Pub crawls usually involve a combo of beer, bad kebabs and laneway grime. Victoria's High Country Brewery Trail replaces the urban blight with gourmet fare, bucolic spots and scenic mountain bike paths.

We've all left things behind in hotel rooms: boxers, a few bottles of beer... socks. But German artist Thomas Demand has gone one better.

The smooth Canadian, the jaunty Frenchman and the loyal Scotsman (Scotchman); these gents could teach modern booze heads a thing or two.

We fluctuate between wanting to burn down the internet and loving its broad-banded guts here at Smith; most of the sweeter moments happen in front of TED.