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The price of everything

Juno's first 100 words Here's our 19 month old's first 100 words. Roughly in order of appearance. She started to speak with any coherence in November and the last…

Juno’s favourite books A great book for babies/toddlers is one that is fun to read again and again. Here’s a list of the ones our 15 month old…

Beauty without vanity Near this Spot are deposited the Remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of…

Remain in light I ought to vote to Leave. In my middle age, I'm sceptical of bureaucracy and a believer in free enterprise. I love the plurality of…

Roy of the Rovers lives

St George's Day Australia Day, St Patrick's Day and July 4 all suit their nations' perfectly. And so it is with St George's Day - we English find…

The Woodentops Went to see the Woodentops last night. They were doing a play-through of Giant plus greatest hits. It was lovely nostalgia. I maintain that the…

Must-listen Sacha Baron Cohen on WTF. Easily one of the most entertaining and jaw dropping podcasts I've ever heard. Enjoy. https://overcast.fm/+Y2EyUQ

World's best train platform view Blackfriars, platform 1

Temptation

Winter is coming I tell people that my birthday marks the day when it suddenly starts to get cold. I'm not being an old goth - it's true.

He saved every one of us

The Beehive On an awayday at the original Gatwick main terminal, built in art deco glory in 1935. You can just imagine the cocktails and glamour.

Handling Halloween For the front door tonight

Wide woods

Autumnal beauty

Sunset from the Shard Taken using my new Sony A7R II. Loving the dynamic range that you can see the sun and also the hands of Big Ben

Big Ben Handheld 200mm/f2.8 at 1/3200 ISO 100

I didn't get where I am today without loving Reggie Perrin

Selfie Taken on my new Sony A7R II, using a Metabones adaptor to run a Canon 10-22mm/3.5 lens. 22mm, F4.5, 1/60, ISO 1600

Snoozer

iPhone game of the year Duet is the best game since Super Hexagon

There goes the neighbourhood

Cheating at eye tests Just noticed all the letters are symmetrical on the vertical axis. If you need to guess, you can miss out BCDEFG etc.

Cushtie

Congratulations All my life I've congratulated friends who've had babies. And I've meant it. But now, a couple of days into having a daughter of our…

The strongest anti-copy tech as always

Juno I guess Juno is a relatively unusual name, but we liked it because it is easy to read/pronounce and that it has a whoa meaning…

Redemption i made Sally some 'Husband Vouchers' for her birthday. She's just cashed one in.

Well done Wiggo

At *that* Ireland v England game Ireland play England in a football friendly today and I just heard on the radio that it’s twenty years since that same fixture was abandoned…

Champion Hill in the sun #dhfc

3.000 at the Hamlet

Mad eye

Dylan on Tenby

There goes the neighbourhood The Times names Peckham as the second most fashionable place to live in the UK

Happy St David's Day It's definitely feeling closer to Spring already

White Van Dog

Butter I'm stealing a line from Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. From now on, whenever I get a restaurant bill, I'm going to say, in exasperation,…

Probably my favourite bit in any movie

Grand Theft Auto (beta) I spent whole summers sending toy cars down this track into a tub of water

Champion

Before Oyster cards

New Square on Christmas Eve

Blackwing Christmas

Ready

Naas in space For my friends in Country Kildare. There’s surely a t-shirt in this.

Objects in the rear view mirror may be more beautiful than they appear

Tintern Abbey Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a…

Running on Perranporth Taken running alongside Dylan I knew that out of a hundred or so shots, at least one would come out. Pretty pleased with the low-profile…

Rainbow on Watergate Bay

Jack on the Windrush Saw this dog with its family on the riverbank today. Took some photos and emailed them to his owners.

Comparison is the thief of joy

Vanishing Point

My contribution to video game culture back in the 80s Video games were a big escape for me as a teenager, and thank you Google I've just found this scan from Zzap 64, a best…

Tomato fest Bumper crop in the garden. Let the soup begin.

Best WWF game ever Over 1,000 points scored in total Going to tough for whoever loses having both scored over 500 points.

Defender Hyperlapse

Dulwich Picture Gallery Grafitti Around Peckham and Dulwich over the past couple of years, there have been a number of large pieces of street art on the sides of…

Last day of the holidays Carnota beach. Suduko fails and windy parasol.

Endless beer and pintxos Loving the incredible quality and variety of bar tapas in San Sebastián

Hello San Sebastián

Sudoku In a staggering example of being about 15 years behind the curve, I've just completed my first Sudoku puzzle

Holiday within a holiday Just returning from a work day trip to Dublin. One of the taxi drivers I took confided in me about his secret holidays-within-holidays. He's about…

YOO-NITE-ED NAY-SHUNS To this day, I can't hear the words United Nations without repeating them back not always in my head as YOO-NITE-ED NAY-SHUNS after this scene…

Inspecting Lewes Had a lovely day out in Lewes yesterday with old friends from the Guardian. Jim's dog Georgia loved bounding along the South Downs

Staggering Didn't realise how rare or protected stag beetles are. Saw this one in our garden yesterday and it was beautiful.

Four Quarters This new bar 5 minutes away from us in Peckham is a retro dream. Refurbished, original coin-op games, local beer and a good attitude. Like…

Tour de France Regretting that I didn't go to the Yorkshire stages, I made sure to hang out on the Embankment for an hour in the rain to…

The dog helping me read a book

New car sticker

Hellraiser at the bus stop

Captain

Super Gravitron Another classic 'twitch' game from the maker of the amazing Super Hexagon. Super Gravitron has all the right ingredients - instant start, hypnotic chip soundtrack…

Summer

Rik Mayall 1958-2014 As a teenager I loved the Young Ones & Kevin Turvey. It was rebellious, unapologetic and clever - everything I craved and found hard to…

Bergen

Terry McDermott When I was a kid, this was my favourite goal. 1978, I think. Of course, this being before video recorders, I only ever saw it…

More Bellenden art Choumert Road looks like the latest place to get some groovy graffiti

Into the woods

Sport on 2 theme As one of the comments on the YouTube page says, "Awesome. Like being 12 again. Tea and whole packet of biscuits listening to Liverpool winning…

Idea for film-themed ice cream shop The Cone Brothers. Can't think of any suitable flavours though. Best so far is Blood Orange Simple, but that's forced. Inside Lemon Davis? Carton Fink…

How many seats until in becomes on? I'm IN a car I'm ON a train I'm ON a coach I'm ON a bus I'm... IN a minibus How big does a bus…

On the bench

Wit & Wisdom This column in The Week always makes me think

Liverpool v Norwich Last time I saw that fixture

Double chocolate surprise

Atmosphere Travesty of a 2-3 loss, but the atmosphere was as good as always

YNWA for the 96 in Dortmund If anyone ever doubted the global football family. Wonderful and touching tribute.

