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It's been a long time coming, but IMDB finally have their own iPhone App. At last, you can recall what Mel Gibson is actually famous for from the comfort of your local pub (Mad Max, Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, surprisingly not much else).

It's a pretty thorough recreation of their comprehensive website - and in many ways is a lot more intuitive.

brilliant/slightly terrifying tale of revenge from some tech-savvy dude who had his iPhone nicked. good ad for mobile.me too

No, not another Microsoft bashing project - just a sneak peek inside one of Google's offices. All the cliches are there - scooters, snack bars, crash zones etc etc. Looks totally fun. 

I'm not quite sure what Adidas and Star Wars have in common, but check out the Adidas Death Star - a Google Maps mash-up that lets you destroy your friends houses with the Death Star.

Morrissey has politely written a letter to fan site True To You, rounding up the events of 2009 - which included a collapse in Swindon, a bottle throwing and both a great new album and B-sides compilation, the latter of which he resolutely apologises for. I liked it.

Wolf man Spencer Krug has added another project to his Wolf Parade / Sunset Rubdown personalities, with solo project Moonface releasing the Dreamland EP: marimba and shit-drums.

The one man band has a one track EP out on a one sided 12" in January, but you can download it now here. Krug's following Radiohead's pay-what-you-will model for the track, which clocks in at 20 mins and is available as a high-quality Flac download. 

Creative Review have a run down of fancy websites featured in the FWA Site of the Year competition.

Check them out here.

Gawker noticed a few similarities with the strap-lines on the cover of a recent copy of Men's Health, so they did a bit of checking. Turns out it's not that uncommon at all. In a response to Daily Finance, the publishing house essentially said "If it ain't broke...".

Don't even mention the rotating cast of buff black and white cover-stars.

Google has thrown it's hat in the URL-shortening arena - launching goo.gl

While all these bitly / tr.im etc services are pretty handy, they have all seemed a little shaky in terms of a business model - promoting concerns about millions of lost links if one went bust...

Real time mapping of mentions of Tiger Woods on Twitter...

It's not just you that's been compromised by Facebook's recent change in privacy settings. Chief Facebooker Mark Zuckerberg's wasted-in-Tahoe photoset popped up, and Valleywag spread the word.... 

Check out this school of sharks spotted on Google Maps while cruising around Bondi Beach. Zoom in for the gory detail...

If they would only integrate a ringtone purchasing scheme, the David Lee Roth Soundboard would score a perfect 10.

PItchfork + Spotify = Pitchify!

what's on the rest of the net? (response from the Freenet creator here)