Sister Act

A judget gets double-booked and sends her twin sister to one of the court hearings.

KITT car talking

I can't really believe it, but it's on the internet, so it must be true. Knight Rider as your Sat Nav.

Roll with it

Twenty great oases.

(Found via The Presurfer.)

Give them back

This one's been knocking about since last month, but let it still be a salutary tale.

Don't be late returning your library books in Wisconsin, or this will happen.

Zeitgeisty

Have I mentioned Timeghost? Really very funny.

Tiny

Is the new iPod Nano (the fourth generation, can you believe) worth it? Stuff says yes.

Me, though, I'd rather have a Touch. Even if they do call it "The funnest iPod ever".

Banned

An innocent enough track listing, over three CDs on this latest compilation album. But they were all tracks the BBC determined must never be played.

Hold on tight

10,000 thingummies are left in the back of London taxis every month.

Don't panic

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is coming back. Seven years after the death of Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer (author of Artemis Fowl et al) will be writing the sixth book in the "trilogy", to be called "And Another Thing".

Here, on the Radio 4 website, Arthur Dent passes verdict on the move, and Colfer talks about his task.

(Can it really be that there was no apostrophe in the title when the book was first published?)

Get into poetry

Hear poetry read by the poets themselves, and a bunch of other stuff too, at the Poetry Archive.

Better Flip

A couple of month's ago I nearly bought a Flip. These are the neatest new camcorders around, recording everything internally onto the built-in hard drive and with a USB connector on the side flipping out for easy downloading. There's built-in software too.

Now, Flip's got a smarter brother - Flip Mino. A rechargeable battery, a built-in screen and ability to scan your existing recordings are amongst the improvements.

Chrome

I've written on Facebook about Google's new web browser, but here's another honourable mention on John's blog.

Chrome. It's pretty good.

Post-It Note Race

Just a clever ad from Nike.

Google at ten

Marking ten years of Google, a range of articles from the Guardian. What was the web like before Google - and what will it be like in ten years' time?

Fonty

Found via the BBC's Click, the website Get Free Fonts. Where you can get free fonts. Fancy.

Watch

I can't imagine having lots of pairs of shoes - I really can't. But watches? Oh yes. Here's the Independent's list of the fifty best.

007

Quantum of Solace, the next Bond movie, is coming at the end of October, and the film's website is great. But never mind that for now - here's Quantum of Solace, the book. Nothing to do with the film, in fact, just a great collection of Bond short stories from Ian Fleming.

And towards the end (I promise I'm not spoiling any surprises) it even has a recipe for scrambled eggs, James Bond style.

The Things They Don't Say

Brian Cathcart, from his excellent column in the New Statesman, describing the theory by which commentators draw great learning from the things a politician doesn't say in an interview - for instance, David Miliband not mentioning Gordon Brown in his Guardian article a few weeks ago:

"The theory is that, because political correspondents know what politicians should say in any given circumstance, they are instantly alert when one fails to do so. And having identified a point of deviance, these correspondents are able to construe, from unnamed sources or circumstantial evidence, the true intention behind it - a signal or manoeuvre the ordinary reader would otherwise miss...

"[David Miliband's] intentions were all the more transparent, we are told, because he also knows the codes. Since he knew that reporters would construe what he didn't say in the way they did, it follows that he must have not said it deliberately because he wanted it construed that way. QED."

How politics works, indeed. Or (as the column goes on to discuss) possibly not.

Happy Days

John's blog has found a lot of websites over the years. (Two years and three months in fact, count 'em.)

But this one really is a favourite.

The Optimist - determined to bring us happier news.