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Here's this for an image - The ESA's ATV-3 (Automated Transfer Vehicle) docking with the ISS last month with fuel, oxygen and supplies. Amazing image. It's genuinely like a frame straight out of 2001 - A Space Odyssey.

I don't think tomorrow is going to be a thriller but it should be fascinating enough. A stunner from Nico and the Mercs obviously have great pace and could pull of something special if they can only find a way around their tyre-wear problems. As is, Lewis is still the clear favourite - he's got the pace and consistency - but it's going to be a fight unless he gets a really good start with Kimi, Kamui and Jensen all ahead. What a starting top 3 though - Nico, Schumi and Kamui. Won't see that often I think. EDIT: Just gonna leave this here.

Uh-oh.

I just want to leave this awesome thing that came up on Tumblr - the uncompromising Niki Lauda in his March 721x at the 1972 Monaco GP. I just love it when you can see through the visor like this.

It does look impressive, but I've been largely checked out of warfare FPSs since MW2. Can't blame 'em to keep trying for that piece of the pie though. People complain they're flogging a dead horse but it's a horse that just won't stop bleeding money.

On a sidenote, this is Susie Wolff nee Stoddart, DTM competitor and Williams' new development driver. Give me a moment while I spool my tongue back into my head. Yowzah.

Look at this. Look at this and tell me this is what you expected to see today.

Heads up: Gentlemen Broncos is Film 4's 9oclock movie tonight. I remember being really interested in it when it first came out but never got round to seeing it - time to catch I think. Jermaine Clement is a stamp of quality-guarantee in my book.

I'm still quite surprised by how much I've been enjoying the multiplayer, can't argue with free stuff for it.

What is even the point in the Lotus brand in F1 anymore? If no part of either of the companies it originated from are even involved in it? It's just corporate-scale hipster shit at this point. Meanwhile: It's just been pointed out to me that Lotus' main sponsor Unilever - who signed up when Kimi did - is the same company that makes Magnum ice creams. Yes.

Spongebob doesn't need you to tell him how f***ing good his coffee is. (This has been done before, but never ever this well.)

I think about 2/3 of the way through, probably not too far off the final act anyway, not sure. Anyway, can I just say if you're not playing this thing with headphones you're missing a lot and I'm not usually an audiophile. The subtleties in the sound design are genuinely astonishing.

I recently discovered the animated show "The Critic" - an animated show about a grumpy film New York critic, you may remember the character's "guest appearance" from the "Pukeahontas" Simpsons episode - from the early nineties and it's genuinely shocking how much it successfully and accurately predicted. Add this one to the list.

Uh-oh. Somebody somewhere has been playing Mass Effect.

The guy who does YGO Abridged has sold the right to Michael Bay. I hear he's a boat captain now.

This is going to be this generation's Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.

This explains the text I received from @martinist last night - Story verified.

That was almost historic and will still be long remembered - Perez getting the win was the only thing that could make it even sweeter and that was always going to be unlikely. As is, it was an epic performance from both Sergio & Alonso, we have to assume they'll be teammates in 2013. I honestly think Sergio is a bona-fide genius, I'll be amazed if he isn't Champion sooner or later. Hamilton seemed a little happier which was nice to see, another tough race after doing all the hard work in the first stint and frankly I don't think his pit crew did him too many favors. Still, two poles and two podiums out of two races leaving him second by 5 points is not a shabby start to the year. He's got all the speed, still looking for better luck. As for Vettel & Button's incident with the HRT, I think Karthikeyan was pretty blameless in both of those - Jenson seemed to simply run wide with him and Vettel clearly misjudged where the HRT front wing was. I agree with you Retro, at this rate it's going to be another superb season. I really feel we're in a Golden Age of F1 not seen since the classic years of the glamorous 1960s. Roll on China!

Wow. Okay. Yes. Holy shit. That all happened. More on this later.

Can I just say that if you paid any amount of money to anyone anywhere to see Bay's wretched Transformers movies, this is your fault. Yes you. You specifically. To paraphrase fictional newsreader Kent Brockman, at the risk of being unpopular this forum member places the blame squarely on you, the viewers!

This from Jalopnik, reporting on Kamui's twitter activity: Anyway, 1-1 for Lewis, fingers crossed his stars have finally aligned for the first time in a while.

A regular shop lifter in my store is now apparently waiting for the store to close and following staff down the street the threaten them - I say apparently, because no one else has mentioned anything but that's what's just happened to me. I didn't even acknowledge him and he went on his way. He brought a big buddy one day a couple of weeks ago who tried it on but I managed to simply stare him out of the store. I'll be telling the manager tomorrow morning. I hope this isn't going to escalate, as much as I'd enjoy introducing him to the wonders of Self Defence law I'd like to finish my MA before having to mangle someone like a cat in a trouser press.