Tuesday toothings

ZapThink gets nasty on competitor Gartner’s Four-Platform Framework for Web Services. [via BLTS]

In footy news, Liverpool FC manager Gerard Houllier is on the hot seat–his head man wants a place in next season’s Champions League or else; David Beckham hopes next Summer’s marquee signing by his club Real Madrid is Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistlerooy; and, at Beck’s old club, the manuevering for control continues as both Glazer and the Irishmen up their stockholdings.

Every columnist I’ve read so far agrees that the BCS is broken and that USC should be playing in the Sugar Bowl.

The Chinese are discovering a use for cars well-known in the West. Booya!

My vote is for the bricks through windows analogy. One significant distinction between most other forms of advertising and spam like this is that other advertising generally pays for something so I don’t have to–broadcast TV and (at least cheaper) daily newspapers.