The coolest sites of the year

I've finished work for the year so I've got some time to blog a little more consistently than I have for the last few months. I spent an interesting few minutes this morning looking at the Time magazine "50 coolest websites". From the "tools and essentials" section of the article I took a look at TestMySpeed.com, which is USA specific but did pass me on to a UK site, Numion.com, which has a pretty nifty way of looking at how my connection to the internet is performing. We're upping the bandwidth on our connection to the internet at work so it might be an informative (and independant) way at looking how the new arrangement is performing.