Fed up of badly made, badly designed, expensive t-shirts? Well worry no more as now there is a unique t-shirt store based in the US that will always have a design you like.

Design By Humans selects five designs each week to become part of their collection. It then also selects designs of the week and the month. The current design of the week is this one:

Most of these t-shirts are $24(US). If you buy two t-shirts the shipping costs to the UK are $14(US), which makes $62(US) in total which is around £16 per t-shirt. There’s no import tax on that and it comes in a high quality parcel that will always survive the journey.

The quality of the material is amazing allowing the print to last much longer than shirts I’ve bought in the UK. To take a look at the huge range of t-shirts they have then just follow this link.

Ah, time to do a post I think. Here’s a collection of things I’ve been looking at this month:

Superb ambient Spot The Difference game. I did this in about 30 minutes, without cheating once! Give it a go.

Next time Brighton and Hove Council do something to get on your nerves just let them know about this story: Brighton and Hove City Council spent nearly £60,000 on mineral water in just a year.

A game! Run your dinosaur away from the exploding volcano using the cursor keys in Dino Run!

Charlie Brooker on Battlestar Gallactica. Probably in my top 5 shows last year.

Want to know how Alan Moore writes a comic script? Well it’s very detailed. Read his full script to Batman: Killing Joke here.

Interview with Ice-T, from The Guardian.

Aphex Twin and others who put images actually into their songs. Bit technical but clever though.

Billy Bragg on A Different Strand of Socialism, from The Guardian.

Looking at The Wire and Modern American Urban Areas. Nice video of this discussion.

Mark Steel’s article on an anti-war protest which wasn’t printed in The Independent because of their lawyers.

And finally some great sound effects. This should follow all my jokes: Instant Rimshot. And this whenever someone makes a mistake: Sad Trombone.

Bit of a news round-up today. Here are some of the stories I’ve bookmarked recently:

This article about North Korea is maybe slightly biased? It’s opener of, “In a cold sweat, I was led away by the jackbooted and armed North Korean border guards to a bleak side room” is a fair indication of how the rest of the article goes. Fair and balanced news reporting from The Sun as usual.

For some reason I like this story about a Hypnotist Thief from the BBC.

The Pen Spinning Tournament in Japan. Check out the videos by clicking on the pictures.

Big Business and the NHS from The Guardian. “No minister can now discuss the NHS without mentioning “new providers” or “alternative providers”, which is their code for private companies, or “choice” and “reform”, which means privatisation.”

Also at The Guardian (yes, I do read other papers) is a look on why people hate Heather Mills. I’m a fan of hers which makes me quite unpopular as to most people she’s on par with Myra Hindley.

I have some bad news for any of you who went to Margate on their holidays as a child. The Scenic Railway in Dreamland, Margate, has been burned down. The site lost it’s Big Wheel many years ago and has slowly been stripped back so that almost just the Scenic Railway rollercoater was left. I still think was the scariest rollercoaster in Britain, mainly due to the fact is was all pretty much wooden and saw it’s fair share of fatalities over the years. It was Grade II listed and it was only a matter of time before somebody put a match to it. The property there will be worthy a few quid now, probably. Best keep an eye on who profits out of this.

Live Web Cam of the peregrine falcons at the top of Sussex Heights.

And finally a video. I’m not very good with heights and this walk along an abandonded ridge way defies belief.

Drivers always seem to make my life as hair-raising as possible as I cycle round our Cities’ streets. Luckily we have some good cycle lanes in Brighton, but here’s a sit that focuses on the very strange ones: www.weirdcyclelanes.co.uk.

I’ve noticed the start of the proposed Seafront-to-Downs has been created with cycle paths going up two blocks up The Drive. If anyone knows where they’re going next please let me know.

News:

A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.

New generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for most patients, research suggests.

1 In Every 99 Americans Now Behind Bars. While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine. Land of the free?

The World’s largest digging machine. Weighing in at a portly 45,500 tons.

The Wire’s War on the Drug War. Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price and David Simon the creators of HBO’s The Wire have their say on the drug war.

And finally:

I’ve never bought much lingerie but this site my change my mind. The interactive knicker picker. But for some reason I can see Men using this site a little more than women.

Download some Charles Webster, Moodymann, Theo Parrish and Ron Trent mixes at Bozman’s site. I’m getting into the 3 Chairs and Charles Webster & Moodymann mixes on Page 2.

I’m playing a lot of Advance Wars: Dark Conflict on my Nintendo DS at the moment. Let me know if you fancy some wifi battles.

Kids, just because you put the word Monkey next to something doesn’t make it cool.

