National tour. The tour is in the name of fantastic new single Death Cloud; a catchy summer-ready number that's all angular bass and lilting harmonies. I likey. The tour kicks off next Friday, October 10 at Sydney's Hoptoun Hotel before the band head back home to the Blue Mountains and onward to Melbourne and Brisbane. Head to Cloud Control's Myspace page to hear Death Cloud and peep the tour details.

Best known for their denim and fashion, fashion mavericks Diesel bring their signature sexy styling to the world of scent with Fuel for Life. Combining star anis, vintage raspberry and heliotrope for him and blackcurrant, jasmine and patchouli for her, the fragrances are pretty much the olfactory equivalent of skin-tight denim and red-hot lust. The packaging has also got it going on -  the men’s bottle is wrapped in a leather and the girls’ sleeved in lovely lace (you know I love me some L&L). Check out Fuel for Life at www.diesel-fragrances.com.au

Another day, another festival announcement - yes it really is that time of the year already. Today's line-up is brought to you by the good folks behind Good Vibrations and includes names such as Norman Cook (aka, Fatboy slim), The Presets, WALE (check his mixtapes, they are gooooood), The Roots, Sam Sparro, Roni Size (that one brings back some memories), Chromeo, Kid Kenobi and heaps of others who I haven't heard of 'coz I'm not really down with that dancing music what the kids are all into. You can see for yourself here though. Tix go on sale October 13 from 9.am.

If you didn't pick up already, I am a MASSIVE Biggy fan girl. So you can understand how excited/nervous I am about this biographical fim. Man I hope it's good.