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Used midget, anyone?

I did a quick search for “midget gems” on Google earlier. Don’t ask – it was honestly school-related. No, seriously. It was. Anyway, I spotted the following advert on the sidebar. I was too scared to click on the link in case it took me to some dark, human-trafficking corner of eBay of which I [...]

Google Superbowl ad

The single most expensive advertising blocks in TV in the US are during the Superbowl. Google bought one and broadcast the one featured below. All of the ads they made are available to have a look at on YouTube (they’re called “searchstories“), but I really think they picked by far the best.

It’s a simple, [...]

A day of anniversaries

Bravery in action

There are three, that I know of, things to commemorate today – June 6th. Well, four if you include the fact that 6am on the 6th of the 6th is a good time to draw pentagrams and balance up how much you reckon your soul could be worth on the [...]

Search question

Maybe I should search for this

Just random, no reason for asking… what was the last search query you did on Google or wherever? Mine was:

ubuntu vpn server ports

Which pretty much sums me up. Good job I hadn’t just been on Google Image Search or I’d have had to confess about [...]

Could you use this GMail add-on?

Google have proved they have a sense of humour by releasing a funky add-on to the Labs in Gmail. All it does is confirm that you really, really want to send that email you just typed. Which sounds silly, but how often have you bunged off a random SMS while drunk that you [...]