A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 33. Newman Passage Where? In the heart of Fitzrovia, linking Newman and Rathbone streets. What? A tripartite affair, with a short cobbled road forming the western and southern stretches, and an alley leading east beneath the …
Part 10 To make it a bit tougher for you to identify the location, we’ve smudged out the Google-able part of this plaque. Special bonus points for anyone with a non-cake-related fact about good King Alfred. There are still a few unidentified plaques in the …
Google Maps have a new toolkit, where you can create your own maps. We don’t need much encouragement to play with such things, so soon put together a map of all our back passages. It differs from the previous Platial map in showing the extent …
The ever awesome Urban Digital have been testing a new gadget: In a follow up to yesterday’s post, on the Nokia N95′s built in GPS and creating GPS track for visualisation in Google Earth, we thought we would try it out on the train back …
We mentioned a while back that the US embassy is considering a move from its traditional Grosvenor Square home. Google Maps seem to have the scoop on the new address. If you search for American Embassy in the UK version of Google Maps, you’re pointed …
It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend… Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. …
It’s the last week or so to donate as much of Microsoft’s cash as we can to charity via their collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the ninemillion.org campaign: You can support the Click4theCause campaign whereby each time a user conducts …
We love Google Maps. Hell, we love most Google products – if they launched Google Murder we’d be all up your intestine with a sharpened screwdriver while Yahoo! were still beta testing Killr (only kidding – we love Yahoo! too – especially their tubes). Anyway, …
Yup, the towering innuendo has been sold by Swiss Reinsurance for over a billion dollars. German real estate company IVG are the proud new owners, but Swiss Re will remain the main tennants. OK, it’s rather dull news. We got bored trying to work out …
Funnily enough we rewatched the 1936 adaptation of HG Wells’ The Shape of Things To Come over the weekend and were looking fior a way to mention it on Londonist because of the striking similarities between Everytown and here. Then we got an email informing …
If you missed the Five screening of this documentary last year you can now watch the full thing via Google video: Here’s the accompanying website. Don’t have nightmares.
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