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ImAFish is proud to launch it's latest website:

http://www.scaryvideoclips.org/

ScaryVideoClips.org has a collection of the scariest video clips online from TV shows to Films to home made videos! Not all the clips will make you jump but hopefully most will!

It's been quiet here at ImAFish for the last week because we have been working on our latest project:

www.ipodhistory.com

iPod History has pictures and details on every single iPod including size, battery life, compatibility and launch date.

The site is a great place to find out what others have to say about iPod models they have owned and to put across your views. It's still early days for the site so all comments are appreciated.

We have tried to make the site as informative as possible but are open to suggestions. If you like the site then please stumble it or add it to your blog!

For more check out www.ipodhistory.com

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is now well under way as reported last week. There are displays of work at the Gateway in Shrewsbury (next to my new office).

More on the cartoon festival and climate change can be found on the Carbon Forum website:

http://carbonforum.org/news/climate-change-cartoon-exhibition-opens-gateway-gallery-shrewsbury 

Shrewsbury, UK - Pete White and world famous ImAFish have today launched three new niche environmental blogs to help people keep updated with news in their respective areas.

www.reachnews.info tracks industry trends and news for REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances).

www.rohsnews.info brings up-to-date news regarding ROHS (the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment).

www.weeenews.info covers a range of stories in and around WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment)

ImAFish takes the issue of the environment very seriously and helps where possible to spread environmentally friendly messages.

When deciding on service providers there is often a clear choice, whether it be because they have a local monopoly (like my water provider) or because they offer you a good deal (like my mobile phone provider) but when it comes to finding an ISP noone has a good deal.

At the one end there are the free/very cheap providers that are unreliable, have poor techical support and a low bandwidth cap. At the other end are the very expensive providers that I don't want to fork out for. Then there are the providers that throttle traffic at certain times to one degree or another.

Somewhere in the middle fell the provider I decided to go with - Plus net, for £20 a month they offer 20gig of bandwidth and are open about what they restrict and at what times. Hopefully I've made the right choice!

In the past week I've moved office and moved house! I still have no Internet at home so I'm using my phone.

Last Thursday we moved office to The Pump House, an environmentally friendly building that gives us great new facilities and loads more space. The three of us had been crampt up in our old office for almost two years which means we can look to expand in the coming months.

On Friday I brought my first house with my lovely girl friend Laura, I've spent since then moving stuff in and sorting it all out. It's a slow process but we are finally getting there.

The office and house are only ten minutes walk apart meaning I can sleep in till 8:30 each morning and still get to work on time.

More coming soon once Plusnet activate my broadband.

This post is by guest blogger Matt Buck.

The fifth International Cartoon Festival is open now in Shrewsbury.

The main event when more than 40 of Britain's best cartoonists will be in town for a long weekend of cartoons and cartooning, runs from April 18-20.

But already six exhibitions of some great cartoon jokes and art are open to the public. You can find out more at http://www.shrewsburycartoonfestival.com or at the Bloghorn,  - http://procartoonists.blogspot.com/

The festival offers unique opportunities to see cartoonists at work, with 20 of them drawing on huge boards in The Square, others drawing caricatures for anyone who asks and some, running cartoon workshops for all ages.

There's also a one-man show by Dave Brown, political cartoonist for The Independent newspaper and Steve Bell from the Guardian is coming too.

http://tinyurl.com/2p5mjm

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is organised by Destination Shrewsbury with Shrewsbury Civic Society and the support of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation. This cartoon is copyright of PCO member Tim Harries, if you would like to use it, please give Tim a credit and a link to the Bloghorn. Thank you
http://procartoonists.blogspot.com/

For more information: Web: www.shrewsburycartoonfestival.com
Email: visitorinfo@shrewsbury.gov.uk - Telephone: 01743-281 200

This ones a no brainer, Laptops Direct will give you £5000 to have their name tattooed on your head.

The requirements are strict and may put some peope off:

• You must take a drug test and successfully complete a short psychological questionnaire to ensure you are of sound mind
• You must be over 18 years of age and have had no previous mental health problems
• You must be a tattoo virgin - It would cramp our brand if there were other competing tattoos
• You must attend an annual check-up to ensure you have not removed the tattoo, have not had any other tattoos added and are still of sound mind.

Tattoos for other parts of the body are also available if you don't fancy walking around with it on your forehead. Arms/Hands - £1000, Shoulders/Back - £500 or Legs/Feet - £100.

Of course the grand prize is clearly the forehead tattoo.

Anyone going to be getting one?

It's been a while since I blogged about music but with the Miami Winter Music Festival coming up it seemed like a good time to mention my two favourite trance podcasts. They come from no less than two of the biggest names in trance music and their weekly updates are well worth listening to:

Tiesto's Club Life

Armin Van Buuren A State of Trance Podcast

Both can be found within iTunes or from the sites above.

There is endless junk that you can put on your blog from recent news feeds, Flickr photos, badges, adverts and various other widgets but the one I find most useful is MyBlogLog. If your not familiar with the widget its the one that sits on the bottom right of every page with the little images of recent visitors.

It's useful for three reasons:

• It's interesting to see who has been visiting ImAFish from other blogs. I can easily view their blog through MyBlogLog to read what they have to say and post comments.
• If you visit a blog more than once MyBlogLog will automatically add you to that blogs community page so that you can easily see updates.
• The statistics behind MyBlogLog are also useful, they are not complex as Google Analytics but display the data in a much better way. I recently upgraded my account for $25 (£12) to unlock unlimited stats.

So if you have a blog I would recommend giving it ago. Anyone else use MyBlogLog?