Read this message carefully and see if you can spot the typo. Hint, it’s right before Matt.

It’s embarrassing when a person says the wrong word when trying to speak a foreign language, but how do you explain away this one? Sometimes people write what they’re thinking without even realizing it. Always proof read your email … before you send it.

The official Chinese news agency Xinhua has falsely reported the existence of a Swedish town called Chako Paul City.

The town, supposedly founded in 1820 in the northern Swedish woods by a wealthy widow, boasts 25,000 residents and a medieval castle, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

A pair of blonde female sentries stand guard at the unnamed town, referred to in reports as Shakebao or Chako Paul City, and men wishing to enter risk being “beaten half to death” by police.

In addition, many of the town’s female residents turn to homosexuality “because they could not suppress their sexual needs”, the Chinese news service Harbin News reports. The story also formed the basis of a Shanghai Media Group television report.

Of course the entire story is fake, but that isn’t stopping millions of Chinese men from overwhelming the Internet infrastructure in Sweden in their attempt to find information on this city of Swedish lesbians.

In China there are villages made-up only of bachelors who would no doubt be very interested in merging with a lesbian city.

Someone took the initiative to register a domain name, and put up a site asking for money, while promoting the fake story about the Chako Paul girls.

Google is simplifying the design of their homepage even further to just a search box and the logo. The rest of the items on the homepage will fade in as needed.

At the moment we know Google is only bucket testing this design, and other related variations. The bucket test is only seen by some readers, and may never get released to the general public, especially since they’re regular homepage look is patented.

This morning Twitter was having some issues. It appears some pages are not loading the cascading style sheet, or images.

Simpler design or growing pains?

Matt Cutts, the search guru, explains in this video a secret Google Reader Easter egg that activates Ninja Mode using Konami code.

As you’ll see when you press the arrow keys up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, then type b, a, Ninja mode reveals Ninjas, each subscription shows 30 unread messages, and pressing the like or unlike link on pictures explodes with animated hearts.