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Quality silly Tom Coates post suitable for that popular cross-section of humanity: Dr Who fans who blog bitching about “Web 2.0”.

Rawk! Hearts qualify for the Champions League, then a week later win the Scottish Cup.

Custom paint jobs for your Mac mini. I quite fancy getting the “retro” (begith with six-colour Apple logo) one.

“Are smart people overrated?” Classic Malcolm Gladwell.

Another round of quality impressions from Peter Serafinowicz. John Lennon invented the iPod, apparently.

This is one way to convince bosses about the folly of The Mythical Man-Month. “We’ve bought you many copies so that you might read it faster.”

Head of Real/Rhapsody opens mouth, shite dribbles out.

The Brit version of Big Brother is going to include a contestant picked by finding a “golden ticket” inside a Kit Kat bar.

Google Fight Pro — Fun datamining showing search volume over time.

2.5” solid-state SATA drives. How long until these are cheap enough to use in laptops?

Rant on that horrible term for folks who do graphic design: “Creative”. I’ve always hated it, since I like to think that programming involves a heavy dose of creativity. Starts out well, but the author disappears up his own arsehole towards the end.

Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Strikes me that Southwest’s “Sit wherever you want” policy is the smartest of the lot.

When you’re building up gigabytes of data, how can you realistically back-it-up?

Time Magazine preview of the Wii. I’m positively giddy at the potential for a Wario Warez game with that controller.

Puerile re-captioning of 1950’s childrens book illustrations. Makes me laugh, not least because I loved all those dated Enid Blyton romps as a kid.

I’m going to try following that Shangri-La Diet that all the kids are doing for a bit. (It’s the new Atkins, dontchaknow.) I’m blogging the experience across here.

Cool. I’d been looking for a simple Linux monitoring tool like this a few weeks ago — Something simple that can plot load over time.