The eponymous whale that springs up whenever Twitter is down has become something of an internet legend in the past few years. You may not experience much downtime on the service, but in its early years, the microblogging platform was renowned for being unstable, and when it was down, the picture of what was dubbed the "Fail Whale" was posted as a placeholder.

Now, a developer has produced an internet flash game to piggybacks on users' love-hate relationship with the whale in the form of a shooting-alley style game; Die Fail Whale.

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We just caught wind of a new start-up website being launched in the UK that lets you see what you can cook with certain ingredients that are in your cupboard.

Say you have some aubergines and some chickpeas in your cupboard. Did you know there is a dish out there that uses both? Well, there is, and whilst I like experimenting with cooking, for people who like to stick to the tried and tested stuff, you can follow the recipe that uses both.

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Kicking off a new feature here on RandomlyAccessed, we're going to recommend an iPod/iPhone app that you need to be playing/using each month.

This month (July 2009) we're recommending "Let's Golf!" from Gameloft.

It features 64 holes in 4 locations, all modelled in superb 3D which really does remind us of the good old PS1 cartoon golf games, with an extremely intuitive control system, as well as Local WiFi and online multiplayer modes.

You can grab it from the app store (search for "Let's Golf") for £1.19 as well as a free lite edition, and they're on Twitter and Facebook

One of major failings of the big search engines at the moment is their inability to index your Twitter messages and Facebook statuses. Now, that's not really something that would be a problem to the majority, but for those of us that are involved in social media, having a decent search engine for the task is a necesity.

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TweetDeck, the popular (and our recommended) Twitter client turns one year old today.

The Adobe AIR application sprung to the public's awareness on the 4th July 2008, and has quickly been cementing it's popularity with updates as well as adding the new iPhone application into the mix.

We would just like to say well done to TweetDeck in growing at this phenomenal pace, and hope that it may long continue.
If you haven't used it, then head on over here immediately.

DICE are rolling out the latest in their Battlefield franchise, the downloadable FPS; Battlefield 1943 next week on the 9th.

It packs maps inspired from Battlefield 1942, and can be had for £9.99 or 1200MS Points. BF games are usually a good romp so it shouldn't disappoint.

Up to 24 players can play together online as either the US Marines or the Imperial Japanese Navy.

They're also on Twitter.

We can make a fair assumption looking at the stats for the site that people that visit RandomlyAccessed are clued up to Twitter and the workings of social media in general, however, for those that do not, here's how the weekly round of #followfriday works.

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