- Stunning vintage maps tracing the meandering Mississippi
- Who doesn't need one of these: a cutting board that doubles as an iPad stand
- magCulture reviews the new issue of Gym Class Magazine (featuring my interview with ex-Guardian design director Mark Porter – more details on that soon)
- Iain Claridge's blog is an ever dependable source of great photography, old and new. A few recent gems: Enric Adrian Gener's freediving pics, the Apollo crew hanging out by the pool, and the concretious beauty of Franz House.
- The King of Legoland is basically a musical inventory of my childhood
- I think I may need some Muji touchscreen gloves
- Ice Cube celebrates Ray and Charles Eames. Related: Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha drive the Sunset Strip, and a giant, disembodied John Baldessari head haunt Jason Schwartzman down Wilshire Blvd
- Old maps of ZX Spectrum games, including the amazing Treasure Island Dizzy
- Mike Reed makes the most of commuting and being burdened with an iPad (poor thing) by drawing fellow travellers
- Siri is mean.
- The Criterion Collection's little blue stickers (which helpfully notify you that the Blu-Ray disc you've just bought is, in fact, a Blu-Ray disc) really infuriate me. A very simple way to ruin some amazing artwork. I know they come off, but why put them on all the website images?
- Starter Upper auto-generates you Dot-Com 2.0 business plan
- Vitsœ do it in workshops without robots
- Oh dear lord it's a Shooter Sandwich
- It's British Egg Week next week, so you should probably get yourself some mail order hand made scotch eggs
- One last thing: goodbye swisscheeseandbullets.com, hello danielgray.com. I like to keep you on your toes.