Satanic verses: Ever heard those crazy stories about how if you play Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" backwards, you get a message praising Satan? Turns out, you're going on fairly accurate information. Jeff Milner has created a Web site documenting some backwards messages in pop music (called backmasking) including examples from the Beatles, Queen, Eminem, Britney Spears and even the Pokémon rap. Don't buy it? Judge for yourself by playing it back and forth. Reversify at http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm.

Shut the Fox up: We don't have Fox News in this country - but it's not like the TV industry doesn't want to give it to us. It's being blocked by federal legislation and the CRTC. But in the USA, it's everywhere, and doing bigger numbers than CNN. Well, one man's taken on the media omniglom by creating the Fox Blocker, a little device that slips inline with your cable wire and blocks Fox News' frequency. At $8.95 (U.S.), send them to your American relatives at www.foxblocker.com.

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