Drifting rubber duckies chart the oceans

Interesting essay from Mr Stross: Charlie’s Diary: Shaping the future

Amazing photos from a 1:6th diorama of German WW2 troops marshalling alongside a steam engine

xkcd gets funnier and funnier, here is a Tolkien-esque map of interweb communities

YouTube – The real Computer Monster

Comedy commentary of someone playing a ridiculously hard custom mario level

In Soviet Russia, LED invents YOU!

Using an empty CD case as a bagel carrier

Interesting article on The Guardian games blog about what a military expert thinks of modern combat games

Brilliant Russian futuristic concepts from 1900

Desolation Row Redux – a photoset on Flickr of haunting, abandoned futuristic homes in Taiwan

Coworking – really neat idea

11 Top Underground Transit Systems in the World – Highlights, Pictures and Video

Fascinating article by the Guardian about the Corsham bunker

Folding under pressure – awesome origami

James Camerson’s “Avatar” pushes boundaries

As usual the Penny Arcade guys are on the button with the recent video game scare story

Interesting article on the Observer Online about coffee and Starbuck’s domination of the market

Great flickr set of the Branscombe Beach booty

Woman’s Health magazine has an article recommending today’s modern, assertive and adventurous girls should join their ‘fella’ in a few games as a slightly weird form of foreplay

Man puts recipient’s name and a vague map of their location on a letter, and it gets delivered!

24 ways to impress your (web development) friends

Adobe kuler – this is really neat, why hadn’t anyone told me about this?

A Christmas Strongbad Email

The Open source gift guide –

ooh, reall shiny Microformats Icons

Jolly nice SimpleBits re-design

Interesting Wired article on the IPod’s Birth

Photo of the decaying Ministry of Transportation in Georgia, a prime example of communist era architecture

Interesting visulisation of US Presidential Speeches as a Tag Cloud

37signals release their book for free: Getting Real

The new Counter-Strike weapons market will change the game dynamic considerably

Web 2.0 Validator, cute

BAFTA Gaming Winners

Google Code Search, very nice implementation

Dyson moves into the Hand Dryer market with the scarily titled “Airblade”

NES emulator in your browser! awesome!

AA batteries with built in USB connector to charge! genius!

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock on Wikipedia

So it looks like I’m a bit of a hippy. Take the test yourself.

ELSEWARES – Neat T-Shirts

Good info-graphic map of the Global Arms Trade

IGN: Half-Life 2: Episode Two Trailer, Videos and Movies

Interesting article about 37signal’s development process, very similar to a lot of our conversations at work

Very clever stop motion animation versions of classic 8 bit games

Awesome windows info balloon sticker art

GTA Kubrick Set

Bus Ticket Origami in Liverpool

Helvetic “wall panels”

Awesome Russian Urban Exploration photos of a disused underground soviet Submarine pen