If you are reading this on 27 January you should stop immediately and un-plug your modem, for today is World No Internet Day. So instead of staying inside and playing a computer game, go outside and play a real game, have a real face to face chat with a real person in a real room, and let the emails wait for 24 hours.

In an interesting experiment to see how quickly Google Adsense can bring traffic to your site, a Sydney blogger has set up a page to collect Heather Ledger Jokes.

Initially the traffic was high and cheap, but the click thru price of the Google search soon went through the roof, with a price of $6.50 for a click thru on the phrase “Heather Ledger Dead”.

As for the jokes themselves, the quality is not that high.
My favourite?
Q: Which script does Heath Ledger wish he’d read?

A: The one from the chemist.

With an honourable mention to:

Grim Repear stands with Heath Ledger in front of him and yells, “you morons, I said bring me the DEATH LEDGER”.

Damn, I knew I shouldn’t have joined the “al Qaeda Appreciation Group” in Facebook. It seems one of the directors of Facebook is also associated with a technology venture capital firm set up by the CIA.

So it seems that this social networking site is an easy way for the US government to obtain private information about millions of people around the world, without them even knowing.

Have a look at this article from The Guardian.

This video has been gathering dust on my shelf for years now. It shows me jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft for no apparent reason. I was a bit hung over at the time, but that soon ended.

Enjoy

It is the new year and someone has decided that their new year’s resolution will be to get rich quick with a pyramid letter scheme. In this case it was someone called D.Craven of Centenary Heights, Queensland. Thanks for the 5c piece attached to the letter, but I won’t be sending $10 to the person on the top of the list, nor moving your name up the list, nor sending the letter out to another 200 people. However for your trouble, you and the five people on the list before you get added to my David Rhodes page. Congratulations, you are the first for 2008.

It looks like the scheme has changed slightly. All other letters only had five names on the list. This time it is six. That means it will take even longer for a new entrant to get to the top of the list.

A woman walks into a bar and orders a double entendre.

The barman gives her one.