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Google Maps Street View April Fools

The ‘you are here’ person in Google Maps’ Street View is now a Panda, as this screenshot illustrates. I’m assuming this is an April Fools joke.
I’m wondering if this is happening in the US version of Street View or only here in Australia.
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A Good Ride

Work mates of mine just released A Good Ride, it is a Rails 2.0-based motorbike riding site with some killer features. Check out the ride video feature.
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Stupid, but fun…

I should have a category for that…

What type of Fae are you?
Time wasted thanks to Fa11ing Away…
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Amie St Music Store – A Very Positive Customer Service Experience

Some of you may have heard about Amie St, the online DRM-free music store that recently signed major artists (such as Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan, Paul Van Dyk and others) to sell their music without any of the foolish DRM restrictions that the iTunes Music Store imposes on [...]

Stupidest gadget, ever.

Luckily it is just a product design and not an available product. Because anyone who buys it should not be allowed to reproduce…
via Gizmodo.
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The Story of Sergey Brin

Interesting piece describing Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s life, from a slightly Jewish perspective. via Digg.
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“Consumer Generated Media”

The “No blogging allowed at “consumer generated media” conference” reported over at Boing Boing via Greg Verdino’s Marketing Blog, really struck a nerve with me. The name itself of course shows that the conference organizers just don’t get it: “Generating Media” makes you a producer, not a consumer…
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Firefox 2.0 – More visible tabs

While I understand the need for adding the left-right arrows on the tab-strip when there are many tabs open, I reckon Firefox 2.0 switches to this solution too quickly which bugged me to bits.
Luckily, there’s a fix for that:

Go to the Firefox’s ‘behind-the-scenes’ configuration screen by typing ‘about:config’ in the URL bar.
Search for the property [...]

“I’m Skype-ing you from just over Iceland”

My father is now flying to the states and we had just finished speaking over Skype just as he was flying over Iceland.
He had a chance to try out using the “Connexion by Boeing” Wi-Fi service on his Lufthansa flight. The service is unfortunately being terminated at the end of the year, so this is [...]

The Greenan Tapes

What seems to be a new ‘viral’ campaign just launched with a Google ad that leads to this site.
It seems to be a promotion for “The Observation Room“, a film by Shep Salusky that pretends to be an educational film by “Western States Continuing Education” supposedly to be “viewed only by mental health professionals including [...]