Monday, 28 September 2009

Billboards access your driving records

Creepy – billboards scan your license plates to display personalised advertising, courtesy of the Driver’s Licensing Agency

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Novelty Songs in the iPod Age

+1 – This links to Archie McPhee’s blog

Tuesday, 1 September 2009

How Many Solar Panels Would It Take to Power The Entire World?

Coles’ Notes version: 496,905 square kilometers

Textpattern 4.2 released

So good. So, so good.

Anarchy is dying in Berlin

For the first two decades of its post-wall life, Berlin could afford messy anarchism.

No longer.

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

DIY cinema in Ghana

In the 1980s, some entrepreneurs in Ghana would travel from town to town to show Hollywood movies on video to the public. In each town, the promoters would hire a local to paint a poster to advertise it – based on some very sketchy information about the film

Rocking it, Frat-party style!

A short story geared to college students, written by a 30 -something author

Seven lies about lying

A very interesting discussion between Errol Morris and Ricky Jay on fibs and the fibbing fibbers who do the fibbing.

Headless Body in Topless Bar

A gallery of classic New York Post covers

Monday, 24 August 2009

Heat map

Hottest stations on the Tube