My scattered friday afternoon thought goes like this:
One of the main responsibilities of an agency is to share ideas. Most agency websites are fairly flat affairs that either:
a - show off their trophy list,
b - show off their client list (no matter how small the piece of work was that they did for [...]

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Here’s two pictures of Plettenberg Bay’s Lookout beach area. Can you spot the difference?

Plettenberg Bay placemark (.kmz) on Google Earth
Further reading (all from about 24/25th November):
Storm: 2 dead, 1 500 evacuated
Fleeing the floods
South Africa: Floods Swallow Plett Beach

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I’m watching the cricket thinking about commentators and their access to information.
I thought it would be a great tool for them (and therefore the viewers/listeners) if there was some kind of voice recognition system that “listened” to them talking and picked out words as they say them. These words are then searched for on a [...]

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If you use Firefox, and don’t have the monkey’s face staring at you from the status bar, you probably won’t know too much about Greasemonkey.
From wikipedia:
Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages.
Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functionality to web pages (for example, [...]

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Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
(via, via)

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Scrabulous for me, is the most important application for Facebook since sliced bread.
Truth be told, for me, FB’s gravity is waining, I just don’t find that there’s much to do there anymore. I feel like a youth who’s now gotten tired hanging out in the same shopping mall.
But “the scrabulous” has brought me [...]

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I’ve been subscribed to the Time’s Blogumnist RSS feed for a few weeks, and unfortunately I’ve decided move it out of my “Feeds to read” folder and into the more obscure “News” folder which is gathering dust faster than the inside of a Hoover bag.
And my reasons are:
1 - Abbreviated feeds.
I have never understood the [...]

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I’ve always thought that those who put their faces out there on the Internet asking for a date had serious kahunas. But this guy takes the cake:

Tough guy look, and he’s happy with anything between 18 and 100. I’d imagine the scale works something like:
18< fun - money >100
Frankly, I hope you think more [...]

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James Brown Dance Lesson
According to James Brown’s will he recorded this in the late 70’s and wanted it put on the internet after his death.
Nothing further, your honour.

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1. I get quite a few of requests for meetings to look at products that may be of interest to me.
2. Reports say that about 50% of companies / employees have banned / no access to Facebook, this includes my place of work.
Therefore, trying to get hold of me via Facebook is not the best [...]

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