The Porsche Museum.

If you ever find yourself in Stuttgart with an hour to spare, you could do a lot worse than wander over to the official Porsche Museum. It's not all sleek, sexy sports cars, though. There's sleek, sexy tractors too.

Behold the gorgeousness at http://www.porsche.com/international/aboutporsche/porschemuseum/

A phone made of grass.

If reduce, reuse and recycle are your middle names, yet you still cringe with shame at the thought of being caught with a gadget that's more than a nano-second out of date, fear no more.

The Natural Year Phone from designer Je-Hyun Kim features a body made of hay that breaks down after 12 months. By which time, we'll all be into iPods made of biscuits.

Find out more at http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/12/08/now-thats-a-grassy-phone/

BIGFOOT IS REAL!

What was that noise in the forest? Was something moving in the trees? Why does that deer look so anxious? 

The Sasquatch is real. And he's on your desk. 

http://www.livingsasquatch.com/

Bada-Bing!

Ding-ding, round 4!

After the failure of MSN Search, Windows Live Search and Live Search, Microsoft has hauled itself up off the canvas one more time to try and deliver a knockout blow to Google in the battle for supremacy in online search.

Bing, the Seattle-based behemoth's latest offering, is now live at Bing.com and will be launched by a $100m global ad campaign that will break in the UK over the next 6 months. The new search engine is being touted as a "Decision Engine" because it claims to offer users the ability to make decisions faster - whether that decision is about making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.

So is it any good, and should your business be considering it as a viable alternative to the mercilessly effective Google AdWords programme?

Well Bing is still only officially 5 days old, but the signs are that it will deliver a better set of results than any of its predecessors and deliver a comparable (if not better) search experience than Google.

Even if that's true though, the critical point is whether it can take some of Google's massive UK market share - if it can (and the signs from the USA are that it is already doing just that) then we will be recommending Bing as a channel worthy of serious consideration for our clients' advertising pounds.