Shock news: ASA gets something right! Geeklawyer comments on the Advertising Standards Agency’s recent decision to reject complaints against no2id’s recent Guardian advert portraying Tony Blair as Hitler.

Watch a few online vids, get a free copy of Vista or Office Sounds too good to be true: get a free copy of Vista Business or Office 2007 Pro just for watching a couple of Microsoft propaganda videos. Engadget has confirmation from another source inside Microsoft that this is, in fact, the real deal, and that the number of copies of software that Microsoft has available for this offer is in the “five-digit range”. Update: the free copies of Vista have all gone, looks like there’s still some office ones left, though.

ROLLERtoaster: the best thing to happen to toasters since sliced bread. I’m not sure what the whole collective obsession is with toasters, but this one does look pretty damn cool.

3Dconnexion announces SpaceNavigator. Just another six-axis CAD/CAM controller, except this one costs $59USD ($99 for pro, with better professional software support like Maya). Looks interesting for graphics work, gaming, possibly even music as a MIDI controller. I think it’ll sell pretty well.

Novell Dumps the Hula Project. Nothing to do with the recent Microsoft deal, oh no. Honest.

BBC News- Dollar plunges on world markets. What d’you mean, 8.6 trillion dollars’ worth of national debt isn’t a good thing?

Outages for MediaTemple Grid Hosting Service. So much for the bombproof reliability.

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes. Jake Mandell, while working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. It also turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct. Give it a try!