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It's time again for more fun and frivolous morsels from around the web...
History of Predictive Text Swearing
Here's a fun little video explaining why predictive text phones never seem to include any swear words.
Web Economy Bullshit Generator
If you ever have to discuss web with your clients, this website might come in very handy. Just click the button and you'll get a phrase consisting of a random assortment of bullshit web words. Some examples:
- repurpose leading-edge platforms
- revolutionise viral technologies
- embrace web-enabled models
You'll be a web marketing hero in no time 
How to draw a Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds
At the recent NVISION graphics expo, Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters gave a short demo to explain the difference between computer graphics cards powered by the CPU and those which have their own dedicated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Here is a short extract, trust me it's more interesting than it sounds.
Stupid Email Disclaimers: Don't Use Them
I'm sure we've all sent or received emails that contain those massive paragraphs of legal thuggery at the bottom saying this is confidential and private and not the views of the company yadda yadda yadda. They seem to be getting longer and longer don't they?
The consensus seems to be: they're stupid. They've been tested in the courtroom and not only do they not work, they sometimes backfire. There's a nice post about it over at Stilgherrian's blog, be sure to check out the comments where some lawyers have weighed in with their opinion.
Windows Ads Get Weirder and Worse
A month or two ago the tech world was buzzing with news that Microsoft were planning on launching a counter-offensive to combat the success of Apple's Mac vs PC ads. They were blaming Apple's ads on people's poor opinion of Vista, rather than, y'know, the fact that it's 5 years late, breaks lots of old features, has no new worthwhile features and the ones that aren't worthwhile need a much higher-performance computer to use than the one it ships on. Oh and it's the most expensive version of Windows to date. ANYWAY...
Microsoft thought they'd show how hip and relevant they are by getting their own cutting-edge celebrity in to spruik for them - Jerry Seinfeld. The video of the new ad is below. Let me know if you think it settles the score.
Meanwhile here's Apple's latest ad:
