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1. How good are you with the mouse?
   Play escape
2. How good are you with the keypad?
   Play Tontie
3. And you skills with inverted preconceptions
   Play psychopong

My Secret Life As A Prostitute is a blog by a woman who claims to be a real prostitute. Not the kind that stands in streetcorners but the kind that acquires clients by email and various "dating" websites.

She blogs almost every day and it's often very interesting to read. Some entries are just about how stupid men are, but a lot of entries are her answering questions from curious readers. So, if you've ever considered to become a prostitute, read her website first to get a feel for it.

Go to Songsear.ch to search for songs from lyrics.

This little site has some interesting measures on the amount of calories in McDonald burgers.

"Filet-O-Fish - 470 calories with 26 grams of fat. That is one fat fish!"

This is cute. Pictures of Google's first couple of servers from the Internet Archive site. That was back in the day when they only had about 25 million web pages indexed. It feels nostalgic.

Don't ask me how I came across this but it really caught my attention. Here are a few photos for the store opening of a doughnut shop in Indiana, USA. On the night before the opening they give the people who have been waiting all night company t-shirts with their queue number on the back. One guy waited outside the shop for 17 days, in a tent. What did he get for that? Cash? A car? No, he got the t-shirt with number 1 on it and the honour to switch on the big new neon sign. Wow!

Us europeans have a lot to learn from the north americans when it comes to commercialism. Many commerce ideas are copied with success here in the UK and Sweden but often with many years delay.

Here's another link about the marketing on the store opening

The "obfuscating C code contest" is an international competition where people submit program source code written in C and when they submit it they aim to make the source code as obfuscated as possible.

Both 2002 and 2003 were cancelled but now the 2004 is on the way. The deadline has been reached. Now we're just waiting for the results!

The "obfuscating C code contest" is an international competition where people Here's some code from one of the 2001 winners:

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Outbreak is a flash game where you act as a IT admin of a company and your job is to protect your network from viruses. Actually, the game starts when the first viruses have arrived. I found it very hard to keep up. As soon as the viruses arrive you don't really know what to do so you press all kinds of buttons such as "Install Patch" or "Pull the plug".

It's not so much a game, rather more like a interactive and fun advertisement. Nevertheless, it's an impressive advertisement. I wish it would have been a proper sim. Then I'd probably not be writing about it right now, I would be playing it still. It didn't work in Firefox so I had to blow off the dust on internet explorer to get it working again.

Molvania.com shows extracts from a travelling book about the country Molvania. It's very funny, complete with pictures and accommodation reviews like this:

"Another equally cheap hostel is the Majkvic Jverzte, which is located in a peaceful neighbourhood, well away from traffic, noise and crowds. On the downside, it’s a three-hour bus ride to the city outskirts – but at least the rooms are neat and regularly fumigated. Facilities are understandably basic with shared bathrooms and dormitory-style bunks. During the low-season there’s also a 10% discount for students, although this status must be proved with an official ID card or some form of body-piercing."

The FAQ is also worth checking:

"HOW DO I GET THERE?
Most people get to Molvania either by air and by accident."

Not news, but worth showing. A flash animation where the Microsoft windows sounds are mixed in all kinds of ways to make it sound pretty cool. Really worth the short time it takes to download.

Can someone tell me how they did that. Surely, in some parts of the animation, no man can move the mouse that fast.