Sell More Subscriptions or You Get Beaten Up!

Young people are being recruited in America to sell magazine subscriptions on the street. According to this New York Times story, the business is very dubious.

Picture of a sandstorm approaching in Iraq and Carbon Offsetting

This is a Featured Picture in Wikipedia. "Cheatneutral" is a funny piss-take of carbon-offsetting. You pay via them for someone to "not cheat" in order to offset your cheating. Offset your guilt!

Flying People Photos

The World Press Photo Contest has some cool pictures of people flying through the air - it's dance!

Edit photos online

This is a cool idea; you can edit your images online at this website. You don't need photo-editing software and you can work with your flikr pictures. It's only in beta so far and it's only got basic controls, but it looks cool. Mac / PC ads are all around now, but I found a Japanese one that looks cool - Domo

Animated film

A nicely animated film about a fantasy explorer.

Vista Security hole... I know but this is also funny

Apparently if a wav file is downloaded and played at sufficient volume and quality on a machine running Vista where speakers and microphone are enabled, the machine may respond to commands issued in the wav file. There's also a technet article about it. Funny stuff!

Development

This video on YouTube is of a fascinating lecture about development across the world (as in economic / social development, not computer development) presented as data on charts. Presented by Hans Rosling