Bigger than the lime barrel

Wispa's coming back.

Spot seeker

What's that little gadget? It's a Wi-Fi hotspot detector. It's to save all the faffing around with your laptop, when you're not sure whether you're in a free Wi-Fi zone or not. No point starting the thing up if you're not going to get online. This device tells you whether there's any point before you get comfortable.

Word up

Excellent music magazine The Word now has a podcast.

Green uni

The greenest universities, according to People & Planet.

Power to the little lamp

Build a designer light to pop on top of a battery.

User generated content

The Never Ending Story. You have to pay attention to get the hang of it (check the How It Works section) but it's gaining popularity and worth a look. Famous people start the stories, you carry them on.

Phil from Bloxwich

A quick mention for the passing of the great Phil Drabble.

Head for the dry

This watch tells you when there's a storm coming.

Hour hands of 3 metres

As the chimes of Big Ben are silenced for four weeks for repairs, here are some useless facts from Parliament's mother's icon.

They drank the lot

Cognac from the trenches.

Under the sun

Solar-powered iPod charger.

Dude

The fake blog Steve Jobs. At the risk of spoiling the joke by explaining it, Steve Jobs is Mr Apple. The blog is satire. Hence the word "fake". And it's funny.

Gimme a Bud

The car built out of Budweiser cans.

Mystery thing

Bet you can't guess what it does. Find out here.

Lord Lucan not found

With yet another duff sighting of Lord Lucan, this time in New Zealand, it turns out that he's got an official website.

Bigger and bigger

If these figures are sustained, Apple will be the biggest music retailer within two years.

And we're back

Worth more than the card

It's £20, which is beyond "extravagance", but for the Tube user in your life who has everything, the Oyster Card holder from the Tate.

Rock star hero

David Coverdale from Whitesnake tells the story of his encounters with bears at Lake Tahoe - here.

Not on Derby Day

Here, as well as discovering from the National Archives that Churchill disuaded the Duke of Windsor from attending the Coronation, we learn that the date for the Queen's big day was scheduled to avoid the Derby.

Missing you

I'll be back soon. I promise. But I've got a mountain of ironing to do.

How do I get the time?

Never quite enough time at the moment... back soon...

Impregnated seedlings

Grow your own truffles.

Montmartre

Peaceful photoblog

Emitting only water

The hydrogen-powered racing car which was taken through its speedy paces at Silverstone last weekend.

Coral and quartz

Vinegar Hill does gifts like this.

Gandhi on the causes of violence

The seven blunders of the world.

Tall. Obviously.

Just in case you missed it, the world's tallest man got married last week. He's 7' 9".

The marriage was sponsored by eleven different companies, each hoping to jump on the bandwagon, and I'm not naming any of them. (There, that scuppered their marketing plans.)

Sony's DS

The PSP Slim & Lite. One day the word "lite" will be outlawed.

A passion for digging

Chicken House publishing - home of Tunnels, the "new Harry Potter".

Too hot to handle

In the constellation of Vulpecula, the catchily named planet HD189733b. What's so special about it? Water.

Small and yet large

Tiny, but highly impressive, new speakers from Sony.

Thoroughly animated

Recommended by Click, here's Animation World Network, "the hub of animation on the internet", and it does seem to have all the animation bases covered, from news of a Looney Tunes release, and Harry Potter's box office latest, to animation in court.

100,000 more every day

The word wasn't even around until 1999, but now there are 57 million blogs in the world. Thank you for being so discerning.

Design

The egg cube from Bodie and Fou. See also the milk jug shaped like an old-fashioned milk bottle.

Working hero

The Dilbert Blog - full of stuff and updated often.

You saw me standing alone

The Blue Moon butterfly, saved from extinction in the "species arms race".

The Monster iFree Play

Plug your iPod shuffle straight into your headphones. No wires.

Taking it

One of my all-time favourites from YouTube - Derren Brown's Russian scam.

Ready for action

Jack Odell, co-founder of Matchbox Toys, died this week. Here's their website - I still love 'em.

Funky

Swimshorts from Starblu.

Thrill

Courtesy of kottke (currently taking a break), a website featuring the film techniques of Alfred Hitchcock.

Huge bounds

Deer behaving unusually in Italy. That'll be the secret cannabis farm then.

Hug one

A hoodie for your iPod.

Health, starting at home

From the Department of Health, "Community Health Profiles" - a fascinating collection of new statistics on the health of your local community. Here's Bournemouth's.

Coming to some sort of an arrangement

From Charminster, news of the man with the £11m gas bill.

Sleep easy

For the smaller person in your life, a Lumilove night light.

What Tony does next

With no great fanfare, now that Tony Blair has been consigned to the archive on the Downing Street website, his own home on the net has launched here.

Loving the English

The Feathers in Westminster used to boast the motto "Ich Dien" on its pub sign, until a mischievous Welsh signwriter got to work.

Spun

A day before publication, extracts from Alastair Campbell's diaries.

Cam

Logitech's new HD webcam.

Você fala o inglês?

In case you haven't found it before, Google Translate for sentences and phrases, and a Dictionary version for simply translating individual words.

Smoke free at sea

"No butts on the beach" says the Marine Conservation Society, hoping to rid Britain's seaside of cigarette ends.

Cool stool

The "Ice" bar chair from John Lewis.

Up close and far away

American buildings from on high in this great slideshow.

Topless

Convertible cars are three times more popular with women than a decade ago, with the Peugeot 206 taking over from the MX5 at the (drop)top of the league.

Free

Alan Johnston, released this morning in Gaza. Great news.

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On your head

Paul Smith hats

Heart ping pong

How the German post office is trying to revive the good old-fashioned mail.

Pinkberry

Pinkberry is coming to London. Korean Frozen Yogurt, it seems. Here's a review of their New York bar.

Let your shed glow

A solar shed light from Maplin.

Shredded

Here's what happens when a newsreader and a producer get into an argument about the lead story on the news.

Not alone

I thought this would have made bigger news.

Scientific tests on the gun used to shoot JFK have proved that it can't fire three bullets in the 8 seconds between the first and last shot that killed Kennedy. It would have taken more than twice as long, if Oswald were the only marksman.

Coming soon

It's out in America. Now all we can do is wait. The Apple iPhone.

How it's done

"Life explained - on film", claims Videojug. It's how to do just about everything. How to use your garden tools, for instance,

Capped

A statue of Andy Capp in Hartlepool. He's got the scarf and cap, but no cigarette.