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What’s behind BP’s logo?

Help us rebrand them
BP’s slick green logo doesn’t suit a company that wants to invest in tar sands, the dirtiest oil there currently is.

We’re inviting you to design them a new logo
that’s more suitable for their dirty business.
Bron: Greenpeace UK

Before her 21-year-old daughter died in a sledding accident in early 2007, Pam Weiss had never logged on to Facebook. Back then, social-networking sites were used almost exclusively by the young. But she knew her daughter Amy Woolington, a UCLA student, had an account, so in her grief Weiss turned to Facebook to look for photos. She found what she was looking for and more. She was soon communicating with her daughter’s many friends, sharing memories and even piecing together, through posts her daughter had written, a blueprint of things she had hoped to do. “It makes me feel good that Amy had a positive effect on so many people, and I wouldn’t have had a clue if it hadn’t been for Facebook,” says Weiss. Bron: Time

Time heeft er al eens aandacht besteed in haar bericht ‘How to Manage Your Online Life When You’re Dead‘ en ook het weblog ‘MakeUseOf‘ heeft dit voor een aantal populaire web diensten onderzocht: Wat gebeurt er met je online accounts wanneer je komt te overlijden?

Hotmail en Gmail blijken toegang aan de nabestaanden van de overledene te verlenen, zolang ze maar aantonen dat hij of zij overleden is. Myspace en Yahoo verwijderen simpelweg het account. Facebook zal het account ook verwijderen wanneer dit gevraagd wordt, maar maakt er ook een gedenkpagina van als de familie dit verzoekt.

Ooit wel eens over nagedacht…. ?

But, we’re not just restarting the game. We’ve made some improvements to the gameplay that we think address many of the concerns that you have brought to our attention while you played the game. We will provide additional details about these changes soon.
This restart does mean that everyone will be starting over with $3 million to spend and will need to register again. Bron: blog.monopolycitystreets

Via Bright en de weblog van Monopoly City Streets lees ik dat de Google Monopoly game een reset zal krijgen omdat er erg veel mensen (gemakkelijk) valsspelen. Tja… beetje naief om te denken dat mensen niet verschillende accounts openen om vervolgens heel gemakkelijk straten goedkoop door te verkopen. Het geheel restarten zal ze erg veel spelers gaan kosten….. erg jammer…

Google’s Search options let you slice and dice your search results, explore your search and generate different views of your results page to more easily and quickly find what you need. Bron: Google Youtube

Is dit echt zo’n verdieping? Zitten jullie te wachten op een ’slice & dice’ optie?
Zie ook de Dutch Cowboys post “Google anticipeert op WolframAlpha” hierover.

In order to create an awareness about work safety, this guerrilla stunt was made, where body parts were placed in vending machines with the copy:
“Speak up about work safety and stay in one piece.” Bron: Invisiblered

Leuke guerilla actie!
Via Invisblered.

[Note: Last week we saw some interesting speculation that Atlantis had been found in Google Earth. As much as we'd love for that to be the case, there is a scientific explanation for the odd markings found on the seafloor. We've invited two of the scientists who gathered the data that appears in Google Earth to answer some questions that came up. - Ed.] Bron: Google LatLong

“2 be, or nt 2 be: tht’s the q:
Whether ’tis nblr in the mnd 2 sffr
The slngs & rrws of trgs frtn,
Or 2 tk rms gnst a sea of trbls,
by ppsng end thm? 2 die: 2 zzz;
No mr & by a zzz 2 say we end
The hrt-ache & the thsnd ntrl shcks
That flsh is hr 2, ’tis a cnsmmtn
Devoutly 2 be wsh’d. 2 die, 2 zzz;”
Bron: AD Lab