Another OkCupid blog post, this time about how your picture effects your success on the site.

Derek Powazek builds a magazine on the weird Sydney dust storm thing.

The dude is the community editor for the Globe and Mail, which most definitely has shockingly shitty comments.

"We analyzed over 500,000 first contacts on our dating site, OkCupid. Our program looked at keywords and phrases, how they affected reply rates, and what trends were statistically significant. The result: a set of rules for what you should and shouldn’t say when introducing yourself online."

I don't exist unless you search for Funkaoshi.

An online game where you need to keep playing an increasing number of different games in parallel.

"The Smoking Gun turns the table on a group of pranksters allegedly responsible for terrorizing strangers over the phone." This is a pretty bizarre story.

Wow: the Internet actually works.

\"The Pharaohs built statues. Caesar put his visage on coins. We use Facebook and MySpace.\"

Now that\'s some serious-ass customer service.

It\'s like Shopper\'s Drugmart, but online. (He should start a side business offering up well.ca email address.) Through till the end of September you can use the coupon code BEWELL to save 10% off what you buy.

Free (1 gig) online file storage. This could be useful.

Generic online spreadsheet database thing.

\"I found an abandoned grocery list in a St. Louis Schnuck\'s parking lot in 1996 or 1997. So I decided to keep them every time I came across one. And the internet is a great place to do stupid things.\" This site is wicked.

Dave offers up advice on how to play <a href=\"http://www.urbandead.com/\">Urban Dead</a>

This should be an interesting thing to follow.

The service is windows only, and will sell you DRM\'d WMA files which won\'t play on iPods. Awesome!?!