Hi All, 

Fast food chain Burger King is putting online friendships to the test with their latest marketing campaign.

The burger empire has created a Facebook application, “Whopper Sacrifice”, which gives users a free hamburger coupon if they delete 10 people from their friends list.

“Now is the time to put your fair-weather web friendships to the test”, says the Whopper Sacrifice website.

“Install Whopper Sacrifice on your Facebook profile, and we’ll reward you with a free flame-broiled Whopper when you sacrifice ten of your friends."

Bizzar – go here for the full article.

So… 62 burgers for me, just what I need… :-)

Hi All,

Yesterday was a busy day for the kids! Halswell School have been learning about dance and yesterday they put on a show for the parents. Vanessa and Lachie went to watch Liam perform, Lachie wasn’t too interested and found some nice dirt to play with outside.

Liam has been going to Keas now for quite a few weeks, and last night he was invested (it isn’t as painful as it sounds) – This basically means you join, say your promise and receive your scarf , woggle and shirt. In a few weeks time we’re off to his first camp at Kaikoura, where we’ll stay for a couple of nights, do whale watching, mini golf, have mass produced food, and the adults will probably enjoy a few ales – Quite looking forward to it!<a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=606b7e0a-88bd-4411-8b50-376f3f9d9c95" target="_new" title="Dance Festival @ Halswell School">Video: Dance Festival @ Halswell School</a>

Lachie attends Mainly music on Tuesday, so when the fun outside began, (It was the end of term party of Keas).. he decided to put on his dancing shoes…

<a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=d7be2ee2-f975-4d9b-8d08-708f8dc18769" target="_new" title="Jiggy!">Video: Jiggy!</a>

Hi All,

Over the last few months I’ve been putting in $50 dollars of petrol whenever I needed it (typically weekly), rather than filling up.. so this week I decided to get as close to empty as possible and then fill up the car… When I first started filling up the Commodore, it was around $75… now its _slightly_ more..

We all have choices as to the types of cars we own and drive, I enjoy my car, and I’m not quite ready to down size :-)

So let's compare the $2.185 per litre for 91 Octane to some other items for 60 litres.. (I grabbed theses from the Woolworths website..)

Home brand  milk – blue top & trim – $1.84/litre = $110.40

Meadow fresh milk – blue top & trim – $2.24/litre = $134.40

Meadow fresh milk – calcium added - $2.38/litre = $142.80

Canterbury Draught (330ml bottles * 12) – $21.14/~4 litre = $315.00

Speights (330ml bottles * 12) - $18.99/~4 litre = $284.85

This is interesting and scarey – Oil companies aren’t the only ones profiteering :-)

Nick.

An iPhone 3G seconds before its demise in a blender, Marketing genius it is not, but watching a bloke killing a brand spanking iPhone in a blender really is quite entertaining.

American company Blendtec runs a series of videos on its website that show various items being thrashed to death in its Total Blend product.

The carnage ranges from unopened cans of beans to Nintendo Wii remotes and even a copy of videogame nasty Grand Theft Auto IV.

It's far from being intelligently-scripted content, but the series has proven hugely popular. A large selection of Will It Blend instalments is available on the site.

"Tom uses his new iPhone 3G to stay organised," reads the blurb. "Watch what happens when he tries to blend his old iPhone."

See if you can guess what - in true American comedic tradition - happens next.

Check out this wanton destruction of desirable gadgets here.

 

The head of the Federal Communications Commission will recommend that the US’s largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the internet.

The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast that the company had blocked internet traffic among users of a certain type of "file sharing" software that allows them to exchange large amounts of data.

"The commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to the internet," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said. "We found that Comcast's actions in this instance violated our principles."

Full article here - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10521073

OMG! Are these guys nuts! So.. the FCC is recommending to punish a US ISP for protecting against the illegal stealing of intellectual property – How crazy is that?

Nick.