You call is Sydney, I call it Sidney

This has to hurt:

A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

Someone get that poor man some warm clothes.

BTW, if this is the state of contextual ads, there’s a long way yet to go. Why am I getting a link to eBay for a weather search? Note that the link leads to zero results. How pathetic:

YouTube & iTV doesn’t make sense

I can’t understand why people still fantasize about YouTube on iTV. From ZDNet:

Only a fraction of the songs on an iPod originate from the iTunes store. So why would Steve Jobs adopt a different strategy for the iTV? The combination of iTunes and DRM-free MP3s provided the ‘killer app’ for the iPod, and YouTube could well do the same for Apple’s soon-to-be released set-top box.

Well, for one thing, people were downloading MP3s from Napster and had a backlog with their CDs that they could readily load to their iPod – all the stuff they were familiar with. Nothing like that exists with YouTube. YouTube is a hodgepodge of stuff and amateurish – Steve Jobs hates amateurish. Trust me, no one wants to watch low quality crap on their LCDs.

iTV is going to do to movies what iTunes did to music: make people rip their DVD collection.