I’m thinking of creating a Russell Brand Sentence Generator. It will spurt out words like Shackled, Pomposity and Judgemental.

Currently going through a non-red meat phase for a while so I’ve been cooking such delights as Jhinga Bhindi Fry which is a prawn and okra stir fry. You can get the recipe here. I may even attempt to grow my own okra this year, yikes!

And finally, all the local councils on the South East coast are being complete idiots in stopping the residents of Sussex from getting hold of the wood that has washed up on the beach. Just when you thought that you might get a little kickback from all that council tax you’ve been paying. No. The beach is off limits and so is the wood.

No, not the current activity that many people on the Millmead Estate are doing. It’s a new film being shown on Channel Four tonight. I come from around there so I’m looking forward to seeing how they handle this in Margate:

“Pharaoh has found the perfect solution for the Promised Land. All the unwanted elements of society – asylum seekers and economic refugees, the long term unemployed, sexual deviants, substance abusers, petty criminals and ethnic minorities – are forced to live in Dreamland, a shanty town built on the site of a disused funfair.”

Not a work of fiction then.

I tried to get a job at Dreamland when I was 15 but had no luck, they weren’t that desperate. Luckily the Palace Pier had me when I came to Brighton so I could finally realise my ambition of being a true-to-life Carnie.

God, so much work and other stuff going on in my life. Here’s a round of some bits and peices.

The ecommerce project I have been working on all summer has finally launched. Baby Star are a New Zealand company that have two shops selling baby clothing and accessories. My partner on this project, designer James Morse, and me have been turning the ugly OSCommerce product into something that’s actually quite lovely. And we’ve stripped out the tables and made it all with CSS positioning. No mean feat when it’s your first experience with ecommerce.

I’ve also been working on a much smaller website for Waters Hair Stylists in Brighton, a local hair salon. I created a simple, clean design, creating a professional and relaxing feel. Also we have plans to add many more pages, such as products and tanning solutions, so I have built this flexibility into the site. Using CSS for all styles and positioning speeds up any future site development.

Also:

Charlie Brooker feels the same as me about spiders. I’m glad they’ve nearly all gone now.

The last day of shootong on The Wire. This is a spoiler free article from The Washington Post about feelings during the final day’s shoot on ‘the best TV series ever’.

The 20 most bizarre experiments of all time.

John Cusack interviews Naomi Klein. Video discussing her new book, The Shock Doctrine.

Hexiom. The game. I’m stuck on level 28.

I must draw your attention to some amazing free-to-download mixes by Brighton DJ Matt Pond. Matt has been spinning tunes locally for many years now and has kept his distinctive deep underground house sets up to date when many others have fallen back to the more commercial sound of lounge house.

Matt records a fortnightly mix for Fear Of Radio under his Deep Systems moniker featuring the latest deep underground house cuts from around the globe. You can stream these live from the site but I’d recommend downloading some of his archived mixes available from the site. Matt’s mixes are the fourth lot down on the page.

My two favourite from that list are his 20-07-07 show featuring some more experimental african beats from Jenifa Mayanja, Blaze and Trinidadian Deep and his 14-09-07 mix filled with a number of Charles Webster remixes ending with a haunting Radiohead edit by Afefe Iku. Tracklistings are available at his MySpace Blog.

Also, while you’re at Fear Of Music there are a whole host of other DJ radio shows to download such as the Hedonizm, Covert and Askew shows. All are free and perfect for your mp3 player of choice.

I’m thinking of a bike ride to Christ’s Hospital (near Horsham) from Hove using the Down’s Link path. It’s about 23 miles there on a very flat cycle path. Unfortunately there’s no alternative cycle path home. You could cheat and get the train I suppose. Testing embeddable Google Maps:

*No, it’s not playing ball. It’s showing the USA.

Here’s a handy PDF guide to the whole route from Shoreham to Guildford. And here’s some more guides to bike rides in Sussex.

Hopefully the new Cycle Path from Brighton Seafront to The South Downs will be completed soon. The path should lead up The Drive to Hove Park and then up to Blatchington Mill and beyond. Please let me know if the plans are online as I can’t find them anywhere.

And once you’ve cycled your belly away why not replace it with the ingenious Beer Belly Beverage Holder. This will be all the rage next summer I promise you.

Oh, and if you’re a fan of Stephen Fry then why not check out his new blog, or blessays as he calls them.

Red Arrows flypast at Shoreham Airshow, West Sussex:

My first airshow seen from 200ft above the airport:

Semi-related. Manston Airport landing and take off zones.