I just can’t make my mind up about Star Spangled Ice Cream. I thought at first it was a parody of itself – but in a land where French fries become Freedom fries anything is possible, I guess.

Ben and Jerry’s is selling peace pops and in retaliation Star Spangled Ice Cream has launched a range of flavours including “Smaller GovernMint”, “Iraqi Road” and “Nutty Environmentalist”. Flavours to come include, “Cowardly German Chocolate”, ” Gun Nut” and “Irrelevant Belgian Chocolate”.

How about this:

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… does indeed appear to be defective yeti.

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It’s about blimps – I can’t describe it any better than that – you’ll just have to read it…

The BBC alerted me to the existence of this picture of London from space taken by an astronaut in the International Space Station.

You can get a 3032×2064 pixel version of this from NASA here – though it is a little blurry.

So you see? The ISS is worth keeping!

This page explains how the Japanese can be more expressive with their emoticons because they have many more letters to choose from. Even using standard characters they manage to eke out more meaning. Like:

(-_-) “He gets angry but he doesn’t express his emotion so much outside”

Thanks, boingboing

o(^_-)O (“a punch for encouragement” to Cory at boingboing!)

Heather Havrilesky who used to write entertainingly for the late lamented suck has her own weblog now and recently found out that undergrads at the University of Texas are studying weblogs including her own. She waxes amusing about this…

If you are interested in serious sociological studies of home page creation they appear to be surprisingly thin on the ground. I just read an interesting overview in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication and found a good site from Nottingham Trent University that references other sites about identity and web pages – largely but not exclusively focusing on gender issues.

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According to this quiz my top five moral philosophers/schools would be:

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In the wake of Google’s Zeitgeist of 2002, both Lycos and Yahoo have provided glimpses of what people are using their search engines to search for. Dragonball (the Japanese animation series and associated products) is at or near the top for both of the other engines, as is Britney Spears, but Dragonball doesn’t appear to feature in Google’s Zeitgeist at all, and on Google Jennifer Lopez is more prominent than Britney Spears – I wonder what that says about the user demographics of each search engine.

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