Sugru 2 Getting a bit obsessed now

Sugru + Bike + Magnet = Win Just tried my first bit of Sugru action, using magnets to attach a bike light. Ace.

Peckham Pils

The best ever Brits performance KLF perform an, er, unexpected version of 3AM Eternal in front of a bemused, dickie-bowed, big-haired Brits audience The KLF vs. Extreme Noise Terror -…

Monument Valley Isn't it refreshing to see such a fresh, quirky game doing well

Post-breakfast nap

I, for one, welcome our robot dentist overlords I'm getting a broken tooth repaired and it involves getting a filling made. Rather than sending it off to a lab, my dentist now has…

On a whim

Camp Nou

El Clásico or El Clàssic Researching a Spanish holiday and found this ticket for Barcelona v Real Madrid that I went to with Steve Matthews in 1997. There's a whole…

Alternatively "Slower and noisier than paper towels"

Time Zone Idea: Continuous Mean Time I've been thinking about the clocks going forwards/backwards twice a year. At the moment, the mornings are still dark at 7ish. That'll get better over…

About Time [SPOILERS] I've just watched the most recent Richard Curtis movie whilst on a flight back from a work trip. Have you seen it? Stop reading if…

It's a God-awful small affair Earth as seen from a rover on Mars

Kramer

Transpontine Loving this word for South London Transpontine: 'on the other i.e. the south side of the bridges over the Thames; pertaining to or like the…

Conflict

Rod a capella Best white soul voice ever

Second screen resolution Flipside of amazing mobile tech is ever-present distraction - it can be the enemy of mindfulness. Resolving for more tech-free moments in 2014

New Year's Day Means soup, fire and this movie

The Circle I'm about 100 pages into this apparently zeitgeisty novel. So far two thoughts come to mind: 1. It's not so much a dystopian future as…

KBO Once you learn a new word/phrase, you begin to notice it everywhere

*adds to repertoire*

There's more to life than books you know I've very much enjoyed Morrissey's Autobiography. Always quotable, he always seemed to be indirect and evasive during the 80s Smiths heyday - so it's a…

Tree-mendous In a moment of hippie thrift last year, rather than throw our xmas tree away, we planted it in the garden. 12 months on, it's…

Return of the outside fridge Along with mince pies in Pret and the opening of Advent calendars, the outside fridge is the first sign of Christmas. This humble Perspex box,…

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Dynasty plots are the best

Always different. Always the same.

Book quiz: what am I reading?

Remember to chew your food

Blackwater St, SE22

England at the 2014 World Cup

Defender day I've taken the day off to see my friend Eddie at his offices inside Bletchley Park - yes, the WWII secret code-breaking centre. It's going…

IPhone 1 Watching NFL on C4. I went to the first Wembley game in 2007 & excitedly took photos with my then brand new first gen iPhone.

Standard view The Standard East Village hotel isn't that great in my spoiled middle class opinion, but the view is captivating

The 2020 games go to...

Tonight

In your face Sherlock

Crimer - Eppasod 1 Still the funniest thing on the internet VOISEOVER: In a Citey wher thers Somuchcrimes , theDetetcive is onthe Case... DETETCIVE: Stop crimeing VOISEOVER: But Oneproblam...…

Every home should have a copy

Coin-ops I spent a big chunk of my teens in the local arcades, feeding ten pence pieces into coin-ops. There was nothing retro or ironic about…

And... relax

The Cuckoo's Calling Loving the new crime novel by JK Rowling under the Robert Galbraith pseudonym. Great read - kinda like a grounded Dirk Gently

Match of the century

A dominant personality From Clive James' Unreliable Memoirs, volume II

Bold Tendencies 2013 The annual summer art exhibition in a car park is back

How many attempts? /via http://usvsth3m.com/post/55726758005/the-best-vine-of-all-time

From The Old Curiosity Shop But for his distrust and jealousy he would probably have found himself much better off in the end. This will always happen that these men…

Glastonbury 98

Putting the anger down

Shibuya A few photos from my recent trip to Japan

Jeffrey Lewis - Orgone Accumulator Went to see Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel at the Windmill, Brixton fab venue last night. At first I was disappointed that he didn't play…

Standing in the disco, bumper to bumper 1992 - me caught on camera headbanging in the front row at 3'05" and 3'35"

Front page? Champion! Quite pleased to get a photo of mine on the front page of the local paper

Champions at Champion Hill The most joyous day I've ever had at football. Well done Dulwich Hamlet. Full set of photos is here Champions 10 of 28

I've got the POWER

Happy Easter Happy Easter

Connected clocks in modern phones, radios, computers and watches... Connected clocks in modern phones, radios, computers and watches have taken the fun out of putting everything one hour forward to mark the start of…

Idea If Chas & Dave wanted their own brand of muesli, they could call it Gertcha Bircher.

First street run in eight and a half years. First street run in eight and a half years. Very pleased to have broken a pattern and nearly an ankle

In films set in the future... …tomorrow’s cars always look a bit crap

Face Face

Bossy

Food pr0n

Another great Dickens character

From the top of the Shard

On the twelfth day of xmas My true love re-planted the tree

Making the FA Cup special again The Champions League has eclipsed what used to be the most important and exciting football tournament. It seems that no-one cares that much about it…

The lone and level sands stretch far away. I was just about too young to appreciate Tony Grieg. So even though the pieces on him portray him as a much-missed sporting hero, I…

Mastermind: what should I play next?

Sports photography I love this photo from Tom Jenkins' best of 2012. Getting the olympic rings in the visor is a terrific capture.

Recipe timer protocol idea Have had this half-baked idea for an open source recipe timer protocol. Eh? Let me explain. People would tag up recipes with start times and…

Waiting for Matilda to begin

Took lots of shots of graffiti in the east end yesterday Full set: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fb3eh9n9pnueeqr/Y_fkQHzT2e

Not many other dog walkers in the park today

Sopranos S01E01 Just watched the first Sopranos episode again. It's something mildly obsessive like my eighth watch-through albeit over fifteen years. Even though I know the plot…

Film quiz: what am I watching?

For once, an actual personality wins Go Wiggo.

Super Hexagon The best compliment I can pay Super Hexagon is that it's the sort of game Eugene Jarvis http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis would have made had iOS been around…

Koyaanisqatsi live Screening of the film with orchestra playing along live - and with Philip Glass himself on keyboards. At first a novelty and then increasingly hypnotic;…

4G is faster than my home wifi 3G on O2 Wifi 4G on EE

All killer no filler

Credits where they're not due TV and film end credits are vanity listings of the sort that only exist elsewhere in magazines. Who cares who the second cameraman was? Chris…

5.39am in a strange train station Feels like I'm inter-railing again

Crossword help wanted 12, 13, 17, 25 Across and 9, 16 Down

Restaurant tube map of London Yum.

