It’s about time to look for some alternatives regarding Gravatars (those personal images that decorate every single comment). The server responses of gravatar.com go from very slow to none at all, which massively increases loading time of comment pages.

Shame is that there are over 4,5 million Gravatars registered and the service now risks it’s leading position for global personal avatars to someone else.

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This plugin syndicates all kinds of stories from digg.com and lists them in your blog.
Various options allow you to fetch stories from specific users, friends, topics, the digg search, and the Popular/Upcoming sections of digg.

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Ever wanted to know where to get Pepper Self-Spray, an iPod Shredder, Fortune Cookies with Medical Test Results or a brand new Whore-Ganizer?

Well, if you check out the SkyMaul Catalog Parody, chances are that you’ll find such macabre, absurd and socially offending products.

This new beta version of Skype supports public chats and Skypecasts. Users can participate or start moderated public phone conferences.
Go get the Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows.

Conspicious was the fact that Skype 3.0 Beta also installed a Firefox Extension. Could this be the necessary interface to my idea of the Skype Links Extension?

The 3.0 beta is available for WinXP/2k only. Since the Mac version just learned the video function, it may take some time until these new community functions are implemented in the OS X version of Skype.

Update: Now Skype 2.5 Beta is out for Mac.

All things have an interface. Shaping interfaces is shaping the character of things. The brand is what transports the character of things. When looking at McDonalds, iPod, Nintendo DS it becomes quite obvious that the interface is the brand.

From: The Interface of a Cheeseburger. A vigorous article which teaches you that branding hasn’t necessarily to be pretty, but strong.

Lovefilm.com created this Ultimate Film Desktop Wallpaper to celebrate the 100th edition of their newsletter. The wallpaper is packed full of 100 cryptic film titles for you to find. Think you’ve found them all?