http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/7217429.stm

Jerusalem’s iconic Dome of the Rock – normally a resplendent gold – was turned half white on Wednesday morning.

Snowfalls blanketed streets and buildings with an inch-thick of powder.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3501146

This was one of the first posts I remember reading a couple of years ago defending SEO. It’s a shame that people still equate SEO, internet marketing and spam.

To my mind, some SEO can be spam and that is known as Black Hat; some internet marketing is by definition spam, it ends up in your Inbox and one deletes it within seconds of it arriving. However the vast majority of people in those industries are not spamming, they are helping sites get indexed better, they are buying advertising, they are reworking content to “put its best foot forward”.

I find more harm with self righteous mis-tagging posts with “AIDS”, “cunts” and so forth, and that to be more spammy (deceptive) than the posts and some of the users they target.

http://searchengineland.com/070827-121805.php

From the page: “SEO is not spam. It’s like saying email is spam. There’s email; there’s email marketing; there’s email spam. These are all different things.”

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/30/alternative-energy-rain-power/

Trying to find alternative sources of energy has proven to be an extraordinary feat, allowing us to use everything from sun to the motion of the ocean. But there is still one plentiful source of renewable energy which has so far remained pretty much untapped: rain. Getting energy from falling water droplets might seem like an obvious, `why didn’t I think of that’ idea, but so far no-one has really exploited this plentiful (albeit somewhat unreliable) energy source. Now a team from CEA/Leti-Minatec has created a system that is capable of recovering kinetic energy from the impact of falling raindrops.

http://www.weirdomatic.com/everyone-needs-a-hobby.html

http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/2008/01/30/seo-competition-cancelled/

From the page: “Hmm, I get no pleasure from this, no pleasure at all. As some of the better known contributers to this blog are aware that we run a little SEO competition and score points from ranking positions across Google, Yahoo and MSN for certain keywords. Its been a harmless exercise, mostly jostling for key terms that users search for when looking for services from a search engine optimisation company.”

Paul from North South Media started taking flak for a nice little SEO competition they’d been running for the last half of 2007. It was never a serious competition and Paul admits it was a nice bit of linkbait, but baiting beget trolls who began to scorn NSMs work and the competition entrants qualities, as such Paul has had to pull the competition for this year – I for one hope he changes his mind – which is a pretty good application of reputation management if you ask me, another key skill set of any quality SEO.

http://thepioneerwomancooks.com/2008/01/superbowl_sunday_idea_have_a_quesadilla_party.html

I was into it until the M & Ms. You want a rich dark chocolate, not some sugary piece of shit.

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/01/improve-your-hunched-over-pc-posture.html

From the page: “One of the most neglected aspects of our health is our posture. Amongst all the guidelines on healthy eating and workout methods, this essential facet of our well-being is often overlooked.”

http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/19849

The thumb up is because I like to read stories about SU & social media.

The guy selling his account is an arse of the highest order.

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/maps/popUps/PG5.html

The Glove map of London