Ohhh yeah… You’ve all heard of Google Earth, now there is Google Sky! Working in a very similar manner, however of course the detail is not quite so “useful”.

Also, if you are really bored, check out Google Moon and Google Mars. Whatever next? I vote for Google Springfield or Google Quahog maybe, if we are lucky, Google Petoria!

Sources Mashable and Laughing Squid.

Is it worth going to see this film tonight, 10,000 BC? Comes out today on this side of the atlantic (no idea when it came out in America). All the trailers make it look very cool, but it’s very short and the cinema these days is a total rip off. Oh dilemmas!

Just noticed this on digg… a scientist guy has been “snapped” (insert pun) stroking a great big scary shark!

See the rest of the story on The Telegraph here.

Excitement building, just sent hundreds of emails about Wednesday cricket… the season is coming!

There’s an office competition being ran for Cheltenham Festival. We have fake money to bet on the races, the winner gets some money back etc… I missed the deadline for submission today so it was decided I would bet on all the number 11’s (at a guess linked to my football number?). Annoying I’m doing better winning wise today than I did yesterday when I tried to pick them myself.

Have a learnt the secret to Horse Racing and gambling… guess?

You will have seen the constant Twitter feed been spamming along on the left hand sidebar, and daily post about the updates. The wonders of WordPress twitter plugins. My newest addition is to add my phone to the Twitter account. Now this basically means that when certain friends post to their Twitter feed, I get a text message with the update. There is a limit on 250 texts a week, but to be honest if I got anywhere near that many I’d turn it straight off.

Luckily, there is a feature to stop it texting you at night, by settings your “sleep” period. Mines set very conservatively so no trying to post Twitter updates in the middle of the night/early in the morning in an attempt to wake me up!

Oh yes, this really is your chance to win a half eaten open pack of Wasabi nuts! Sell by date is clearly printed as oct08.

All you need do is… Be the first to get me on jaiku! After google’s take over new user registrations have been closed, however members can invite. Send invite to colin[at]colinmercer.co.uk and comment here.

The prize will be posted via snail mail as soon as an address is supplied. Gooo team!

I wonder how many porn hits I get thanks to that title.

There was an article on the BBC site I noticed today all about Gordon Brown condemning reports that soldiers had been told not to wear their uniforms whilst off duty around the UK due to receiving verbal abuse about the Iraq war situation etc. To me this seems propostorous, my personal opinion is that the war is probably wrong and we are there for totally the wrong reasons. However, if someone is willing to risk their life for the country how dare they get abused. I have respect for the guys and gals who go out there, my cousin is in the raf and his commitment amazes me!

Read the article here.

Over at the Beanoblog there is a very comical article about how he has lost respect/sympathy for American marines after the puppy throwing incident, from here on in I will refer to it as “Puppygate”. The article has sparked some less than positive feedback from American readers. Check out the comments section, Ohhrah, what a retard!

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Over at Jalopnik they’ve been putting together a list of the top ten vehicles which the readers would like to have post apocalypse. The current leader is the Sisu XA-185…

My take on things is slightly different, thinking outside the box I’d go for a certain Delorean…