Top, Australian blues/folk singer John Butler. Below, Øyvind Aamot, a Norwegian who suddenly woke up on a train in China not remembering anything of his 27 years of life, and the subject of a documentary film, Hunting Down Memory

My mate Tim recently went to Belgium for his second beer tour, this time with a mission: to obtain Westvleteren 12.

Read this account of dedication, love and passion.

Once again, its all over the place, but Radiohead are about to release a new album, In Rainbows on October 10th. It will be offered as a DRM-free download or you can buy a box-set with a nicely packaged CD, vinyl and artwork.

Interestingly, you can pick you own price for the download – or download it for free if you wish. It’s good to see a rhetoric-heavy band like Radiohead actually put their money where their mouths are.

More info on Green Plastic or the official album site

Banksy, my favourite guerrilla artist, has made available several artworks as a free download at a half decent resolution.

“Serving suggestion:
Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.”

Probably the best sticky note application on the web is Stikis

I could go on about all the technical magical that’s happening behind the scenes or how it’s buzzword compliant (Rails, AJAX, OpenID…).

The primary magic however is the user experience, and Stikis is fun, fluid and dead simple. It is being actively developed, and Jared has got a lot of great ideas for future development.