I came across Map Envelope the other day on Twitter (via SmashingMag). You can put a location in and print out an envelope lined with a Google Maps image. Très cool!

I created this one – because I would love to be in Whistler right now!

I only recently stumbled across Sunset Mag but I’m impressed! Created by the team behind Sunset Events (who were a dear client of mine when Cube7 was still in existence) it has a great mix of Perth events, sounds, pics and arty stuff. Really cool and something that I’d love to contribute to! Have a read if you have a spare minute.

Do you use Omni Graffle? I do. It’s especially handy for mocking up wireframes. Visit this site and download some free templates.

I really love the design and illustration on this site – Also Design

One of my goals for this year is to grow my business. Here are some handy tips to do just that.

The Australia Council of the Arts published “The writers guide to making a digital living” last year. I really need to make an effort to read through it all because the snippets that I have read seems quite interesting.

Another one of my New Year’s resolutions was to read more classic books and with titles like Sense and Sensability, Great Expectations and Madame Bovary being re-released with gorgeous pattern-inspired covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith I can get some reading done and appreciate some art all at the same time.

We are always looking for some food/recipe inspiration and Open Source Food provides some great ideas.

A grab from the site of Marian Bantjes

Every now and then the web will surprise you with a little patch of lovely. That is what I found when I visited the site of Marian Bantjes.

From the gorgeous flourishes of the menu font to her outstanding pen and vector work, sites like this exist to inspire and rouse the creative spirit. And what’s cooler than her impressive talent is she lives in my favourite part of the world – an island off the coast of Vancouver! Her workspace was featured in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of I.D. (the article is called The I.D. 40 Creative Workspaces) so once I get my hands on a copy I can sit and pretend that I had her talent and her workshop!

Wouldn’t you agree that the world would be a much darker place without the chocolate rain guy, lazy sunday short, the out-takes from the RV salesman, the German kid going psycho playing UT and of course, goatse (which I won’t link to because my Mum reads this).
The video above pays homage to the clips that are forwarded throughout the world, bringing with them immense timewasting joy – or in goatse’s case – prodigious depravity. What would we do without the internet?

I don’t know how I managed to not see this in my web trawls but thankfully I was enlightened by Rah and I now plan to spend countless hours quietly chuckling to myself over the hilarity that is the lolcats phenomena.

These are some of my faves.

Head over to Moo to get some free Skype mini cards. There’s only 10,000 sets available so you’d better hurry!

Now, this is funny. An ode to Paxil to the tune of J.T.’s SexyBack. PaxilBack. (via byrdhouse)

Youth Against Soduku – sign me up. It’s a well known fact that anything involving numbers and logic is the handiwork of Satan.

Any web dev person worth their salt probably knows about this site but I figured it was worth mentioning in order to boost my cred.

Ahhh single-serve food stuffs, kawaii and softly spoken girls with pig-tails = fun for everyone. Check out BentoTV

Look! Look! Not only did Dan get to stand dangerously close to the Foo Fighters the other day (♥ Dave Grohl ♥) but he also took pics of Las Vegas hotties Panic! At The Disco. What a star!

Here are some beautifully designed blogs/sites that I’ve come across recently.

Markus Stefan
Cameron Moll
Cabedge
Brain Food
Deeply Shallow
Type Records
Probably the best ‘wedding notice’ website I’ve seen
AppZapper
A site featuring fantastic photoshop brushes

btw BIG CONGRATS go to everyone’s favourite rocktographer, Daniel Boud, for his 2 page spread in the latest Spin magazine (with the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s on the cover). Isn’t it great when people actually do something with their life!

You gotta visit this site for the funniest collection of comments about Chuck Norris. I swear, you’ll soil yourself (in a good way).

Here’s a few nuggets -

• Hellen Keller’s favorite color is Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Ever.
• The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
• There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.