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Fun:

Here is a “funny” blog.

“Here’s Comes Another Bubble” video and copyright fracas.

Incredible paper folding video from MIT.

Off-topic post on Tom Swifties.

Four parodies heading into the weekend.

For fun, we wanted to see if we could get a page dugg for Father’s Day.

Can you evaluate the effectiveness of your website in a mere seven minutes? This exercise can’t approach the value of a comprehensive third-party review, but it can help you brush up on usability and conversion basics.

How the computer really moves the cursor.

Next time you have a free hour in DC, consider visiting the National Postal Museum across from Union Station.

Random Friday fun.

A great news day across the web, truly amazing stuff!!!

The best opportunity to see a total lunar eclipse in recent years will happen tomorrow night, between sunset and 8p EST.

Delighted to see our blog named to Todd And’s list of 150 Top Marketing Blogs. We’re honored.

18 assorted interesting links, no particular theme.

I’ll be speaking at the AMA’s “Hot Topic” series on paid search in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago in April, May, and June.

What is intriguing about the Zombo.com search engine is its sheer breadth — you can do anything at Zombocom.

Incredible and strange online art from Masayuki Kido.

We offer this list of tactics to marketers interested in torpedoing their site’s conversion rate.

Google advocates for test driven development, no matter where an engineer sits.

A chracter encoding software bug produced this “handwritten” message.

On October 18th, English writer Sharon Jacobsen writes a blog post called Collecting People.
Fast forward sixty-seven days: “blog tag” has gone viral, with 15,000+ posts across the web.
Could you or your business create an idea so good it spreads like a virus?

Recognizing the heroic efforts used by search marketers across the nation to cram compelling marketing messages into a tiny handful of characters, President George W. Bush has named October 15 through October 21, 2006 as National Character Counts Week.

Following the trail blazed by the MillionDollarHomePage, some hardworking MIT Course 16 students are selling ad space on the outside of their low-earth satellite to subsidize their project. Launch date is scheduled for 2010. RKG is proud to support this effort.

I enjoyed being interviewed by Stephan Spencer of NetConcepts about online marketing earlier this week

When the blogosphere errs, it self-corrects amazingly fast. “With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow” applies to open-source news, too.