According to this article there is a link between brain development and your surroundings. Dull surrounding == no brain growth. Interesting and changing surroundings == new neurons. This has long been held for baby development. But now it appears that the same is true for adults. So escape your cube, open a window, tear down the latest HR brochure and head for the hills.

Monochrom asked Austrians to draw logos from memory. Meanwhilehttp://www.allthelogos.com/ is a database of over 90,000 logos

Very cool video of multi-touch interaction from NYU.

Information Aesthetics lots of information visualisation projects. Interesting. 

Retrievr A cool flash app that searches Flickr for matches to a user’s sketch. Find by sketch.

Be wowed by the horror of Microsoft programmers designing web pages in 1994 - the Deathstar - a friendly face to customers. useit

The IDEAs for 2005 are available here idsa.org Relax, have a coffee, marvel at the curves, groovy colours and black polo shirts.