That smell in your back yard

How Krispy Kreme works: Krispy Kreme

Digging a hole

Another goofy app built on top of Google maps - now you canfind out where you'll REALLY end up if you dug a hole straight down from wherever. It's really cool. But the major disappointment is that all those holes I dug in the back yard weren't headed for China at all. I was going to end up swimming in the Indian ocean.

Computers and money

I used to think that computers were going to make our lives easy, but
it turns out that computers are like money - when you have them, it's
nice, but you really are just trading one set of problems for another.

Engrish

One last pointless post today - maybe it was just a long weekend, but Engrish.com had me laughing up a storm tonight:Recent Discoveries

flyGuy

A wonderful, whimsical flash... game? flyGuy.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Just Say No To Bread

Despite its wholesome image, Bread Kills

Some interesting tests

Some interesting survey and psychological tests online provided by our pals at the BBC. Fun!BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Surveys

Lockergnome

So this is interesting... An article about Lockergnome and their editorial process. I wonder if I could turn this into a job?

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You might also find lockergnome interesting.

Google Zeitgeist

If you're generally interested in the shared mind that is our society, you'll love this year's Google Zeitgeist. It's a little more guided than last year, and I think that they've pointed out some interesting items.

Noteworthy:
4 of the top 10 items searched for in froogle are iPods
The Harry Potter book release gathered more queries than the movie release
Wikipedia is more popular than ever
Michael Jackson still makes the news
Green Day was a top 10 gainer in search this year (Kids love that punk rock)

Anyone who does marketing needs to memorize each of these graphs. Incredible. There's definitely some qualitative information in those quantitative pictures.

100 things we didn't know this time last year

The BBC tells us something nifty 100 things we didn't know this time last year. Pretty neat. Among the interesting facts there are these:

71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.

and

73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.

and this one which is of great interest to some of us:

78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.

89. Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain.

And PLEASE don't tell the MPAA about this one or it'll happen here, too. The sad thing about this one is that the poor music store OWNERS have to listen to 1,500 teens throwing down whatever-kids-play-in-music-stores-instead-of-Nirvana-riffs-these-days, they have TOPAY FOR IT:

100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".

Another try

Another test of the backlinks functionality... sorry...Team Tinnaro :: Family Life

A test of backlinks

THis is a post that tests the "Backlinks" functionality of the blogger blog. Sorry for teh false alarm. Pepa's face is the latest post on the Team Tinnaro blog.