Top tip for UK iTunes users

There's an offer available from the iTunes site until 28 September - send a text message (which for most people is at their standard rate, ie. costing roughly 10p) and you receive a voucher code for a free track from online music store iTunes, which normally cost 79p or 99p.

How? Text one of the following words - ROCK, POP, LIVE, or ITUNES to 85100, and you'll get a message back with a code. Log into the iTunes store, go to buy a music track and you'll have the option to enter a discount code. Pop the code you were sent in there, and the track will be free. You have until September 30 to use the voucher.
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Home birth safety

The midwife is stuck in traffic! Here's a recording of a 999 call made by a very calm man at home with his wife who is about to give birth. (Is it me or does the woman on the phone sound a bit like Big Brother's Jade Goody?

Related: health, pregnancy

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Mashup of the Day!

PriceCutReview.com got awarded Mashup of the Day today at ProgrammableWeb.com. Thanks a lot!

Spore release date set. Pre order it!

Spore, one of the most eagerly awaited video games in recent years is now available for pre-order in UK and US! So I jumped the gun a while back saying that the Spore release date was in Dec 2007... Hopefully this makes up for it a bit.

Tags: Spore, game

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Argentina pummel France at home

The sound of booing from eighty thousand French fans could be heard only eight minutes into the opening game of rugby world cup 2007. It's now the day after and I don't think they've stopped yet.

This tournament was supposed to resurrect some pride in a nation still reeling from sporting failures such as losing the bid to host Olympics 2012 and last year's disappointment in the football world cup. They were the bookies' favourites after the (four-more-years-boys) All Blacks. Surely the group is now Ireland's to lose?

Related: Argentina, France, rugby

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Discount Music and DVDs

New sections showing listings of music CDs and DVDs available for purchase at half price or less have been added to PriceCutReview.com. There are even some very new releases!

The wife won't be pleased

Two Chinese brothers are trapped in a mine... no, this isn't the start of a joke. They survived for five days without food and fresh water, but their sense of humour remained intact. You have to read the full story to see which bit (I hope) might have lost some meaning in translation, because describing one's wife in such an ungracious way seems very un-Chinese!

Tags: China, joke

Astronomy with Google Earth

The latest version of Google Earth has a new feature which allows you to flip the default view (looking down upon satellite imagery of the earth) to looking up at imagery of the night sky gathered from telescopes.

No longer do you have to buy a telescope from ebay to do some star gazing (a bit pointless anyway if you live in an area with bad light pollution). Seeing all those billions of stars does make you feel pretty small though!

Related: Google Earth, astronomy

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