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Alas, Londonist never got to visit the biscuit city deep in the bowels of Selfridges. Nor did we witness the desperate scramble and crumb-laden aftermath as the edible artwork was scoffed yesterday. It all sounds rather bonkers. Once the first building was toppled, there was …

We’d just about stopped wetting our pants with excitement over the immense pleasures of Google Earth. So imagine the burden on our underwear after finding a site that (1) makes bits of London 3-D and (2) allows one to…oh my shattered bladder…TRAVEL THROUGH TIME. Digitally …

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Distilled lives: anatomy museums in Georgian London, at the Royal College of Surgeons (To the tune …

Novelty variants of the Tube map. We love ‘em. It all started over a decade ago, with the famous Great Bear, which now hangs in Tate Britain. Ever since, a growing number of latter-day Tube revisionists have been photoshopping the network. The past few weeks …

(Mustn’t make ‘taking the biscuit’ pun. Mustn’t make ‘taking the biscuit’ pun.) A new piece of concept art in Selfridge’s basement is really taking the biscuit. Arse. Fans of Sim City will be delighted to hear that the game has at last seemingly been released …

English Heritage, the scoundrels, keep trying to block new skyscraper proposals; but they are good for something. With the Institute of Historical Research, EH are embarking on a project to give free public access to the epic Survey of London. The survey was founded in …

This day in London’s History 1938: Trouble at the top. Anthony Eden resigns as Foreign Secretary in protest against Prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s policies of appeasing Hitler and negotiation with fascist Italy. The inexorable march towards war continued. London fact of the week Bar Italia, …

You know it’s time to think about moving when even the local birds have CCTV installed. That’s what’s happening on one Tower Hamlets residential block, opposite the Greenwich Peninsula. Cameras have been fitted atop the tower to protect a family of peregrine falcons. The birds …

You will be ex-ter-min-a-ted. That’s what Southwark Council and various pressure groups would like to say to the proposed Berkeley Homes development ‘twixt City Hall and Tower Bridge. But John ‘Girth’ Prescott has decided, as is his wont, to grant planning permission anyway. The move …

This is just too astonishing to be true, so we’ll get right to the point. According to the BBC, a single white van in the city of Westminster has accumulated a quarter of a million parking tickets, all of which remain unpaid. A quarter of …