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Okay. Okay.

I know. I promised.

‘Nice Things’ every Friday.

Well. Life (work) got in the way.

Here are a few nice things I found this week that tickled my tummy.

I’ve linked to Calvin and Hobbs before. My buddy Fosta used to like them so here’s 25 great comic strips for you.

I love Lego, though I’d argue they’ve taken the imagination out of it. I used to make Airwolf helicopters. I never thought of doing Escher in Lego.

Fancy a sobering thought or two? And no. Not strictly ‘nice’ either. But check out the Nuclear Weapons Archive dot org.

Never be shamed by a lack of eighties style grafitti skills, using these fonts you can ‘hip hop you don’t stop ‘cos I’m not sloppy’ ’till the cows come home. And no-one will ever know.

Email yourself in the future. Might be useful. Be better if it allowed you to go back in time. Needs Mr Fusion I think.

What is it with HDR images right now? They make interesting images look like the posters of University stoner kids. But hey, some are okay. I hate post-production. It kills the nature of photography.

More nice business cards.

That’ll do for now.

Like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, then have a play with this game. Be warned! you might be some time

Continuing a space theme, here is an R2D2 translator. You can download the output.

In 1959 a man went up in a balloon to the edge of space to jump out. He was ata height of 40km (!!!!). Completely mental. Why isn’t this an extreme sport?

Struggling to sleep? Try a bedtime tune to relax yourself.

Ever wondered what the system is for completing a Rubiks cube?

More drums. The most amazing drum solo ever?

Ever lost a manual for a product you own? Well, fret not, here’s a BIG library of user manuals.

Molecular Nanobots? In your bloodstream? What? Im actually sacred.

Wow. 3 for 3.

Okay, it’s Saturday, but you got last weeks a day early.

Reet bonkers slide show on the future of our planet and galaxy.

New street signs springing up all round London. Thanks Mr Hellens.

Some bonkers nanotech for you.

VideoJug shows you how to compose your photographs in this instructive little video.

Here are some batteries that charge via USB.

Photos from nuclear tests. Pretty scary but beautiful stuff.

For those who like cartoons, did you ever get into Calvin and Hobbs?

Ever wondered how to classify lists of animals..? What do you mean no?

Twango allows you to upload files that will automatically have geospatial data added to them based on the text associated with the file.

Based on consumer insight from over 1000 guests in 5 countries, Swisscom are about to reinvent hotel connectivity (thank God!). Called room 2.0 it’s an interesting story about innovation, whitespace and conducting primary research.

Yay! I remembered to share some more links with you this week. This could become a Friday habit (okay, technically it’s Thursday evening here) but I’m promising nothing. You hear me? Nothing!

Award winning Honda TV advert ripped off and applied to a website. I think I actually HATE this.

Playing football with binoculars on. Funny. Want to play.

Ever wondered how much space in our transport network is lost through choice of vehicle..? No..? Are you kidding me? Well check this image showing the amount of space required to transport the same amount of people by bus, bike or car.

Some haunting images from the day before. This is why I love photography and why I hate post production photo-engineering. I’ll argue with anyone that photography is about capture (though ‘capture’ may be interpreted).

This is what I hate about manipulated photography. It should be on the bedroom wall of a stoner student.

More photography, but this one feels personal, old and from a bygone era.

Need some new business cards, don’t be lame and print on card, try some of these. I wish we had, ours are rubbish. The divorce one is quite sweet and I like the one with a seed embedded within it.

I’m sure you’ve seen this transparent screen trick, I still like it. the effort people go to is amazing.

Move your mouse about and feel sick and disorientated. Wicked.

What’s your favourite keyboard shortcut? I wish I could ‘Apple-Z’ sometimes in life.

My friend Fosta does his weekly ‘Webwatch‘ which is always nice to peruse should you happen to find yourself 15 minutes free.

I myself stray upon lot of nice things, but always forget to log them for you, so here’s this weeks batch and I’ll see if I can be a regular and dedicated as Nick.

Get some money, make some shapes, prefeably animals. hey presto! Moneygami.

One of those images that you just stop and stare at for a while.

Sometimes companies ‘update’ their identities and it can be quite subtle, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

Also check out this video about the wonderful AT&T identity crisis. It made me chuckle.

Apparently, the only clock you’ll ever need. Except I finish at 6 p.m. so it’s just pure torture for me.

Some quite nice photographs of neglected architecture. I photographic project I’d considered starting myself.

I’m a sucker for lists of things. Love ‘em. Here is a list of top 100 Apple applications. How many do you have?

Bored of Microsoft Office? Want a web solution? Try Zoho and work online. Write docs, spreadsheets, presentations, plan meetings, notes, reports, project manage, chat wiki, mail your heart away.

In American high-schools, they love a good drum solo. When people are good with instruments it always makes me feel a little lame. Same with languages really.

cassetteOriginally uploaded by Snow_badger.

Says-It allows you to make your own faux records and cassettes by adding in some text and overlaying an image.Not amazing, but quite cool. You can buy fridge magnets. Nice.