Here’s a fun one: the Zombie Infection Simulator. The pink dots are humans. The gray dots are zombies. The bright pink dots moving fast are panicking humans. Press g to turn the zombies green, it’s funnier that way.

Watch the invasion here.

(Thanks Chuck)

But so are Patrick, Boris and Paul.

Martine and Bill, by the way, are men. As are Blork and Stephane.

The Gender Genie is a tool that uses an algorithm to guess the gender of a person, based on text written by them. As you can see it’s far from perfect, but with every guess it makes you can tell it whether it’s right or wrong. The idea is that over time, the Genie should get better at it.

Other females of the Montreal blogosphere: Kate, Dave, Stephanie, Michel, Louise and AJ.

Well. It’s nice to know I have more girlfriends than I thought.

(via Legal Alien)

What is it with Hotmail? I’ve completely stopped using my hotmail account because of the spam I get there.

Today alone, I got offers to:
- go see Springsteen in Montreal for 499$
- have my penis enlarged
- book a cruise
- heat up my Valentine’s day with Vigel (TM), a product that enhances female libido
- fly to Boston for 213$
- win a seat on a mystery flight (yeah, sure)

Actually, I’ve totally given into it. Now, whenever I give my address to some service I suspect will end up spamming me, I give my hotmail address. Too bad. It was a good, popular service. Now it’s totally useless. Long live yahoo!

UPDATE: Before the stroke of midnight, I was also offered a free cellphone, and to make money off real estate without buying any (”read the testimonials!!!”).

Before e-mail, what was the purpose of the @ character?

As shamelessly taken from this month’s Shift magazine…

- The Beijing Evening News reprints an article from the satirical online paper The Onion, mistaking the latter for a true news source. They claim that US Congress threatens to leave Washington unless they are built a new Capitol building with a retractable dome. Fair enough. But then Michigan police commits the same mistake. The Battle Creek sheriff’s office issues a press release stating that the Al-Qaeda are involved in a malicious telemarketing campaign, “making phone solicitations for vacation home rentals, long distance telephone services, magazine subscriptions and other products.”

- A German second-hand clothing store installs a live webcam in one of its change rooms. Police shut it down, despite the owners’ protestations that there was a warning sign in the shop.

- According to the New York Times, NASA engineers are scouring eBay to find replacements for outdated chips on the Space Shuttles.

- British Telecommunications PLC claim they own the patent on hyperlinking. ISPs should pay them licensing fees for using links. Needless to say, they’re laughed out of court.

Free coffee to whomever can come up with the most original name for a web design company.

(You have to be in Montreal to claim your prize).

I just had an online argument with a chick about whether the Star Wars character is named Greedo or Guido. And it was settled beyond all doubt by a chick.

God, I love the Web.