You’re so vain… I bet you think this post is about you. Well, don’t worry, you’re in good, and beautiful, company. Why not join all your like-minded friends over at BeautifulPeople.com and just admit you think you’re more gorgeous than Brangelina’s offspring already?
Who are these Beautiful People, now? “An exclusively beautiful community, founded for the [...]

If you’ve ever worked in design in marketing or advertising, whether online or traditional mediums, you’ll know that clients expect you to come up with creative that works miracles. I’m currently working with a client, for example, who expects me to create ads that will help sell their totally BS money-making, enviro-sucking hotel development as [...]

PC users, say hello to your new friend: the talking desktop buddy from Deskbot (http://www.bellcraft.com/deskbot/), “A freeware, multi-featured Clipboard Reader, Text Reader, Time Announcer, Desktop Application for Microsoft Windows featuring Microsoft Agent Animated, Talking Characters. For use with Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista.” (For Mac users, try the Dragonball Z Desktop buddies at www.chunkypig.com.)

The good news for those of us who don’t speak Chinese is that other radical changes will occur in the next five years which will actually benefit us. We won’t send you to watch the full 45-minute interview available on YouTube – it’s a super-snooze fest and besides, the kind, now-snoozing-no-doubt ReadWriteWeb (www.readwriteweb.com) folk already did that for us. But we did think these points he made were interesting (highlighted by aforementioned now-snoozing ReadWriteWeb folk):

Upset users took to Twitter, one of Facebook’s mortal enemies?, to write about it: “Facebook just told me to reconnect with a friend of mine who died a couple years ago. Not cool, Facebook,” one user tweeted. Another says: “One of my friends on Facebook has passed. FB keeps asking me to reconnect with her… FB will never be smart enough…” And another: “Facebook just suggested that I ‘reconnect’ with someone who passed away 2 years ago. That’s so messed up.”

SpeakingFaces.com is a killer new startup (revealed to the world at large by KillerStartups funnily enough) that allows you to upload a photo of yourself and then get unbiased opinions on the first impression you make from a pool of totally neutral, anonymous people. Totally neutral, anonymous people with no obligation to be nice. Eek.

Anyway, this is how it works: you want to go all old school and retro and send someone a snail mail, but you’re too lazy to actually go to the post office, buy the stamps, lick the stamps and then, your aching tired handwriting arm, put the letter in the post box yourself. And don’t even get you started on the dramas of trying to find an actual envelope! Anyway, why would you when you’ve got The Mail Monster to do it all for you.

Anyway, inane ramblings aside (another sign that maybe my brains are actually being scrambled, possibly by me cell), turns out I’m not the only one concerned about cell phone radiation. So in that, at least, I’m not completely psycho. On my side, I’ve got the Environmental Working Group who’ve actually launched an online cell phone radiation chart. Check it out here.

Why should I care about my handwriting (or indeed allow myself to be placated by such an insipid insult about the rest of my being)? Well, thanks to FontCapture.com, and Killer Startups who found FontCapture and broadcasted it to the world, my handwriting is now actually something I can use to make the world a prettier place.

Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Hmmm, the joys of the quarter-life, mid-life, any-stage-life crises… I have them most days, and it gets quite tiring. Which is why Daytum Infoporn caught my eye recently, with its promises to help me “collect, categorise and communicate my everyday data”, and then “exploring” it all “to reveal the bigger picture”.