Category: Linklog

Google’s April Fool’s joke, Google Gulp. Almost as good as their Gmail Infinity+1 joke…

The winners of the WordPress theme competition have been announced. End result? Jipped, but the real winners are the WP users who now have the proverbial crapload of themes to choose from…

Terri Schiavo dies 14 days after her feeding tube was removed. But don’t expect the court wranglings and mud slinging to be over…

Has the secret identity of Belle Du Jour been revealed? They base their evidence off belle de hypothesis, all of whose posts are dated Vendredi 1 Avril (Friday 1st April)… Hmmm… [via]

Terri Schiavo’s Blog… Nnnngnnggh. “AHHHHHHH WAAAAAAAA. *blink*” So very wrong, but the comments are the funniest part…

McDonald’s has offered to pay top hip hop artists to incorporate the ‘Big Mac’ into their song lyrics. “According to Advertising Age magazine, the fast food chain will pay rappers up to £2.80 ($5) every time a song namechecking the burger is played.” Big Mac’s doesn’t exactly say “bling bling” quite like driving Escalades and drinking bottles of Dom Perignon do…

LA Lakers guard Chucky Atkins signs his own death warrant. “I ain’t no GM,” Atkins said. “Ask Kobe. He’s the GM. It’s his team. Go ask him.” If Kobe can get rid of Shaq, Atkins doesn’t stand a chance…

Clarkson Industries “Since U Been Gone” Annual Report 2005. Quick Recap: Started out friends, Cool. Concerns about Integrity and Transparency… [via]

There are reports of another earthquake in Indonesia measuring 8.2 on the Richter Scale. I guess we’ll find out if this is another tsunami soon enough, but the wrath of god strikes the day after Christmas and Easter? Co-incidence?

Could Sony be forced to stop selling the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 game consoles using Dualshock controllers? Another case of the patent system gone haywire… I hope they clear this up, kids might start playing outside.

Someone has gone and hacked the web browser hidden away in the PSP game Wipeout Pure to make it serve as a regular browser. Though it’s probably slower than a 14.4k modem…

Arlington Pediatric Center’s bad logo. And throughout the entire design process, no one thought to actually look at it?

How to avoid blog burnout. Something that’s been on my mind recently, seeing as this year (so far) has been my most productive time ever…

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has arrived in Iceland after spending eight months in detention in Japan. Upon his he release declared that George W Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi are war criminals who should be hung! Nice one…

A great flickr group, Transparent Screens. Some people have too much time on their hands, and I want to try it…