The great thing about running a site like the Million People Page, is that I get to find out about great new websites. There are a couple that have caught my eye in the last month or so, and I thought I would highlight them.

TravelBeard
Ever wondered what to do with all your false beard holiday photos? Travel Beard is a site dedicated to the collection of fake beard holiday photos from all around the world. Yes, people take pictures of themselves in exotic locations wearing fake beards and then send them to the site for publication. At present, one of the TravelBeard regulars is trying to infiltrate the Swiss Alpine Beard Festival... Priceless!

Fake News
Fake News is a spoof news site that brings together some of the stuff that has been floating about on the internet in a very funny way. Even the ads on the site are spoofs... if you have had a serious day then a few minutes of fake news will bring a smile back to your face

Whilst chatting to the receptionist at my local dental surgery this morning, she told me that May 4th this year will be very special. Actually, two minutes and three seconds past 1am on May 4th, to be precise.

That is because at that time it will be:

01:02:03 on 04/05/06

Well, in the UK anyway... the Americans would have had this special date on 5th April...

We had our first Canadian join the site over the weekend - and looking forward to many more. To make the site more accessible to people worldwide, and encourage more people to join in, we have tweaked the listing criteria so that people without the means to make the $2 payment can list their profile free - we will add such profiles when our advertising revenues and/or donations to the site covers the cost of each free profile.

Free profiles are not guaranteed listing, will contain ads, and the favourite website link will not be clickable, so if you are wanting to promote a website, then paying is still the way to go...

Saw a fascinating programme on BBC2 this evening called Meltdown, in which Arctic scientific expedition organiser Paul Rose goes on a quest to find out whether global warming is a man made problem, or part of the natural climate cycle.

Using the same distributed platform as the Seti@home project, and running the same model that the Met Office uses to make daily weather forecasts, the project aims to use the spare computing cycles of people home pc's to crunch out thousands of variations of climate change models, to see if they can get a concensus on what might happen in the next 50 years - and if just 10,000 people join in, then there will be more processing power than the worlds best supercomputer!

The first results are due to be announced in May, so by joining in you can do your bit towards a greater understanding of global warming.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/climatechange

Cruising the internet last night, I came across the funniest blonde joke in the world. Well, it made me laugh, anyhow - you be the judge...