Slightly belated, some nuggets from the last weeks twitter stream

• The Beastie Boys prereleased their new album with a brilliant video to accompany it (via motherfuton)
• Ten best practices for ecommerce from the new Lakeland website (via
  crouke)
• Fantastic visual feast from Marius Roosendaal (via thismanslife)
• Conference legend Chris Heilmann’s tips for becoming a Kick Ass Public Speaker (via copepo8)
• Some lovely laptop bags from STM (via colly)
• Nice visual outling the creative process at Simple Square (via bondomatic)
• Hankering after old handheld computer games? Check out the marvellous Pica Pic site (via wez)
• Great blog charting the history of User Interfaces in film (via codepo8)
• The perfect placeholder image generator? (via meenhorst)
• Freelance? Run an agency? Watch this invaluable video from Mike Monteiro (via trovster)
• Use Adobe Creative Suite? Adobe announced a subscription model for their products, although they’re not the cheapest" (via MrQwest)
• Use CSS3 liberally? Litter your pages with text shadow? Give a thought for highlighting (via cssgareth)
• Why Google Chrome is two steps ahead of other browsers when it comes to the address bar (via nicepaul) * A beautiful, simple wedding invite featuring a simple, paper record player. Stunning (via CarolineNo)
• Fascinating article in the New Statesman by Hugh Grant (yes, that Hugh Grant) exposing underhand tactics of journalists for the News of the World and the Daily Mail (via tanepiper)
• Ingenious reverse image search tool by TinEye to see how your images are being used across the internet (via NewSugar)
• See how your site measures up on mobile devices using the W3C MobileOK checker (via oliverker)
• Lovely set of colour schemes for a range of text editors, including Coda (via peterjlambert)

Oh, and I got a Mac, but more on that later …