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Objêts

http://www.oyemodern.com/designers/re-vision/?_a=viewCat&catId=35&sort_by=date_added&sort_order=low

* Camera lens bracelets. These are truly beautiful.

http://www.ondrejbrody.org/

* New dog cat carpets! Would you be so shocked if these were of bears and tigers?

http://www.humanssince1982.com/

I have seen lots of cool clocks over the years but this digital clock display made up of rotating analogue hands wins for me.

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/the-worlds-first-nuclear-power-plant/

Photos of the worlds first nuclear power plant … the main control point steals the show, strangely its just as you would imagine (scroll down).

http://www.bestmadeco.com/

Axes. There is something about a good choice of colour that can put any product on your wish list. Is it wrong that I crave one of these?

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/gallery-racetracks/

Nice photos of 10 great racetracks as seen from space.

Service

http://www.replate.org/

Waste not want not. Replate your leftovers for others, is this a nice idea or just a little unhygienic?

Graphics

http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2009_annual_report/P1/

* This is quite old now (new one out in December) but I promised I’d pass the link on to Hannah and forgot (so here it is). Nicolas Feltron plots his day to day life and each year creates the beautifully graphically designed Feltron Report. Click through each image.

http://www.printablepaper.net/

Ever wanted some grid paper to do your math or some dotted paper, maybe some blank music sheet? Well its all here to print out. I personally like to use it for graphical backgrounds.

Media

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zd_khk6zXo

* Surely the best football advert at the moment. Staring the cantina band amongst others.

Info

http://www.morenewmath.com/255/world-cup/

If you like the comic Demetri Martin (worth looking up if you don’t know) then New Math is for you. With simple graphics New Math is delivered every week.

Coming soon

http://www.kramweisshaar.com/projects/outrace.html

* This years Trafalgar square insulation has been chosen. Really looking forward to this one, it’s made up of ‘an immense mechanical octopus assembled from six industrial robotic arms on loan from Audi’.

And finally… what I’ve learned this week

• There is £57m in loose change scattered around the nation's homes

• Garden birds prefer non-organic birdseed

• The wealth of the WalMart family is the same as the combined wealth of the bottom 40% of US

• Tesco is selling complete school uniforms for £3.75 each

• The moon is 250000 miles away from the earth and the sun is 93 million miles away which creates a perfect angular diameter between them both so we get a pure solar eclipses

• Fiona Bruce has been voted Rear of the Year 2010

… and what I haven't

• Why Russian spy Anna Chapman wont accept my facebook friend request

Thanks to AnthonyP and MattV for links. If you want to pass on any links or comments email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Thanks and keep watching…