Gully’s Aqua Tank is a PC with difference – it’s got a fully functional fish tank (complete with teeny guppies) installed in the top section. If you have to ask why, then you obviously (sheesh!) don’t get the point of case modding. Actually, it is a bit weird I suppose, but no worse than trick painting the side of your Transit van (and whatever happened to custom cars anyway?) There are no reports on whether it was necessary to install…

One day we will all be able to plug any device into an Internet port and log on instantly with no configuration, setup or other dismal hassles. How do I know? Well these people are working on it, and if they manage to bring it off they will be my heroes. :-)

Here’s a small article suggesting that the Web is more than a little bit distracting when you’re trying to get work done. Hmm, yes. Of course the words – Excuse. Avoidance. Work. and Obvious. do spring to mind here. Just to prove the point, why not visit the rather funny but totally useless clickonthisstupidwebsite.com? You know you’ll regret it.

What the Font (sic) is a neat little resource for graphic designers who come across a font they like and need to identify it quickly. Simply upload a scan of said font onto the site and it will be compared against their database to hopefully provide a match.

OK, I’m really really trying to figure out why you would want one of these puppies, and it’s not working. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good application for a mouse pad on a screen the size of a walnut, but I can’t think of it. Anyway just in case you have better luck than me, here’s the Targus PDA Mouse. [Via Twomobile]]

Apparently a Russian space shuttle (cloned from the US I believe) is to be auctioned this month by a Los Angeles radio station. Not sure whether it’s a spoof or not (or whether this has…er…Russian approval) but it’s a kooky story, if only to try and work out who would possibly want to buy the thing. It would certainly be one way to out-do the Jones’ in Beverly Hills I suppose. [Via Slashdot]]

Got a Palm or PocketPC PDA? Need a watch? Then why not check out the Fossil PDA watch. This $145.00 device is billed as the ultimate PDA companion, which basically means that you can upload information from the PDA into the watch using their infra red ports. Address books, to-do lists, calendars and memo pad data are all supported, although it looks as though there’s not much you can do with it once it has been loaded onto the watch…

A quite spooky but illuminating look at the effects of the drug Ecstasy on the brain. Apart from anything else, this clever graphical slideshow provides a fascinating glimpse into the mysterious mechanical workings of our grey matter. If you have ever wondered how your brain interacts with your emotions you should watch this and learn.

Light up the World is a nice initiative to help provide low cost lighting for the developing world using white LEDs. Apparently this technology is very efficient and has minimal power requirements, which makes it perfect for illuminating the needy third world. It’s kind of sad that here we are in the 21st century and still there are whole swathes of the planet which do not have this most basic of facilities.

So tell me, why would you want to place a pub in your garden? Maybe because you have no friends? Or maybe because you need more? Anyway for all those with too much money – around �8000.00 it seems – and liitle desire to leave the comfort of their own home, we present the Keenmac Smok’n Salmon Garden Pub.

Soyouwanna.com is a really cool site that, quote ‘teaches you all the things nobody taught you at school’. The site contains a hugely eclectic selection of different tutorials ranging from ‘so you wanna convert to Buddhism?’ to ‘so you wanna flatten your abs?’ There’s one particular lesson which is very dear to my heart here – ‘so you wanna get a pet ferret?’ Great site.

The good folks at Imaging Resource have set up a rather useful section which offers all sorts of information about software drivers for imaging devices. This is the first time I’ve seen a one stop source for all the different camera makes, so it’s worth a bookmark if you’re in to the whole digicam thang. The really useful stuff is at the bottom of the page where they provide a link list of all the driver locations for the major…

This is kind of complicated, so I’m not going to explain it in depth, but it appears that there is a growing movement out there to back link – i.e. to identify where visitors to a site are coming from by placing their link of origin in full view on a Web page. It may be a tad self-referential, but it’s fun. Look at the bottom of the Ferret and you’ll see a similar thing that I’ve been doing for…

Classic British comedy video clips – Monty Python, Michael Bentine, Benny Hill. Available for free download and viewing. Very short, very funny, very wonderful. ‘Nuff said?

Want to know what must be keeping Sony executives awake at night? I suggest that it’s this kind of stuff – XBConnect – which is a free software utility that lets you connect your XBox up to the Internet to play games remotely with friends and strangers. Download the software, install it on a PC which is hooked up to your XBox using a network router or hub, connect to a broadband Internet connection and bingo, an instant online gaming…