One Saturday night, six friends around a dinner table “came to the conclusion that civilisation was doomed”. So they started www.10000reasons.org to elicit reasons from other doom-mongers, whose ideas so far include: OK! magazine (No 121) and, naturally, Paris Hilton (No 1).
The satellite navigation company Navman has joined Lonely Planet for the “ultimate travel guide” at www.navman.com/navpix, where you can download hundreds of photographs of tourist attractions on to a GPS device and combine them with voice instructions to lead you to exactly where the shots were taken.