Stephen Wiltshire is a British artist with an amazing gift. He can eyeball the moxt complex cityscapes and draw them from memory with amazing detail and in almost perfect scale. His panoramic hand-rendering of Tokyo is just hair raising when you realize it was all done from his photographic memory. It’s really no wonder he’s dubbed “The Human Camera”.

Fleeting Seating: The Slightly Uncomfortable Chair Collection is an awesome idea to making those unbearably (and sometimes needlessly) long meetings more efficient.

Pure genius.

I crawl up, switch on the engine and stay there for four hours until all the petrol runs out. The van bounces back up so we can all get out, but then the gold goes over.

›› Sir Michael Caine reveals the ending to the original Italian Job

Iambic 5 Poetry is the standout track from this 1999 mini masterpiece from Tom Jenkinson. This record is also from his jazzy, saccharine sweet phase, complete with soft pianos and tinkling ting-tings. The whacky and the weird rhythms and the pointless, insular ramblings are still there, they’re just eveloped by a nicer, newer combination of digital and organic music.

Available now as a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game, this crossover game features characters like Baraka, Jax, Kitana, Raiden and gang against DC Comics stars Batman, Superman, Wonder Women, Catwoman and the rest. Once Hollywood has milked all the comics’ characters in a few years time, I am sure they will turn to the world of crossover stories to try and make more money. Just wait and see…

Another great street art project called Inner city snail, from the same guy who brought us the awesome Little People. Speaking of which, I think I will go buy the Little People In The City book soon.

The most unusual of clocks, one rotation of the Life Clock is equivalent roughly to an entire lifetime and each number represents age. It is a regular clock mechanism which is electronically slowed down to match the life length of (presumably European) women.

I think I’ll stick with a regular clock at home, thank you.

Threadless is having a $5-ish sale now – time to go get some tees!

I’m also digging their new URL structure that allows me to link directly to their $5 T-shirts, $10 T-shirts and $15 T-shirts. Nicely done…

There was a time when iTunes was a (relatively) snappy and meagre 10MB download and it played back music well enough. Nowadays, Apple’s free audio player software (now at version 8.0.2) is a jukebox, store, sync software and video player all rolled into one that weighs in at a grand 60MB. There are times when I wish there was an iTunes Lite option that did not have the extra features I don’t need and just played audio.

I can’t wait for Songbird 1.0 to come out — with iPod support baked in, it can completely replace iTunes for most people (on Macs and Windows).

Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

›› Howard H. Aiken

An incredibly dedicated and talented dad draws on his kids’ lunch bags everyday. Way to go, dad dude!

The Chocolate Pie Chart is 70% milk, 20% dark, 10% white chocolate and 100% recommended for those whose investment portfolio charts don’t look as sweet in the current economic climate.

This is only the second Coldplay record I have in my possession. Someone gifted me the sappy, moody but not-really-that-bad Parachutes album many years ago, and I bought Viva La Vida, Or Death and All His Friends because the cover invoked a bizarre feeling of optimism in me. Even more bizarrely, I also bought it, despite not really liking Coldplay, because I wanted to see if there was any new musical reason to like Chris Martin and Co.

Sadly, I have to say that they still sound like they want to be U2. The guitars sound like a homage to The Edge, and the epic atmospherics of the album sound very Joshua Tree-like. They have Brian Eno as a producer which probably doesn’t help. I’m sure there are definitely U2 fans out there who dig Coldplay but I obviously am not one of them.

My theory is that Coldplay figured that since they were incapable of rivaling the cutting edge Radiohead stuff, they might as well try and fill be the biggest stadium rock band mould created by U2.

As a consolation, thanks to Coldplay’s massive fan base, at least I know I can get a good price at Cash Converters for this CD next week.