If you thought the most fun that’s likely to come out of New Zealand at the moment is the sight of the southern hemisphere teams being given a run for their money in the Rugby World Cup, then let us introduce you to www.doggelganger.co.nz.

If there’s a better sounding fitness event than the Wolf Run, we’ve not heard about it. Ironman sounds a bit too extreme and solitary (which it is). This is all about the pack mentality and taking your body to the limit over some very different...

Ahoy me hearties, ‘tis the day of days. Time to hoist the roger and shiver those timbers.

Or something.

Yep, 19 September is Talk Like A Pirate day, and believe it or not there are thousands of people all over the world who take...

It's safe to say that within minutes of Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, some bright spark was thinking about how to cash in, and came up with the idea of the telephone directory.

Since that pivotal moment (albeit...

Letting your kids loose on the Internet is a daunting prospect, but it’s unavoidable. My 2-year-old is fascinated by my iPad and treats it like some kind of magical object (to be fair, I’m with her on that - despite everybody here repeatedly...

It’s really quite astonishing that a few clicks and wiggles in Photoshop can take a, really, very average picture and turn it into something worthy of hanging on a gallery wall. It’s something that is seen more and more in bars, hotels...

Apologies in advance if this is a bit blokeish, but we quite liked this online magazine “for all mankind” we stumbled across.

It’s unashamedly for men, and without any of the highbrow posturing and pretence you get from some...

It’s not often you get to grab a unique piece of sporting memorabilia and help raise much needed funds for a good cause.

But at www.sightsavers/eyesonf1 you can.

Buy a ticket through their Facebook page and you’ll be entered...

Things we’ve learned on the internet:

1)    Half of men wipe their bums standing up, while the other half just lean over a bit (a tissue of lies, we reckon).

2)    Women in the UK think that the sexiest sport is rock climbing...

There are many ways in which a society differentiates itself. No matter where you travel in the world, you can instantly tell that things are different from home.

There's the people, the culture, the architecture,...

Finding good people to do anything can be quite a challenge. It doesn’t matter if you’re after a gardener, a nanny, a photographer, a web designer or even a CEO for your multimillion dollar global empire, it takes time, effort and more...

There are some blogs that just work. They hit that magic zone where you can be entertained on a level that doesn’t feel like you’re simply wasting time. And www.idiottoys.com is absolutely, positively one of them.

Its primary target...

To be a true music fan these days, you need more than just commitment, you need a fair wodge of disposable income. Actually buying music isn’t too bad, but going to see your favourite artists live can be an expensive business. It’s safe...

For fans of a good old-fashioned spy story, there is one name that stands head and shoulders above the crowd: John Le Carré. He is a master of the genre and with a new version of his classic tale Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy hitting the...

Hiring a vehicle to move something sizeable can be a bit of a hit and miss affair. You can go to one of the big hire firms, and pay the premium prices, or you can go to your local yard and take your chances with one of their Transits, which are often...

The idea of collecting bits of the web to read later, share, or just hoard for your own amusement isn’t exactly new, but the idea behind pinterest.com is a bit different.

You can "pin" anything you come across that you’d like to...

The single speed, or “fixie”, has been the bike of choice on the streets of London for some time. It was once the serious cyclists’ back to basics love of the form that drove people to ride them. Then it became a fashion statement...

I wasn’t going to watch the World Athletics Championships this time round. And for a number of reasons: the time difference for one. The fact that Team GB was unlikely to set the screen alight was another. But one of the main reasons was that...

This is one of those sites that starts out intriguing, turns a bit bewildering then just leaves you thinking "what the...?"

As if it wasn't bad enough being woken from your slumber by a loud ringing, or a quacking...

The written word. It’s come a long, long way since one bored caveman scrawled “Og woz ere” on the side of a mountain.

These days, there’s more reading material available than an army of bookworms could ever hope to get...

It’s official. We love Germany. It’s probably the only other country (apart from the UK) where anybody would, not only think that this was funny, but they’d actually go to the trouble of turning a mad idea into a twisted...

Over the past couple of years, sales of organic food in supermarkets have plummeted. This, predictably, has been put down to shoppers tightening their belts across the board.

But drive around the British countryside, and you’ll...

There are some professions which, for so many years, had their punters over something of a barrel. If you went to the dentist, for example, sometimes you’d maybe need some work done. Other times, you wouldn’t, but I bet you still ended...

There’s an old saying that cyclists like to wheel out every now and again: two wheels good, four wheels bad.

Having just spent £75 filling up the family car, £260 taxing it, £50 MOT-ing it, £250 servicing it, another £250 on two new tyres...

My wardrobe is stuck in a bygone ear. And not in a kitsch, self-deprecating, post-ironic way either. No, I just can’t really be bothered to buy new clothes most of the time, so I end up with the same six faithful items of clothing (usually in...