Vintage Ad Browser offers a large number of adverts, movie posters, flyers - all organised by type and the decade ...   more »

Merry Christmas from pittockhq. Realise it's been quite slow on updates in last few months, this is due to increasing ...   more »

SMS are one of the most expensive forms of data transfer around, aprox £750 per MB according to one finding (compared say to NASA who pay £61 per MB to receive data from the Hubble Space Telescope). So it's hard not to like this application (despite a name that reminds me of those horrible "Whats Uuuuup" adverts for...   more »

The lines between re-release, remix, cover or even mash-up are becoming increasingly blurred. Witness Florence & The Machines cover "You've Got The Love" a song for which the original version for most people is actually...   more »

Wonderful food served simply, occasionally goes the strap line. CPH Meal takes the pop up restaurant concept and throws in social media elements, so that diners can follow the creation of...   more »

This website was so good I bought the book. The Man in Seat 61 tells you how to travel from the UK to anywhere in Europe and beyond. My first journey planned using this site starts this Thursday, a fairly simple three-train affair from London to Copenhagen, involving my first ever...   more »

Essay from ArtFagCity about the type of photographer Streetview is, as if it was an artist. In fact of course we know it's automated photography, so it should feel totally objective - not influenced by moods, feelings and reactions to surroundings....



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At the weekend I was fortunate enough to get invited to a party at the Isokon Flats, a building I had admired in passing several times though didn't really know much about. The flats clearly stand out from the other Edwardian buildings in the...



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New Scientist magazine has piece on 10 things we still can't explain about humans, and blushing is one of them. ...   more »

I think this was my fourth Primrose Hill Summer fair, which has been held in Chalcot Square every June for the last 23 years...



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Flight Control is the best game for the iPhone, it's game play perfectly matches the devices form - this game would only work..   more »

Email 'N Walk is an iPhone application that uses the phones camera to display what's ahead as he/she emails...



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Leon is fast becoming my favourite not-quite-a-restaurant restaurant, and it gets that accolade by me having eaten there three times last week



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A social media photo-mosaic portrait of the earth, zoom into to reveal more photographs.   more »

Big Brother is watching. Statebook spoofs Facebook, detailing some of the information the UK Government holds on it's citizens...   more »

Just noticed David Holmes has compiled a Celebrity Playlist on iTunes. Regardless that he's the only named DJ I would ...   more »

I don't really worry about tan lines, as I understand you need...



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iCloud provides online cloud computing, not just storage, but a desktop and applications - so in theory you don't need anything on your computer except a web browser...   more »

This website reminds us of the fantastic ways people have boosted calorie intakes..   more »

I thought my scrambled eggs were pretty good, but here's a slightly different way to do them - I never thought of not...   more »

Robyn Hitchcock Dreams of Oslo, Synesthesia, Snow...   more »

Omelga.com lets you talk to strangers. Why? I don't know.   more »

My favorite magazine Wired has now launched in the UK, though not for the first time. I remember the magazine ...


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Ping.fm lets you update all your social media networks in one fell swoop. Really, anyone whose got time to be ...   more »

"Do you think if House music was around in the 1930's World War II would have happened?"...   more »

Balsamiq.com offer a desktop tool to speed up the process of designing user interfaces...   more »

A film about the real people behind the animated Gorillaz pop band is set for release later this year. There second album was a classic, and more serious   more »

Very geeky example of what can be done with newish HTML canvas tag in modern browsers...   more »

Reading about the web offline might seem counter intuative, but sometimes the slower more reflective pace of "books" is what's ...   more »

Fake iPhone text message alerts alert...


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Apparently it's possibleto develop 35mm film using coffee and Vitamin C powder . I'm tempted to try this, obviously   more »

Neat, the muziic player lets you play music from YouTube videos, without going to YouTube, you can search for songs, ...   more »

Quad Camera is an iPhone application that produces multi-shot images...


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I've been doing some of these for work, back to tables and non-CSS design.. it's a slow process and there's still no standards   more »

I realised this week that there isn't actually anywhere to buy a new record where I live in Camden (home of Brit-Pop for chistsake). Only a couple of yeas ago there were loads places to get the latest releases. Reckless Records went...   more »

Shape Collage turns a bunch of photographs in pretty collage. As well as the usual photo pile there are other...



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Serious Eats is a website focused on celebrating and sharing food enthusiasm through blogs and online community...   more »

Was nice to hear that Mr Fry most cherishes A Bit Of Fry & Laurie amonst his wide and diverse ...   more »

Twuffer lets you schedule tweets (messages on Twitter, don't cha know) for a predefined time of your choosing. Twitters main idealogy was the "What are you doing now?" question...   more »

The ever popular Converse Chuck's high top gets a make over courtesy of Foot Locker .


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