If I was FIFA I’d pick Qatar too based on these images (despite several looking like the Eye of Sauron). Pity none of them exist yet, and interesting that the environmental spin has started already: “eco friendly soccer utopia” indeed.

2010 highlights from the world of Boardgaming.

Real singing.

Time to up your broadband cap, iPadders. A perfect mapping of content to technology I’m guessing.

Toy cars. Eyes wide with childlike wonder.

2010 longread highlights from the site curator: “A hand-picked selection of the finest articles and essays”.

Smartphones are dominating Flickr stats - the rapid turnaround on sharing shots seems to be the key. How long before SLRs have social media functionality - Canon F1000 Facebook anyone?

Danny Madskillz is the more accurate spelling.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Now even if you’re not on Facebook you’ll end up ‘in' Facebook whether you like it or not:

messages from people not in your social network are shuffled into another mailbox. The system will get smarter over time, so that even people you aren’t friends with on Facebook, but communicate often with, will show up in the stream

Fantastic tumblr of animated gif movie frames, including this beauty from *Once Upon a Time in the West*.