Airtoons is a parody site of airline safety cards and had me in stitches on planes in North America in 2000 when I recognised some of the images.  From memory the purple magician featured heavily in the Canadian Airlines (RIP -  I was on one of their last flights between Honolulu and Toronto) safety cards.

Thank you Airtoons guy for resurrecting your great website. You can now buy t-shirts and even have a custom airtoon portrait made – cool!

Link: http://www.Airtoons.com

The Top 5 users of Facebook have stayed the same since Dec 08: US, UK, Canada, Turkey and France.

Spanish Facebook users have grown at 147% over the last 6 months, to be the 8th largest country of Facebook users in the world. Spain has grown the fastest, almost increasing their user base 1.5 times that of 6 months ago, from 2.2m to 5.5m users. Australia’s growth rate is low, 37%, compared to the Top 10 countries, and less than half that of the Italy – 88%, US – 85% and France 80%.

Sources:

1 – Facebook | Advertising, Estimates taken on 17th of July 2009 of Facebook users, identified as 18+

For $900AUD you can get:

280 Packs of Arnotts Tim Tam Biscuits.

Tim Tam Biscuits

For $900 you can get 280 packs @ $3.15 a piece of Arnotts Timtams 200g delivered straight to your door.

Buy them online here at Coles Online

(NB Since the order is over $350 you have to call them to confirm, so you will need to partake in a certain level of human interaction)

Ryan O'Keefe Goal 4 Goal Ambassador

Please help support the Oncology Children’s Foundation.

You can donate via the website Goal 4 A Goal is or at the game today if you are heading out.

About Goal 4 A Goal

Goal 4 A Goal is a joint initiative between the Sydney Swans and the Oncology Children’s Foundation.

“This project has reached an exciting stage. During 2009 human trials will take place and a number of children with incurable brain tumours will be able to register to participate. These children have no hope of survival and these trials will be their last opportunity of possibly growing up and leading some kind of normal life. Without OCF’s funding and the Goal 4 A Goal program, it would not have gone ahead”. Paul Roos

About the Oncology Children’s Foundation

Finding a cure for children’s cancer

In 2008 OCF raised $2.1 million! Help us to raise more this year – $1.5 million donated so far…
The Oncology Children’s Foundation (OCF) is a not-for-profit children’s charity dedicated to finding a cure for sick and critically ill children suffering from cancer, leukaemia and other serious cancer related illnesses.

So far I have only been able to find 5 feeds: Status, Friends Status, Notifications , Friends Links and Friend List.

Thanks for the tip, Bill

Find your Facebook Information

To generate these links, it seems you need three ids: your facebook id, your_internal_key and your_friend_key.

1. To find your_facebook_id and your_internal_key, go to > Facebook > Inbox > Notifications.

Right click on “Your Notifications” and copy the short cut. This is your notifications feed.

The structure of the feed is:

http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=your_facebook_id&viewer=your_facebook_id&key=your_internal_key&format=rss20

The first two identical numbers are =your_facebook_id, the third number is =your_internal_key. Copy these numbers.

2. To find your your_friends_key, go to Facebook > Friends .

Right click on “Friends Status’ Feed” on the left hand side and copy the short cut. This is your Friends Status feed.

The structure of the feed is:

http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=your_facebook_id&key=your_friends_key&format=rss20

The first numbers is again =your_facebook_id, the second number is =your_internal_key. Copy the second number.

You now have all the information needed to construct the feeds below! Let me know if you know about any additional feeds, or if you have any problems.

Status Feed

The feed URL is:

http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=your_facebook_id&viewer=your_facebook_id&key=your_internal_key&format=rss20

Notifications Feed

The feed URL is:

http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=your_facebook_id&viewer=your_facebook_id&key=your_internal_key&format=rss20

Friends Status Feed

The feed URL is:

http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=your_facebook_id&key=your_friends_key&format=rss20

Friends Links Feed

The feed URL is:

http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/share_friends_posts.php?id=your_facebook_id&key=your_friend_key&format=rss20

Friends List Feed

The feed URL is:

http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=your_facebook_id&key=your_friend_key&format=rss20

How to update Twitter with your Facebook Status

In September 2008, I travelled from Darwin to Adelaide through the Centre of Australia, 3200km on the Stuart Highway. I posted my photos directly to the map below during my trip using my iPhone, and used Trippermap, Shozu and Flickr:

• Shozu – allows you to upload photos from your iphone to many different webservices, including Flickr!, Facebook and Photobucket.
  - After geocoding (a one click procedure with Shozu) and taggging, I uploaded my photos to Flickr!
• Flickr!- The best photo sharing website!
  - I tagged each photo with “trip” for use in my map.
• Trippermap – pulls your photos from Flickr and displays them on Yahoo Maps and Google Maps (however you need the premium version to use Google Maps).
  - I utlised the Google Maps feature and produced my map, below:

See all the award winning maps at the Google My Maps Australia Awards. See my map directly in Google Maps at Darwin to Adelaide, a 3,200km adventure down the Stuart Highway

View Larger Map

Here is what I came up with:

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From the GetUp! Action for Australia site:

“The Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate’. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist.

Testing has already begun on systems that will slow our internet by up to 87%, make it more expensive, miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and accidentally block up to 1 in 12 legitimate sites. Our children deserve better protection – and that won’t be achieved by wasting millions on this deeply flawed system.”

I never really understood the point of twitter. Until I started using Facebook came addicted to updating my status. And then…. I final understood the meaning of Twitter! One of the great geek epiphanies.

But since I am not going to update both,  I set up a feed to automatically update Twitter from my Facebook status using Twitterfeed. It was very straightforward to set it up:

Edit: Updated with screen shots to help you find your way around

How to update Twitter with your Facebook Status

1. Set up an account on Twitterfeed. It uses the OpenID system so you can use an existing login from sites like Flickr, Blogger,Technorati and more, or just set up a new one.

2. Click “go to my twitter feeds (or create a new one)”.

3. Click “Create a new twitter feed”.

4. Grab your Facebook Status RSS feed location. The easiest way to do this on the new facebook is to login and go to this link – http://www.new.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11 and then right click on My Status from the Subscribe to these Stories: menu and click copy link location.

Edit – this no longer seems to work for anyone anymore. To find your facebook status RSS URL, read Facebook RSS feeds – what is available?

5. Go back to Twitterfeed and enter your twitter username and password. Paste you RSS URL you just copied from facebook. Uncheck “Include item link (if unchecked, sends tweet without the link)”. There are a few other options you can play with.

6. Finally click “Create” and you are done! Twitterfeed will check for updates every hour (you can change to 30mins if you want). Be patient, I did find it took over an hour for the first tweet to happen. Your Twitterfeed page should look like this.

Twitter Followers

Download some great Twitter follow me badges here by Limeshot, just like the ones below: