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Happy Easter

In their own words: I know how much you love us… this is possibly the silliest and most mockable yet… filmed from Mayfair to Soho… Enjoy/mock away. And don’t eat too many eggs.

No Skiing Allowed

A response to the escalator ski stunt: Anyone know if the stickers are still there? Be sure to check out Lee’s website. Lots of cool stuff there. We’re particularly fond of this.

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Photos of the Day: Wanted

A friend of a friend pointed us in the direction of this set of photos. Not very Londoncentric, in fact just some friends doing what we all do when we first get our hands on a new Macbook with its fancy little camera and software. …

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Is there a (script) Doctor in the house?

Saturday saw the return of the (not-quite-as) good Doctor, sticking his nose in more London-set alien shenanigans: Ahh the good old Good Hope hospital – or is it St Thomas’? We forget. Anyway, before you can say ‘Touch Up London’: Off to the moon it …

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The Sidekick

The Guardian has a neat little slide show dedicated to the new Tate Modern extension. The flamboyant, highly theatrical and immensely complex 11-storey glass tower in the form of a spiralling stepped pyramid, or ziggurat, is destined to rise from the south-west corner of the …

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London twinned with Chernobyl

Let’s get straight into this one: Moving from Inverness to the more polluted streets of Central London could have worse consequences for your health than choosing to live in the contaminated exclusion zone around Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. What the …

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Photo Set of the Day

We’ve been letting our Photo of the Day slot slip a little, but here’s something to pull it right back into place. Not just a photo, but a whole set of them. cakehole got to see a bit of London that few of us ever …

News From Around The Ist-A-Verse

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we’re sensational, but it’s very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we’ve decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite …

Extra Extra: Early Link Dump Edition

Missing the Sultan’s Elephant? Here’s a lengthy overview of The Saga of the Giants. Link Machine Go points us in the direction of a new map (plus one we already covered). Old school Transformers movie returns to London! The last movie that Orson Welles worked …

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London Kids in Body Armour

The Times is running this as an exclusive: Scores of worried parents are buying body armour for their children in a desperate attempt to keep them safe as street violence escalates. A firm that supplies stab- and bullet-proof vests to government agencies around the world …