Nice to see a very good mate of ours getting some love: "I'm doing Jude Law next week," Charlie says, before grabbing the phone to negotiate a rate for Hello! syndication. Mr Gray is very well-mannered...it's something he's learnt from hanging around the truly professional and successful of the world.

Dear Giles, Sub-editing is a noble profession. It is also a thankless one - particularly when your writers call you a "useless cunt".

Mr Theophile added: "You never want to see anyone have their bike nicked - not even a Tory."

The best thing 'bout this, in my opinion, is the moving background, at the top of the page, as you enlarge or shrink the browser window. It's downright 3 Dimensional. Great app. too.

but did you see the....

"Simple actions that could be done by one man seem to take three when the prince is involved.”

Arne Jacobsen and his egg chair.

Zaha Hadid, a gruff, laughing, scowling, very loud and exotic earth mother in a hard hat.

Interactive map of British History - seems to be all wars though...

List of emerging ideas from Demos, for the UK

How can a product that doesn't work and offends the eye possibly be described as a 'design classic', says Germaine Greer.

Nice - putting a 'wow' into motorways.

Brand loyalty of Skype - or not.

Glad to see a 1997 edition of Harry Potter so high up the list....

Review "This is a truly historical meeting of the established and new media," said Les Moonves, the head of CBS, about his network's new video partnership with Google. Um, no, Les. So far, it's just a really crap web site.

Chees & Onion Crisps maker goes bust. Because Walker's Crisps had a better brand (or is owned by Pepsi - you chose).

Another article on the invisible house -

Building the invisible house. 2 points in 1 article, designing a house around annual, day-long light sources, and a house that is invisible to its neighbourhood.

Photos of Gehry's development in Hove, nr Brighton UK: KING ALFRED DEVELOPMENT ::::::::::: Brighton & Hove / Project exhibited to the public at the Jubilee Library, Brighton, Oct. 2005

Cox Review of Creativity in Business: building on the UK’s strengths

Hmm. Okay. Next they'll be arguing its okay to kill one kind of person over another.

Try before you buy! Drag and drop energy saving measures onto a model of your own home to predict how much you could improve your energy rating on the UK’s energy rating scale.

The Lawn Road Flats, a four-storey block of small apartments, were built at a time when the Modern Movement just started to happen in Britain.

Best of British Advertising 2005

Fat is a company that makes architecture and art (and all kinds of things in between).

Space Syntax provides a creative and analytic input to the design and delivery of building and urban development projects

Lift is a design studio that specialises in creating attractive communications that are easy to use, read, and understand.

Robin Kinross, Writer and publisher who runs Hyphen Press and co-set up Workplace Co-op 115

Research in 'recovering modern reasoning in typography'

British Architect