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As you may or may not have noticed, my posts have been few and far between this week. Things have been a bit hectic personally and professionally. Basically just been crazy busy and didn’t have a lot of time to spend spitting my normal propaganda in blog form. I did think about and come across some random things though, and none of them really warranted a full post all by themselves. Anyways, here is what’s been on my mind.

UPDATE: Looks like this is happening. More from MediaPost
I think I am ready for a Google portal, a “MyGoogle” if you will. They (Google) own the domain mygoogle.com, and it really just seems like the last logical piece that would bring it all together. Take news, search, desktop search, gmail, maps, dodgeball, orkut, froogle, local, picasa, and blogger, roll em all up, and package them nice and neat MyYahoo style and take over my desktop once and for all. I’m here, I’m willing, just take me.

I recently saw an ad for YASNS (yet another social networking site) called FriendCircles.com, and decided to sign up. Not because I cared much about being a part of the site, but more because the graphics looked like they were straight out of Friendster’s dumpster and I wanted to see if this was really the tent-show operation it appeared to be. Not surprisingly, it was. Basically FriendCircles.com is takes mesh of MySpace and Friendster’s look and feel and wraps it around an oddly inactive seeming community run by FriendSearch. I guess it was just a matter of time before social networking scene followed the model of turnkey dating sites and just began slapping different skins on a shared back end.

If you liked beer.com’s virtual bartender, check out this one from Bavaria. Basically the same thing, but for some reason it is slightly hotter when it is not in English. English commands still seem to work though.

A great slideshow of innovate products from this week’s Onion. If you are somehow unfamiliar with The Onion, check it out. These guys bring it every week and it is always hilarious.

No one cares about Bangor, Maine. Whenever there is a suspected terrorist on board a flight coming from overseas, we send them to Bangor, Maine until we figure out what is going on. No body checks the no-fly lists BEFORE the planes take off, so poor Bangor, Maine gets the shit end of the stick and acts as the eastern seaboard’s toll booth for incoming problem flights.

Air France has Cat Stevens on board? Bangor, Maine.

A plane full of Iraqi insurgents? Bangor, Maine.

747 hijacked and out of control? Shoot them down over Bangor, Maine.

As you may have noticed, I have a banner up on the right side of the site for BustedTees.com. I try my best to only put up ads for cool companies that I would buy from or have bought from. BustedTees has some pretty awesome t-shirts that I highly recommend. I just bought my sister one for her birthday. Check ‘em out.