Sites We Like: free stock photography, Valentine’s cheesecake, playlists for your mood

Friday, Friday, Friday, we mock you with your demands that we work. Instead, we’ve pulled together this batch of great sites we like to waste time in the traditional style. In this week’s edition we’ve got, stock photography for free, mood-based playlists, Valentine’s cheesecake and one of the most specific photo blogs we’ve ever come across…

Recommended by James:

SXC: stock photography for free
Stock photos litter the internet, but this image library is completely free. The choice of files on offer comes close to commercial competitors at times too. Oh, and did we mention it’s free? The pictures are huge, and we’re very rarely disappointed. It’s also free. There’s even tutorials to help budding designers. Oh, and as a bonus: it’s free!

Recommended by Mic:

Stereomood: customised playlists according to your mood
With a big word cloud of emotions, Stereomood creates customised playlists for you to fit the mood your in. My current mood? Thinking this site is awesome. Turns out that’s quite an esoteric one to generate a playlist for…

SPECIAL PRE-VALENTINE’S DAY PICK!

Recommended by Ben:

The English Cheesecake Company

OK, buying somebody something with cheese in to say you love them sounds a bit weird, but hear us out. This company makes the most delicious cakes in the entire galaxy, and it’ll even deliver them free to anywhere on the UK mainland. Plus they’ve got a whole batch of suitably themed pink/fruit/camp cheesecakes that you can order for Valentine’s Day. We’re not single, honestly.

Recommended by Mic

Someone Else Will Put It Back

Ever been in a shop and seen an item discarded in a wildly inappropriate section? Tights hanging out in the freezer section, a melon sat on a sofa, a small toy monkey hidden in the banana box? This site finds those clashing consumer creations and photographs them.

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