Recently at my college, a spoken word artist performed. He was also agnostic, and one poem he wrote in particular spoke to me. He compared God to Diet Coke, saying that Diet Coke helps him get through the hard times in the same way that God helps others.

Just another one of the many erudite emails sent to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just don't understand why specifically Diet Coke.

I had a go at an iPhone ringtone in Garageband. Download it and give it a try yourself. Here's a regular MP3 version also. #

Most of my referrers in Flickr's stats seem to be from link spammers or even non-existent sites.

A Microsoft blogger revealed yesterday that the next version of Windows ("Windows 7") will contain touch features with specific claims that the new features will 'blow away' the current touch features on the iPhone

So the next version of Windows, not due till 2010 will 'blow away' the current iPhone's touch features? Hmm, think about that one MS. Where do you think the iPhone will be in 3 years time whilst you're sill playing catchup?

You'll notice if you have a look at The Fawcett Inn page you'll notice in addition to the list of upcoming events at The Fawcett there's an easy to access .mac calendar and Google calendar, you can subscribe to or download the .ics to so you can keep up-to-date with the happenings at The Fawcett Inn.

Hicks has updated his gReader beautifier to 1.31.

Yesterday we concluded that all mobile phones are shit and this one is no exception. The industry has managed to pack an incredible about of technology into a small object, such that it would be indistinguishable from magic 20 years ago, and yet make the whole experience of using the thing more irritating than irritated bowel syndrome.

- Pete Ashton reviews a 3mobile Skype phone.

Well, not quite yet maybe, but there seems to be a rush of free wifi. Wetherspoons, and McDonalds to name but 2. There is also TheCloud which whilst not entirely free, does seem to have started pricing itself somewhat sensibly if you have an iPhone (free with O2) or an iPod Touch (£3.99pm) whilst Pay-As-You-Go is still crazily expensive. Is this the end of outrageously priced wifi? I for one hope so. Hat tip.

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

- Your usual Windows user doesn't seem to get this - in my experience Daring Fireball

The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.

- Email Standards Project

I've yet to try it myself, but ies4osx is supposed to run Internet Explorer for Windows very capably - If you have an Intel Mac.