I may be slow on the uptake here(?) but I’ve just come across Yearbook Yourself a great little site where you upload a photo of yourself for a chance to see what you would look like in yearbook photos from the 1950’s through to the ‘noughties’. It’s been a real distraction in our office this morning, possibly in part because we poor Brits are rather neglected when it comes to yearbooks – the closest comparison I have is a uniform blouse which everyone in my class scrawled all over on the last day of school, most of it illegible because I was still wearing it at the time.

To showcase this fun timewaster, here is my cat, circa 1994 Cherry Creek yearbook:

Be warned, this is addictive and not necessarily flattering – hence my resorting to animal testing to protect my delicate self image!

Oh dear – as I  type a new distraction has arrived: Fantastic Contraption, a cute little physics puzzle game created by Colin Northway with the design/art provided by Sarah Collins.

I’ve played it for a few minutes (purely for research you understand) and am already completely hooked and frustrated in equal measure – I can’t work out how to make my machines jump gaps..  Ooh, how about if I move that wheel to a lower angel and increase the hypotenuse..?

How do we ever get any work done!?

Oh, one last thing while we’re being gamers – does anyone have a good reason for why you might need a camera on your DS?!