It's September. The winter's drawing in. Time to sit inside hunched over a computer. So here are some links to explore.

This first one is geeky but fun. It's the TouchGraph Google Browser. It's a way of showing you all the sites that link to a particular URL. Hard to explain, but visit it and you'll see.

We found this via Jon Howard of Mustoes blog which is here. And he found it at Josh Rubin's Cool Hunting blog. 

Here's a David Mamet piece from The Guardian about pre-testing films, which has obvious parallels with pre-testing other stuff.

For a moment of light relief, here's a collection of advertising jokes.

And here's an invaluable collection of memorable British images; marvelous for bringing your stale presentation about UK consumers to life.

If you're fed up with business jargon The Adventures of Action Item is a comic strip by someone who obviously feels your pain.

On a different but related note, this is an article about Happiness and how money doesn't neccesarily help you buy it. Though it might. From Daedalus, the Journal Of The American Acadamy of Arts and Sciences. It may be of interest personally, or professionally.

Then, just as a demonstration of a piece of well-written, provocative thinking, this is a piece by Norman Lebrecht about the way the Walkman has ruined music forever. And this is where we found it, at Arts And Letters Daily, a fantastic compendium of the latest arts and literature thinking from around the web.

That feels like it'll do for now. More later in the month.