Philip

Cool point and click adventure

http://machinarium.com/demo/

Marketing man

Fifty years of space exploration

On this graphic.

The NY Times food rules

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/10/11/magazine/20091011-foodrules.html

The restaurant where you get what person before ordered

http://www.cabel.name/2009/09/kashiwa-mystery-cafe.html

German expressionism and cartoon

The only existing film footage of Anne Frank

Here.

Cookie tin guitar

Tip of the hat to BoingBoing.

Photographic essay

about a pair of coots.

Changing the guard at Buckingham Palace

On 9 Aug 11:00: Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace

What can I say? They get away with it. Found this through some person in Japan following them . Not a royal watcher. Someone slightly cool, but sadly for us anti-monarchists the royal family are slightly cool. Not because they are in with the in crowd but because they tweet things like "Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace". Like brogues. Difficult to get rid of.

Interesting old OS maps of Scotland

You can get right down to individual buildings:

http://geo.nls.uk/os25inch/

Ninjaman

I have no idea what Comic-Con is and, apart from a brief flirtation with dressing up as Mrs Merton, have never really understood dressing up. This guy made me laugh though. I kind of identified with him and that made me laugh even harder. I think the point of cosplay must be losing your inhibitions and getting all togged out in the most oddball costume you can find, so to turn up as Ninjaman is just very sad indeed. Better to stay home I think.

For a gallery of people who did a lot better: The Comic-Con.