Pandora: very cool! (thanks Lynda!) 

Diana Adams: Painter of bold contemporary New Zealand landscapes. 

The design that got best designed is unusual, lush and colourful. I like it. 

Information aesthetics: Intreguing blog run by Andrew Vande Moere from the Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at Sydney University, and nominated in the Bloggies. I haven't had time to explore yet, except to have a play with the unseen weather video. I put a few stills from my version in the pool at Flickr. They look dry and late summery compared to the European ones, don't they? oh Amy -- strangely, this is another example of the style of illustration I was talking about yesterday. Maybe its just a fad and will date too quickly?