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My latest favourite thing: SNARF from Microsoft. I was as surprised as anyone to find out that Microsoft Research had released something this useful for free… remarkably it actually works.

It scans all your Outlook mail folders (including ones which aren’t stored on an Exchange server) and attempts to work out what relationship you have with each individual (you can define many of the parameters yourself).

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I don’t use this blog enough. I’m thinking of going to some kind of photo blog, having spoken to a few friends about this. Anyway. If you’re into cats and sinks, then this will really float your boat.

Someone really spent a lot of time on that site. And they’re not (yet) mercenary enough to put banner ads on the site either – you could get a lot of impressions out of a concept relying on the action “Show me another cat in a sink!”

Dammit, I hate people who trawl the Internet for cool stuff, then put it on their blog to look clever or something.

I overcame this hatred to share this with the world. It’s the Bible, in Lego. I’m a sucker for anything involving Lego, and this is just great. I’m not sure if it’s blasphemy, but it’s painstakingly done, and I like it.

The Brick Testament

Interested to see Rapleaf is now live.  It allows you to rate other people in a similar way to eBay, but you don’t have to have been in a transaction with them.  I’ll be very interested to see how meaningful the ratings are once a few people are using it… have a look at my reputation if you’re interested.

I’m a big fan of the ‘dancing robot’ Citroen ad – just discovered a spoof of it on Google Video.  Make sure you watch right to the end!