A Londonist reader emailed us this week to ask the following question: Are there any places in London where film buffs gather to watch the Oscar broadcast? And who is the UK broadcaster of the Academy Awards? Well we can answer the second half of …
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We’re pretty sure someone emailed us about Pintsearch a while ago. Maybe it was last year, possibly when we did our Google Maps Hacks post. Whenever it was we remember taking a look and deciding that it wasn’t worth a post because the site 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 …
Normally when Londonist goes stalking, it’s to track down connected works of art, or famous buildings by the same architect. But we decided to take the word ‘stalk’ back to its hunting routes this week. Prompted by the news that the Beast of Bexley has …
This week: Proof, Lady Vengeance, and Final Destination 3. Plus all the usual news and rumours. Bloody hell, Jake Gyllenhaal again! We’ve typed his name so many times in the past few weeks that we can actually spell it correctly without having to check Google. …
When Annie Mole of London Underground Blog fame made a comment on a post earlier this week about Animunch, she knew not what damage she had just unleashed on Londonist’s waistline. Mentioning Anthony Worral Thompson’s Snickers Pie recipe, she set off the creaky cogs in …
We’ve been giving London another swoop from above this morning as it seems that Google has recently improved the satellite imagery currently used to help us find our way around the capital. Even if you’re reading this overseas or are stuck in a less interesting …
Every now and then the most banal Google search can throw up the bizarre, the disturbing and the sublime. This humble Londonista was trying to find out about housing in the Thames Estuary floodplain. How delicious, then, to stumble across a description of the destruction …
Did we dream this, or was there a news item on the radio this morning about a flat in the middle of Hyde Park roundabout which would be available as some sort of ‘holiday home’ in the near future? We’ve been scanning Google News all …
Where would we be without Google? Still using Altavista, probably. Anyway, the Little Search Engine That Could has thrown up a fascinating, but utterly pointless, exercise in urbanism. Some places become so associated with a certain class of person or lifestyle that they become intrinsically …
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