Douglas Adams dreamt up the concept of the Babel fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. You stick the fish in your ear and it translates every language in the galaxy. Its web version, babelfish.altavista.com, is an essential, if inevitably imperfect translator of ten languages, including Russian, Japanese and Greek, into and from English.
The sandwich is given its deserved due at willyoursandwichmakeit.com. Hellmann’s has asked sandwich-lovers to upload photos of their favourite recipes so that visitors can rate the tastiest looking or sounding. There are already thousands, the sight of which will induce severe hunger pangs.