Waving bears
This has to be the most disturbingly anthropomorphic video to surface this year - gawp at humans gawping at bears behaving just like humans.
140pedia
Spawned from the unholy union of Twitter and Wikipedia, this site is as saucy as you'd expect. And I bet the OED can't tell you what "fubar" means.
How Benjamin Button got his face
Visual effects expert Ed Ulrich gives an applause-drenched presentation detailing the wizardry behind "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
Creative grooming
A series of images soon to reach "online phenomenon" status: some jaw-droppingly preposterous poodle designs.
Tracks
Grizzly Bear, While You Wait
Free stream here
This lovely, sylvan single pre-empts one of 2009's most hotly anticipated album releases from the ultimate Brooklyn buzz-band.
Marina and the Diamonds, Obsessions
iTunes 79p
Marina's steel-strong vocal and a lilting piano refrain carry this deceptively simple ballad about a misjudged love affair from the queen of maverick pop.
Phoenix 1901
Free download at wearephoenix.com/
French electro-pop all neatly packaged up in handsome boy band form: Phoenix are number one on the blogs this week with this irrepressibly catchy track.
Video
T.I. (featuring Justin Timberlake), Dead and Gone
Sparse, rueful hip-hop with those inimitable Timberlake vocals and plenty of spaces between the beats for T.I. to reminisce.
