Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards by Jim Ottaviani and Big Time Attic, a graphic novel about the Marsh/Cope Bone Wars Flight of the Conchords, the best New Zealand comedy ever made (not that that’s saying much); adored by American critics, about to screen in its homeland, and you can catch most of it on YouTube already Finally, someone explains Unicode, ANSI, and the difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16, which may seem trivial but is vitally important if you want to spell Māori correctly. Endless Things, the final and long-awaited book in John Crowley’s Aegypt quartet (but newcomers should read Little, Big instead) Don McGlashan’s post-Muttonbirds solo album Warm Hand Hans Rosling previewed the amazing global statistical visualisation tool GapMinder at TED, and Google bought it in a fit of non-evilness so we can all have a play Getting Eastern editions of overpriced textbooks direct from India, dirt cheap Watching the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra play over a fine breakfast at the Maranui Surf Lifesaving Club in Lyall Bay epitomises all that is good about Wellington The groovy Flickr toys at Big Huge Labs Taking down your profile on the Face Book and complaining how it’s not cool any more now the Man is there