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Hi folks, here’s some cool links from the last 23 days…

Some cool photos of chocolate sweets.

Amazon Media Manager Plugin for WordPress.

Mayomi is an awesome Flash app that allows you to make Mind Maps.

A good site for testing your upload or download bandwidth.

Top ten web design mistakes, 2005 edition

Torani needs a new web site www.torani.com

If you ever need to install blogs for a lot of people (like a university web site) try Plog.

I bet you’ve never seen the original Apple Computer logo, huh?

Easy PHP Calendar system.

Super Mario Bros. Sprites

Google plans to open up shop in Phoenix. ” There is also no indication of how many jobs will be involved in the deal, but sources say the number will be substantial.”

I didn’t read the whole post but the part about development in this piece is priceless.

MeasureMap -

Remember The Milk is a very cool looking online to-do list system.

The Walrus and The Carpenter (Via Andrew).

A 700 mile square Wi-Fi hot spot in Rural Oregon is making waves.

What does the “Enter Mail Exchanger” area mean in Plesk when setting MX DNS records? Yeah, this is for my future reference.

The story of Beef Stroganoff.

Why do electronics stores check your receipt when you exit? To find out, read the comments in this post.

SEOChat.com and the Google Page Rank Future Query Tool.

What does your favorite computer game look like on a widescreen display?

Clever optical illusion in an ad.

VentureVoice – some cool mp3 interviews with different people.

FlickIt looks like a cool little OS X Widget that integrates with Flickr.

Rock art. Also check out these interseting photos from Namibia.

AdverBox has a ton of cool ads.

My WordPress.com blog (or rather, my Superblog)…

Photo by yours truly. I’ve been getting these all summer instead of Caramel Macchiato’s.

Add yourself to the map and we’ll see where all of the BrainFuel readers are from!

Wow this week sure went fast! Your job is to come up with a funny caption for this photo and post it in the comments. Please keep it clean. Thanks!!

Oh, and yeah, sorry for all of the movie themed captions, just finding all of these good movie scenes lately and they’re the best thing going. This one is from the Matrix if you didn’t guess already. Although your caption doesn’t have to be about the Matrix. Send me a picture if you are feeling ambitious.

So if you’re wondering I wasn’t the person who won the lottery. I didn’t buy a ticket (I understand that diminishes my chances of winning, but only slightly).

So if you recall a week ago I had the delema of whether to join in with the office lottery pool. Well that sparked quite a few emails and comments on the subject and everyone was saying to me…

“Chris!! Just do the math. Statistically you cannot win.”

So I totally agree with everyone. Just to set the record straight. Apparently several people were concerned I was wasting my hard earned money on lottery tickets. Not so.

However this did bring up the chance to talk about why people might play the lottery. Are they really stupid? No.

So why might someone play the lottery?

Hope.

It gives some people who have very little just a glimmer of hope. Not hope in anything everlasting, but I guess you could call it enough to get through a day. I can’t think of any other reason to buy a lottery ticket unless you have a friend that works at the lottery, haha.

My friend Gary pointed me at this site for Killer Paint. It’s a really glossy, button style layout that reminds me of all of the layouts from the 90s.

This site wins the award for being the most far out. See what you think.

Just the other day I heard a ringing sound and it was a friend buzzing me from the Netherlands on Google Talk. Have you tried the voice capabilities? I know the technology isn’t new and I’ve done it before however it is seriously cool. The audio quality is almost in sterio.

Ever since I gave out my Google Talk ID on BrainFuel in August I’ve heard from a bunch of cool people. In the short time the post was on the homepage I heard from more than a dozen BrainFuel readers. It’s a lot of fun. If you have Google Talk my user id is: BrooksBrotherAZ and feel free to send me a message.