links for 2008-01-16

Personally I suspect it will be seen as everyone looking stupid using white earphones with white leads. In 2013, with ubiquitous wifi connections, who will need leads on their earphones anymore?

"People don't make objective choices. Rather, they choose what they think the average person is going to agree with. The same applies to social news. People mostly submit and vote for content they think the community in general is going to find good".

"Sean O'Connor has been documenting the locations of Surface to Air Missile (SAM) sites around the world by using the satellite and aerial imagery from Google Earth". Includes the bits of Crete that don't appear on the tourist maps.

"One of the most common problems facing anyone who publishes content online is copyright infringement. It's happened to me. It's happened to you. And it'll probably happen to this post too. (Oh, the irony!)". It appears I missed out steps 1 to 3.

"So a search on a word such as 'porn' on the internet would be really difficult to get top listing in, right? So, who does SEO for that site? Wouldn't that SEO be the best in the world? Why doesn't anyone EVER talk about this?"

Great black and white shot of a car that has rolled down a hill and ploughed straight into the middle of a video shop in Thessaloniki

"The BBC should have at least one place to display what we reckon is important, interesting or entertaining. Our mission isn't simply to air stories we know you wanted, but also the ones you didn't know you wanted". James on the thinking behind the promo.