Ever wonder what the guy who does the voiceover for all the movie trailers looks like? Well, here he is, featuring in the trailer for Jerry Seinfeld's new movie no less. Via Fimoculous.

Dromore Co. Tyrone is the source of the first Irish gold being mined in modern times. If you have a few hundred quid to spare you can buy jewellery made with it from www.galantás.com.

LVF bastards. What is this intimidation of an innocent man meant to achieve? The ethnic cleansing of the Northern Irish football team? For more on this story, I recommend Slugger O'Tooles blog for links and commentary.

Voyager 1 was 25 years old yesterday. Generations from now will recognise the Voyager program as one of the Mankind's great expeditions of discovery. I remember the wonderful excitement I felt when the images taken by Voyager 2 as it passed Jupiter and Saturn were first released in the early Eighties. Since then, subsequent high tech probes seem to me to have lacked the sense of adventure of Voyager. We've had comet chasers and Mars surveyors and the Gallileo program and all, while scientifically bountiful, have not captured the imagination in the same way as Voyager. But then again maybe it's just me getting older and more cynical.

UK Pensioner conquers wing-walking record. This is a great story. Les 'Dizzy' Seales 88, a pre-war British sidecar champion who as a WWII RAF gunner heroically walked across the wing of his plane in mid flight to save his trapped pilot, and 15 years ago lost a leg in an accident involving a bus. Yesterday Les took the record of being the oldest person to stand on the wing of a flying aircraft.

M. Night Shyamalan's crop circle hokum movie 'Signs' is still riding high at the US box office. Meanwhile the small village of Clonegal in Co. Carlow is experiencing it's own version of the phenomenon with mysterious circles appearing on a nearby GAA pitch. Perhaps it is indeed the result of alien or paranormal activity. After all, Clonegal Castle is the home of the 'Fellowship of Isis' - a Druidic/Wicca society with a sophisticated organisation and liturgy founded in 1976 to foster greater communion with the Egyptian goddess of fertility and motherhood. (and which tickles the paranoid impulses of some local folk). Interestingly, UFO/crop circle 'expert' Steve Canada has written a book about the connection between Isis and crop circles. Then again, maybe the Clonegal rings have an entirely natural explanation.

Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Cliches. Via Crackbaby.

How to make an origami model of a Star Wars X-Wing fighter. Sometimes life is too short.

Safety Guide: Cartoon fun from Cosmo 7.

I was going to post something about Elvis given the day that's in it but I'm not really that much of a fan. Someday I'll read the Peter Guralnick biographies and maybe then I'll embark on a re-exploration of his music. For today, I'll direct you to The Smoking Gun for the autopsy report on "The King". Anyway, that's it from me until Monday. Have a great weekend.

The Flak Magazine Review of Icelandic linkage site: Tilveran.

And from the same publication. Here's an interesting article about the history of one of those ubiquitous objects that are everywhere but of which we rarely if ever think about - the Phillips headed screw.

The Casio Effect. Responsible for airplane collisions, unhealthy diets, typos in published documents and crap Eighties dance music.

From Blogcritics: Ken Layne's piece abut the fuss over Steve Earle's new song about John Walker Lindh - the American Taliban. I think Layne has it wrong in claiming that Steve is courting the controversy but there are elements in the US Media who are making a meal of it, which is ridiculous. Steve of course couldn't give a shit. I just hope the attention will lead to increased record sales for him. I can't imagine him losing any fans over it anyway.

So Baz Luhrmann's next movie will be about Alexander the Great and is set to star Leonardo DiCaprio. Sounds like it could be a great project. I've often thought that Alexander's life story could provide the basis for a really wonderful movie. But will Luhrmann resist the temptation to camp up Alexander and his homosexual (or homoerotic) army?

What the hell are Willie Nelson and Ryan Adams doing in a Gap Ad? Old Mr. Rebel and the sell out kid are back in town. Horses are tied out the front signing autographs....

A virtual smoke break. Via www.milkandcookies.com - a great site for flash games and other timewasting thingies.

An obligatory Elvis story link: Artist makes giant Elvis portrait from toast. Surely burger buns would have been more appropriate?

www.75orlesscom - Album reviews in 75 words or less. I like it.

Sleater-Kinney's new album "One Beat" streaming online here. Their last album "All hands on the Bad One" was pretty good - containing four or five ass kickin' punkette anthems. Like the White Stripes they could use a bass player to offset the mid-range fatigue that set in over the length of the whole album.