This morning I decided to follow TheOnion on twitter. I love how TheOnion is leveraging twitter, effectively to reinforce their brand. Much to my surprise I received a direct message shortly there after…

i suppose we should thank u for following us, but do the gods thank man for his dutiful sacrifices? we’re watching you.

This interesting story about how one man was able to make a huge profit off of software that did nothing. TechCrunch humorously covered the story yesterday but it had been removed before I could even see it in the app directory. Of course, without $1,000 to buy it or an iPhone/iPod to run it on, I wasn’t going to be giving any hands on demos anyway!

Imagine how much people would pay for an application that actually did do something… the sky is the limit!

Found this one on Slashdot this morning, and article from The Standard which looks at 10 stars of the 1990’s and where they (or their technology) are now. Personal favorites Pets.com and eToys which was a site I actually used and liked a whole lot better than anything out there today.

Making me recall a certain Onion story, MySpace today made me a loser with no friends. The odd think about this is that if I were to re-connect to the friends I had, I’m unable to because we’re already friends. However, when viewing their profiles, they’re set to private. Clearly some type of bug has affected my user account or a cache somewhere has been corrupted. The authorities have been notified. (more…)