I know what you’re thinking — rapping dentist from Sweden makes anti-drugs record, time for a chuckle. And certainly the odds are against Dr Alban — his delivery is comically serious and his chorus runs ‘Cocaine will blow your[…]

Mmmm…nice – “daily adventures in Jazz” – do you know I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dedicated Jazz blog before, though of course lots of people (Josh in particular springs to mind) have written quite a lot ab[…]

Anatomy of a Meme: things described as “TARDIS-like” (thanks Google)
– analysers on a Mars probe
– a shed
– a Police Box (hmm)
– the Dust Bar on Clerkenwell Road
– a dice on Kids TV progamme Maths In A Box
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Another day, another curry – benefit of living in Tooting: you are surrounded on all sides by rarely less than interesting curry houses. On Friday night we checked out yet another one (whose name you must remind me to edit into this post tomorr[…]

NYLPM has a new home now, as you know if you’re reading this, and part of having a new home is having MORE WEBSPACE for all sorts of interesting things. Thanks very much to Steve M. for his kindness in giving FT a home, and we will begin to try[…]

The ILM Rough Guides in easy reference format thanks to a heroic effort by Steve M.[…]

This thread is terrific and useful – well done Matos for the idea, to the power of ten if people actually start making these CDs. The previous set of 700MB Go! threads left me a bit numbed – just too much data – but the less-than-CD[…]

The thing you notice driving into Paris is that you never see the word ‘Paris’; you just see more and more and bigger buildings with huger adverts glowing from their rooftops; more neon, more glow and gloss; each billboard a little more c[…]

As a keen student/pedant of juker science you’d have expected me to have tried one of the new-fangled Digital Jukeboxes before now but in fact the ILX pub crawl on the 30th was my first such encounter. And fogeyishly enough I’m not sure I[…]

40. BROADCAST — ‘Colour Me In’
It starts with a lever being thrown on an old calliope machine found in a cave in the middle of an ocean of ice. The frozen gears begin to turn, the painted metal shrieks with stress, rimed lights glow[…]