Even if you are happily hitched the OKCupid (Dating site) blog is fascinating. Full of stats on what men and women think of each other. Women are harsh (rating 80% of men as ugly), men are stupid (wanting the unattainable.)

The Irish Smart Economy is a plea for foreign companies to invest in call centres in Ireland. The 2010 budget last night has foreign-company IDA investment up 21%, indigenous Enterprise Ireland investment down 7%.

Interesting that CitySearch is allowed to programmatically create Twitter accounts. Is this a first test for Twitter of API account creation? This would be a great and powerful feature for the Twitter API. Spam problems but also potential to slice and dice the web in real-time.

Google Living Stories is an interesting implementation of an oft-touted idea. Best explained with an example like The War in Afghanistan which shows a history of news articles that together present a cohesive story. This is where online and digital displays beat print with ease; space. Online has a lot more space for a story than print. You can provide all the back-story the user wants online while print is focused on just the current, latest development.

I like the look of the Boxee Beta UI changes.

Etherpad to be open sourced.

Model your town with Google Sketchup and you could win $10k and a visit from Google. Open worldwide except to Iranians. I guess they don’t want 3D models of nuclear enrichment buildings…

Continuity . Slide-puzzle game crossed with a side-scroller game. Very clever.

Mad idea. Attaching SLR lenses to the iPhone camera.

The number of things in the “bad” column I do with my 16 month old is frightening…