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We’re all going to die at some unpredictable point. However, discovering you’ve an identifiable mortality timebomb discreetly ticking away in your brain is going to make you reassess your life. You can’t ignore the fact that you’ve been dealt a rather more difficult card, highlighting …

You’ve seen those adverts for a well known building society, right? – the ones with the annoying chap explaining that it ‘doesn’t work like that’. Change the building society for the Ordnance Survey (our national mapping agency) and make Google the customer for a farce …

If you’re looking for a new place to live, and want to live more greenly at the same time, Londonist has discovered the perfect tool to help you: Walk Score. A cunning twist on Google Maps, give it a postcode and it’ll calculate how many …

Last weekend, 22 walls in Shoreditch, Camden and Portobello received a facelift. French stenciler Jef Aerosol (that may not be his real name) put up the images of iconic music celebrities (Bolan, Lennon, Jagger, Drake, Hendrix, Curtis and, erm, Gandhi) as well as images of …

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 9. Corporate Social Responsibility? I reckon the Tories were on to a goodun when they began their social responsibility gubbins which, throbbing away, is “the heart …

Off to see Timberlake at the new-look Dome tonight? Make sure you don’t get the wrong venue. The Greenwich attraction isn’t the only O2 in town… The O2, Greenwich Peninsula Function: Entertainment venue, including stadium, 11-screen cinema and exhibition space. Includes Justin Timberlake. Age: 7.5 …

We’ve seen plenty of boastful stats about the reinvigorated Dome — apparently, it could swallow 13 Albert Halls or 10 St Paul’s Cathedrals. (Scenarios not all that far fetched, considering nearly a billion quid and numerous reputations have already disappeared into its maw.) But here’s …

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore,

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week’s “Segway Mom” and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It’s not West Side Story, but about as close as they’ll get. They’re also still waiting on some …

One of Londonist’s favourite web 2.0 communities, last.fm, has just been bought up by American firm CBS for a rather tasty $280m (£142m). Whilst it may not have been sold for as much as other social networks (such as News Corp’s £294m MySpace purchase and …