Whilst you're away

Top tips for saving money on foreign currency.

DIY Kyoto

Just how much energy are you using? It's pretty clever, is Wattson, measuring the electricity you're using throughout the house, and when it's paired up with the software system Holmes (see what they've done there?) it puts you in control of those incredible rising energy bills.

Design

Coming soon to the excellent Design Museum - the Richard Rogers exhibition.

Oops

OK, this is an error. Bond Car Plunges Into Lake Garda.

Couplets

Making a comeback - poems that rhyme.

Classy stuff

Just a gorgeous site full of things for the children, and for grown-ups too. Treehouse Blue.

Harmony and stability

You're buying a house and you think you've got everything covered? What about the Feng Shui?

All in one

Mysupermarket.co.uk - compares everything from prices to calories, and hooks straight into the websites of your chosen online supermarkets.

Standby, Scotland

The campaign for a Scottish web domain.

RC

Here's Spykee from Meccano, as seen (brilliantly) on The Gadget Show on Five. He's fab. Or if you prefer some more traditional Meccano, this will do it.

Say what?

Spinvox - receive voicemail as texts.

Are you having a laugh?

I was a bit doubtful about ITV's Headcases, partly because it seemed a bit bold to claim that it's following in the footsteps of Spitting Image, but it's very funny. Simple as that. Sunday nights at 10pm.

At the time of going to press

Normally the phrase "at the time of going to press" is simply used in newspapers as a protection against late-breaking news.

Normally, but not always.

The New Statesman this week, writing about Boris Johnson's efforts to become London mayor, says that the campaign "continues gaffe-free, at the time of going to press".

How are we going to get rid of this?

Want to get rid of it, but not bothered about getting any money for it? So it's not going to go on eBay, but maybe you could Freecycle it.

As the website says, "The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,325 groups with 4,808,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills."

Enrich your word power

Here's Free Rice - great fun. It tests your vocabulary, offering you ever-more-obscure words, and at the same time by taking part you're automatically (and anonymously) making a donation to end global hunger.

I got to level 42, but that was my limit.

From the counting house

Britain's new coins, coming this summer.

Caught on camera

The handbag thieves whose getaway route took them past the paparrazi. The photographers were waiting for Rebecca Loos - who'd have thought she's still famous enough - but instead they got plenty of pics to help the police with their inquiries.