Might look at hiring this place at some point – it's not ultra-pricey, and if the cost is split between a group, it could make for a fun day out.

Obviously, I will have to order some of these at the first available opportunity. And then people will be able to contact me. Contact me with meat! And lasers!

Font nerds ahoy – there are some total gems in here, and all are at least worth a look.

To be honest, I'm only surprised it's taken this long. Sure, they were very important in 1999/2000, and yes, it's a slice of internet history vanishing here, but I really don't recall the last time I looked at a geocities site, or met anyone who had one.

Sign up now for your chance stand around on a plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour at some point over the summer. I have. Fingers crossed…

Well, *duh*.

Jason Kottke's round up of well, exactly what is says – media packing redone in various distinctive styles that are more usually associated with some other form of media. Some gems in here.

Proposal for an open, distributed set of protocols to run a (better) version of Twitter, and a compelling argument for why they should be adopted.

Some thoughts on the energy economics of postbiological humanity.

If you operate a website, even just a personal blog (and I know you all do – even if it's just a blogspot.com blog, or a livejournal, or a flickr account) I strongly suggest that you read this link, and email the suggested address. Phorm is a gross invasion of our privacy, but it won't work if thousands and thousands of sites opt out if it. So opt out. All of you.

I say again: shut up about your jetpack and read this.

I think I'm going to need a HTML->PDF converter for a project in the next month or two, and I won't be able to use my usual one. So I'll probably wind up using this.

I'm going to want this to refer to at some point in the next while. Also: for fucks sake! Inster standard ranting here.

Merlin Mann on content republication, and the right of the individual to control who gets to profit by their work.

API for a telephony service that can be used with any one of a variety of the usual web languages. Might be handy if I need to start building telephony functionality into web apps.

This is the problem with my auto-linkblogging. I should have blogged this one first, so that you would have gotten to it second. Damn. OK, go look at the link below. Then come back and look at this one, because bands below really should have gotten in touch with this guy instead.

These are just stunning. As in I'm stunned that anyone thought "yes, that's what I want the logo for my band to be".

I think I may need to buy this, and the matching bat mat.

Obviously, I think it should have won, but still, the S&L site that we built last year got picked out of thousands of sites as an honouree in the Restaurant category in this year's Webbys. Nice to know that I worked on a nearly-award-winning website. Or something.

An interview with a man who reckons that he's designed logos for 90% of the fried chicken restaurants in London. The thought occurs that I don't ever note the names of these places. I refer to them all by one catch-all term that I stole from a friend "the local branch of Rank Chicken". I don't know if that's an endorsement of his work of a condemnation of it.

Really handly little tool to swiftly knock together basic page layouts. Given that I basically build everying off a grid these days, having a grid layout generator is no bad thing.