A nice way to harras telemarketing people
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eegbg/counterscript.html
The Direct Marketing sector regards the telephone as one of its most successful tools. Consumers experience telemarketing from a completely different point of view: more than 92% perceive commercial telephone calls as a violation of privacy.
Telemarketers make use of a telescript – a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance.
Google technical set up 1999
The picture on the link below is of all the hardware it took to run Google (Lego bricks and all) back in 1999. Kinda freaks us out, though we’re not really sure why
Super smart foto software
Just started to use a super smart new foto management software called Picasa. It basically takes all you pictures and organise them. However, it much quicker and easier to use than other software I have tried. If you also want to make a picture blog, you should download Hallo. It will allow you to make a picture blog from your desktop.
Funny viral marketing campaign from Burger King
Press the Angus Interventions and send a funny link to a friend.
Two new search engines on the block
IceRocket.com
It makes a search on all the search engines and gives you a combined list
A9.com
The new search engine from Amazon.com. Its actually quite nice, with a neat way to search for pictures, books, movies ect. on the site.