Diamond Geezer tracks Oxford Street Christmas lighting dates
According to the Diamond Geezer, Oxford Street Christmas lights have moved from 15 November (2005) to 1 November (Yesterday.)
02 Nov 2011
Covent Garden copyright-free bookshop in the NY Times
Mark Oddie, owner of Dover Bookshop on Earlham Street tells Hayward Cirker, owner of Dover Publications, that an entire bookshop of copyright-free images is a viable business. It has only taken 25 years to be proved wrong.
02 Nov 2011
What a world: fish choke to death on human shit
Thames Water say they regret the jammed valve at Heathrow on Sunday which resulted in 3,000 fish choking to death on human shit.
Source: Beeb
01 Nov 2011
Steve Jobs last words as related by his sister
— The final words of Steve Jobs, as related by his sister Mona Simpson in this lovely eulogy. Simpson, who was born after Jobs was sent away for adoption, was told as an adult that her brother was found and that he was rich and from California. She hoped he would turn out to be John Travolta.
31 Oct 2011
Tory Councilman completely misunderstands protest movement shock
Alex Deane, City of London Councilman (an independent role but he used to be chief of staff to David Cameron so I think we can safely call him a Tory), rails against “self-appointed “protesters”“. Whether he wants protesters to be directly elected, or envisions some form of hereditary protestership, is not clear.
Source: Guido
28 Oct 2011
Occupy LSX: lay off the booze
Venus Cumarar, who’s doing a great job managing the waste coming out of the Occupy camp, begs protesters to lay off the booze. Sober revolutionaries…things are really getting serious down there.
Source: The Occupied Times
27 Oct 2011
Amy Winehouse drink drive what?
A big eh? to the LBC tweet writers. She died in her flat not behind the wheel. Weird angle. And that “Breking” is a [sic].
26 Oct 2011
Cycling superhighways
Green mayoral candidate Jenny Jones, after a cyclist was killed at the Bow Flyover portion of Boris Johnson’s cycle superhighway network.
Source: Evening Standard
25 Oct 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
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