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New-look Lara Croft 'has a bottom'

Tomb Raider designers say they have used 10 times more detail on Lara Croft for the latest game in the series.

She moves more smoothly and has a bottom for the first time.

In Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness, Lara is framed for a murder and must battle to clear her name.

Players control her as she gets involved in underworld deals while on the run.

Core Design and Eidos Interactive, the companies behind Tomb Raider, say fans will see a "stronger and more complex heroine" in the game, which is being launched on November 15.

It has been announced the game will only be available for Sony's PlayStation 2 console.

Jill de Jong, 20, from Holland, has been chosen from hundreds of models to play Lara Croft in promotional work for the game.

Lara Croft is created on computer using 5,000 polygons - or sections - compared with 500 in previous games.

"It means the definition is a lot finer and she moves more smoothly," said Jeremy Heath-Smith, managing director of Core Design.

"It also means she has a bottom for the first time - before it was just an illusion, but now she has real shape."

and there's always this as well, which has nothing to do with rear ends

Spanish PM describes own speech as 'nonsense'

The Spanish Prime Minister has been caught describing his speech to the European Parliament as nonsense.

Jose Maria Aznar had just received a round of applause from MEPs at the end of his speech.

Mr Aznar seemed to think his microphone had been switched off.

"What nonsense I have just come out with," Mr Aznar said aloud after delivering his talk to the parliament at Brussels.

The comment was clearly heard by those in attendance around him.

It was not clear if he was referring to all his speech or just a part of it, reports ABC.net.

The lights above my desk have mysteriously gone out.

It's quite good actually. My eyes strain less.

bollocks

I wanted to be impulsive and go see Heather over the Easter week, but unfortunately the flights are twice the normal cost. I don't have the money to be impulsive, dammit.

I am inexplicably nervous today.

It must be the hippos. Damn those beasts, with their habit of hiding just underneath the waterline, so I risk disturbing them whenever I paddle around in my canoe. One of these days I will perish in a hippo's maw as I innocently set off to the coffee machine.

Really, it must be a health and safety issue. How else am I supposed to cross the office? What, they want me to fly or something?

i'm only still at work because i lack the motivation to get out of my chair

this is pathetic

Bit calmer and more balanced now I'm home from work and full of processed meat, saturated fats, salt and carbohydrates. Oh, and phenylalanine.

Food, drugs, what's the difference?

I tried to log into the F2B board just now, out of idle curiosity. However, all I was able to see was the World's Biggest Casino.

Does this track not have a superb name? And what is more, it is fantastic bleepy acid.

A Thing What Would Be Cool On LJ

A summary of the number of posts you had done with different "current moods". If I was a proper programmer, I'd write something that did it, but I only play one on TV.

Ever have that feeling when you're relatively calm and happy, but you can feel that underneath it you're still stressed, and it might not take much to flip you over to baby-eating mode again?

Odd.

I had a great urge to drink myself unconscious before, but now I don't really want to. I have a bottle of vodka in the freezer and it can stay there for all I care. Besides, I like the bottle, it's a proper-looking Russian one. I don't want to empty it, it looks better half-full. Aesthetics 1, alcohol 0.

Tomorrow I am going out to Detroit, the bar, not the city. Last Friday, when I went out to the Lowlander Beer Café, I was a bit of a miserable fuck, and it was good that the service was a bit slow because otherwise I would have been a drunken miserable fuck. Hopefully I will be less of a miserable fuck tomorrow. I should make sure that I lose a bit of the work-day misery. What can I do on the frankly depressing train/tube journey back to cheer me up?

can't believe it's 11pm already

What have i achieved this evening? What there was of it, anyway, about two and a half hours. I've ripped a few tracks from CDs. I've posted half a dozen pointless LJ entries, including this one. I've stared at a potential new housemate while eating a Bacon Double Cheese.

I'm tired. I want something tasty and cold to drink, and then I want to sleep - both achievable objectives - but part 3, not wanting to go to work when I wake up, could be harder.

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[ ] i hate my job
[ ] i feel so ill
[ ] i need to go out and get drunk
[ ] i'm drunk right now, it's great
[ ] i'm really hungover, why do I drink?
[ ] i hate my job
[ ] god my life is dull
[ ] god my life is too busy
[ ] god i've wasted my life
[ ] i hate my job
[ ] the world is full of horrible things and here's one
[ ] why don't things ever get better?
[ ] (a picture of Bush looking like a monkey)