The car doctor unexpectedly had the car valeted, washed and partially resprayed. It looks pretty good now so I felt I had to do something about the junk that has accumulated inside. Here is a selection of the things I found. Read more »

“Flying produces a fraction of global greenhouse gases” says the reassuring sticker on the seat in front of me. “Ah, well that’s nice. Now that I don’t feel guilty about flying I think I’ll book another holiday!”

But, just for fun, lets look at those stats a little closer… Read more »

So it’s Monday again and… what it’s Tuesday? Where did Monday go? And I’ve got to do what by the end of the week? If being back at work after a bank holiday weekend of basking in the sun is making you feel a little stressed, here are some cool things to cheer you up.

• Festo AirJelly - a flying jellyfish airship thing. Very calming.
• Clock Sculpture - 150 separate hands that rotate to spell out the name of the current hour
• One Day Poem Pavillion - holes drilled in the ‘pavillion’ form patterns on the floor which spell out a different poem every hour
• Do web sites need to look exactly the same in everybrowser? - unambiguously answers one question
• Lip Dub Stars - turn up the volume for this one!

I’ve just been without electricity for half an hour while the landlady installed our new oven and I helped her carry the old one out to the bins. I suppose I could just as easily view it as an enforced exercise break

from xkcd, see also Lolcats if you need an explanation

London is good.

Work is good.

Play is good. 

Life is good.

Here are some collaborative, social networking, tagging, web 2.0, blah blah websites for you to waste time on:

• Last.fm - personalised online radio and music community
• del.icio.us - social bookmarking of websites
• digg - collaborative news
• 43things - things people want to do
• 43places - places people want to visit
• 43people - people people want to meet
• Consumating - tag based dating
• StumbleUpon - find interesting websites

You have been warned…

It’s Tangled in the Red this week at The Phoenix (Sat 22 April) - half price with a bank statement or a cashpoint slip that proves you’re ‘in the red’. Also, for this week only, if you bring a letter from your mum explaining why you can’t pay full price, we’ll let you in for half price! So if your mum’s lending you the cash to come out, you both save a bit!

Gotta love that.

In no particular order:

• Klute - No One’s Listening Anymore especially “Torrential Pain” and “Hidden Hand”.
• The art of David Shrigley especially this cautionary tale.
• Richard Durand - “Make Me Scream”
• Annie Mac
• Nick Park’s Creature Comforts
• My friends
• Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It
• Any kind of paid work
• All of the DJ Kicks series of compilations
• The Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the New Loud especially “Winning a Battle, Losing the War” and “I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From”
• Norway
• My excellently warm Outrage coat from TK Maxx

Our bottle of house bubbles has run out so we need to refill it with something bubbly. What shall we use? Washing up liquid? WRONG! I spend a long night testing every detergent-containing product in the house. Read on for the exciting results… Read more »