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Revealed: The secrets of belly button fluff

This week thousands flocked to a vast used book warehouse to grab whatever titles they could. The lease had ended and the firm, Bookbarn in Bristol, left the entire stock to be given away for free.

It begs the question: is the internet spelling the end for book sales?

Ole and Lena had married under none too happy circumstances, and their married life had not been anything to brag about either. But when, after they had been together for thirty-five years, Ole went to the local judge to ask for an annulment, the whole town gasped with amazement.

A date for the hearing was set and when the time came, the judge demanded to know the grounds on which Ole based his request for an annulment.

“It’s like this, your honor,” answered Ole, “I’ve just learned that Lena’s father never had a license to carry that gun!”

Every company, brand, website needs a logo, one that reflects their identity and is instantly recognisable. There’s certainy an art to good logo design. I always enjoy seeing new and creative logos, so I like visiting Logo of the day, a site that showcases a new logo each day.

You can suggest your own logo for their archives, and also hire a logo creator for your own design.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Techcrunch have done some neat tag clouds by taking highly popular website’s TOS.

Here’s one made up from the Highena RSS feed.

Following all the excitement of yesterday’s supposed find of Atlantis, it turns out there’s a perfectly good explanation for the grid of lines in the Atlantic.

Read the full story here