links for 2008-09-15

"It's the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross today, and I have decided to set off on pilgrimage over land and sea to the monastery of San Toribio de Liebana in the mountains of Cantabria, where the largest single relic of the True Cross is kept". This is on my 'sacred stuff that isn't actually sacred' to do list...

Interesting take on how to make web content stickier than the NYT currently does - not that it is doing much wrong as far as I can see

"While I’m certainly not a Belamesque BBC fanboy, visiting BBC Scotland made me proud to be part of the corporation". Thanks James, thanks.

Always reassuring to see someone else get over-excited on holiday by taking lots and lots and lotsof pictures of foreign Metro systems...

"Why a company would go with a life-metaphor site is beyond me. Fridays.gr is an awesome red, cartoonish creation that tries to accomplish the drive-in look - the fact that drive-ins don’t even exist in Greece never crossed the advertiser's mind". On the whole localisation of adverts into Greek is appalling - there are some classy efforts on TV.