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Ah, the “ripple effect”. Inflating statistics since time immemorial. (The first comment is ace, too!)

Conjecture and rumours about Manny Ramirez — Are we seeing the start of a “Nomar is not a team player”-style whispering campaign by the Sox front office to appease fans before they don’t re-sign Manny for next year?

Ever wondered what the international pictogram is for “girl on girl fisting”? It’s like xkcd porn.

Summary of Joss Whedon’s new online musical miniseries. I plopped down the $4 for a “season pass” in iTunes, and loved the first episode. Looking forward to episode 2 arriving in iTunes tonight.

An information architect explains his reasons for running for state office in Kansas, in an xkcd stylee. Worth sending $8.34 to.

The Economist replies in their characteristically classy manner when Stephen Dubner accuses them of misspelling “pastries”. (And now I find myself craving a Ginster’s…)

The classic arcade game Defender, implemented as a Firefox favicon! A bit of a silly hack, but the idea of updating favicons dynamically (to alert users when they’re looking at a different tab) has some milage.

In retrospect, “1 2 3 4” was an obvious choice.

Open-source app which logs your laptop’s network location (and optionally a snapshot from the webcam) to a DHT distributed database at irregular intervals.

JavaScript growl-like popup messages for webpages.

Some geek silliness on the Current site.

New Radiohead video was shot without cameras, instead using lasers to get 3D data which was visualized. Chunks of the data are available from Google, so you can have a go at processing it yourself.

Probably the best free app on the iPhone so far: Hold your iPhone near a music source, and it will identify the track for you. My initial tests against slightly fuzzy FM radio and the background music in a crowded theatre worked perfectly. Wicked cool!