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It is a common misconception that Lego is just for children. There exists a massive host of adults who would fiercely counter this and argue that Lego, as a material that is used to construct things, can appeal to anyone, regardless of age. Dirk Denoyelle, from Hoboken, in Belgium owns almost 3 million pieces of Lego as well as being a stand-up comedian, achieving an engineering degree, and mastering several languages.

Denoyelle said he is proud to be an AFOL (Adult Fan Of Lego) though “ten years ago, nobody admitted it”. A 47 year old man, Denoyelle is midway through constructing a Lego model of an apartment complex which he has been paid a whopping $20,000 to create. Denoyelle has also created life-size Lego busts of Michael Jackson and Charlie Chaplin, as well as a Lego mosaic which depicts a London street with a homeless man in it. Three years ago, the Lego Group made Denoyelle a proud Lego Certified Professional. I wonder if he got a free Lego ninjago set? Lucky Denoyelle!

Publicity surrounding homosexuality in Europe heightened in the 18th century. 1723 saw the publishing of ‘Love Letters Between a Certain Late Nobleman and the Famous Mr. Wilson’ which broached the topic. The 1749 edition of Fanny Hill by John Cleland had a homosexual scene incorporated though this was removed the following year. The first extended and serious defence of homosexuality in English was published in 1749 by John Cannon called ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplified’ though this was immediately suppressed. Jeremy Bentham also wrote a defence of homosexuality in 1785 but this was suppressed until 1978! In England it was still possible to be executed for sodomy as late as 1835!

‘Research on the Riddle of Man-Manly Love’ was published by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in the form of a series of tracts between 1864 and 1880. Ulrichs was the first self-proclaimed homosexual person in Europe to publically defend homosexuality, attending the Congress of German Jurists in Munich in 1869 to urge the repeal of, not Tier 1, but the anti-homosexual laws.

Ever since I first got my own place I have tried to make it a reflection of my personality as much as I can. Because now I have enough rooms, I can dedicate one to be my shag room where I can bring all the babes that I manage to talk into coming up with me to my place. One of the many things that I imagined that my shag room will have is adjustable light.

The first thing I thought about when looking into this is the fixtures that I will put in for my bulbs. The regular bulbs I know are too expensive to run because they eat up lots of power and it mostly goes on heat and not on the actual light so I decided against those right from the start, especially because I have enough problems with too much heat in my place as it is, even without adding additional sources of it in the form of lights. This is when I decided to go with gu10 led bulbs.

From what I have heard so far, they generate almost no heat, much like the neon light bulbs, but unlike those gu10 led bulbs can also be adjusted to various levels of brightness. There are even some that come with preinstalled remote control options so that you don’t even have to do that yourself. Gu10 led bulbs are the solution for me and I am very happy to have found out about them right now.

Industry in Russia grew by a staggering 76% during Putin’s eight years in office. Investments increased by a whopping 125% in Russia and construction and agricultural production saw massive increases also. The volume of consumer credit increased by a shocking 45 times from 2000 to 2006, the time during which Putin was in charge. The middle class swelled from just 8 million to a massive 55 million during that period also. The quantity of people who were living below the poverty line decreased from 30% in 2000 to an impressively lower 14% by 2008.

Putin made an unsurprising economic move in 2001 when he introduced a flat tax rate of 13% as he has always advocated liberal economic policies. The corporate rate of tax was dropped drastically from 35% to just 24% leaving people with a great deal more money to purchase led torches should they wish!

Cage the Elephant are one of those bands that if you're not already a fan, you might think you've never listened to them before.

But I can tell you with quite solid certainty that you probably have. They're one of those typical radio bands, you'll definitely hear them being played on Xfm, Absolute Radio and the like, even thought they're not British and are actually from Kentucky, they've got that sort of catchiness that UK radio stations strive off.

I actually downloaded their first album and put it on my iPod and my r4 card a while after it came out in summer of 2008, but I never actually consciously listened to them until this year, and I do regret that. Their second album 'Thank You Happy Birthday', released in March this year hit me like a sledgehammer and I haven't looked back ever since. It's really catapulted the band to further fame, particularly in Europe.