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The Google

Hamish Stevenson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:00:52 +0000

Google to launch ‘The Google’ For Older Adults. “The Google will have all the same information currently found on regular Google, but with the added features of not stealing your credit-card numbers or giving your computer all kinds of viruses,” said Rick Tillich, The Google project director.

Gold.

Like Colour?

Allan Mansfield — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:56:22 +0000

Unless you’re of the gothic persuasion of course you do. I’ve come across an amazing site that has changed the way I design nearly anything. Colourlovers is a site dedicated to colour. Users upload created colours which they personally put a name to. But the best part is the palettes section. Users upload a colour palette of five colours which they think work well (or sometimes not so well) together. Either way it’s a great way to choose a colour palette and see it in action before actually starting designing. Hot.

The Four-Day Week Challenge

Hamish Stevenson — Tue, 09 May 2006 21:23:33 +0000

The more you work, the more you get done, right? Well, Iâ€™d like to encourage you to take the â€œFour-Day Challenge.â€

Ryan Carson, from Carson Systems, puts out the challenge. Read it online at A List Apart! I think Catch may start closing its doors on Friday…

And now for something completely useless…

Hamish Stevenson — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:59:44 +0000

…but very amusing to say the least.

What you didn’t see at the winter olympics…

Real Life simpsons video

What if Microsoft redesigned the iPod packaging?

Five things I’d do with $200mil

Hamish Stevenson — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:17:09 +0000

I’m sure most of you have caught wind of the recent aquisition of Trade Me, by Australian media company John Fairfax Holdings. Home-grown Wellington lad Sam Morgan, who founded Trade Me in 1999, stands to make at least $227 million out of the deal. Not bad.

This afternoon I was on a flight back from Auckland and got thinking, I wonder what I’d do with $200mil. Sure, the pious amongst us would all love to give half of it away to feed the poor and destitute, eradicate HIV and sponsor our parents retirements. But ya see, the thing is… I wonder… would we really do that? Or when the push comes to shove, would we just end up buying a Lamborghini, a massive house and a whole lot of Chupa Chups!?

Five things I reckon I’d do with that much money is:

Bank it
Pay my rent for this week
Pay my student loan off… oh and my tax bill also…
Pay my rent for last week
Donate more to this, or this mag, or these guys, or these kids.

I wanna know what you’d do with $200mil? Would you invest it? Spend it? Save? Donate? Forget where you put it?