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The world’s first social-enabled t-shirt! 6 hearts light up on your chest when you’re near someone else with one of these fine tees. An easy way to meet people!

During your normal activities two and a half pixelated hearts will light up on your shirt. Hey… you’re depressed and in need of a recharge. But get within hugging distance of your significant other wearing the matching shirt and suddenly the hearts on both of your shirts start to light up until you’re fully powered up. Go too far astray from the source of your affections and you’ll drop back down to two and a half hearts again. Got it?

The shirt is available from Thinkgeek for $24.99

Jason Clay, 40, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, has worked for Royal Mail for 20 years but is struggling with his own colossal cranium - because he can’t find a cycle helmet to fit.

For the past three years, he has used his bike to deliver mail to homes across Sutton-in-Ashfield but a recent change in the company’s health and safety rules means he’s required to use a helmet.

But, despite exhaustive searches of major chain stores and the internet, the best Mr Clay has found is a 25in XXL helmet from America.

And even that doesn’t fit!!!

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US fast-food giant is selling more burgers in Britain than at any time in the 34 years since it opened its first outlet in Britain. There were more than 88 million visits to the “golden arches” in Britain in December 2007 alone, up nearly 10 million on the previous 12 months and the equivalent of about 320,000 more each day.

McDonald’s has changed its menu in recent years, cutting salt, sugar and trans-fats in its products and offering healthier alternatives such as porridge, fruit smoothies and chicken wraps, but, about 90% of sales in Britain were still for traditional fast-food fare like burgers, french fries and ice-cream while more than two million children’s “Happy Meals” were sold each week in November 2007.

Great work British

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When furniture retailer IKEA promoted its latest U.S. sale by asking customers on its Web site if they are “ready to take advantage of us,” one customer took them up on the offer in a novel way. Malkoff moved into the IKEA store in Paramus, New Jersey, for a week while his New York City apartment is fumigated because his friends’ apartments were too small to accommodate him and hotels were too expensive. At the following photo, Mark Malkoff, 31, drinks tea and reads a newspaper inside an IKEA store in Paramus, New Jersey.

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Regular Burger King’s customers get pranked, learning that their favorite burger, the “Whopper” is discontinued. The reactions recorded with hidden cameras.
I can’t understand the freaked out reaction of these people, because I live in a country, that is far away from the “burger mania”. Maybe I can compare it, with a nationwide discontinue of souvlaki