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iNumber (http://www.inumbr.com/) offers a free service where you can create a temporary phone number — customizable to your area code, even — and forward it to your real number. As if this capability alone isn’t cool enough, there are several options available for how it works:

Don’t accept calls from blocked Caller IDs
Don’t accept calls [...]

…under any circumstances. “Desktop Tower Defense” is inexplicably, painfully, extremely addictive :)
And, because I care about you dear reader, I’ve thoughtfully provided the game for you here, now, for your own productivity-destroying pleasure.

The News Buckit takes up InstaPunks challenge:
Well, I propose an exercise to be perfomed by those who have the software and expertise to carry it out. The exercise is this: Search six months’ worth of content, posts and comments, of the 20 most popular blogs on the right and the left. The search criteria [...]

The company’s name is Steorn — website here: www.steorn.net. From their site,

Steorn is a word translating as ‘to guide, direct and manage’.

In maybe as little as a few months time, they will become

not-very-widely known as hoaxers;
not-very-widely known as unfortunate engineers (and equally-unfortunate or just astonishingly poor selectors of peers to review their shizzle);
or [...]