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Sunday, November 30, 2008

links for 2008-11-30

Filed under: Bookmarks — Jonathan Rothwell @ 12:04

The 15 dumbest names for Web 2.0 startups

OK - I've decided. My new Web 2.0 service, which will be a social font discovery tool, will be called TyreBottle. I'm convinced the system they use is adapted from Asus's method of naming computers (letters and numbers on a dartboard) with randomly-selected words instead, such as 'Master', 'Oxymoron', 'Chocolate', 'Gluck', 'Elephant', 'Chief', 'Siam' and 'Kaiser'.

(tags: web2.0 internet humour)
http://www.theworldofstuff.com/other/bulletin.txt

A parody of a MyFace bulletin.

(tags: myspace bulletin humour parody)
BASIC Stamp Supercomputer :: Parallax Forums

A cluster made of BASIC stamps: you know, the type of microcontroller found in some robots. Not really a supercomputer, but cool all the same.

(tags: clusters robotics electronics beowulfclusteranyone)

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