I liked Amit’s post over on his tumblr blog, he makes a good point:

I earn my living—the food I eat, the apartment I sleep in, the books I read, etc. — by pushing plastic buttons all day long.

I don’t know Amit Gupta personally - I just randomly started following his updates on twitter - so it feels a bit strange to first-name him in this post. What’s the etiquette on that?

Speaking of twitter, you can find me here and I’m always keen to find new people to follow / be followed by as I think the real appeal of apps like these is the community aspect.

I hate to feel that I’m behind the times, but I’d never watched The Apprentice prior to the current series. I’ve been watching the UK version, as that’s what is on TV here… surprisingly enough.

Needless to say, I’ve become hooked on it and the last couple of episodes have been especially good. It’s immense popularity has ensured it’s going to continue for at least another series and to that end, they are now recruiting for applicants who’d like to have a chance to hear those magical words “you’re fired”.

Feel like you’ve got what it takes? Check out the online application.

Metro (a daily newspaper available in London) have dispelled their top 5 urban myths. At number 1:

1. You accidentally swallow about eight spiders a year in your sleep

Why it’s not true:
Spiders have a natural instinct to stay alive and crawling into the heavy-breathing hot, wet mouths of animals goes strongly against this.

Who started it:
Back in 1993 a columnist for PC Professional named Lisa Holst decided to prove that you could make up anything on the internet and people would believe it.

She did this by making up a set of facts that were utterly ridiculous, the spider myth among them (which itself was taken from a collection of insect folklore that dates back to the 1950s, and emailing her findings around the world.

I find this very comforting, as I heard that one a while ago and it kinda freaked me out.

Jonny sent over a link to a remarkable bit of graffiti stop-frame animation today - check out the video here.

An ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in baden (fantoche).

I had to share… that’s just amazing, I can’t imagine how long it must have taken to complete.

If you’re a Twitter user, you might be interested in a site I happened across today - Who Should I Follow?

You put in your username (just the username, mind - it doesn’t ask you for your password or any such nonsense) and it has a think, then suggests other twitter users that you might like to follow.

I’ve been on Twitter for a little while now and have enjoyed it, but it’s much better when you are following a fair few people so that the updates come thick and fast. On that note, I’ve been using Spaz.AIR as my desktop twitter client as of this week and I’m impressed so far. It’s built upon the Adobe AIR platform, which you can find out more about here if you’d like.

Oh and of course, if you are a twitterer -  you can always follow me if you’d like, by visiting my profile.