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<img alt="Nightlybuild" title="Nightlybuild" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/nightlybuild.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Nightly Build:
* More proof that Opera can do anything. [From the Register][1]: "A Swedish Wii owner took advantage of the console's built-in Opera browser and Wi-Fi to tap into his PC's media collection shortly before Christmas. The Wii remote can then be used to show photos and browse iTunes playlists on the TV"
[1]: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/18/orb_wii_console/ "Orb brings iTunes to Wii console"
* Google has started pushing Google Checkout again. A couple of months ago they offered merchants free order processing until the end of the year. Now they're targeting buyers with a new deal that's being [promoed on the Google homepage][3]. If you sign up now as a new user, you will get $10 to spend at Google Checkout merchants until March 31, 2007
[3]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_promotes_checkout.php "Google Promotes Checkout on Homepage"
* In a move I believe was motivated by a deep desire to bring real world meaning to the theoretical work of [Jean Baudrillard][4], Microsoft has [patched a patch][5]. Microsoft issued a patch to patch a patch that "messed up the way Excel 2000 processes information."
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard "Wikipedia: Jean Baudrillard"
[5]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2085354,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 "Microsoft Patches Buggy Excel Patch"
* The site your boss doesn't want you to see. According to the tagline on [PointlessSites.com][2] the sites aims to "list here only pointless and useless sites that; are completely pointless, don't have pop up/under ads or too many ads in general, are original, useless, are not offensive." What's not to love?
[2]: http://www.pointlesssites.com/ "The definitive place for pointless websites"
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