links for 2008-11-12

"In the 1940s, when the dignitaries were throwing the pennies, they hit someone in their glass eye and smashed it to pieces. So perhaps there is good reason for the council's concern."

"'Quite a few people in the world have seen my p3n|s. It's kind of cool, I guess,' he told the Independent."

"In response to court orders, Yahoo and Google are censoring search results in Argentina about a variety of celebrities, including public officials, models, actors, and sports stars. Astonishingly, a search on Yahoo Argentina for [Diego Maradona] — one of the world’s most well known soccer stars and the current national team head coach — produces zero results."

Looks like it takes a little jiggery-pokery to set up, but claims to automatically add semantic data mark-up to pages, but *only* when they are crawled by search engines.

Plus point, they say do series of posts. Personal low point, don't stray off topic!

"Now think of what would happen if they'd actually start leveraging these links, let alone optimizing them. No matter if they keep or ditch the Flash, I'm pretty sure that Nike would finally be topping the SERPs for 'running shoes'".

"Tabbloid is a free web based service designed to turn RSS feeds into a PDF newspaper". The mind initially boggles, but then someone mentions the Kindle...