Pulse Laser: Shownar Shownar tracks millions of blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, and finds people talking about BBC telly and radio. Then it datamines to see where the conversations are and what shows are surprisingly popular. You can explore the shows at Shownar itself. It’s an experimental prototype we’ve designed and built for [...]

Billie Tweets – a Twitter tribute to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" twitter is so deliciously agile. via @bbhlabs (tags: twitter michaeljackson)

Just finished Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the next Millennium”, newly re-released as  a lovely looking Penguin Modern Classic. Calvino was due to give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in 1985/6, but died before he finished writing them. This book is the collected draft versions of what would have been those lectures. Each lecture addressed [...]

Can Hands: Pringles genius banner ad shock, via @jamesdotwarren (tags: advertising banner awards) What Britain eats: three decades of grocery shopping — Times Labs Blog (tags: visualization food graphics) 10 Things I Learnt at the London Uke Festival 2009 | Ukulele Hunt via @LDN (tags: london ukulele blog) English Russia » The Fallen Earth aka [...]

Bergman Island (2006) – The Criterion Collection via @brainpicker (tags: cinema bergman documentary) The Adaptive Function of Literature and the Other Arts | Forum The Adaptive Function of Literature & Other Arts – creativity beyond evolutionary psychology via @brainpicker (tags: sociology psychology literature arts stories)

The London Spy: A Discreet Guide to the City’s Pleasures "In 1966 Anthony Blond published a modern London guidebook edited by Hunter Davies * called The London Spy: A Discreet Guide To The City’s Pleasures. London was rapidly changing in those days and Blond republished an updated version in 1971. Even though it was now [...]

Kosmograd: Kittinger "In 1960, Kittinger, USAF test pilot, ascended to an altitude of 30Km, in a high-altitude helium balloon, before stepping into the void. Kittinger fell at speeds off 990Km/h, freefalling for 4 and a half minutes before deploying a chute at a height of 5.5Km, and floating to the ground. While it took 1 [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lifebuoy – Ode to a drowning man, originally uploaded by meltingman. It’s dripping with character. The missing apostrophe, the random line lengths and spacing. It’s warming that something as flawed as [...]

Live Interactive Ships Traffic Worldwide Map shippy awesomeness (tags: maps shipping visualization googlemaps) Internet has changed foreign policy for ever, says Gordon Brown | Politics | guardian.co.uk (tags: Internet politics twitter guardian news)

UNIQLO CALENDAR another lovely uniqlo site (tags: japan flash calendar uniqlo tiltshift) Little London: Tilt-shift photos of London by Toby Allen – Telegraph (tags: photography london)