Gmail adds new mailing lists feature to contact manager, with a simple interface for creating groups and adding contacts to groups. The group name can then be used to send email to all the members of the group. One missing option is the ability to share contact groups with other Gmail members.
Bank of America saves Countrywide Financial Corp from the brink of Bankruptcy due to the subprime lending mess, by agreeing to buy Countrywide for $4billion.
Digital Photography School’s review of 70-200mm fast zoom lens from Nikon, Canon, and Sigma. No prices listed in this review, so here are the prices from pictureline and amazon.
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom - $1,799
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Telephoto Zoom - $1,743
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO HSM Large Aperture Macro Zoom - $820
Blendlab’s initial thought’s on Motorola’s new ROKR E8, with it’s “ModeShifting” and raised “virtual buttons”, seems worth a look compared to the iPhone.
Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay on 29 May 1953, has passed away at the age of 88. His health had been declining since April after a fall while visiting Nepal.
“He was an heroic figure who not only ‘knocked off’ Everest but lived a life of determination, humility and generosity”
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark
A list of 100 free high-quality WordPress themes from Smashing Magazine. Lesson: When there is nothing else to blog about, create a list of WordPress themes; you can’t go wrong with that, there are always excellent new WordPress themes popping up everyday.
Chinese inspectors find eight mice hidden in pillows on a United Airlines flight from Washington. Amazing how low the US airline industry has fallen, probably some of the worst airlines in the world.
Over at CommandShift3, barackobama.com has bubbled up as the best designed election site, with ronpaul2008.com in second. Not sure who designed it, but many sources think it might be the work of Blue State Digital.
Xerox has dropped it’s 40 year old logo for a new one, to try and shake it’s image as a copier. With xerox already being part of the lexicon of many languages, it might be a little too late for Xerox to shake off the copier image. Nice font choice though.
Smashing Magazine’s list of cool and innovative devices and designs to look forward to in the near future.
Maniacal Rage points out eight common writing mistakes and how to avoid them.
Why don’t we drop medical waste and nuclear waste into active volcanoes, the “ultimate high-temperature incinerators”? This is the question that came out on top from Slate’s reader-selected favorite questions from Explainer’s unanswered questions of 2007, and Slate provides the answer.
The Eighth Annual Weblog Awards is now taking nominations for 2008. Any nominations of this blog is much appreciated.
Russian designer, iuneWind, shares his technique in this tutorial which shows how me made the “Summer Cocktail” wallpaper. Even though he apologizes for his poor English, it does add a unique and fun touch to the tutorial. Check out his neat portfolio as well.
Dude to terror threats, the Drakar Rally, one of the biggest automobile racing competitions, has been canceled. Rather than lose out to terror, why not just change the course and not go through countries where terror threats were issued.
