Not just retro, but retro, stylish, and functional – and accurate right down to the 80s’ cases of Nintendo Thumb it will give you: a beautiful, beautiful Retro PS2 joypad. Like when pads really were pads… remember NES controllers? Yeowch.

A wonderful entry on the recently discovered and rather good Memex that reminds me of the many reasons I too loved my time in Cambridge. I’m going back in three weeks time, and it’s going to be wonderful – not just the people, but the place itself.

Poisoned is, from the looks of things, an utterly kick-ass piece of P2P software for OSX… it uses multiple networks and transparently merges them. Sweet. Now, where’s my broadband…

Via Brooke, a remarkable picture of Saturn taken from the Hubble telescope. Awe-inspiring 222kb jpg; it’s now my desktop wallpaper.

Just a quick reminder: the first Omnivore will be going live next Monday, so if you’re interested in writing for this tasty new creative writing site, head on over there and drop us a line…

Bah. Panther, that’s OS X.3 (or 10.3 to those of you still using numbers) is out at the end of the month. 10.2.6 is working fine over here for me, so I see no reason for the

Toothpaste for dinner: my master’s degree. Ahehehe.

Why is it that there’s still a sense of wonder when I change one figure in a spreadsheet and all the other cells related to it change too? Shouldn’t I have got over that years ago?

The Nokia Medallion: the stupid photo-messaging equivalent of changing your display name on Barbelith, and just about as useful. It looks like something off a crap BBC sci-fi show or something.

Brilliant: the new Napster ad campaign, in which they billpost fake adverts and then stick Napster stickers over the top. Perfect piece of advertising: it builds on brand the brand reputation and satirises it at the same time.