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Shock! World’s largest drawing is a fake!

May 29, 2008 – 1:44 pm

A lot of people in the last week posted the above image on their blogs and in news stories with the story of Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar who…
…sent a briefcase with a GPS tracking device around the world via DHL. The route the case took, as tracked on a map, became the strokes of his […]

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Vodafone has lame streakers on the web too

May 26, 2008 – 3:37 pm

In 2002 Vodafone paid a New Zealand guy to streak during at a Bledisloe Cup match.
Now Vodafone has a super lame promotional site that allows you to temporarily have a streaker run across your web site.

Srsly Vodafone? Surely there are other things that could be done to improve services with the $50,000+ which […]

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Internet attention to disasters

May 21, 2008 – 8:41 am

After the devastation caused by the natural disasters this past couple of weeks here are a couple of internet stats sources to see what people are writing about and searching for online.
Blog Attention

via Data Mining
Increase in Australian Seach Requests (week ending 10/05/2008)
‘myanmar’ (620%)
‘burma’ (3675%)
via HitWise

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Intergenerational Wars

May 16, 2008 – 10:30 am

There is a whole lot of intergenerational rage on the web today. Time has a piece on Gen-X not feeling loved while Radar is doing some quality Gen Y and Baby Boomer bashing. Can’t we all just be friends? Apparently not it seems.

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Bravest. Australians. Ever.

May 12, 2008 – 8:44 am

Lifesaver Joanne Luca and Jason Cull’s mates who helped save him from the attack. Story and video. Pictures.

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Toughest. Australian. Ever.

May 12, 2008 – 8:39 am

Jason Cull ‘punched, poked’ an attacking shark. He Survived. Enough said.

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