There are a few tickets still up for grabs at some of the venues for the final leg of the Svengali tour.

Derren’s live shows are immensely popular and often sell out well in advance.

However, we have it on good authority that if you move with the swiftness of an oiled gazelle you stand a good chance of snatching up one of the last remaining tickets for Derren’s mind-warping show.

We’re telling you about it first because you’re a blog reader and we do so love our blog readers.

So get cracking! Tickets are selling like hot cakes on a cold day and when they’re gone; they’re gone.

You can browse the list of venues over on the Svengali Tour page.

Best of luck!

The website – started in Scotland by award-winning journalist Ally Millar – is celebrating its first year in the capital with a fitting party: a sleepover in a location familiar to many of the site’s writers – the editor’s flat.

Although this has been a breakthrough year for the site – finally hitting profit in November – the coffers were so tight that payment came by the 26 year old editor inviting contributors – from as far afield as Ireland and even Denmark – to stay on his sofa when paid work opportunities in London came up.

The site whose motto is “by Geeks for Geeks” exists to display the talents of aspiring artists, photographers, journalists, filmmakers, creative writers, and unsigned musicians and is often compared to a UK-wide student newspaper. It enjoys good relations with institutions from Brighton to Aberdeen; Cardiff to Belfast.

In the past we’ve pinched a few links from these guys, so we feel its only fair to say you should head over and check out the new site and geek out.

It takes the basic format of Discovery, which is, you know, fascinating, unbelievable science stories. [Each show will have] six or seven of these science pieces, with us doing a lot of the demos ourselves, and one of them is a lie. It continues our obsession with critical thinking and skepticism. The formation of Penn & Teller was about the idea: Can you use magic to tell the truth? Can you use the idea of lying to really get to what it means to have a fact? Everybody’s lying to people on TV, so it’s interesting to say when you are.

We wanted to work with Discovery, and then banged around a lot of different ideas. The fact of the matter is that in Penn and Teller: Bullshit and Penn & Teller: Tell a Lie, the first three words are the same. But whether you’re talking about our live show or about our TV shows, it’s always been about how we, as humanity, tell the difference between fact and fiction. How do we assess the truth, whether you’re talking about the edges of science or about communication between people? That issue is very fascinating to us.

Read more about the show and it’s availability here.

Continuing the 2012 Dates for Svengali, Blackpool Opera House has now confirmed it will issue tickets as of today.

Click here to buy.

Staring none other than Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde and Cillian Murphy, In Time looks at an idea visited in the Sci Fi classic Logan’s Run, where everyone lives until the age of 25. In this society everything you pay for is done so in “life hours”. By working you earn more time, but as things get more expensive society becomes more unfair and the super rich have all the time in the world.

Streaming by Ustream

Courtesy of Shark Week at the Discovery Channel

Tickets are on sale now – click here.

Magician, card master and all round mysterious man Drummond Money-Coutts has organised a treasure hunt in the Natural History Museum in London. He’s carefully hidden small envelopes around the venue with £50 notes in them. However this week he’s putting £1000 in to one for a lucky individual to find and keep.

So far only 3 have been found which means there’s still plenty more up for grabs. Subliminal clues on his facebook page might just help reveal the answer.

http://www.facebook.com/DrummondMoneyCoutts