Tetris

Five photos from our New England weekend click to enlarge These are mainly Vermont with a bit of New Hampshire

Film quiz: what am I watching?

Breaking news in Vermont

Telegraph turns into gossip rag Shock as Bowie doesn't look as good as he did FORTY YEARS AGO. FFS.

I have this idea for an art project Collect/exhibit hundreds of similarly cloying "imagine all the towels in all the hotels in all the world" messages.

Amazing Breaker The best game on the iPhone IMO. Clever and compelling. Try getting three stars on all levels.

You're so vein

Anglican chapel, Nunhead cemetery Lovely autumnal morning

Man with amazing hair on the news

Thinking of re-reading this Seems perfect for our times. Surprised it hasn't had a revival?

I'm no cycle mechanic But I think this might be the cause of that flat tyre

iOS sat nav Apple maps may have their faults, especially with well out-of-date points of interest. But the in-built sat nav works great. Really clean and well thought…

Guinness pin badges Found these in a drawer. The senior management at Guinness insisted we made these for all kinds of occasions. Landlords loved them.

Toon logic Just heard a spokesman from Newcastle FC explaining the decision to give Pardew a long, eight year contract. Explaining that the aim was stability, he…

That ain't worth Jack Just watched the trailer for the forthcoming Jack Reacher movie. It may be an enjoyable film in itself, and Tom Cruise is a great action…

Lee Child - A Wanted Man Probably the worst of the 15 or so Jack Reacher books. I wonder whether Lee Child got distracted by all the Tom Cruise shenanigans, or…

Hack: How I Stopped Worrying about What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab The author of this now works for the same company as me, and I picked up her book on a trip to our New York…

iPhone 5 queue on fifth avenue Lads it's all male, pre-ordering is easier.

Film quiz: what am I watching?

IPhone 5 ready Ding

Abandon ship! Final day on HMS President

Unreliable Memoirs I started reading the second in this series of memoirs at a friend's house. It was so effortlessly entertaining, I thought I ought to read…

First package from Beer Bods Just had my first delivery from http://www.beerbods.co.uk/ - an interesting beer delivered every week. Looking fwd to trying out that Milk Stout.

Aah... Back from long work road trip. Heavenly. With awesome new JamBox in background too

Welcome to Toronto

Then the elements started to lift Thomas Heatherwick on seeing his Olympic torch lit

What a very entertaining writer

Summer Special Wonder if Bono hand writes a note with every CD order

The Third Policeman One of my things is to know nothing about a book, film etc. so that I can experience the work without prejudice and have the…

Future royal anniversaries The Queen has rock-solid genes, so I reckon the recent Diamond Jubilee won't be the last. But look at the list of upcoming anniversary names.…

Future taboos We look on times gone by and are shocked at how things that would be outrageous today were ok then - airing racist attitudes, smoking…

Wiggo logo I love the mod-influenced logo of the Bradley Wiggins foundation http://www.bradleywigginsfoundation.org/site/index.php

Loving Brendan Foster's face here As Mo Farah wins 5,000m gold. Wonderful.

The Bolt and the Blade Runner A few picks from our amazing trip to the Olympic Stadium. The whole thing was a fantastic tribute to modern, multicultural Britain. I'm an adopted…

Fencing champion on the tube How awesome is this? thanks Fliss

Olympic Gymnastics North Greenwich Arena. 30 mins to go.

So the Olympic flame just got rowed past our office One advantage of being based on a ship moored on the Thames' Victoria Embankment is a first-rate view of anything that happens on the river.…

Standing up against The Man It's a fairly impressive but dry day at the Oval. The crowd are filling the fun gap by creating huge stack towers of empty plastic…

Here comes the summer

And not a McBrand in sight

Fahrenheit 451 The author's death prompted me to read this modern classic. Of a similar "dystopian future" era/genre to I am Legend, 1984 and The Man in…

Mexico '70

Mexico '70

Spanish victory car horns #euroguff Euro 2012 car horns.m4a Listen on Posterous In, er, Lausanne

Official Euroguff Charity Appeal If you've enjoyed playing Euroguff, then please read this and support grass roots African football http://riftivalleysocceracademy.posterous.com/rvsa-appeal-for-your-help A good friend of mine, and Euroguff player, is…

It's the final guffdown - Euroguff day 24 youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyggY_R3jU8?wmode=transparent If Guffers are level on points after tonight's final, then the minute of the first goal will come into play. Below is the…

Euro 2012 final - special match ball design revealed

And finally - Euroguff finale Congratulations Spain - winners of Euro 2012 Arthur Andersen??have completed their audit of the results and these are??the final standings.?? Note there are no more…

Idea for Swiss Eminem tribute act Emmental. “Sandwiches would be so empty - without me”

Analyse this - Euroguff Day 23 No games today, so in Test Match Special stylee, I shall guff on about something tangential whilst alternating between an unfathomably posh voice and a…

The self preservation society - Euroguff day 22 Well done Balotelli Are Italy peaking at the right moment? Spain v Italy - the Final How Euroguffers see it. Not many had the Italians…

Paying the ultimate penalty - Euroguff day 21 People are ready to put Ronaldo on trial for Portugal's penalty exit, but he has declined to answer questions and has taken the fifth. Either…

Mano-a-mano - Euroguff day 20 NEW GIMMICK - Euroguff Quiz As every 1940s public schoolboy knows, the Iberian Peninsula is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the…

Official Prediction Game Baby - Euroguff day 19 Congratulations to Euroguffer Lorem Ipsum @JonDavie and wife Amanda. Jon may be languishing in 63rd position, but he is officially top of the world after…

Wimbledon starts today - Euroguff day 18 And I had so many ideas for headlines "Anti pasta"; crude photoshops of the Italian Job; maybe a Cornetto reference or two. The lot If…

Will our boys get a semi? Euroguff day 17 The Germans await and, increasingly, England expects.?? How will the papers take the result? We asked Dr Emmet Brown to explain tabloid timelines: Free England…

Hair today

The Hunger Game - Euroguff day 16 QF2: Germany v Greece - exclusive photograph QF3: France v Spain On paper, wine-guzzling France should trounce their bull-bothering neighbours, but there are no easy…

Geo-wallpaper Wow: Satellite Eyes is a simple Mac app that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of where you are, right now

David Eagleman - Incognito Bought this on a whim after hearing the author on Richard Bacon's Five Live show. It's an exploration of neuroscience and specifically the wonders of…

Some thoughts on Germany v Greece

?????????????? ???????? ???? ?????????????? ???????? - Euroguff Day 15 Haloumi, Hallo you I am typing this on one of those new retsina screens ahead of donertime tonight when Greece will pitta their skills against…

