I’m not so sure about his Firefox add-on though – Add-Art blocks out website adverts and replaces them with pieces of art. It’s a sad fact but online publishing relies on advertisers paying to display their messages alongside enticing editorial to survive, and is struggling enough without add-ons like this causing more problems. With the New York Times basically on its death bed thanks to rock bottom ad revenues, it seems more than a little insensitive to use them as the example on the website.

One of my favourite ever YouTube videos – Star Wars retold by someone who’s only seen bits and pieces of the films:

Need some inspiration for your next fancy dress party? Don’t make the mistakes these guys did…

These cheeky criminals have been using star wars disguises to get up to no good – pals of Jabba the Hut, no doubt.

You don’t quite get the same level of emotion from a floppy disk, but it’s a good effort:

No words necessary: Star Wars – the Baroque version

Apart from the obvious – quit their job, buy Buckingham Palace, give their friends a fiver each, holiday to secret Caribbean island etc – they can now afford to recklessly purchase all those things you come across on the internet that you’d love to buy but never would. My first stop would be these Y12,000 (around £80) Command Sit stools, designed by Ross McBride.

They’d look pretty cool dotted around the games hall of my new LA mansion, huh?

Whilst this is exciting for people who feel they need to take payments on the move (it’s not something I personally find myself needing to do every day), its code name – squirrel – is surely opening the door for internet users the world over to indulge in some comedy squirrel Photoshoppery. I have to say, though, the output so far is pretty poor.

TechCrunch themselves have gone with a squirrel water-skiing on an iPhone – I’m glad to see that full safety regulations have been taken into account and he’s been provided with the proper attire:

Current.com have gone for the working squirrel – looks like real-life secret squirrel is trying to get through to him but he’s too busy posing to take the call:

Not to be outdone, Yahoyt.com have spent hours painstakingly cutting out this squirrel’s tail in Photoshop and equipping him with a credit card of his very own:

There’s potential here, people. I mean, these are ok but the depths of this arena have not yet been plumbed. Too many people have settled for Twitter screen-grabs and photos of Jack himself – I only hope this isn’t the beginning of a decline in photo-editing-based interlolz.

Some people get pretty silly over Apple products, but taking Apple fanboyism to new and dizzying heights is Kyle Buckner with his wood-and-pencil art project, photos of which shot to the top of the Digg pile this week.

When the images of the small, MacBook-esque device dropped into Cult of Mac‘s inbox, the website was all too ready to believe that what they had were leaked photos of an Apple netbook prototype. But more fool them when the source – a ‘trusted contributor’ – turned out to be Kyle, an enterprising 21-year-old student whose web traffic has no doubt sky rocketed over the past week.

Apple-affiliated or not, it does look pretty cool, giving you a chance to appreciate all the little details you would usually hardly notice. Gizmodo has a shed load of photos if you want to see more.

With Apple constantly getting a bad rap from Greenpeace for the environmental cost of their products, perhaps they could take a leaf out of Kyle’s book and go with wooden cases for the next gen…

As brilliant as the iPhone undoubtedly is in the arena of Twitter-obsession, in London at least there are problems. In what must be one of the most connected cities in the world, the network regularly fails causing the iPhone to shrug apologetically and tell me ‘no Internet connection’.

But, I rebuff, there was an internet connection three seconds ago – let’s try again… Nope, not happening. Now there’s no service at all so I can’t even phone someone to complain/tell me what’s happening on Twitter.

If you’re getting as hacked off as I am at these frequent collapses in service, then this is the blog for you: How the O2 cellphone network fails London users, where London-based tech PR Robert Follis is documenting every time O2 prevents his iPhone from working. At the very least, you’ll know you’re not alone.

It’s the ideal solution to all those office arguments about what radio station to listen to, and the perfect way to try the experimental Icelandic prog rock your best friend’s been banging on about without actually investing in the limited edition solid gold CD boxset.

It’s all perfectly legal and free – if you’re prepared to put up with an advert or two every eight songs, the only catch is that you have to be in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain to enjoy the free version. People in other countries will have to invest in the premium, ad-free edition for a small cost.

The already impressive catalogue of music available, whilst not fully comprehensive is growing all the time and suggestions of similar artists to try can lead to a whole new musical discovery.

By far the best thing about Spotify, however, is the collaborative playlist function. Simply come up with a theme, start the playlist in your own Spotify programme and mark it “Collaborative” (right click on the playlist name and choose ‘collaborative playlist’ – it should then turn green, with a small spot next to it) and pass the link on to your friends.

To get you going, here’s my favourite ever collaborative playlist – Snow Day, orignially created by @radioedit and then contributed to by Twitter users on a snowy day when everyone was working from home.

So head on over there for more frequent ramblings, anything that doesn’t work there I’ll stick here instead, yeah? Yeah.

And here’s a gratuitous Zac Efron shot, just because that’s the sort of thing I can do here that I can’t get away with there:

It's ok, I Wikipedia'd him, he's only two years younger than me. In no way sick and wrong.

Still, at least she walked off with Best International Album and didn’t hit the headlines for trying to nick goodies from back stage unlike certain other pop stars at the Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball last year…

I did quite enjoy the Metz Judderman advert revival though, as it originally aired around the time my pals and I were quite partial to a bottle of Metz or twelve in the local park of a saturday night… Ah, under-age drinking. Good times.