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July 15th, 2010 by Wadds

Tom Scott’s analogy generator

Here’s another cracking project from geek comedian Tom Scott – the Analogizer, a web app that generates odd, bizarre and almost always amusing analogies. Its will almost certainly become a required resource for writers

Journalists! Do you think your readers are too dumb to understand ’5 kilograms’? Do you want to add some useless, confusing analogies to make your article much harder to read? Having trouble thinking of something that doesn’t revolve around the height or weight of an elephant? Well, worry no more! The Analogizer is here to save the day!

Follow Tom on Twitter @tomscott.

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May 25th, 2010 by Wadds

Evil web app displays personal mobile numbers from Facebook

After writing about Facebook personal privacy issues recently I met a developer at a Thinking Digital dinner tonight that has created a web application that exploits user data from Facebook to dramatic effect.

Tom Scott (@tomscott) has built his Evil app using the Graph API to search public groups about lost phones. The web app randomly displays the private phone numbers of unsuspecting Facebook users.

Scott says that his intention is highlight personal privacy issues on Facebook and has truncated the displayed numbers to make his point.

Evil follows a long line of projects by Scott who describes himself as a geek comedian. Check out and enjoy Breaking the News Salmon in a Dishwasher, The Google Street View Race and other projects on his site.

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