Right, I’m off to Hamilton Island, one of the 74 Whitsunday Islands on the Great Barrier Reef, for a few days so no posts but here’s a collection of links I collected during the past week:

• First off, like every Xmas, it’s time to ElfYourself with OfficeMax
• Then, aLp, Alien Loves Predator, is back!
• 10 reasons to find a blog buddy
• Rumors around LCD Soundsystem, the world’s greatest band, splitting up
• Australia film not received well overseas
• Offbeat Guides, personalised travel books as a PDF or real-life copy (why not just a mobile app?)
• bio-bak.nl, hit it!
• Lessons in Internet Marketing
• FlowingData’s visual guide to the financial crisis
• Typealyzer: analyse a blog
• Ever heard of the mysterious sailing stones on Racetrack Playa, a seasonally dry lake in the Death Valley?
• AdAge asks whether magazine publishers still believe in the act of publishing
• A list of 10 free CMS systems
• PC Magazine goes online only (like most print media in the near future)
• Time magazine asks how many blogs the world needs
• Microsoft to rebrand Live Search
• Wired lists the top 10 amazing biology videos
• Resumes are dead. Social media is your new resume
• The End Flickr set
• The HD version of Digital Kitchen’s True Blood title sequence (also check out the featurette)
• Monty Python now has a YouTube channel
• Last but not least the good old baby powder hair dryer prank