Drawn and quartered - Euroguff Day 14 Now it's a knockout - Ed Stewart Stuart Hall, yesterday Prophets of doom 91% of Euroguffers incorrectly predicted the Greeks would have exited the Euros…

In praise of the Fifth Official - Euroguff day 13 Homeward bound Standings at the end of the group stage Note that this does not include points for predicting which eight teams have now gone…

Double helix phone cord

You gotta dance like nobody's watching Ukraine fan dances himself dizzy during Donetsk downpour youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9fj2hkLyLo?wmode=transparent Thanks Jim; via http://www.whoateallthepies.tv

The Return of Rooney - Euroguff Day 12 The big day. Again. England need at least a draw to go through and likely play Spain on Saturday or maybe a thumping win will…

The best second language to learn When I was a kid, it was supposedly German. Now, apparently, Spanish is the popular choice. It's a bit Smart Alec to say this, but…

Hollololololololand - Euroguff Day 11 Angela Merkel responds to Ireland's donttellmerkel The Irish may be going home, but Spain, Italy and Croatia have it all to play for. Day 11,…

Death Jam - Euroguff day 10 Wake up, time to die The Group of Death origins meets its maker today, with two teams fated to shuffle off this mortal eurocoil of…

The Affair - Lee Child The latest Jack Reacher and the first I've read on Kindle not sure why it's not yet out in paperback. Lee Child shows no sign…

Geeks: the offside rule explained Via??http://www.thefootballramble.com/latest/entry/you-shall-not-pass

Cheap case for reading Kindle in the bath

Andy, we forgive the top knot - Euroguff Day 9 England win. What an odd feeling to wake up to. Re-live it with these splendid animated gifs of Welbeck and Carroll's goals yesterday. And here's…

The Winner Takes it All - Euroguff day 8 EUROGUFF SWEDEN SPECIAL Jamie quips, "Swedish is a North Germanic language, related and very similar to Danish and Norwegian, but differing in pronunciation and orthography.??Along…

England vs lovebox

Danny Welbeck gif via??http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/gif-danny-welbecks-brilliant-backhell-england-v-sweden/

Andy Carroll gif via??http://twitpic.com/9ws1hi

You'll never beat the Irish - Euroguff Day 7 NEW GIMMICK Last night we had Euroguff Live as @subterranean_ Eddie Gufftweeted™ from a pub in Holland as the Edam fanciers tiptoed to the brink…

TORRES/INIESTA

Oh Trapattoni - you used to be Italian but you're Irish now youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTuvNpCLyQ?wmode=transparent

More evidence of Rockabilly making a comeback

German LOLs youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9IvQKgziTE?wmode=transparent Hat tip: Jim C

Spit and Polish - Euroguff day 6 According to Jamie Carragher, it was the Polish union with Lithuania which brought pro-Western Catholic Poland and Orthodox Russia into a real, constant relation with…

SCHWEINSTEIGER

Official Euroguff logo! Thanks to Harry Redface, aka Dan of the world's finest sound agency

Euroguff LIVE PHOTOBLOGGING Anglophile Eddie, the Texan Sicilian, is reporting LIVE for Euroguff in Holland. Yes, it's a beautiful, global game people.

Greece is the way we are feeling - Euroguff day 5 England v France - TV screen grab of the day Who will get off the mark first? Jon D and Dave Crook have evidently mistaken…

England expects - Euroguff Day 4 This blog post was scheduled to be guest edited by Rio Ferdinand, but at the last minute, I decided to do it myself - for…

Pass the Dutchie - Euroguff Day 3 Even Hans Christian Andersen couldn't make it up. The princes of Denmark suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and still hung on to…

I'm not sure what this says about the global economy, but it was funny then and it's funny now World Cup 2010??? Euro 2012 The hashtag is??don'ttellmerkel

Who Euroguffers think will win Euro 2012

The Double Teapot - Euroguff day 2 After a splendidly odd opening ceremony that was just two edits away from a creepy Aphex Twin video, Euro 2012 is under way Poland v…

Jay Z

Jay Z

Contributing to the Euroguff blog If you find anything funny that fellow Euroguffers might enjoy, then you can post to the blog by emailing??"Euroguff" <euroguff@posterous.com>. The subject line of your…

Full footy disclosure I'm playing this Euroguff too of course, and in the very unlikely event that I do well, I don't want anyone thinking I'm rigging it.…

Comedy idea. Not sure if it'd be legal. The main reason it's annoying when someone is talking loudly on the phone on a train is that the conversation is one-sided and your brain…

Wildfire

The dawn of Euroguff - day one So here we go??The start of Euro 2012.?? At time of writing, there are??54??players in this lovely little Euroguff game. I will show my pleasant…

Steal

Russia

Ringtone

Ringo

Overflow

Oilfield

Oars

Hulk

Goddess

Caveman

Bankrupt

Asteroid

Official app of Euro 2012 "Official apps" are so often terrible. Too many Ts&Cs, rampant sponsors' messages, navigation designed by committee etc. Let's see with this one... Link

The Pickwick Papers Dickens' first novel is almost the story of a road trip; the nineteenth century gap year adventure of posh old gents. It's a little odd…

Team profiles: Ireland

Add Euro 2012 fixtures to Outlook, iPhone calendar etc. Have all the fixtures handy. Here's how.

Our figurehead is not what she seems

Twitter and Euroguff One week to go before Euro 2012. There are 30-something players so far and I think that'll get up to 40 or so with all…

Welcome to the Euro 2012 prediction game Just over a week to go, and I'm thinking about how best to run the game and get interaction going between the players. There is…

I've entered these three pix in Dog Photographer of the Year Worth a pop

Sugar

Nun

Goth

Beckham

A day off and Lord's I have the day off, and it's a beautiful summer's day. I have a book, some food and I'm at Lord's for a county game.…

Canned laughter There's an interview with Graham Linehan with this reference to people's misunderstandings of "canned laughter". Graham Linehan would like to make one thing really clear,…

Uppercut

This supersedes Pacman Best video game ever

Sorority

Defender

Victim

Pacman

Icicle

Enjoyed drawing this one

Dracula

Wanted

Survivor

Shuttle

Shave

Surgery

Scarface

Pinball

Graduate

Building

Overtime

Hip hop

Emma

Uranus

Tugboat

New York

Kobe

Hot sauce

Gymnast

Gossip

Fraction

Fort

Flush

Flame on I hope people predisposed to be cynical about the Olympics drop their guard and open themselves up to enjoying a true community event. Only sport…

Explode

Dissing Gordon Banks I went to an exhibition a few years ago called Fifa 100, celebrating the greatest 100 footballers of all time. There were fabulous photographic portraits…

