January 2010
48 posts
"Smile" →
An animated music video about smiling that features my sister as one of the grinning people.
“Fascinated by a sudden wave of silence, I retreat into an endless balance on one...”
– Philippe Petit
New Scientist: Crows hold grudges →
Extinction of the Dinosaurs →
Is where you’ll find my comics from now on. Check out the spiffy mouseover on my profile image — it will lead you there.
So long, Rossi’s Cafe -- Spitalfields Life →
I only went to Rossi’s once and it was largely horrible, but it was nice to have at least one cafe in the area that wasn’t aimed at people like me. Regretful.
ICA To Close By May? →
“… under Ekow Eshun, director since 2005, the Institute has become a less visible presence on London’s art scene. The Becks’ Futures contemporary art prize, one of its most recognisable events, was scrapped in 2007, and the once-vital film programming at times looks wilfully obscurant…” — Londonist
Agreed. Haven’t seen anything on their film...
The Tablet OS →
Best piece I’ve read about this.
Bumptop, the 3D desktop, is out for Mac →
“Every single year for the last 60 years, a mysterious man would visit Edgar...”
– Boing Boing
M62 Farm →
davelee:
Have you ever driven up the M62 and seen a little farm dumped in the middle of its six lanes? Neat slideshow about how it came to be…
“It was at this point that I decided to kill him. After all, would the world...”
– Woody Allen inhabits the mind and motivations of a homicidal bovine in a new story, Udder Madness, for The New Yorker.
New Eels -- End Times →
Vid: Waterloo Rush Hour (1970) →
Brown ahead in new poll, lies Google Reader →
“Wha — ? Huh —?” I sputtered at Google Reader when this headline shuffled into view. Then I clicked through to the post itself, and discovered yet another reason why truncated RSS feeds that don’t show the full story are a menace.
Either that or I should pay more attention.
“Got call from new buyer of Editor & Publisher a couple of hours ago, telling...”
– Greg Mitchell, former Editor & Publisher editor, on the sudden rebirth of E&P
The Secret Life of Chaos (iPlayer) →
… was very good. Any program featuring a fractal zoom of more than a minute in length gets my vote.
ShapeYourCity.org.uk →
This just launched. I think it has a lot of promise.
Drake Equation Used to Calculate Number of... →
Time Out Cover Schedule 2010
Found this here.
Week 1: London for Free! Week 2: Hidden London! Week 3: Cheap Eats Week 4: Free London! Week 5: Secret London Week 6: North v South Week 7: London on a Budget of £0! Week 8: Arcane London! Week 9: Eat Cheap! Week 10: London Without Paying!
And so on ad infinitum.
Other Periodic Tables →
Can anyone recommend some good Tumblr blogs?
Media-focused links dumps are useful, as are science blogs or Tumblrs by London-based journalists and freelancers. No cats or poetry, please.
“‘Most beautiful’ math structure appears in lab for first time”
– New Scientist
Why are you ill more often in winter? Because you stay inside more often. So there you are.
The Cabbie: Story Behind The Still →
New Swell Season (chaps from Once) →
“The caveman lifestyle, in Mr. Durant’s interpretation, involves eating large...”
– The New York Times
Lego takes on World of Warcraft →
“The long, dark, Narnian winter of Vernon Kaye’s supremacy now looms…”
– Caitlin Moran on Jonathan Ross leaving the BBC
The Sun is now referring to the cold weather as “Britain’s Ice Hell”. By contrast, the Daily Star went with “Britain’s icy hell”, which I think takes away some of the punch.
Polaroid returns! →
Earth 'to be wiped out in supernova explosion' →
Man braves freezing weather to cross car park →
The Onion, brilliant as ever.
“RT: @londonjustin: and from the other side of the planet: Australia bakes...”
– Glinner
“Fearing that a passerby might tug on the branch and end up stripping the tree of...”
– Citizen pruners, a few thousand Samaritans trained in the art of botanical stewardship by the nonprofit organization Trees New York, are licensed to perform surgery on the city’s street trees, as their judgment demands — New Yorker
Video: Wintersleep -- Weighty Ghost →
This band remind me of Frightened Rabbit, who wrote one of my favourite albums of the last decade.
Andrew WK releases statement about something or... →
Wired's science stories of the year →