Stalking Venus

I got this via email today…

Уважаемые StalkingVenus
Спасибо за большое блоге и весело читать. Есть ли шанс можно включить еще несколько российских компаний?
Поблагодарить Вас,

… No, I don’t know what it means either.

Here’s another one of those gadgets that measures all sorts of arcane metrics and uses them to configure the ‘real’ dollar value of your website.
Just bung in the URL and click Calculate, and it’ll do it’s thing. Here are the StalkingVenus results…
(So where’s my money?!)

Source: $timator
Did ya see what they did there with that dollar [...]

Schizowebphrenia and Web Multiple Personality Disorder. Do you qualify?

Go check this out. Very cool online audio game. Just play.
Link: Auditorium
Oh, and just in case it’s not obvious, you need speakers or headphones to play.

This is pretty amusing. Source unknown.

Very interesting post over at Kevin Kelly’s blog. It basically sums up much of the thought surrounding the idea of a ‘global megasupercomputer’ that is theorised to be developing naturally as a result of all the computers and processors becoming attached to each other via the internet.
From the article:
“My hypothesis is this: The rapidly increasing [...]

Today I started playing ‘The Game’, and in doing so, instantly lost at ‘The Game’. Now, thanks to this post, so have you. No idea what I’m on about? Check this and this. Now you know. God teh intarwebz are strange.

Interesting post by Fayyaad over at Utter Insanity on the drawbacks of current legislation over the online world. Basically, he follows up on a few different articles discussing the fact that progress online is far out-pacing the legislation in the real world to manage it.
What do you do if you create a virtual object in [...]

… imagine a condition where the strongest species has grown in such numbers as to utilise all available space in their habitat (to whit: humanity, early 21st century). Nothing can enforce a natural disaster, so evolutionary theory holds that a set of traits needs to develop to allow the creature (in our case, us) to survive under these conditions. This being the case,and intelligence having proved itself as the strongest survival trait to date, evolutionary theory dictates that differentiation of intelligence is the most likely next evolutionary ’step’.

Luckily this is a fairly easy thing to fix and doesn’t involve getting Wordpress to release new code. The problem is caused by the fact that you are using a theme that has old CSS methods for aligning images. The new implementation of the way Wordpress inserts images uses classes to specify alignment. Most older themes don’t.