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As far as I can figure it, photochaining is a little like a chain letter but rather less annoying and far more digital-age. What you do is this:

Take an amusing photo and leave it on a memory card in a public place. The person who finds it has to download your photo and send it to a website (www.photochainning.com) then delete your photo from the card, take one of their own and repeat the whole exercise.

It all sounds like good clean fun, especially as the memory cards themselves are given cute, one-word names like Anna, Alice, Franz and Lola. I guess, as it grows, it’ll become even more interesting as we follow these little cards around the world. The whole thing reminds me of those balloon competitions they used to have where they release zillions (or more likely 100) balloons with tags attached to see which one travels the furthest, which always used to make me laugh when they only got a mile or two away.

The picture above, incidentally, is from the “gimme” card which was found in Rio de Janeiro in March. Go and check it our. And, when you find a memory card in a clear plastic bag, you’ll know what to do.

News Anchor Jokes about Lady’s Moustache - Watch more Funny Videos

Yes, he’s insensitive, crass and rude, and I love him. I don’t watch much TV but I would watch it everyday if he was on our screens. In this clip, Paul Holmes talks about a lady’s moustache.

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This is CADIE’s homepage. CADIE, which stands for Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity, is an Artificial Intelligence designed by Google. Her homepage is based on a scan of social networking sites. Of course, a glance at the calendar reveals that its April 1st, and hilarious jokes and pranks abound on the internet - Like Youtube being upside-down, Like Digg looking like Reddit and Reddit looking like Digg, Like The Pirate Bay announcing it has been bought by Warner Bros, And Like The Guardian announcing it is switching to a Twitter-only service.

None of which is particularly hilarious, but I April Fools pranks never are, are they? And there is a Humour Recession at the moment.

For loads of Internet April Fools go to www.aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com or just stay in bed till midday when, traditionally, the whole malarkey is supposed to end.

Via Ironwolf, here is a talk by Pattie Maes of The Media Lab at TED about the next level of Information access. She shows an amazing device that projects information wherever you happen to be - On a wall, your hand, another person; and is controlled by a small camera which follows your hand movements, much like ‘Minority Report’.

It is awesomely cool.

Obviously, nobody knows. But us humans being what we are, we all like to try and predict what it will be like in the future. In fact, some people make whole careers out of it. Sometimes our predictions are right, and sometimes they’re very very wrong.

This video features some predictions of future telecommunications by the Post Office Research Station, made in 1969. Its a funny watch because of the awful, stilted acting; but also great fun to see what they got right, and what they got wrong.

I wonder how it came to be called broadband? Wideband seems a better term imo.

Ironwolf is a blogger who tends, in his more serious moments, to write very well about religion and other crazy stuff. Slam-dunking the apologists pretty much sums it up.

When in less serious mode, he jots down all the interesting and fun stuff he finds online, online. The pictures above are a good example, and that makes his mad, crazy, daft blog well worth a glance or three.

You can find it here: http://ironwolf.tumblr.com/

This is a rather nice little spoof movie thingy directed/edited by Joe Burgess, Rocco Sulkin and Will Tribble, you need to see it as its getting kazillions of views on youtube.

Incidentally, I found a great sick joke about cancer on the internet - I’ve been telling it to all my friends and getting loads of hits.

Ben Folds - Zak and Sara - Typographical videoclip by c_kick from c_kick on Vimeo.

I’d never heard this song before, but thanks to c_kick’s great video, I am now aware of its awesomeness!

Yes, Yes, Duffy’s version was ok, but in my humble opinion not anywhere near as good as the original by The Third Degree, recorded in 1968. Have a listen, its awesome, and the production is great too when you consider how old it is.

Thanks to Beanhead McGinty on B3ta/links for posting this.

I like ’supergroup’ U2. Incidentally, what does that mean? Supergroup? They don’t appear to have any powers, apart from amassing huge sums of money and never quite managing to stop their new albums from leaking onto the internet.

But I digress. Do you, like me, wonder where Bono and the boys get their ideas from? I thought Get On Your Boots sounded familiar, and when I figured out what it sounds like I just had to stick the two songs together to compare them. Here it is: