"Legendary recording studios are closing every week. Abbey Road, the most famous of all, may be next. They're victims of recession, technology and Pro Tools, a piece of software that is changing our idea of what makes a great record. David Hepworth asks, is this the end of the road for the studio system?"

"Take U2. Bono is basically Frank Sinatra with electric guitars. He’s a crooner."

Kristin Hersh releases album as a book

Great collection of Star Trek images – scanned by a collector.

"Betty and Don and Roger and Joan are all perfectly coiffed, dressed, and ready for whatever people over 10 do with Barbies."

I've seen very little activity on the MySpace account that I run. No new 'friends' for months. All the action's moved to Facebook.

"An "astonishing" black penguin suffering from a rare condition has been photographed by wildlife enthusiasts."

"Would you like to change your photos into beautiful graphic design pieces? “addLib” is an application for iPhone that edits your photos and creates a variety of design based on educated theories."

What's all this then?

Got this for my laptop(s).

Found via The Guardian's superb iPhone app, this great collection of Polish film posters – which make me want to redesign my blog.

"ThinkTank is an installable web application that captures and organizes replies to your status updates on Twitter."

Four episodes of KRO's De Wandeling, in their 'Silence' series. No talking, no music… just walking and ambient noise. It's remarkably soothing.

"Once a group reaches a certain size, each participant starts to feel anonymous again, and the person they’re following — who once seemed proximal, like a friend — now seems larger than life and remote. “They feel they can’t possibly be the person who’s going to make the useful contribution,” Evans says. So the conversation stops."

Daily collection of frontpages of major English language newspapers.

"We want to get to the gut instinct choices of customers, not the considered choices."

"The 25:5 rule states that at least 25 percent of demand is for 5 percent of tasks; that 5 percent of content is read by 25 percent of people. The 25:5 rule is a type of distillation of the 80:20. Viewed in graphical form it creates a Long Neck."

"An extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. "

Make a big-ass message in basic, magic, jeopardy or pepsi blue style…

Freebie given out to photographers at the Olympics. Cool!

This. Is good news.

"An online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application."

Website mock up software, with free online tool

Photography courses in Amsterdam. Want to do one of these this summer (learning about flash photography)

A tool to rounded corners in CSS

Organise your WinXP start menu