Off to Mexico: No posting for a week

Avatar: Special Effects Bonanza

Fox Studios and/or James Cameron aren't letting the trailer be embedded, but it's on YouTube in HD. Countdown to December 18th!

Matias Aguayo

This is all acapella.

Mac and PC

A picture is worth a thousand words and all that sort of thing...

Múm

I'm owed a gold medal for braving Saturday night's torrential rain to go and see Múm at Poisson Rouge. They were playing as part of the CMJ 2009 festival. Soggy feet aside, it was a good gig. While they don't sound just like Bjork or Sigur Ross, they do share that uniquely Icelandic otherwordliness. My favorite track was marmalade fires (it's on their MySpace) page.

In a double whammy Icelandic post, I was kinda shocked to hear McDonald's is completely pulling out of Iceland.

Facebook Accounts for 15% of UK Traffic

Facebook accounts for 15 per cent of the UK's web traffic, according to new Hitwise statistics. One in seven British clicks go to the social-networker, making Facebook the UK's most popular website.

These big number puts Facebook at twice Google's amount of traffic– which is in at number two with 5.8% market share. The length of time people stay on Facebook has also increased, with the average user spending 26 minutes 14 seconds a session, adding a full five minutes from September last year.

To be fair to Google, its services do dominate the top 10 of the UK's most trafficked sites, with YouTube, Gmail, Google, Google UK and Google UK Image Search making up half of the 10 places.

Bombay Bicycle Club

Add up the band members' ages, and you might get to 21. These lads are young. And good.

Dripping Design

Just a cool table. Details here.

Chinese Create Artificial Black Hole in Lab

Now that's a headline that sells. And the article in MIT's Technology Review is actually quite readable for those of us who don't understand astrophysics. The applications include invisibility cloaks, absorbing light and other sci-fi classics.