I can't believe the value for money. A fully functioning iPod dock, compatible with you existing stereo system, for just £4.99.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=31700

This is surely a Must Have Best Buy 2009 Editor Recommended Pick ^TM. Perfect for beating the credit crunch.

And so green too - no need to junk the old stereo. Smugisfaction guaranteed - also works with iPhones.

I liked the idea of Sotak's calendar icons, but the colours didn't fit in with my theme, and I wanted the text to be a little easier to read, and to include the year.

So I made my own:

Rather than an icon for each month, this technique uses just 1 background image (.png and psd attached) and a slightly modified template.php. Everything else can be styled with CSS.

With a bit of imagination, and a couple of tweaks to the function, and a few lines of CSS these icons can be very flexible. Different colour for articles over a year old? No problem. Colour coded by taxonomy? Sorted.