Elements - warning: do not open this if you have a history of spending too much time playing Magic.

"James my mate fancies u x" - one hell of an anti-texting/driving advert.

ControlPad - windows application that allows you to launch stuff from the numberpad. Quite useful, especially as you can send a number of commands at once.

Creating a being of pure evil - sometimes, I wish scientists had to watch a number of films relating to their area and were asked not to follow the plots in everyday life.

Burning Man and rights - Burning Man have a license for photographers that restricts their rights to their photographs, but it's well reasoned out as to why. Read the link to see how.

Root Bridges in India - how some areas on India have 500 living bridges. Amazing photos.

World Shipping Map - reminded of this by the piracy episode with the Russian ship. Strangely fascinating.

Red Remover - game where you need to get rid of the red and keep the green.

Knightfall - from Armor Games. This one involves clicking linked blocks of three or more of the  same colour to remove them, and trying to make your way to the door. You'll need to rotate the board so you drop in the right spot.

New Scientist reviews The Yes Men Fix The World - The Yes Men are pranksters with a point. They're the people who got on the BBC as Union Carbide representatives and announced the company was going to compensate people for Bhopal. I'll be looking out for this.

David Shayler's getting evicted from a squatted farmhouse - but the really interesting bit comes in paragraph six. Go on, go and read it. Edit: There's pictures at the Daily Mail here.

Russian ship goes missing in Europe - we're used to piracy off Africa, not off Sweden, but there's suggestions that that's how this container ship has gone missing.

Firefox (or Fennec) on the phone - interview with the Vice President of Mozilla at Lifehacker. Goes into what their priorities are, and where it might be coming to. Interesting how it might link to a desktop installation of Firefox.

How Freedom Of Information was used to bring out MP's expenses - interesting recording about how Heather Brooke basically lit the touchpaper under the entire thing.

Guardian - Internet at 40 - The Guardian lists a few notable Internet moments, such as the first spam, the first emoticon, etc, etc.

MySociety - Call For Proposals - MySociety are looking for ideas on what their next project should be.

CutThroat Capitalism - Wired have a game where you can see how you'd do as a pirate in the Gulf of Aden.

Jack Of Kent fails the UK Citizenship Test - turns out not many people are passing it, and the questions are... esoteric to say the least.

The UK Citizenship Test - as above, try it for yourself. I got 43%.

Latest on Simon Singh's libel trial - being sued by chiropractors for an article on the basis behind the practice.  More details here, and the article here. One of the great stories of unintended consequence though, given the Trading Standards cases and the like against the profession (see here).

Perseids peak tonight - try and get out to see them if it's clear.

One journalist decides 'off the record' goes both ways - Paul Carr got lied to by two sources in the last week. Paul Carr now says that 'off the record' means the truth, and lying means that you are then on the record.

Fox News - fair, balanced, and absolutely no idea where Egypt is.

Calvin Harris's Humanthesizer - I'm linking this purely for the use of conductive paint in an interesting way.