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Free American Flags in Honor of Flag Day from AmericanFlag.com

You can get a free American Flag, in honour of Flag Day, from online flag retailer AmericanFlag.com! Here’s their announcement: HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y., June 13 /PRNewswire/ — AmericanFlags.com will offer its website visitors free American Flags all day on Tuesday, June 14th in honor of Flag Day. The U.S. flags…

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FTC Father’s Day Web Animation: “Don’t Let the Phishers Catch You”

It must be the week for cute web animations. First Consumer Union did their cute web animation lampooning drug ads, and now the Federal Trade Commission has released a web animation for Fathers’ Day, featuring a father fish teaching his little fishies how not to fall victim to the phishers….

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Cute Web Animation Takes Aim at Vioxx, Bextra, Pharmaceutical Ads and Lax Drug Safety Laws

Now here’s a novel use of the web. Consumer Union is lobbying Congress to tighten drug safety laws, following the wave of people who have been injured or worse after taking such approved drugs as Vioxx and Bextra. As part of their effort, they are lampooning the rash of drug…

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Would You Like Ringtones with That? Supersize Your MP3?

McDonald’s is introducing, I kid you not, downloadable music and ringtones under the golden arches. The offerings, available via Blaze Net kiosks, are McDonald’s latest bid to stay current with the times. Other offerings include store-wide wifi, and McLattes. Said McDonald’s spokesperson Bill Whitman of their newly funkified locations, “It…

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Avoid Voice Menu Hell! How to Cut Through Integrated Voice Response and Reach Real Live People!

Are you one of those people who find IVR (integrated voice response) systems and automated telephone attendants impersonal, annoying, and hey, just plain rude? Do you sometimes think that you’ll go postal if you have to navigate one more voice menu? How many times have you entered your account number three or four times only to find yourself frustratingly disconnected because the IVR system “didn’t understand your request”? Well, if any of the above describes you (or hey, even if it doesn’t) you’re going to be thrilled at what we have found for you!

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Free MP3 Downloads at Amazon!

Ok, now that you know to avoid the virus which deletes MP3s, here is some happy news. Did you know that Amazon offers free downloads of songs in MP3 format? Yep, it’s true! At any given times there are 200 free songs at Amazon, free for the asking (and the…

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Test Your Doggie Style

A website for a new British comedy, “Gone to the Dogs”, has a nifty cool online “what dog are you?” test. Yes, yes, we know, it sounds insipid, perhaps even sophomoric. But the “Gone to the Dogs” online “what dog are you?” test is actually entertaining, novel, and extremely well…

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Homemade iPod Mini “Tiny Machine” Ad by George Masters Takes Internet by Storm

iPod Mini fans do lots of interesting things with their tiny machines, but George Masters has taken it to a new art, literally. Masters has created the ultimate advertisement for his tiny machine, basing his homemade iPod Mini commercial on, appropriately enough, a song by ’80s pop group the “Darling…

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Podcast? The Who, What, When, Why, and Where of Podcasts and Podcasting

A new kid on the Internet block is the Podcast. It has gotten a lot of attention lately, but the majority of people have no idea what a Podcast, or podcasting, is. Many assume that it must have something to do with iPods (only partly true), and so must have…

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Google X – Google with OS X Appletude – Killed and Resurrected

If you blinked you might have missed it. Google’s labs had put up “Google X”, a Google search home page which emulated Apple’s Mac OS X look and feel, particularly with respect to the dock function. When you used the Google X interface, above the search box were cute little…

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Numa Numa Dance Follow-Up: Gary Brolsma is Not Just Any Fat Kid Lip Syncing

Gary Brolsma and his Numa Numa dance are not just some flash-in-the pan fat kid doing a lip sync and a dance. They are oh, so much more.

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The Internet Urinal – Because It’s Better to be Pissed Off than Pissed On

Ok, now Aunty really has heard of everything. And just in case you haven’t, here it is… The Internet Urinal Yes, you read that right. The Internet Urinal. Those whacky guys over at ThinkGeek.com have taken the ordinary portable urinal (with female adaptor!), and added something to it in order…

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Numa Numa Dance: Webcam + Lip Sync = Gary Brolsma, Internet Star

Gary Brolsma obviously didn’t read our cautionary tale about the teenager whose home movie of himself having sex with his girlfriend up on the Internet. Or, maybe he did. But what Gary Brolsma recorded himself doing has piqued the interest of people more than if he was having sex. Even…

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New Computing Beverage of Choice – Chantico Chocolate

Move over black coffee so thick that your spoon stands up in it. And it was never old Coke or new Coke for this computer jockeyette. We have a new drink of choice. It is the perfect drink for a quick-pick-me up while hammering the keys late at night. Or…

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Help Spread Holiday Cheer: Donate Bandwidth for This Guy’s Christmas Lights

Ok, you’ve all seen my post about Alek Komarnitsky and his 17,000 Christmas lights, and you’ve seen my post about how there is a movement to get him on some national talk shows.