Harrods will be selling a £100,000 saucepan later this year. The princely pan features more than 1kg of solid gold, and is studded with an incredible 200 diamonds. The manufacturer Fissler claims it’s the world’s most expensive pot - the pen pushers at Guinness World Records have been duly notified.

I’d be tempted to buy one myself to boil spuds, but as it isn’t dishwasher-safe I’ll have to pass.
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Basic Hip has a great selection of stills from Hitchcock’s Vertigo accompanied by photos of the San Francisco scenes as they were in 2003.


It’s amazing how recognisable the scenes are after almost 50 years of change. San Francisco is a very cool city, but it looks impossibly cool in ‘58 when compared to the images of today.
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The MySpace Mexico website is set to launch following a lengthy beta phase. The site joins over a dozen regional MySpace sites scattered across the globe.

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Life is full of bad ideas that should never see the light of day. Unfortunately, 3D Mailbox, the self-proclaimed “world’s coolest email program” has pooped its head out from the sphincter of the idea fairy.
The idea is so implausible it sounds like an April fools gag:
Think of 3D Mailbox as email meets videogame. It’s e-mail for the visual generation. 3D Mailbox turns your emails into people: beautiful models represent good email, and goofy Sumo guys represent spam. Chill with your email poolside and in private cabanas, and feed your spam to the sharks! The beautiful locales and Brazilian background music make you feel like you’re on vacation any time of the day.
Right… so each of my emails is represented as a person, and I can “chill” with them poolside?

I can then arrange them into cabanas (mailboxes):

If the bouncer (spam filter) can’t decide if a person (email) is legit, they’re forced to skate around naked at the ice rink:

Genuis!!! To think I’ve been wasting all these years using Entourage.
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Students at Oxford are receiving fines via email after University staff discovered evidence of campus rules being broken on Facebook. The misdemeanors in question are typical student fare: “spraying fluids” (hopefully not urine) and throwing eggs.
Read the full story at msnbc.com.

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Most people would consider tea spillage of any kind to be a disaster of Titanic proportions, but the intrepid artists of the Tea Sketches Flickr group have learned to create beauty from tragedy.
The next time your steaming cup of cha leaves a mark, whip out a 2B pencil and get drawing…


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The ever colourful ColorWare have added the iPhone to their roster of rainbow products. If you can’t deal with the prospect of owning an iPhone in its default black never fear - ColorWare are offering them in a dazzling array of custom colours.
Check out their colourful version of the Nano, MacBook and Mac mini.

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The Twisted Fifties online store has launched, offering deviant art prints for the masses.


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There’s a new Flex tutorial for beginners over at onlamp.com. They rarely cover Flash/Flex (which is fair enough given that it’s a LAMP-based site), but the article is well written and serves as a nice little introduction to the technology.
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