In the words of The Smiths (we loosely paraphrase here:) Some towns modems are bigger than other towns modems. We think that's what Morrissey was singing, his cadence is a little hard to follow at times. Anyway, it seems the biggest broadband speeds in Britain are to be found in our ever-humble city. Yes, not only is London the all-conquering wi-fi capital of the world, but a survey for BBC News has revealed our......

You're a geek, you. Yup. There's no denying it. As are we. And the whole population of London is too. We're a big stinking sweaty cauldron of geekiness, us Londoners, with our love of wi-fi and all. It's something we're rightly proud of, and now we've got the stats to prove it. Online consultant Enhance Media asked some 12,000 people across the UK to fill in an electronic test on their computer usage. Entitled......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 2nd July 1865: One-time Methodist minister William Booth preaches to a large crowd at an open-air ‘mission’ in Whitechapel, founding the ‘East London Christian Mission’, which would later be renamed ‘The Salvation Army’. Tuesday – 3rd July 1981: A punk concert at the Hamborough Tavern in Southall, West London, leads to fighting between skinheads and Asian youths. The riot is just one of many violent ‘uprisings’ to......

Ever wonder what people must've filled their time with in the days before email, and sites like Londonist provided respite from the monotony of office life? Well, if this latest production of Alan 'History Boys' Bennett is anything to go by, the answer's not much. Office Suite takes us back to a time when co-workers addressed each other by their titles (Mr Skidmore, Ms Binns), filling in forms occupied three long hours, retirement really......

Has it been a bad day at work? Did a deal fall through? Has your girlfriend gone off with another woman? Is your mother in law pissing you off? Did you just have to have a conversation with Foxtons? Tonight don't take it out on people you actually like and don't smash up your treasured possessions. Just head along to Electrowerkz in East London and prepare to get your hands on a sledgehammer. Yes,......

Londonist loves a good recycling story.We found out today that there are apparently 75 million old mobile phones hanging around in the UK. Surely something a bit better than "keep it in a drawer and forget about it" can be done with all those old Nokia 3210s? Apart from using them as impromptu weapons in case of a break in, of course. And think about old computers as well - we're hanging onto our......

This week - The pilot light's gone out... on the sun (Sunshine) and Will Ferrell goes iceskating (Blades of Glory). Don't you hate it when the sun is going out and you have to go and reignite it? First up, Sunshine Bradshaw gives it 4/5, calling it a "beautiful-looking new space adventure". All of the reviews today are impressed with the way this film looks, It's a film with some stunning sequences and gobsmacking......

We're drowning in paper: Up to 12 tons of newspapers a day are being abandoned by commuters on London Underground stations and trains, new figures show. The statistics were revealed by Ken Livingstone following a question raised by the London Assembly Conservatives at Mayor's question time in January. They have asked Transport for London to install more newspaper recycling points on the network to tackle the problem. Sure recycling is one way forward, but......

The Met have moved fast on a burglary that took place last Thursday, arresting a man the following day. The speedy result could have something to do with the fact that the crime took place right under their noses and that they themselves were the victims: Burglars have stolen laptop computers containing the payroll details of half of the Metropolitan Police staff, Scotland Yard has said. There's a worry now that the staff whose......

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 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, from Monday Roll up, roll up, for the premier event in London’s popular science calendar. The annual Summer Science Exhibition is when the Royal Society fills up its halls with (a) top British scientists, (b) cool stuff to play with......

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 NODE.London, various events throughout March For one week only, allow us to stray away from our scientific comfort zone towards the techy hinterlands of our remit. NODE.London (a somewhat contrived acronym for Networked, Open, Distributed, Events. London) comprises a string of events around the city......

In the here and now, all thoughts about Arsenal Football Club are concentrated around the uncertainty generated by their inconsistent first team. Can they finish the job and beat Real Madrid? Can they overcome their abject away form and qualify for next season's Champion League? Will Thierry Henry sign a new contract? These are the questions that gnaw away at the minds of both uncertain Arsenal fans and interested spectators looking for a dose......

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 Opening of the new Time Galleries at Royal Greenwich Observatory At Londonist, we rarely find ourselves with time on our hands. Not so, the Greenwich Observatory, where making time is their business. The hilltop attraction has been drawing in temporal tourists for centuries, and forms......

This week's big tech story surrounds a wearer of turtlenecks, stone washed jeans and white trainers. Not a member Status Quo luckily, but someone with a little less hair, yet with a lot more up there - at least when compared to the UKs most successful chart act. Apple computers' CEO Steve Jobs has invited a select number of the tech industry stalwarts to a special event entitled 'One More Thing' this coming Tuesday......

Just what is going on today? First there's tales of cursed gemstones taking up residence in the Natural History Museum, then we here that a sword factory in west London is closing down and then we discovered the rather alarming fact that we're being overrun by zombies. It's all a bit Dungeons & Dragons. The zombie story refers, of course, to hacked computers, not our brain-munching friends. "Zombie" computers have been compromised by attackers......

There is something really beguiling about human Vs computer chess matches. Despite the main elements being a bloke who plays chess and a very complicated bit of software, these kind of matchups somehow transcend simple geekiness. Maybe we feel there's something lurking in these tournaments that holds the key to the future of the human consciousness: a profound kernel of truth that will maybe give us some clue to what lies at the end......

Rob: (To be sung to the tune of Elvis Costello's 'Watching the Detectives') "Blogging the election. Blogging the election. Looks like we're blogging the election" Well our computers might not be quite as fancy as the BBC's but here we are. The coffee pot is on, the phone's off the hook and our typing fingers are...flexed? 22:05 We're barely 5 minutes into the BBC's coverage and already Peter Snow is stood in a computer......

Did we ever mention how much we like heists here at Londonist? We like them so much we're even thinking of having a dedicated 'heist category' so people can access all the archived heist news more easily. But, alas, it seems the glory days of the heist are well and truly over. When we saw the headline London police foil huge bank raid over at the BBC this morning we got all excited. bypassign......

If you're a London Motorist, you're probably a very angry person. It seems that every recent initiative is designed to stop you being able to drive your car where you want, at what speed you want, and heaven forbid you should want to park anywhere and not pay through the nose for it. What you need is a good hour of quality television programming that will enable you to take your average car driving......

What would you say we need more of in society? What would make our lives run smoother, cut down on daily frustration, and get things done more thoroughly with less mistakes? That's right: computers! Everyone knows computers are foolproof and are the answer to all life's problems. We know this because scientists tell us so. That's why Edmonton police station have decided to install a 'self-reporting crime kiosk' which allows people to bypass that......

Londonist is seriously worried about its health. According to reports in today's papers we are going to end up childless and miserable...and all because of this blog! The first story details research from the State University of New York at Stonybrook which suggests that using a laptop computer literally (i.e. on your lap) may lead to a damaged sperm count: "The heat generated by the computers and the position of the thighs needed to balance......