I present you "The Electric Bath Duck". This rubber duck seems to have one purpose and one purpose only. Aside from the slow and insidious threat of phthalates, this rubber ducky is designed to give you instaneous results: electrocution.

As morose as some may find it, there are a variety of ways to get the job done, and the suicide rubber ducky has to be close to the bottom of the list when it comes to resource consumption and carbon emissions which makes it once of the least eco-friendly deaths around. First, there's the wasted bathtub full of water, then the wasted kilowatts of electricity -- especially if that power was generated from a coal fired plant.

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Google made an interesting move in the fight with non compliant standards and lack of support of Internet Explorer by presenting Chrome Frame, a plugin that, according to Google:

"is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer"

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From Between The Lines, ZDNet blog, Larry Dignan brings this top 10 list which I found interesting (regardless you agree on all or not): The 10 biggest moments in IT history.

1. The development of COBOL (1959)
2. The development of the ARPANET (1969)
3. The creation of UNIX (1970)
4. The first “clamshell” laptop (1979)
5. The beginning of Linus Torvalds’ work on Linux (1991)

What happens when Steve Jobs - famous for his bad-ass presentations - has to present a product that was not manufactured by his company and that also sucks big time?

Don't miss this video from Apple's CEO making a demo of the Motorola ROKR and the faces he makes when the gadget doesn't work as supposed.

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34 funny things to discuss over some drinks. I received this in an email. Don't know if the author (Steven Wright) is accurate but here it is:

1. I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3. Half the people you know are below average.
4. 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5. 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

For those who develop WordPress templates or like to modify them, Ekin Ertaç has designed a nice cheat sheet for WordPress.

The cheat sheet is in PDF format so you can download it and print it for later use, post it in a wall and make your life easier.

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Today we're full of digital distractions: Twitter, email, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Skype and a lot of websites and services.

This is the topic of one of the latest graphics from InformationIsBeautiful. In this gaphic, a pyramid shows the different distractions sorted in hierarchy, where the upper part shows the most important service/social network.

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