We flicked a quick glance at the fickle and fleeting nature of fame yesterday, with a look at an online talent show, but today we look at, what we feel, is perhaps a more enduring way to touch people’s lives and become well known: the written...

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate,"” said the poet Emily Dickinson, and that was in the 19th Century.

Quite what she’d have made of the likes of the X Factor and Big Brother is anybody’s guess, but the insatiable...

It’s nice to do things together, isn’t it? If you’ve just spent the weekend with friends or family, you’ll probably still have that warm fuzzy feeling that comes from spending time with people you care about.

We’re...

Were the “good old days” really that good?

Um, yes, I think they were. Filling the family car with petrol didn’t cost the equivalent of a South American country’s foreign debt and three pints of beer in your local didn’t...

As somebody in the office has just passed a milestone birthday (yes, 21 again…) it never ceases to amaze us how generous friends can be sometimes.

Gifts, greetings and good wishes arrived, even from people we don’t get to see or...

One thing that us Brits do very well is to take the right royal mickey out of the great and the good in our society. As soon as somebody becomes even the slightest bit known for doing anything of note, they become the unwitting target of those most...

Life is full of questions.

Some of them are important: "one for the road?", maybe.

Some of them are very important: "are you sure you want the extra hot chilli sauce, sir?", is just one example.

Some are really very important:...

Take it from someone who moved out of the big city a few years ago (these days, if a police siren goes past, we all come out to watch and will be talking about it for days), there’s nothing quite like knowing exactly where your food is coming...

If, like us, you’re looking forward to a weekend of World Cup rugby, followed by a bracing walk with the dog and an afternoon in front of the fire reading a favourite book, perhaps rounding things off with a few beers to celebrate the inevitable...

Snappy name, snappy site.

At www.y8.com you’ll find more Flash games than you can possibly get through in a working lifetime, let alone a grey Thursday in October (not that we condone playing games on your boss’ time, but I guess...

As life seems to whizz by at a breakneck speed, it never ceases to amaze us just how much time some people have on their hands. But we’re mighty glad they have, or we’d never get to see the amazing works of art on display at www.alternativemovieposters.com.

Have...

You’d be forgiven for thinking we’d gone all naturist over here, what with yesterday’s barefoot running and the innuendo-laden delights of www.eatnakd.com today.

But no - we’re just trying to take a bit better care of...

The human body is a truly wondrous thing. Despite any aches and pains you might feel from time to time, it’s actually a masterpiece of design and engineering.

Take your legs. They carry your weight around and take all kinds of punishment,...

How’s that shiny new digital SLR working out for you? You know the one – we recommended it to you. You saved up, you went out and you bought it. And now you take it everywhere with you, right?

We reckon you’re probably quite...

If music be the food of love, then console.fm is an unbridled orgy full of complete strangers.

It’s another way to find exciting new music online, but the best bit is that all of it is sourced from Soundcloud, so it’s from emerging...

If you’re the sort of person who wonders where all those clever and creative ideas that you see in marketing and advertising come from, www.contagiousmagazine.com will go some way to lifting the lid.

If you’re one of the people...

We know a thing or two about the digital world here. But the one thing that has us baffled most of the time is the sheer volume of companies offering "unbeatable deals" when it comes to buying broadband, TV and phone services.

The traditional...

Now pay attention, ‘cos this site might well change your life.

If you’re male, you need to make a note and remember it for future reference.

If you’re female, you need to get in touch with them as soon as you can.

Put...

So yesterday we showed you how you could colour your life in, but what would you say if we told you that you could now actually own a colour? Yep, little old you can actually possess your very own hue, tint or shade.

www.ownacolour.com is a...

Whoa! I never knew my life was so colourful! At least that’s what they tell me at www.colourdna.com.

This is a new community site, currently in private beta testing, which is all about “social discovery”.

Basically,...

Holidays. Not cheap these days, are they? There are flights, airport parking, taxes, hotel rooms, mini bar bills, excursions, suntan lotion, souvenirs and everything else you end up spending cash on.

And on top of all that there’s the...

Finding new music has never been easier. Almost weekly, there seems to be a new way to stream or download a plethora of musical delights. But that’s part of the problem now isn’t it?

You can spend hours trawling through music sites...

At www.jamcloud.com it's inviting us to “spread the web”. An odd request, when you think about it.

The web’s already pretty spread isn’t it? But what it means is to find the really good bits and spread those amongst...

Judging by www.drawastickman.com, the humble doodle has come a long, long way.

Once upon a time, your average stick man would maybe have a few accessories – a top hat, or some buttons maybe. If he was lucky he’d maybe get a stick...

When you were a kid, did you spend most of the year looking forward to when your favourite annuals were published? You know: those bumper editions of Eagle, Smash Hits, Bunty, Viz, or whatever it was you devoured for bedtime reading.

And when...