Wrestler

Tom Hanks

Teacup

Forklift

Xerox

Weird

Taylor

Ping pong

Lovebird

Japan

Fans

Po - Beyond Yes and No I'd always put Edward de Bono in a box of stuffy old thinkers, but I was prompted to buy this based by a reference to…

Travolta

Wake up

The Fall, May 11 at the Coronet Theatre M.E.S. was shambolic and shamanic, hazing his way through any number of garagey, hypnotic songs. Highlights were White Lightning, Cab it Up and Psychik Dancehall.…

Posh

Ukulele

Skiing

Divorce

Yearbook

World cup

Wolf

Wingman

Wigwam

Waterbed

Vaccine

Vacation

USB

Techno

Swag

Star Trek

Squirrel

Snowball

Snoop

Slowjam

Scrabble

Science

RZA

Ringtone

Rest

Redhead

Pluto

Plunger

Planet

Pirate

Pegasus

Outkast

Oprah

Opera

Muggle

Morning

Meter

Medusa

Lighter

Kaka

Iceberg

Hermione

Helmet

Heaven

Hair gel

Grenade

Godzilla

Factory

Dunk

Dunk

Dogfish

Dallas

Cyclops

Clay

Caveman

Carnival

Captain

Brilliant Lego mural at Hamley's

Breakup

Bingo

Bigfoot

Art

Abba

The three intellectual stages of man How we get trapped in the constrained thinking of existing ideas. From the brilliant "Po - beyond Yes and No" by Edward de Bono

John Peel - The Olivetti Chronicles Wonderful collection of Peel's columns over the years for The Listener, Sounds, the Radio Times and more. The quote on the front is spot on.…

I have a holiday in London coming up. What could I do? I have a few days off at home shortly and not sure what to do. Any ideas for what I should do - art exhibitions…

Bank holiday watching I have stumbled into an annual tradition of watching the timeless ho ho Back to the Future every year on one of the bank holidays…

Did you have any of these phones? When Nokia was king. I got that one on the left in April 1995. Ruinously heavy.

Can you guess my Draw Something word? Terrible quality, and retro gaming nerdery required too. If you've no idea or don't care, you can feel good about yourself. But I'd love it…

Frustration is an essential part of the creative process In that brilliant talk on creativity by John Cleese, he mentions how creative people are almost defined by how long they're prepared to suffer with…

Renegade - Mark E. Smith Everything you'd hope for from the Fall's curmudgeonly genius. Funny, unexpected and unreasonable. A genuinely great Briton.

How to write Groundhog Day Screenwriter Danny Rubin explains how what is now a comedy classic came to be. Some interesting insights, and it enlightened a re-watch of the movie.…

Comedy and Error - Simon Day's autobiography I always liked the Fast Show, and I had a fleeting conversation with Simon when I'd rejected some copy he'd written for a Guardian ad…

Lady Audley's Secret I'd heard of this 'sensation' novel, but wasn't expecting too much. In fact, it's a cracker. Very much in the Wilkie Collins style, with twisty,…

Ali lighting the Atlanta Olympics torch Goosebumps youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TaITzi64Sw?wmode=transparent

Alex's Adventures in Numberland Popular maths and science books are both an indulgence an diversion for me. I'm kinda A-Level standard and curious in this field, and it's a…

Lord of the Flies Seeing me reading this, a friend joked "are you re-sitting your GCSE English?" I guess it is a book associated with school, but I never…

Conference Troll I have an idea for a comedy vehicle, which I have neither the front nor the inclination to do myself. It's called Conference Troll. It's…

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Snow dog fun

100 things you needn't do before you die I hate those "40 things before you're 40" lists. Whose life are you suppose to be living? I think there's a book to be had…

Crowdsourced Star Wars Brilliantly inventive and enjoyable youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ezeYJUz-84?wmode=transparent

The pre-sleb era I came across this 26 year old copy of the Times today - November 11, 1985 I would have been nearly 18 when it was…

The Man in The High Castle Someone recently said that Philip K. Dick made a career out of making you wonder what was real or not, and this book is very…

It wouldn't be Xmas without...

Best card game ever Pleased to read that the best card game ever, Shithead, is known as Shit Pants Paskahousu in Finland. Rules: http://www.pagat.com/beating/shithead.html

Provocative book design I've just started reading this. It's a very well regarded novel from Philip K. Dick set in an alternate 1960s where America has lost the…

The West Wing looks dated already Watching the first couple of series of the West Wing from 1999-2001 and it already looks dated: - what once looked like a manic tempo…

Just switched on iTunes Match I wonder how many of my songs it will recognise.

Euros Childs A mix of solo songs and Gorky's favourites. Euros was both angelic and goofy. http://instagr.am/p/ZLIpB/

A Christmas Carol Spurred me to break the ice and send Christmas cards to a couple of people I'd grown apart from.

The outdoor Xmas fridge is back

xmas decorations

There's a Cyberman hiding in this cigarette bin

I took these Movember photos at work A great cause and a also good excuse to try out some portrait photography

DumbPhone I'd like an iPhone app called DumbPhone which would alleviate distraction and overuse of the interweb by blanking out all apps other than the actual…

Tickets nostalgia #7: Terry Hall Probably my favourite singer. Everything he's done has been great and I'd love him to release more solo stuff - it's been ages. See the…

Easy, perfect rice My dad's recipe. It really works.

Working life's a Gas My degree included a year's work experience, which I spent quite enjoyably at British Gas in Staines this is long before Ali G. It had…

Steve Jobs It seems strange to read this biography just a couple of months after his death. Even slightly disrespectful. But I devoured the 570 or so…

Never expected this to be my album of the year

Ashbrow Juniors FC c.1977 Taken on the school pitch with my granddad's house almost in the background. Look at my pose. and haircut Thank you Mr Price - you…

My stereo and telly when I was a teenager This was totally state of the art in the early 80s. Graphic equaliser Dobly C Linear tracking turntable

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Read this pretty much in one go on a flight to San Francisco. Was expecting a tale of a fearsome Scottish schoolmistress, whereas it turns…

Film quiz III What am I watching on this iPad?

