The Gift of the Unexpected: Paying It Forward
There’s a small 99c store near my house that’s a treasure trove of great and obviously easy-on-the-pocketbook finds. I’m often in there to see what they’ve scooped up: boxes of baking soda,…
Mags: Frankie love
A rather fresh looking January/February edition of Frankie magazine is on sale today (cover model: Jessica C @ Clyne). Inside the crisp pages you’ll find the usual array of quirky finds,…
Best Golden Globes: The Hourglass from "The Beachbag and the Hourglass"

With eight Golden Globes to celebrate and bask in golden plump glow, the voting pretty much broke down into a four way pick ‘em of equal opportunity celebration.
But the power of The…
Cole's the Coolest?
The end of the year is always full of wacky lists, but this one tops them all.
Company Editor Victoria White, Pearl Lowe, Amiee Berman and Brit PR king Ian Johnson have named the twenty…
Heroes: Dual (Episode 313)
Come with me if you want to live.Flame on, Heroes! Now, in your best dramatic voice, let’s talk about the episode that will change things forever! Or at least until February when the…
Foodzie funded with $1M and launches updated marketplace
Foodzie (a TechStars 2008 company) has announced that they have closed a $1M round of funding from Jeff Clavier at SoftTech VC, First Round Capital, and angel investors.
Foodzie is an…
Ford's CEO Takes to Twitter
I was at a preview event that Ford was holding for media prior to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), when in strolled our CEO, Alan Mulally. He was immediately swarmed by…
Google & SalesForce.com Integration - Simon Smith's 2008 Favourite Thing
by Simon Smith
Imagine running your entire business in the cloud—from your marketing campaigns through to your invoicing, with pretty charts to tell you how it’s working all the way through.
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The Olympus LS-10 - Angela Kyrhul's 2008 Favourite Thing
I’d forgotten how much I liked Olympus products until the day I went shopping for a podcast-quality digital recorder and discovered the LS-10.
As a journalist, I’ve…
Boobs McGee is getting married
That’s my new nickname for Katy Perry. Boobs McGee. That’s the only reason people care about her, right? It certainly can’t be her looks — she looks like one of…
Is Google Reader Getting Themes Like Gmail? Or Just Hiding More Easter Eggs?

One of our readers was poking around the source code for Google Reader when he found the following lines of CSS:
.style-chooser .style-choice .none {
background:transparent...
Soon, All Your Blog Comments Will Belong To Facebook (Or Google)

There are way too many comment login systems out there. Each blogging platform (Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger) has its own login system, then there are the cross-platform commenting systems like…
Disqus Makes Your Comments Better With Facebook Connect
Blog owners with third-party comment engines don’t have to wait much longer to get Facebook Connect integrated on their blogs. Today, Disqus, one of the leading third-party comment…
Former WWF Champion Mick Foley Endorses The Wrestler
One of the first things most people notice about Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler is the authenticity of the the situations and the performance of the main character…


