We think it's getting cold in Australia, but Inis Meáin Knitting Company know cold weather a wee bit better.

Daniel Lilley's portraits seem to be taken the moment after his subject puffed out his/her chest and presented their 'best side'. They're posing, but they're somehow caught off-guard.

Orchestras are always impressive in our books, but an orchestra of ice instruments, frozen and installed in Fefor, Norway, tips the scales to awesome.

As a kid, Cornish lad Max Lamb would build sandcastles, boats and tunnels by the beach. Jump forward a few years and he's sand-casting incredible stuff like this pewter stool.

In his own words, Ray Ives is "an ordinary sort of bloke who loves the sea"...

This vid will appeal to both the practical and whimsical parts of your personality.

Alan Turing helped crack the German code in World War II, but was subsequently prosecuted by the British Government for the "crime" of homosexuality. Now, 10,000 Britons want to put him on a bank note.

This photo series by Elliot Wilcox captures the beautiful imperfections of humble sporting arenas.

The Foldboat fellas have been hard at work getting their prototype to the water since we spoke to them for Smith.

Louis Theroux, surely TV's most affable and engaging provocateur, is back with a DVD of his most recent excursions into the lesser-trod alleyways of human society.