Some jolly nice illustrations by Jonathan Ball, available to buy at imagekind.

The new BBC homepage, launched today, allows users to customise their experience by selecting content and creating garish colour schemes. It’s hardly a new idea, but it’s well implemented, and if nothing else, it’s worth the admission fee for the kitsch analogue clock displayed in the header.

Please note - I despise the term Web 2.0, but as there’s no recognised alternative term that I can think of, I will continue to use it under duress.

The legendary cover of Stevie Wonder’s Golden Lady by Jose Feliciano is on YouTube! Stone the crows with stones that would instill fear in the Capes, I had no idea!

These button-themed tables by Swedish design group Wis are delightful:

The perfect furnishing for Mr Spoon’s baked bean tin.

This dude… he’s such… well… a dude!

The proprietor of the Yes Bar in Berlin has taken narcissism to a new level with this panoramic website, showing his bar filled with identikit punters, all of whom look suspiciously like him. Genius! Give that man a cigar and a vigorous handshake, he rocks my world more than Rocky’s I to VI.

Some inventions are so pointless you can’t help but wonder how somebody convinced a manufacturer to put them into production. Take the hoover mouse, for example. As the name implies, it’s a pointing device that doubles as a hoover.

Combining a mouse with an electric shaver… that’d be killer. Or a maybe a HP sauce dispenser.

The new version of Director is available for pre-order. A few years ago I’d have been ever-so-slightly excited at the prospect of a new version of what was once my favourite application, but really, who the hell in their right mind would burn $1,000 on this pointless application?

The CD-Rom is dead, the Shockwave plug-in is redundant, and, unbelievably, there’s still no Intel Mac version available.

Oh well… it was good while it lasted.

Pepsi is in the office today - note how her harness compliments (or clashes, your call) my shirt.

Ordering RAM is a tedious task, on a par with washing the dishes or peeling a banana for a man with no hands. So, when making an order with Crucial yesterday, upon seeing the obligatory box “Enter any special shipping and handling instructions here”, I asked them for a hand-written poem. As you do…

This morning, I received the following via email:

Good morning Milan,

Sorry can not oblige with a hand written poem so

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Sugar is sweet
and so are you.

Have a nice day

Kindest regards

Linda

Nice one! Clearly, they’re even more crucial than Delbert Wilkins. High fives and back slaps to Linda (surname withheld because the Internet is a scary place at the best of times).