... so here are some really cute otters.

Geeks love otters.

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Free wi-fi by the pool, robots in the lobby, a night in an underground hobbit hole or a stay at the real Tatouine... feed your geeky holiday dreams with the 2007 Best Geek Hotels in the World. As if you need another excuse to spend Friday afternoon daydreaming about the Faena Hotel+Universe in Buenos Aires (above)...

We're pleased to see that New Zealand's own super-geeky Woodlyn Park makes a strong showing at number 3, for its hobbit motel.

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It's an urban myth in the making: This guy's got this friend, right, who works in a human resources department. His organisation is looking to hire someone who, among other things, is an experienced internet user. Fifty people apply. Thirty of the applications come from job-seekers with Hotmail email addresses. Those 30 applications are deleted on arrival.

The logic being, of course, that no one adequately internet-savvy would ever choose Hotmail to host their email account.

Note Hotmail's generous new 250MB storage capacity limit for users, above. Compared to Gmail's 2.5GB of storage and Yahoo's limitless capacity, announced today, it's not hard to see why Hotmail is starting to look like the amateur's choice.

(Link via BoingBoing.)

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David Pogue of The New York Times proves conclusively, once and for all, categorically, irrefutably that Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system did not "steal ideas" from the Mac OS X operating system.

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Rule #1 for IT branding: Never put a mouse in your logo. It will always look a bit rude.

B3ta's phallic logo awards rate many more logos gone wrong -- or, one suspects, bored designers having a laugh.

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"To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new, and really captures people's imagination -- and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard" -- Bill Gates, 1984.

That's not what makes me think this is the most surreal videoclip on YouTube, though. No, what's truly surreal is how totally hot Mr Microsoft was as a young geek. Check out his shiny indie rock hair! Seriously, someone back me up here.... anyone? Oh right, just me then.

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I'm actually laughing too much to write anything here.

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He found notoriety as K-Fed, then Fed-Ex, the loser (ex-)husband who dragged down sweet little Britney Spears for so long ... but my, how the tables have turned. While bald Brit languishes in rehab, Kevin Federline is parlaying his unsuccessful rap career into a new venture.

He's launched a search engine.

That's right, every time you Search with Kevin (search toolbar and plug-ins available for Firefox and IE7) this month, you go in the draw to win amazing prizes, such as a Kevin Federline Autograph, or tickets to Kevin's private birthday party in Las Vegas (travel not included).

We strongly urge you to point your search box in the direction of Click4theCause for the remainder of the month, instead. A collaboration between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Microsoft, whenever you search using Click4theCause, Microsoft will throw wads of cash at the ninemillion.org campaign.

Nine million? Ninemillion.org helps the nine million children in the world who are refugees. Nine million! That's even sadder than Britney's descent into tubby madness.

Microsoft's donations go towards providing education for some of those nine million child refugees. That URL again: Click4theCause. Go there right now and spend five minutes searching for "fdsafdsafs", "jkl;jhhfoais", or even "britney spears". It will make you feel good.

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Tori Spelling, heavily pregnant and recently disowned, has started blogging on MySpace:

So, I rolled up my sleeves, grabbed my plunger, and dove in. I plunged my little heart out when suddenly a miracle happened... the toilet flushed! SWOOSH...and it was all but a distant stench. I was left repulsed and exhausted with a sore forearm yet somehow I felt PROUD! I mean...lets face it, growing up I never had to plunge a toilet . I didnt even know what a plunger looked like. So, it felt like an accomplishment to this girl. I strutted out of that wasteland with a new found respect for septic tank cleaners and a smile on my face. It just goes to show you--- When life hands you CRAP, you plunge away!-- Tori xoxo

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Qué? A mashup of Counter-Strike and Fawlty Towers? Don't mention the war...

Terrorists: In 1981 some of our brothers stayed at Hotel Fawlty Towers.

They were not satisfied!
Mr. Fawlty was the rudest man they've ever met.

The service there was an absolute disgrace, they had to wait nearly half an hour for their main course and when it arrived it was wrong! Their prawns were off and when they told him, there was an argument! Their meat was awfully poor, plus, they've asked him to fix their radiators three times and nothing's been done!

Today. 1984. We will take his guests as prisoners, we don't want to kill them but the bad publicity will finally make the place go bankrupt for good!

(Via Boing Boing.)

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We love laughing at other people's unfortunate body art. But this one is so unapologetically dorky, it's actually kinda cool.

(Via gaygamer.net -- who also bring us the 20 gayest video game characters.)

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