Penguins fall on their backs when planes fly over, the number of hooves lifted into the air on horses statues reveals how the riders died
and Coca-Cola invented the modern image of Santa Claus.

All false Urban Legends.

I'm really digging this. With meebo.com you can use all the main IM clients through your browser - no software to install.

It looks good and works well.

The new wave of web 2.0 / AJAX web sites are just so cool.

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It's been a busy week - landed myself a job designing the apps behind the websites for many of the high-street firms.

Plus my previous employer rang up again to ask if I would come back for a month. The one that let me go with short notice.

A few weeks later and they are struggling with the work load.

Unfortunately, I had to turn them down :-P

Well didn't expect to be looking for work again so quickly, but last week I was called into the boss' office and my contract was terminated early ( Read more... )

Marvellous. Not only is there a new series of my favourite surreal comedy show, "The Mighty Boosh", but the BBC are streaming each episode over the web a week in advance of the TV broadcast (UK only ( Read more... )

I got a job. Better yet, it's a local job, for local people ( Read more... )

Why have MS and Sony made such ugly consoles? The Xbox360 looks like a Dell and the PS3 has taken inspiration from the George Forman grill, as we can see below.

The only one I actually like is Nintendo's Revolution, but I can't see myself buying that one.


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Well the Xbox 360 and PS3 have been shown, both with hugely impressive hardware specs.

Two games so far have stunned me on the PS3: Motorstorm and Killzone Next Gen. Wow.

A mashup of two cool technologies: Google maps + Flickr = Geobloggers.com