Tickets nostalgia #5: the Shamen 9pm-6am, those were the days. My memories of this involve a uncomfortable hour in a dodgy Stockwell bar, an endless night bus journey back to…

Ticket nostalgia #6: My Bloody Valentine One of those bands that I loved, but never quite felt cool enough to be really part of their scene. In my head they played…

So far, the most complex board game ever

Playing with Content Aware Fill Getting the sky to look natural without the stick would have been much harder before Content Aware Fill

Gourd-like squash This is the first time I've carved a pumpkin See the full gallery on Posterous

It's like David Lynch borrowed my iPhone I expect we'll see these Decim8 effects everywhere, so I'm getting in early

The dog & ball

Tickets nostalgia #4: Wembley The dirty truth is that the old Wembley, home of the Twin Towers, was a terrible venue to actually watch a game See the full…

Tickets nostalgia #3: Prince Tickets had sold out in London, so I'd snapped up my mate Mike's offer to drive to Birmingham, so it was an afternoon off and…

Tickets nostalgia #2: Holland 1, England 4 Easily the most wonderful football match I've been to. It was a sunny day soaked with late-Britpop optimism, but no-one thought we could beat Holland,…

Tickets nostalgia #1: Dukla Prague away Was inter-railing with my friend Andy and we went to this purely because of the Half Man Half Biscuit track, "All I want for Christmas…

Little yellow cut-out elephant This intro to track 10 in the 1990 Festive 50 nails exactly why I loved John Peel. audio mp3="/assets/images/2011/10/little_elephant.mp3"/audio

Bellenden Bunfight 2011 See the full gallery on Posterous

Any book recommendations? edit Books I've read recently are here I am Legend - Don't be put off by the Will Smith film. This is a minimalist classic…

Dulwich 10k photos Unexpectedly hot for the October run. Well done everyone. There are more pictures on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/carl201167/sets/72157627676139799/show/ If anyone wants them, or to use them, email…

Capri Spotted in Peckham Rye. This was THE car to have in the 70s

Seeing Stars Not at all what I expected, and all the better for that.

Dracula It's interesting reading this and reflecting upon the influence it still has from Buffy to Twilight to True Blood. The darkness of the Un-Dead Stoker's…

I think this is my favourite Fall album I'm a sucker for repetitive beats and M.E.S. barking in German

Bold Tendencies 2011 This summertime outdoor art exhibition and, er, Campari bar is in its fifth year. I first visited in 2009 and shamefully have only just got…

Published in the Guardian Delighted to get one of my pix in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/sep/20/william-blake

Horace goes Skiing This old ZX Spectrum game would translate perfectly for the iPhone. Much like DoodleJump, it'd simply be a matter of tilting to steer. I bet…

Replanting of William Blake's Oak in Peckham Rye Park Went to a wonderful event in the park this lunchtime. Poetry, walk, art installation and tree planting. As the website of the artist says. In…

Made me lol on the train FSK - I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTO5Hwu9PmQ?wmode=transparent

Modern jukebox idea This would probably only work in somewhere painfully trendy in Shoreditch, but I can see it being novel/fun if a bar let the customers choose…

Holiday collar

Woodland wonders Lovely art exhibition in the temple in Nunhead Cemetery

Am in park trying out clipless pedals for first time ever. Expecting lots of comedy falls

The Thirty-Nine Steps A splendid old-fashioned yarn that isn't remotely spoiled by having seen any of the movie adaptations.I love the escapism and simplicity, of course, but I…

Kidnapped The plot pursued me on our Scottish road trip, with dramatic scenes from Iona to Appin

Now with added biff

Scarecrow festival These were dotted on roads around Sligachan on the Isle of Skye

Posh dinner

Dog tick up close. Ugh!! Attaches itself like an alien. You could see the little squirmy legs and everything

Best song on the Scotify playlist

Mullered The isle of Mull is utterly beautiful, but the roads are horrific. We got grounded after hitting a trench-like pothole. Luckily we got towed out…

Hiccups cure If someone you're with gets a bout of hiccups, just ask them "quick - what's 34 times 14?" Unexpected mental arithmetic normally stops it dead.…

Worth Dying For I start every holiday with the new Lee Child book. The Die Hard-esque plots are reassuringly familiar and well-written enough to be real page turners

Escape from the water

Bonnie

Scotify - the Scotland holiday playlist Thanks to everyone who contributed song ideas. We're loving it, and I've had a few messages from people who are enjoying it too. We switched…

Nessie - unmasked

First signs of Scotland

Be nice to other Londoners

Boules

En route to France. Sat behind Lee 'Scratch' Perry and band Taken at London Luton Airport LTN

Knockdown advice c/o Michael Caine "If you're going through hell... keep going."

The Bellenden Banksy?

Twatum Many moons ago at a previous job, we had a regular consumer email that was very popular but occasionally spikey - consequently we'd get the…

Anyone for a muffit of tea? youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQKhonG-EY?wmode=transparent

Found this calculator from school in a drawer. Awesome that it still works perfectly.

I bet most people have a favourite mug. This is mine.

Hasn't it been an astonishing 12 days?

Trying out the Gif Shop app

I liked this card so much I sent it to about five people for their birthday

My favourite album so far this year

Mrs Doyle Ringtone mrsdoyle.mp3 Listen on Posterous

Foxy always had the best DJ cards for fans

I bought this at the British Museum in 2009

How to tell if you're old enough for The New Yorker I love this anecdote from the always readable David Hepworth's Blog by David Hepworth on 7/7/11 We were asked to choose one favourite magazine and,…

Thank you for sending me an angel

blue screen of job death I did this spoof as an ad for a leaving do of me and a friend a few years back

Wish this had a better cover. Looks cheap. Taken at Peckham Rye Railway Station

Pet sounds Doggie.m4a Listen on Posterous

Another case solved Taken at Platform 15 London Bridge Station LBG

Geographically accurate tube map Go Peckham Rye http://london-tubemap.com/

A mate of mine had the idea for this t-shirt years ago. Taken at Sainsbury's

Large dog

Village fayre Taken at Stoke by nayland

Bubble fun

Ironic mini chip fryer

Gangsta Lorem Ipsum generator

Rainy fun Taken at Virginia Water Lake

Trying the new crazy-ass filter coffee Chemex thing

I bought this postcard in 2002, but it was so good I never sent it to anyone

Talybont falls, Brecon Beacons

Water foul

Swan lake

I like these retro soup editions

Neon cops and robbers

Perhaps they could modernise voting by having 'Like' buttons on the ballot papers

Farewell Sony t2t This used to be so state-of-the-art

Converting cassette to mp3 That 1980s Walkman is still reliable albeit groany

Three things you should do to stop people nicking your identity/credit card online The Playstation break-in might mean that 70 million people's passwords may have been exposed. Imagine you're one of those people and you use that same…

Sunset at Freshwater West See the full gallery on Posterous

Our last night in Broadhaven South

Knit your own royal wedding £9.99 from John Lewis, apparently

Easter at Freshwater East

Creature from the deep

Charge! I bought these rechargeable batteries in 1998. Thirteen years of powering a portable radio and they're still going strong.

Castle destroyer

I guess it's not convinced what it can and can't digest

Holiday

Recreation of one of my favourite Private Eye cartoons

Gull

The Sugarloaf

Thankfully didn't disgrace myself when pronouncing this

Somewhere lovely for the weekend

How to summon anyone, anytime I believe there is a Universal Law of Post-It Recall. In the event you don't find someone at their desk, the natural thing to do…

Look, a duck.

