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Viral for Condom Essential Wear's Private Dick Movie.

I created this video last night. The music is a song called “Zukunft” by Estonian band Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot, which I also discovered while surfing around the web last night.

A free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar. Add events in a snap from your favorite Twitter client.

50. Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story)

It may very well be that Second Life is over-hyped or ill-conceived for business purposes. Even if so, however, it’s not due to the five provably bogus claims.

The crux of the piece is that despite the hype, real life businesses are closing down their Second Life outposts due to little to no interest in them.

"It was a leap of faith. By mid-2006, Matt Webb and Jack Schulze had been meandering along, doing a few jobs together and talking about "crazy ideas"."

That seems like a future for the music industry, doesn't seem a bad future. Just not a lot of role in it for large record companies.

gelato is a tumblelog CMS built on AJAX, PHP and MySQL.

Ooh, a new album from the Schnauss!

'lori' can tell you how long it takes to load a page. Useful for web developers who are working on profiling, optimizing a web site.

Based on the paradoxical notion that anarchists have to be more organized than average if they don’t want to depend on power structures, and presents some ideas on how to kick the boss habit.

Coke works hard to leverage their brand in the real world and are now opening up the options for their brand to be extended virtually - an importantly - by other people. In a way, this is user-generated NPD.

Following my post yesterday about delaying the loading of avatar images to cut down on HTTP requests I was wondering if there is a way to do this without having to resort to a server side solution.

When we first started dabbling in Second Life we quickly realized that something interesting Penguin could do would be to bring William Gibson into this strange new place, a place he seemed to have predicted and described years ago...

Over the next few weeks – to celebrate and, yes, promote his new novel Spook Country – we’re planning a range of William Gibson activities in Second Life.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Radiohead's OK Computer we've asked some of our favorite musicians to participate in a song-by-song covers compilation.

A Web-based subversion browser that doesn't suck

When you see your client's pubic bone, something has changed.

Client wants a website, Agency wants a client, but Client wants something for nothing and to see other agencies. What’s Agency to do?

LastGraph is a wavegraph generator for Last.fm. Give us a username and some dates, and our highly-trained rendering servers will crunch away and produce a lovely graph of your listening habits.

The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users.

iPhoto Diet is a utility that helps to slim down your iPhoto library by manipulating your photos

Nomadic functions are small, optimized, and fairly specific. An example may be anything from a simple Drag & Drag function, to a AJAX Star Rating, or a Text Scroller. They are like widgets… but even smaller.

A super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web.

www.myspace.com/goodwithmoney

The Co-operative bank’s myspace page. Every time someone adds them as a friend, they’ll donate 20p to a children’s charity.

The purpose of this virtual machine is to act as a self-contained subversion server, with a fully configured WebSVN front end.

A simple script that, given a CSS stylesheet and either a .txt file listing URLs of HTML files, or a directory of HTML files, will iterate over them all and list the CSS statements in the stylesheet which are never called in the HTML."

Users download songs, with the starting price at free. When downloads pick up for popular songs, the price starts to rise, all the way up to $0.99. If a song gets to $0.30 or so, you know its popular.

From Interesting 2007.

FoxyTunes Twitter DJ is a Twitter channel with music recommendations from a selected group of “FoxyTunes DJs”.

a command-line utility for reconstructing or recovering a website when a back-up is not available

Cursor Miner Live @ Sonar 2007

Pretty bad quality but captures the mayhem. Keep an eye open for Señor Frog.

Here are some of the general and sobering situations I’m running across the deeper I go into under-represented countries when it comes to educational opportunities and resources.