Internet picks of the week

The Look

Originally built to accompany the book The Look about rock'n'roll fashion, this blog has gone beyond the regular promotional lifespan and continues to update with enlightening pieces on the intersection between pop and clobber. Mainly that intersection is focused between the eras of punk and early hip-hop – a period that takes in the Sex shop, new romantic hang out The Wag Club, The Face magazine and Run DMC's Adidas sneakers and Kangol hats. Scroll through the archive and you'll find excellent pieces on Malcolm McLaren, including the fake letters he sent winding up the music press when he was manager of the Sex Pistols. Elsewhere there are entries on the sartorial memoirs of Jah Wobble, the role of latex in contemporary pop and worship of Iggy Pop's cheetah print jacket: "the Turin Shroud of punk rock fashion".

Lamebook

Facebook has become such an integral part of our lives that many people forget how much of what they write and upload ends up in the public domain. Not that most of the people whose status updates are ridiculed here spend much time thinking. "It's so weird 2 think that the world is only 2010 years old", writes a chap called Ace, while the whole electronic media versus print debate is eloquently summed up by a pixelated lady who reports "like 4 real who read books n e more? maybe wen imma a granma! lol". There are also photos (like this one, captioned "My snake giving his pet rat a hug!"), typos, fights and an excellent series dedicated to Facebook "Security Check" failures. And yes, Lamebook does have its own Facebook page.