A group of rather talented russian flash developers have been working hard on version 5 of the Alernativa3D engine and have now reached their first milestone.

Check out the magic

Our kettle of cool gives this a rather fabulous 1.6 liters which when converted to cups of tea is 5 out of 5!

Swedish - it’s all Greek to me, but this viral piece for Tele2 is outstanding.

Following its acquisition of DoubleClick, Google is cutting 300 staff. More info from the Guardian.

The Korg DS-10 is a software version of the legendary MS-10 synth for the Nintendo DS, currently slated for release in Japan only this July. Check out the video - it’s cooler than a black Fonz!

TankPitstop is the world’s first automated refuelling robot, allowing drivers to fill up at the pump without leaving their vehicles.

You can see a video of the system in operation here. It’s very impressive, but it could be a hell of a lot quicker…

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.

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.