It’s Friday, the day of flagrant messing about and our weekly celebration of procrastination: Sites We Like. Here’s the five sites that have made us happy this week, all collected together for your bookmarking pleasure. We’ve got a custom chocolate, sock subscriptions, travelling toys and more after the break…
Chocri
www.chocri.co.uk
OK, let’s not beat about the coco crops here, this site let’s you design your own chocolate bar using organic Fairtrade Belgian chocolate and different toppings that give you the chance to create one of 27 billion combinations. I am now drooling and can barely complete this article for the desperate chocolate hunger but still onwards to…
Graze
www.graze.com
Yep, more food. This time it’s the clever folks who’ll send you a box of treats to keep you going in the desert-like apocalyptic landscape that stretches out between breakfast and lunch. How does Electricpig editor James Holland get through the morning to keep this fine outpost of tech news going? Why, it’s down to a Graze box.
Sockrush
www.sockrush.com
It’s getting cold. So cold that it burrows into your bones like some horrific alien in one of H.R.Giger’s bad dreams. But don’t worry because Sockrush is a sock subsription service that’ll guarantee you’ve always got a new pair to keep your tootsies snug and warm. Again, those socks are what keep EP’s army marching onwards in the gadget wars.
A World Of Tweets
www.aworldoftweets.frogdesign.com
Now we’ve covered off the key bits of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, on to more cerebral things with…erm…Twitter. Frog Design (the guy’s behind Apple’s classic Snow White design language), have created a great updating map which shows tweets in realtime, falling on the surface of the Earth like nuclear fall out and gives you enough stats to woo a randy mathematician.
Furry Toy Tours
www.furrytoytours.com
Want to visit Paris but don’t have the time? Pay this fella and post your favourite soft toy there for the cutest package tour ever undertaken. With his standard package, your furry friend will visit the key tourist attractions in the French capital but send a bit more cash and you can get a more elaborate tour including, for the tedious toys, a Da Vinci Code themed trip.
See more great websites in Sites We Like episode 1, Sites We Like episode 2 and Sites We Like Episode 3.
