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Such a disappointment!

Why isn’t there a hilarious website on this URL http://www.idontwantoneofthose.com/

Brilliant!

Conspiracy theory

This is a link to Google’s Street View of the SIS HQ at Vauxhall.

How did they get the bus to follow Google’s car all the way alongside the building? Was it waiting all morning for the Google car to come past?
Cunning.

Sign of the times?

Bill Gates gets into carpets

Bill Gates has bought a stake in the UK carpet retailer Carpetright, according to this article. A strange choice of business, at first sight, but what if he’s working on interactive floor coverings? Put the Carpetright story together with this one, and all becomes clear.

$50 billion dollars shrinking fast

http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2007/11/ad-zappers-for-facebook.html lists a variety of plug-ins for Firefox that will remove contextual ads from your Facebook experience.

It might get a bit tricky charging for ads that are being removed at the browser. Whether they’re counted as valid ad impressions before they’re removed isn’t made clear in the article.

You know you’re a geek when…

You understand why this car’s license plate is significant…

…or you get this cartoon…

Anything to add?

What kind of blogger are you?

In preparation for Blog Action Day on October 16th, there’s a quiz that tells you what kind of blogger you are. I’m a purist expert socialite, apparently. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not…

Do Facebook and Myspace really know you?

Based on this article, which says that 31% (of 100 people) lie when they register on websites, I thought I’d do some research of my own. Do you tell the truth when you register?

Happy birthday ;-)

According to this article at WiredNews, the emoticon is 25 years old tomorrow. They were first used by a Professor Fahlman at Carnegie Mellon University, apparently.
I found this article from Microsoft really helpful, if a little serious, on the subject of how and when to use them. It explains that “emoticons are sideways faces that [...]