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For those of you who follow the news about web companies, you’re probably aware that the web calendaring application Kiko was recently put up for sale on eBay and sold for US$258,100. The only clue to the identity of the buyer was the eBay username “powerjoe1998”.

Well, now that all the i’s have been dotted and the t’s have been crossed, it can now be revealed: it’s us, and by us, I mean the company for whom I hold the title of Technical Evangelist: Tucows.

Want to know more? Check out the article on our new blog: Why We Bought Kiko.com.

I’ve just finished recording a podcast with our CEO, Elliot Noss and our General Manager of Retail Products, Ross Rader. It’ll get posted later this week and will go into more detail about the Kiko acquisition and have a tiny bit about my small but not insignificant role in it.

More about this in upcoming posts.

Want to Find Out More About Kiko?

You try it yourself — go to Kiko.com and get yourself a calendar — or if you’d rather read about it, check out all these links on Reddit.com.

It’s an insanely busy day today at work, so in the meantime, please enjoy the photo below, which is titled The Exorcism of Toby. If you’ve got any ideas for captions, feel free to share them in the comments.

I haven’t gone overboard with the Snakes on a Plane jokes, so I think I’ll post this one…

Even now, the Sesame Street skit shown below (click to view the skit) is one of my all-time favourites:

The “Yup Yup” aliens meet a phone. Click to see the video.

“Mr. Neutron” has posted a photo-how-to showing you how to make your own “Yup Yup” aliens for your own backyard puppet shows. Keep it handy for the next time you’re itching to do a little arts and crafts work:

As long as I’m on the topic of recontextualized images of U.S. presidents, here’s a “Vote Robot Nixon” poster courtesy of strk3:

It turns out that you can buy the poster!

(If the “Robot Nixon” reference flew over your head, it’s from this episode of Futurama.)

(This has been posted automatically in my absence. Ain’t technology grand?)

[via Seth Godin’s blog] The Ronald McHummer Sign-O-Matic site is more than just a sign generator in the same vein as the Colbert Report “On Notice Board” Generator, the Church Sign Generator or the Tombstone Generator. There’s also a cause behind it:

This month McDonald’s is giving away toy Hummers — 42 million of them, in eight models and colors — with every Happy Meal or Mighty Kids Meal. That’s right: The fast-food chain that helped make our kids the fattest on Earth is now selling future car buyers on the fun of driving a supersized, smog-spewing, gas-guzzling SUV originally built for the military. Use the Ronald McHummer Sign-O-Matic™ to tell us what you think of this misguided marriage of two icons of American excess.

Here’s my current favourite: