Thames Water - New River

Interesting (in a North London-y kind of way) Thames Water site about the New River. Neither new nor a river...

flipping heck

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Hampshire | Car lands in home's upper floor

Drink

We haven't been for a pint for a while. Was just chatting to John and figured that next Tuesday (the 3rd) would be an appropriate date. What you guys reckon?

UPDATE: John isn't feeling too good. Can we try for next week instead? Maybe Tuesday 10th?

The Feds can own your WLAN too

Interesting article about how to hack WLANs

Immigration Facts Quiz

Praxis. Apparently, people born outside the UK contribute £2.5bn more in taxes than they take in benefits.

ya beauty

Google maps for UK. No satellite link yet however...

Laptop advice

I want to buy a new laptop, small to medium sized, preferably no more than £800.

I want one that's small and light enough to cart around with me, but not one of those pricey, really tiny ones that break easily and don't have any disc drives or anything.

Any tips re: brands and retailers? I'm not too fussy. Toshibas always seem to be pretty cheap for what you get - are they alright?

Hoist!

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HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

Tresor

has closed :-/

Are you a neocon?

Take the quiz. Apparently I'm a liberal - in the American sense anyway. I suspect everyone else reading this is too...

New pope was in Hitler Youth

Albeit against his will.

flickr

am investigating flickr - my photostream is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmain01/
anybody else got one?

Google satellite mapping

Google have recently bought keyhole.com - a firm specializing in satellite imaging - and have integrated the images with their own mapping functionality. It's pretty amazing - you can click on the "satellite" link at pretty much any zoom level to see the view from space. Unfortunately only US & Canada are covered in detail so far - it'll be brilliant when you can zoom in on Charlotte St...

Bush's ipod

What should be on it, and what's actually on it.

Scanning the monk

This whole neuroplasticity thing is extremely interesting.

you know blogger seems to have been a bit slow over recent weeks

apparently it's quite a widespread thing.

Science Fiction Hub

At University of Liverpool.

Get Stuffed

Islington's finest landmark.