links for 2008-11-30

OK – I've decided. My new Web 2.0 service, which will be a social font discovery tool, will be called TyreBottle. I'm convinced the system they use is adapted from Asus's method of naming computers (letters and numbers on a dartboard) with randomly-selected words instead, such as 'Master', 'Oxymoron', 'Chocolate', 'Gluck', 'Elephant', 'Chief', 'Siam' and 'Kaiser'.

A parody of a MyFace bulletin.

A cluster made of BASIC stamps: you know, the type of microcontroller found in some robots. Not really a supercomputer, but cool all the same.