Speaking of accessibility, one scheme offering a (sadly non-literal) hand to the differently abled is a new porn site for the blind. (Yes, yes, the gags are obvious.) Metro describe how this cavalcade of aural sex can be enjoyed: The X-rated site features erotic stories …
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world created, like all the best things, by amateur enthusiasts. Farting in the general direction of professional mappers, these collaborative cartographers prowl the streets collecting GPS data and building up their wiki-based map. We caught up with charter-in-chief Steve …
Spring is when we get busy here in the Ist-A-Verse. Very busy. But, after staying bundled-up indoors all winter, it’s nice for us to be out, about, and collecting things to write about for you. Here’s a glimpse at what’s been keeping your favorite citybloggers …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We thought we’d take a break from linking up Onionbagblog, and instead sample a scallion of a different persuasion. Olly’s Onions serves up small helpings of news in a satirical sauce. A bit like The Onion, then. (What is this connection between bulbous edibles and …
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, …
We love London and we love blogging so it’s always nice to see a new Londony blog enter the fold. Especially when it has a connection with one of our favourite things – the moleskine. Check out the intro on Flickr and then head over …
Lots of stuff to get through today, but we’re starting small (sort of) with the immortalisation (sort of) of old favourite Tox as pictured above. Cheers to dr seagate for the link and photo. It’s not quite the Tate Modern, but it’s a (small) step …
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