Throwboy is a brand of pillow that cater to the geek in you. The pillows are handmade by Roberto and are largely styled upon tech symbolism. Throwboy pillows are made from 100% fleece and filled with polyester fibers and are $29 each.

The original range was a series of Mac OS X icons including Finder, Dashboard, iTunes, iPhoto, iChat and Photo Booth.

A new range of chat pillows go on sale in June featuring some of  your favourite phrases such as ‘brb’, ‘omg’ and ‘wtf’.

Also in the works is a series of RSS icons in a variety of colours to be available in June too.

Look up the Throwboy site where you can buy into this amazing idea with your very own Throwboy pillow.

Bendito Machine is a strangely interesting series of animations. So far three have been made and the 4th is on its way called ‘Don’t Stop Running’. From the website, it would appear that 10 episodes will be made. It’s an amazingly effective animation style using silhouettes. The main theme of these clips seems to be human development issues such as industrialisation, capitalism and idolism.

The Bothersome Man is an unusual Norwegian film released in 2006. It was the debut of director Jens Lien and shows an interesting view of life in a soulless city. It is of course in Norwegian but I don’t really mind subtitles. I saw it around a year ago late at night on BBC1 and I don’t think I ever would have come across it other wise. I’m very glad that I did though so I wanted to make sure other people could find out about it.

The film’s protagonist Andreas finds himself in a city with little idea of how he got there. He has is given all the things he needs, an apartment, a job and a girlfriend, yet something is missing and nobody else seems to notice it. The film follows him in his attempt to escape the sterile city and this materialistic life style. Much of The Bothersome Man is metaphoric so I suppose it can be interpreted as you will. Personally it reminds me a lot of the Radiohead track Fitter Happier.

Fitter Happier – Radiohead

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a cult coming of age book written by Stephen Chbosky published in 1999. It’s definitely among my favourite books of all time and I wish I’d discovered it earlier in my life. It’s the story of a 15/16 year old boy during his first year of high school. 

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is written in an interesting format in that it is made up of a series of letters written by an anonymous boy to an anonymous reader. The book opens with this…

“Over time, your face changes. Your face shows emotion, your face shows age, your face shows thought your face shows everything. Capture these little daily moments in a frame, day by day. See and share your evolution, your emotions, your thoughts.”

I’ve been using DailyBooth for almost two months now. It’s a tightly knit online community and one of the friendliest I’ve known. DailyBooth was fully launched on 13/02/09 and it still only has a couple of thousand users. The idea of the site is that you take a picture of yourself using your webcam/upload from camera each day and create a backlog. It’s format is fairly similar to twitter in that users can follow one another and then comment on each others daily photos with text or other pictures. DailyBooth is probably my favourite website and it’s well worth looking into it if you aren’t a part of it already.