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If you’re looking for something Bizarre to read, OddWeek has it. And just recently posted is a list of 20 fascinating coincidences, whether they’re true or just urban legends, you can decide. I suspect the older ones probably have less credibility.

Here’s a summary:
# A falling baby, saved two times by the same man
# The curse of James Dean's car
# A bullet that reached its destiny years later
# Twin Boys, twin lives
# Just like Edgar Allan Poe's book
# Twin brothers, killed in along the same road, two hours apart
# Three suicide attempts, all stopped by the same Monk
# Poker winnings, to the unsuspected son
# A novel that unsuspectedly described the spy next door
# Mark Twain and the Halley's Comet
# Three strangers on a Train, with complementary last names
# Two brothers killed by the same taxi driver, one year apart
# Swapped Hotel Finds
# Two Mr. Bryson, on the same room
# Twins brothers, same heart attack
# A novel that predicted the Titanic's destiny, and another ship that almost followed
# A writer, found the book of ther childhood
# A writer's plum pudding
# King Umberto I' double
# The 21, a bad day for King Louis XVI              Full Article

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You may have noticed in a previous posting it was noted Dell was also considering preinstalling Linux on their shipped PCs. You might also have been curious to which distro they would choose. Today Dell Inc. and Canonical Ltd. released a joint statement confirming Ubuntu Linux 7.04 would be installed as an option on some of their desktop and laptop models.

This probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise to Ubuntu supporters, who have watched the Linux distro surge in popularity recently. I was expecting either Ubuntu or Fedora to be chosen by Dell, and it would seem that’s the way most requests sent into Dell have been voiced.

If all goes well, I expect we should see Ubuntu or similar Linux distributions being rolled out on Dell server applications soon as well.

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If you haven’t come across them yet, here’s two interesting ideas/websites to promote your weblog.

The first is called I am Blogged. According to their website it works as follows:
* Blogger B submits his/her blog information.
* Blogger B publishes Blogger A’s interview.
* Blogger C publishes Blogger B’s interview.
By publishing a fellow blogger's interview, you get a great content for your post. Moreover, you promote yourself, others and get links and traffic for your site. It’s as simple as that. If available, we always try to assign your interview to a blogger who has the next closest higher web rank so you are always better off.

The second is LinkyLoveArmy. While at first glance it may seem like another collaborative blogging effort, or just another advertising network, it’s actually sorta both. The whole concept of wedge blogging is explained here.

If you have a blog, and are at all interested in these types of things, I encourage you to take a look, registrations are open for both.

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SFGate has a post regarding two major news headlines about Google. The search engine giant has surpassed Microsoft on two fronts, #1 being the most visited webpage, and #2 being named the most powerful brand by Millward Brown.

This may not come as a surprise to most web surfers. Google seems to be an unstoppable revenue generating machine, as explained very well here at readwriteweb. As for brand power, let’s not forget when Google was actually added as a verb in the english language.

The article does note, however, there have been seemingly invincible companies collapse before.

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Here’s a nice video to explain the awesomeness of RSS to your friends that don’t quite get it. Original link here at commoncraft.

There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.

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