Adult Swim is certainly known for their marketing brilliance. Taking the Boston debacle in stride, those wacky folks down in Atlanta hit another home run with their hot little promotional site for the new(ish) Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie.

Yeah yeah, movie sites are nothing new, but the little suprise here is the low-bandwidth version of the promo site. By utilizing design aesthetics from the wild wild web in the mid-90s, complete with the blinking Christmas animated .gif as a header, Adult Swim and their stylemasters always seem to have a pleasant surprise up their sleeve.

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Web operating systems unfortunately haven’t caught on yet, but their time is coming, just you wait and see. With connection speeds and performance going up and the complexities many face with organizing their data across multiple workstations and mobile devices, the need for an easy to use and centralized OS is becoming more and more apparent. Desktoptwo is one of a few high quality web operating systems which provide some pretty intense features for the round sum of $0 (my favorite price). Along with 1GB of storage space which you can publicly share with others (file sharing, helloooo), you also have an integrated mail client and address book, web-based IM, office and collaborative apps and a public URL for which to host your personal Desktoptwo blog.

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As any reader of BoN knows, we’re all about real time. Whether it be a strategy game, weather forecasts or disaster alerts, we’re people who definitely live in the now. So we’re always happy to find new sources of real-time information for us to obsess over and now we’ve found an outlet for serving up real-time, brightly colored weather alerts for the EU, Meteoalarm! Covering almost every EU member-state down to city-level with real time, flashy weather alerts, Meteoalarm alerts Europeans to everything from heavy rains to gale-force winds and extreme cold. Looks like Austria is a red at the moment with snow moving in!

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According to the Great Firewall of China web app, Bunch of Nerds is one of the many many many many sites blocked in China. Which is really depressing, cause, I really like China! Naturally I’m not so hot on the human rights abuse, the perverted form of commutalistism, the mad amount of industrial expansion and the pollution which follows it, but, still, I’ve never done wrong by you China, why does it have to go down like this?

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When I was a kid, I always loved going to airport cafes, many of which allowed you to plug your headphones into small boxes where you could listen to the air traffic communications as they occurred. Though I never learned to fly (and in all honesty, HATE flying), I was always curious as to what exactly was going on between the pilots and ground control. So years have passed and never did I imagine I’d be able to listen to pilot to ground communication over the internets, but hey, it *is* the future. LiveATC is a great little community site for aviation enthusiasts, aviation students and flight-sim enthusiasts to monitor live communication from various airports around the world, letting you know exactly how French pilots communicate with Korean air traffic controllers and what exactly angry pilots sound like when their takeoff spot gets scooped up by millionaires in private jets.

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We all know that the US is strange, but, this takes it to a new level. Just a few minutes looking at StrangeUSA.com, a database of strange places in the United States, one would think the whole country is one giant haunted, zombie-infested ghost town. StrangeUSA consolidates all the information it can find on haunted buildings, spooky cemetaries, unidentified monsters, ghost towns and all the scariest places they can find, collected by users and urban explorers to give you the best darn database of haunted stuff your side of the Mississippi. Oh look, that church whose bells I used to hear down the street, haunted. Super.

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With Valentine’s Day approaching this week what better way to let someone know that you’re against everything that Valentine’s Day has become than with an, er, anti-Valentine? If you think Valentine’s Day has been overly commercialized by chocolate manufacturers and greeting card companies then take part me(ish)’s organized virtual protest, by sending your loved (or hated ones) a mini virtual protest card declaring you want them to be your anti-valentine.

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If you’re anything like the morons we seem to be, you’ve sat in front of your computer for hours trying to get a good deal off of that shiny new iPod being flogged on eBay, only to have it sniped from under your mouse finger with 3 seconds to go. Bypass all that mess and get straight to the auctions that are going cheaper than you can imagine using Auction Intelligence, a search engine which checks your search term (the item name or type) against the common misspellings, providing you with a juicy list of auctions that few can find and at a price you can actually afford.

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Ok, maybe it’s not TRUE real-time, but this RSOE HAVARIA map, plotting National Association of Radio-Distress Signaling and Info-communications (say that 3 times really quickly) distress signals will keep me up at nights for weeks to come. Whether you want to be updated in real time when there’s a breakout of the pharyngeal plague in Zambia (currently flashing red on the map!!!) or biological hazard reported in Bolivia, the RSOE HAVARIA map has it all. Who needs news alerts when you can get the news direct from the source?

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Being bitter rivals doesn’t mean that the two internet search and advertising giants can’t get along. Imagine a world where Google and Yahoo would collaborate on standards, designs, technology….it would be too good to be true. Google Watch’s Steven Bryant does just that by creating a mock re-design of Google’s well accepted start page, pretending that Google would portalize along the lines of Yahoo’s design standards. Attention Google, attention Yahoo, this is brilliant and I have to admit, this is the start page I’d want to have.

Read more: What if Google made a Yahoolike start page