Dogs at Virginia Water today See the full gallery on Posterous

So lovely that the blossoms are out

I still miss this car

A baking dog marks the official start of Spring

Happy St Pat's The top brass at Guinness were obsessed with these pin badges. We made them for all kinds of occasions.

A drop of experience

Country cottage And real milk bottles

Better than diamonds

Burning love

The Shard looking amazing

Retro day. My old phone still works and is even showing BT Cellnet!

I sent my first memo for about 15 years today

May the lols be with you

The William Blake mural in Peckham Rye

Barcelona v Real Madrid 1997 Found this old ticket that I'd been using as a bookmark and it brought back memories. I'd been visiting friends Steve and Liz in Spain…

As someone said about Bob Dylan An acquired taste, but what a taste

Rogere Federer looks like Quentin Tarantino See the full gallery on Posterous

Laid-back Kiwi cricket I went to watch this test match in New Zealand in March 1997. They were playing Sri Lanka and my lasting memory is how casual…

My favourite albums of all time Ok, so it's classic nerdy bloke territory to write lists like this, but why fight it? I'll no doubt change my mind tomorrow, but right…

I remember that football

Five years on from Radio Aid Tomorrow is five years since UK Radio Aid - when all the country's commercial stations came together to broadcast the same output and raise £3m…

Shard of glass Taken from the bus window on the way into work

Me vs. the world's biggest Gummi Bear

Just add volume

Creator of Star Wars opening credits buried in Nunhead Cemetery

Bunhill Fields I work round the corner from this historic cemetery its name derives from 'bone hill'. It was used as a burial site for nonconformists from…

Happy new year!

Seal on Camber Sands

This morning's breakfast planner

Unexpectedly wonderful speech youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFioA9ebJM?wmode=transparent

Take your (doggie) daughter to the office day See the full gallery on Posterous

London illustrated I love these illustrations on a hoarding hiding the Shard works at London Bridge station. They're simple, but brilliantly executed. The angle of the kid's…

Dylan's snowman impression

Cock au van

HAWAGABS Husbands and wives and girlfriends and boyfriends. For media usage on overseas tours when sports teams are out of the closet

Hurray for Longreads and Instapaper If you're not familiar with http://longreads.com/, then I recommend you to try it. It's full of unexpected, mostly interesting articles. It works especially well with…

Sunday morning

I remember we had chocolate cake before the game

A glimpse of the tragic future that awaits today's reality TV 'stars' youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOeDYDOCKc?wmode=transparent

Dylan at Three Cliffs Bay See the full gallery on Posterous

Bill Haley and Buzz Lightyear - separated at birth?

Pilgrimage

Peckham haiku entry My entry for the Peckham Literary Festival haiku competition: Slurping hearty stews In the Victoria we gentrifiers sat

Southwark News II Nov 18, 2010 issue. For game v Bognor Regis See the full gallery on Posterous

M4 Reading Services 1 services for dog exercise

Flux Capacitor found in Old St Great Scott

In print That reporter was true to his word and published one of my photos of the Dulwich Hamlet game in the local paper. He used my…

A minute's noise for John youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KiLeUV98nY?wmode=transparent

Trying out sports photography I decided to take my new lens down to Dulwich Hamlet this afternoon "c'mon you 'amlet". Things I learned: Sports photography is hard Shots of…

Line of sight One of my favourite pleasures is to walk the dog through Nunhead Cemetery. Early weekend mornings are lovely and quiet, and it feels reflective and…

wedding songs When we got married last year, the choice of music at the ceremony was of course important to us. We were allowed three songs, and…

iPhone HDR test Taken with iPhone 4.1

Boomdog Messing around with editing video to beats. Not quite there, but fun to do Audio: Volume All Star "Swiss timing's boomkit, vol.1"

Psycho Fiction I always thought this scene in Pulp Fiction was a nod to Psycho, so I made this video. click for large version vimeo 14520564 w=400…

Dude by Dudewest vimeo 14519407 w=400 h=300 Dude by Dudewest from carl lyons on Vimeo.

Really wannabe in Peckham vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/14384717 w=500&h=375

Carrot better than stick See and download the full gallery on posterous

Goodbye old faithfuls II See and download the full gallery on posterous

Goodbye faithful t-shirts See and download the full gallery on posterous

Guardian leaving do video 1999

Swimming II See and download the full gallery on posterous

Kate's cosy

Dylan - our bionic dog youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cop9OzuxYO4&fs=1&hl=en_US

Dylan's X-rays at 6 weeks post-op

Dylan at 12 weeks post-op Her bones are now healed and she is now allowed out to run again :-

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - Magazine - The Atlantic Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - Magazine - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/4575/ via Instapaper

Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php via Instapaper Sent from my iPhone

Thoughtful See and download the full gallery on posterous

Sarah & Jens' wedding See and download the full gallery on posterous

More garden flowers taken with a better camera this time

And the winner is... DARREN GAVIGAN with a manly 62 points. Well done Estuary boy. 1 Estuary England Darren Gavigan 62 2 DK Willy DK 60 3= On the…

It's so easy to hate We'll have a media frenzy this weekend about Raoul Moat being a 'monster'. It's comforting to reduce complex situations to a pantomime, but it's more…

Caution... The final results of the prediction game will be revealed before the match tomorrow. Meanwhile, football means stats nerdery. Hurray There was a tiebreaker question…

Lovely garden flowers All the lovely Sally's work

Petal power

Hot dog See and download the full gallery on posterous

Fourth of July BBQ Ceremonial dumping of tea in symbolic Boston Harbour

Still brilliant I saw this first time round and I have never been as excited about a movie since. The ten year old me ran out of…

If only Brilliantly edited Thanks for tip Jim

Grabbing a place in the last eight + + + BONUS FEATURE + + + Exclusive interview with Prediction Game leader, DK Willy. I asked DKW earlier today what the secret of…

From the preface to 'Milton a Poem', 1804

Three thoughts on the world cup 1. I hope Argentina win If England don't do it, I'd love for the South Americans to lift the trophy - in particular Diego Maradona.…

Pen portrait (well, landscape) Convalescing dog update. Dylan had her six week post-op checkup after having a plate inserted in her front leg to offset the crippling effect of…

Giant nipple or crashed spaceship Notable local garden artefact

day of the tripods Photography is, of course, a constant learning exercise - and that's part of the pleasure and satisfaction. On a recent road trip to the USA,…

USA win world cup of geography Prediction game FACT, sponsored by Toblerone: no-one predicted the Swiss would 'roll' over the Spanish. El lolololols all round. Your predictions for tomorrow's international food…

That Rob Green moment. In Lego. Prediction game FACT: only Deana had Paraguay down to beat Italy. 1st= 8 Terry's Tackle Andy Young 1st= 8 Dylan's Cosmic Sister Kate Williamson 3rd=…

