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Friday, 26 June 2009

Micheal Jackson's Death Caused Twitter To Crash

Yesterday Twitter crashed with the sheer volume of people using the service.

Searches for topics related to Michael Jackson peaked at 3PM Pacific

Queries about the star soon rocketed to the top of its updates and searches. But the amount of traffic meant it suffered one of its well-known outages.

Before the company's servers crashed, TweetVolume noted that "Michael Jackson" appeared in more than 66,500 Twitter updates.

According to initial data from Trendrr, a Web service that tracks activity on social media sites, the number of Twitter posts Thursday afternoon containing "Michael Jackson" totaled more than 100,000 per hour.

That put news of Jackson's death at least on par with the Iran protests, as Twitter posts about Iran topped 100,000 per hour on June 16 and eventually climbed to 220,000 per hour.

Pretty morbid stuff but it shows how much people communicate via Twitter and other Social networking sites.

Some Very Good Graffitti

Check these out. Some very clever ideas for graffitti. I added them in thumbnail form so as not to flood the page. Click the thumbnails for full size pics.

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Some Amazing Places To Take A Dump

1. The Hundertwasser Bathrooms in Kawakawa, New Zealand

2. The six commissioned artist-designed bathrooms at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin

3. The Singapore Zoological Gardens

4. Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts

5. Bar 89, Soho, New York City

The picture doesn’t look like much, but the premise here is that anyone can see right into the bathrooms until someone goes in and locks the door, which then magically turns opaque. A little gimmicky, perhaps, but who’s above gimmicks these days anyway?

6. Alexandra Hospital, Singapore

7. Victorian Toilets in Scotland, UK

8. 3D Gold Store in Hong Kong

9. 40/40 Club in Manhattan, New York

10. Outhouses in Central West Antarctica

Strangely absent: The basement bathrooms at The New Museum in New York City

Strangely absent: New York City’s new public bathroom booths

Futuristic Bike Designs

Micheal Jackson Dead

Singer Michael Jackson has reportedly been taken to hospital in California.

Paramedics were called to his building, where they performed CPR on an unidentified patient thought to have suffered a heart attack.

Both the LA Times and the Associated Press have reported Jackson's death.

Michael Jackson sold records by the million - and broken records as well.

With the soulful vocal presence of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder and the dance moves of James Brown, Jackson's appeal crossed both national and racial boundaries.

Michael Jackson's final album, Invincible (2001) was released at a time when he looked anything but.

A swirl of controversy, including Jackson's repeated assertions that his record company, Sony, had asked for their money back - all $200m of it - and that the label's chairman, Tommy Mottola, held black artists back, effectively drowned out the music.

It seemed an underwhelming end to what had been one of the most spectacular of all musical careers.

But the star was due to begin a series of sold-out comeback concerts, starting with an appearance in London next month.