links for 2008-09-17

I was going to ask "What's the point", but I guess the answer is likely to be filthy lucre...

Spiv? SPIV? Am I going to get back to Blightly and find you all fighting World War II again?

"Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West was packaged as an advertising insert in 70 newspapers". I'm surprised giving away free DVDs like this hasn't occurred to the Express...

"Personalization of search results is very important to the future success of any search engine, and its an effort well underway with many of the big 3 search engines as we speak."

"I don't blame the local Oddbins staff for not knowing about this – after all, they know a hell of a lot more about wine than I do" but crikey, they make virtually every mistake you CAN make with email marketing

"It's interesting that this survey showed around 60 per cent of adults would have appreciated relationship lessons at school". Although presumably at the time they would have been shouting "Errrr miss, not boooyyyys" whilst scrawling Shazza luvs Terry on the desk, no?