Rockerobics is the sweaty crotch at which air guitar, hardcore fitness and plain stupidity meet. It's the ultimate preparation for the main floor!

Picured: Miss Fist (UK), Dr Feelgood and their spandexed cohort on an ab-busting, side-splitting workout like you've never spleen before. Make it through this and Axel Rose be yo poodle.

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Forget about Edward and Bella and their G-rated antics in Twilight, it's time for some real nocturnal action with vampire Bill Compton and telepath Sookie Stackhouse in the American deep-south supernatural saga, True Blood. If you like your vampires with bite you'll find the new series True Blood on Showcase juicy and cooked to your liking - rare.

Calling all Japanophiles, Melbourne's latest bar offering Nihonshu is fabulous. The little sister to renowned restaurant Izakaya Chuji, Nihonshu won't disappoint. Set up in the adjoining building, Nihonshu offers an impressive range of Japanese drinks including shochu (Japanese vodka) which is distilled using ingredients such as tomato, basil and sweet potato. The bar boasts 34 types of saki, a good selection of Japanese beer, dangerously sweet plum wine and a supersonic Japanese hand dryer in the bathroom.

Has anyone noticed the rather disturbing trend this winter? Shiny tights have some how slivered their way back from Oliva Newton John's Lets Get Physical video and into today's, well, umm, not so physical, muffin-top infested shopping centres.

City lunch hunting can be a traumatic experience. Simply navigating through the swarms of people in search of food can require an almost saint like patience (of which I have none) and an agile people/random obstacle dodging ability (also lacking). On arrival even the sourcing of food can also prove a trying experience. From the endless supply of dodgy focaccia's, to the over priced, the sold out dish you desperately wanted, to the worst of all - no tables. Not to say there isn't anywhere good to go - there are plenty. It's just a matter of finding them.

As naughty, delicious and sexy as it sounds the French 77 is a marvelous retro cocktail to be enjoyed, well, anytime. Perfect with a baguette breakfast in Paris when trying to stave off jet lag.

Feel a little slow on Mondays? Spark up those docile neurons with some of the worlds greatest talks.

TED - Ideas worth spreading
ACADEMIC EARTH - Video lectures from the world's top scholars

TED's 2009 series has just ended and they'll be releasing talks over the coming months. Some past favorites include Will Wright: Toys that make worlds, Steven Strogatz: How things in nature tend to sync, Brian Greene: The universe on a string, and Ze Frank: What's so funny about the Web?

Objectified is a film by Gary Hustwit, maker of the Helvetica documentary. This time around Hustwit's focuses on "our relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them." Those interviewed include Jonathan Ive (designer of Apple's most ubiquitous products), Paola Antonelli of MoMA in New York, and Mark Newson. The South by South West Film Festival will premiere Objectified on March 14, but you can catch the trailer anytime.

Have you checked out the Life Magazine photo archive now available through Google's Image Search Feature? It is unbelievable and overwhelming in its scope. Just look at the picture accompanying this post - a tiny Drew Barry more and Mr. T. Just. Fantastic.

To become, you must understand...