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The always excellent Utter Insanity blog has a link to this rather funky website ranking web application. Apparently StalkingVenus is worth $2971! God knows how they come up with the results, but it’s a bit of fun anyway.
Do you own a website? Go get yourself ranked!

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Internet balloon race starts today!

In just a few hours, hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of balloons will begin floating across the internet. Don’t forget to go and give the Stalking Venus raccoon balloon an extra little push by clicking the orange balloon floating at the bottom right of the screen. Each time you push him, he gets to [...]

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Firefox Download Day - 8 million downloads

Despite all of the download day problems and poor organisation, it just goes to show what a huge following the Fox has… In 24 hours, over 8 million downloads. Guinness has yet to confirm the results, but it looks like the Mozilla uber-app is going to set and totally exceed the record.

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Internet balloon race!

Stalking Venus has joined the world’s first Internet balloon race! See the balloon raccoon bobbing about at the bottom right-hand side of the screen? Well, he’s going to be the Stalking Venus balloon racing champion.
All you have to do is wait until the balloon race starts in a few days time (see our sidebar on [...]

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Firefox 3 weirdly released

Okay, so for those of you who are absolutely desperate to get their hands on the official FireFox 3 release, you can go and download it via FTP here.
It’s weird that I should have to report it as if it’s a bleeding-edge alpha that you’re going to be downloading. Especially considering that they are trying [...]

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Don’t forget Firefox day tomorrow!

Don’t forget to pop over to the Firefox Guinness Record site and download the latest and greatest version of the world’s favourite web browser tomorrow, Tuesday 17 June, 2008.
Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right?
All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set [...]

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New Vodacom ads kick meerkat butt

This is going to be one of those love it or hate it things. I hated the meerkat with an absolute passion, but think these new ads are great. Thank god someone finally woke up Vodacom’s advertsising department.
Americans: You probably don’t know what this is all about, but there-there. Never mind. We don’t know what [...]

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Good ads from Ameriquest

Don’t Judge Too Quickly… We Won’t. - For more funny videos, click here

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Alka-Seltzer advert


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To be or not to be adult.

One of Stalking Venus’ advertisement-serving sponsor sites has decided that our content is of an adult nature. This is probably due to yesterdays post that had some boobage and penii, but also could be because I don’t shy away from using adult language. I write the site the same way that I speak to my [...]

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