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 …
Quick! Where‘s your Oyster card? Haven’t got one? Not for long. London’s mayor is to give away 100,000 free Oyster cards, which offer cheaper travel on public transport. Ken Livingstone said the cards had revolutionised travel in London, speeding up buses and Tubes and reducing …
Hanging on to their promise to be the “greenest games ever” the Olympic Masterplanners are organising a wildlife search and rescue operation to save the aquatic inhabitants of stagnant Pudding Mill River, Stratford, from the impending bulldozers. Fish will be coaxed out of this grotty …
Working mothers have begun using webcams to keep an eye on their sproglets playing the day away in childcare while they slave the day away at the office. Whatever happened to eyes in the backs of mothers’ heads? Today’s technology has obviously weeded out that …
Just out the Van: Margaret Atwood leaves the telepresence book-signing robot at home and joins fellow authors Andrew O’Hagan and Erica Wagner and publisher Stephen Page, Chief Executive of Faber & Faber, to discuss the brave new world of authors, readers and publishers in the …
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 …
Tony Blair has obviously been listening to a lot of Huey Lewis lately — he thinks it’s hip to be square. And what is more squareishly hip than to broadcast your political party on YouTube in the hopes of attracting the Cool Kids? In the …
Council staff in Harrow, north London, must feel like maniacal puppeteers in the Theatre of Irony that is the Benefits Claim Office. And if they are the puppeteers, those claiming benefits fraudulently are soon to be their Pinocchios. “Lie detectors will be used to help …
You’ve got to love a headline like this one: London backs £12m space mission Sadly we’re not going to set up a new borough on the moon (a day return to the Phantom Zone would cost a fortune and the shuttles don’t have Oyster readers …
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, …
Billie Piper is all set to slip into Belle de Jour’s gusset! Here’s the scoop direct from the diary of a London call girl: Finally – it’s official – Billie’s on board, and you can expect to see Belle the series on ITV2 this autumn. …
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