Links: MyLifeIsAverage

A site celebrating moments of intense averageness - funnier than it sounds. Click here to see more.

Links: Rick Dangerous online

Continuing the retro games theme we started a few posts back, Rick Dangerous is an Indiana Jones-style platform game that many of us had fun playing back in the 1980s. Now you can enjoy shooting enemies and collecting treasure again, thanks to the free online version available here. If you're playing the game for the first time, start off by keeping your finger firmly pressed down on the right arrow key to avoid the rolling boulder...

Photos: Liamo's interactive arts exhibit

Webcams not pictured.

Music: Goddess On A Hiway - Mercury Rev

I never quite understood why they did two videos for this song, but I think I like the fishing trip one best.

Links: the return of Monkey Island

Monkey Island 2 was the first game I ever bought for my PC, back in the days when hard drives were 40MB in size and a good screen resolution was 320x200. It's now regarded as a classic of the adventure game genre thanks to its swashbuckling humour, detailed artwork and broad range of characters. Fans of Guybrush Threepwood's adventures can now start getting excited about a new Monkey Island game, a full nine years after the last one came out - Tales Of Monkey Island will be released in five parts starting next month and you can view the trailer below:

Photos: behind the scenes at Marple carnival

Links: Wild, Unattached Twenties Spent At Work

This article from The Onion sums up the ages of 20-29 pretty well. Next up: 30-39.

Music: Bohemian Rhapsody (live) - Queen

Celebrate the end of the weekend with one of the all-time classics.

Video: Greg as Chuck Walker

Greg does his world famous impression of American tour guide Chuck Walker. Look carefully in the background and you can see the Californian landscape rolling by.

Photos: sorry no new music

Links: the 20 best films this summer

Click here for the Guardian's list of 20 films to watch out for in summer 2009.

Photos: summer 2009

Books: Ulysses - James Joyce

As it's Bloomsday, it's a suitable day to recommend one of the most critically acclaimed and difficult books in the English language, Ulysses. It retells Homer's Odyssey through a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dubliner - the day in question is the 16th of June 1904. From Chapter One Episode Nine:

"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves."

Click here to read some quotations taken from Ulysses and here to read the famous stream-of-consciousness monologue that closes the book. If you really want to read it, I'll lend it to you. From the ever useful Wikipedia:

"Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose — full of puns, parodies, and allusions — as well as its rich characterisations and broad humour, made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century."

Music: Harold T. Wilkins - Fanfarlo

Andy Patrick likes this band... maybe you should too? Especially because their debut album is currently available for $1 (about 63p) here.

Links: The Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Year 2008

Click here to see the very best copyright-free pictures uploaded to Wikipedia (and its related sites) over the last year.

Music: Faster - Manic Street Preachers

As it's a rainy weekend here's some angry self-loathing rock music from Wales' very own Manic Street Preachers. Faster was released in 1994 as the first single from The Holy Bible - their best ever album?

Links: Interview Project

Today is the first day of David Lynch's Interview Project - a series of 121 short interviews with people across America. You can see a new interview every three days for the next year by clicking here.