Rock is full of unsexy performances. There's Alanis Morissette's "So Unsexy, that time Nirvana sang "In Bloom" in dresses, and the entire career of Hanson.

Ever since eBay started, there has been a craze for auctioning some ludicrous items. Whether it be a unit of currency for more than it's worth, or some object of food which is said to resemble something else, they crop up all the time. But who actually bids, and then maybe even buys these items?

Man-made materials have revolutionised the last century of human existence, especially plastics, which lead to the throwaway society we now find ourselves living in. But will a new invention, that of a self healing rubber compound, have anywhere near as much impact?

Nicholas Gurewitch has just announced that he's retiring his Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip.

Sort of.

We've all had the emails from a Nigerian fraudster who urge you for help in their time of need, with promises of great wealth to follow if you reply. Most of us know they are scams and consign them to junk, but unfortunately a new wave of romance scammers seems to be enticing victims with promises of love rather than money.

2007 was the year of the online identity — and politicians scrambled to keep up. Whether they recognized it or not, the internet was creeping into every aspect of American politics in some very strange ways. The game was changing, and sometimes even the faces of the players — both online and off.