You Londoners, don't forget to vote tomorrow...   more »

Google add artistic iGoogle themes..   more »

On my most recent trip to Sweden I got to try a Swedish specaility called Smörgåstårta which translates sandwich cake...   more »

MP3 player shaped like a cassette is also a cassette, and will play in any regular cassette player.



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Test your typing skills against other players...   more »

"Muffin top" describes the roll of fat that can overspill from tight fitting clothes, primarily skinny jeans...   more »

Japanese SatNav devices are being updated with information on where cars have been broken into or stolen and then doling ...   more »

An Adolph Hitler doll has gone on sale in Ukraine, obviously sparking outrage. If atomically correct it should only have one...



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Alphabetizer literally gets things sorted. Paste in some text and it will sort the lines alphabetically and optionally remove duplicates. Additional options are provided to...   more »

A Flickr set of vintage & midcentury illustrations & pictures.


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Time lapse security camera footage of a Nicholas White's 41 hours stuck in a New York lift...   more »

Swap My Ticket provides an ethical way for fans to swap tickets for events. It's a free service, no charge ...   more »

What are you doing for Administrative Professionals' Day this year....   more »

Zuiikin' English is a Japanese television series (originally aired in 1992) that mixes English lessons with aerobics. The format's a little, ...


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Captain Spangles Cyrstal Gathering club returns this Saturday (April 19th) at Monkey Chews, 2 Queens Crescent . Last months ...   more »

Is "digital Polaroids" an oxymoron. Doesn't matter, they are coming - and in the shape of very small printer with ...   more »

Another thing I noticed on my Ryanair flight today, besides the obvious extortionate prices for substandard food, was an advert ...   more »

A burst of in-flight prose on my first flight in a year and half. You know, I'd almost forgotten the glamour of flying....   more »

... asks Billy Bragg   more »

Neil Berkett the brand new head of Virgin Media has said that net neutrality is "b***cks", and is already doing ...   more »

The iRing a control playback for Apple media devices. Like a normal ring it fits on your finger, but unlike ..   more »

Keeping me amused this afternoon...  someone's commented " perfect, life doesn't get any better than this!!! "

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A good question. He stopped directing in 1991 and hasn't really be heard of since. Some of earliest favourite movies ...   more »

Last nights wasn't the best, but I'm beginning to wonder if Kevin Shaw isn't really being played by Matt Lucas...   more »

FlyKKiller are "latest underground hype-sensation to emerge from the annals of London". Dirty-electro sounding with rough edges, and are the wundergroup of...   more »

I didn't think this blog was one year old yet, but it is, cause I just checked and it started in earnest in March last year. Originally a bit of an experiment, with no definite reason for it to continue...   more »

Plenty of Totsam in the park on the way to work today. Totsam is similiar to flotsam and jetsam, but is the collective name for things (dummies, toys, etc) left on the ground having been thrown or dropped from prams by babies...   more »

For some reason this afternoon I've got a craving for Taco Bell, despite having not eaten one for over five years...



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Facebook for the over 50's is here...   more »

Simple to play, just put a LP sleeve in front of your face, or any other part of your body, that fits with the cover art - and then...



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Hell's Kitchen the game is out soon, and has the player trying to make dishes while a animated Gordon Ramsey shouts "That's absolute rubbish! Get that into the f**king bin!"...



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David Byrne's take on the options recording artists now have on distributing their music...   more »

Sanyo release their retro-styled camcorder this month. For around the £200 mark it records in MPEG4, has 5x optical zoom, and can...



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We take the internet for granted really, so much free information, so many free services. We also take for granted that the internet will always be around, but that might not be the case...   more »

The Olympic flame is kept alight even during flights, and has it's own hotel room with guards over night . ...   more »

That buffoon Boris Johnson can't win.. can he? Let's hope not...   more »

Charles Ebbets' Lunch Atop a Skyscrape re-taken in lego by Mike Stimpson...


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Apparently so....Swedish grandmother has 40 gigabits per second connection...   more »

On last week's Apprentice the winners got to have tea at the Ritz...   more »

For those couples who are joined at the hip, or for people with really fat head...


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H&M have got the reclusive fashion designer Rei Kawakubo to create a collection of mens, womens ...   more »

Purveyors of good sense and taste for London, Londonist blog have a piece on the club ....   more »

A list by Daniel Miessler. Titles a bit unfair, it's really what everyone should know...   more »