At least someone's happy After five games as at Saturday night: 4 DK Willy 4 Terry's Tackle 4 Dylan's Cosmic Sister 4 Estuary England 3 El Pringle 3 It's…

Carl's world cup prediction game I've been doing world cup prediction games since 1990. Originally involving hand-drawn forms, then grainy photocopies of spreadsheets and finally entering the electronic age via…

Carhenge, Nebraska See and download the full gallery on posterous

Music for road trip We're shortly going on what looks like a great road trip: Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and back to Colorado. Of course, one part of…

Going nowhere

Convalescing Dylan has one more week with the plastic hat on. By and large, she's doing remarkably well. She's stoic and doesn't complain even though everything…

Chorizo at Whitecross St market

Dylan after knee op See and download the full gallery on posterous

Chaise Lounge Years ago like, 1994 I stumbled across a club called Chaise Longue in Regent Street. It was a crooner/cheesey listening night and devoid of any…

"to see a world in a grain of sand..." Blake's Auguries of Innocence is on the tube as 'Science poems on the Underground'. That poem has nothing to do with science

Virginia Water II Frosty February fun

Woodland fun See and download the full gallery on posterous

Cascade, Virginia Water See and download the full gallery on posterous

Cameraphone pix See and download the full gallery on posterous

Camber Sands Dylan on the beach today. Still trying to get those action shots nice and sharp

Fascinating and geeky article http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/xXi6PsJumBE/helping-computers-understand-language.html

Connaught Water, just as it was getting dark with Sally, Jude, Michael, Milly, Jon, Amanda and Dylan

Must-have cricket app An oldie but goodie: essential cricket app: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ecb-cricket/id314954199?mt=8

Nice disclaimer on American Werewolf in London DVD

Craig-y-nos Photo effects with Hipstamatic iPhone app

Snow Dog in Peckham Rye Park See and download the full gallery on posterous

Removing Final Cut Studio License from a Mac via geniusdv.com Handy when upgrading

Ducks

The Guardian iPhone app Looks great. Check out this application: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-guardian/id340425655?mt=8

Too Rye Ay

Cor-tina

Drop your pantographs WTF does this mean?

Griffin may have been dreadful, but there can be no complacency http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog.php?id=236

Cameron sings Kraftwerk Made with the awesome speechbreaker

Jamie Oliver has the Hulk's hair

Remooneration To pull a moonie. Again.

Wedding collar

A novel experience

A sign from God

Tate Modern meets Mad Max in Peckham Went so see the Bold Tendencies III art exhibition on top of a car park in SE15. It was hard to find, the entrance at…

Pig out

The docking of Oinky

Visualizing up to ten dimensions found this on boingboing. it'll blow your socks off.

Peckham challenging Hoxton for art - This is London http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thisislondon.co.uk%2Farts%2Farticle-23734817-details%2FPeckham%2Bchallenging%2BHoxton%2Bfor%2Bart%2Farticle.do&usg=AFQjCNEfcOnZIi161l4DgdKvtjo8sVVhjw

Bloomsbury wood

50 gigs meme Taking the lead from this David Hepworth post, here's my totally self-indulgent contribution to the 50 gigs meme. Following Jude Rogers' lead.... OK, here are…

Shard work

Wine flu A hangover sickie

Cupid was 'ere

Compassion

The most expensive bottle of water ever http://www.carlmesnerlyons.com/?attachment_id=296

Summer sunflower http://www.carlmesnerlyons.com/?attachment_id=298

Legless Mr frog had it coming

Bellenden Big Lunch There was a small but lovely street party on our road today. Yea for South London.

Bejaysis Have you played Bejeweled2 on the iPhone? Very addictive and also quite meditative. There are various subtleties to scoring well and so far my best,…

Commatose Despair at bad use of punctuation

Can you beat my Bejewelled score.! 175,000. iPhone 'classic' edition

Auto-tune the news OK, so it was clever when Cher did it, but Auto-Tune, the audio plug-in that makes everyone sound like a Smash robot is over-used and…

Lol! http://www.b3ta.com/board/9571489

The Sinister Index - what Wet Wet Wet and Yoko Ono don't have in common http://musicmachinery.com/2009/07/08/the-sinister-index/

slow and snowy I am unapologetically dog-potty. Here are two videos I made of our labrador, Dylan this year Slow Cornwall from carl lyons on Vimeo. and Dylan's…

Amazing automated video remixing This is game-changing. Get ready for a slew of youtube video messups coming your way You use all of the tools that you use in…

Wolverine looks like Wayne Slob I am smoking a fag

Neil Young awesome. Encored with A Day In The Life and Paul McCartney joined in. Genuinely unrehearsed too. Marvellous

Neil and Paul I saw something amazing last night. But first - a confession. Despite having seen hundreds of concerts and being hopelessly in love with music generally,…

Lucky enough to get this AWESOME Neil Young view

swirly whirly surprise Hard to believe at first, but what look like green and blue spirals are in fact the same colour

The New York Times is friggin pathetic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thesecretdiaryofstevejobs/~3/T3MCuKenvwk/new-york-times-is-friggin-pathetic.html

Swinging London

Why Twitter is resilient to being blocked http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/06/17/the-api-revolution/

How to make a Giorgio Moroder-style bassline http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/673/f/425037/s/4b76eb1/l/ 0L0Smusicradar0N0Ctuition0Ctech0Chow0Eto0Emake0Ea0Egiorgio0Emoroder0Estyle0Ebassline0E20A990A20Dcpn0FRSS0Gsource0FMRTUIT/ story01.htm

Wha?! Beer hydrates better after exercise than water http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hop-talk/~3/FOpq7NAKCek/

Werewolf party game http://www.eblong.com/zarf/werewolf.html

Edward, Ed, Ted, Teddy, Teddy Boy http://acontinuouslean.com/2009/06/08/edward-ed-ted-teddy-teddy-boy/

S-video

The Flag Of Earth http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7378

Dog happy

Design loveliness: Russian Matchbox Labels http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2009/06/04/russian-matchbox-labels/

Wikimedia's picture of the year http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/k5UJ4gVwMN8/wikimedias-picture-o.html

Doonesbury for Monday, June 01 Still funny after 35+ years http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2009/06/01/

@twoshedz you will want one of these http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/SBG2BVDVhLU/

Top 10 pizzas in London http://youngandfoodish.com/?p=1899

Two guilty of homophobic Sol Campbell chants http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/s1SsKJ2kC1eT9CuuCukyCgg/view.m?id=83119&tid=34&chk_my-text=t,1;c,1&cat=football

Lego Jenga http://www.b3ta.com/board/9446748

Blasphemy

just made up a word http://whuffcandle.blogspot.com/

Helebarton The crumb underneath your piece of paper that makes your writing go funny at just the wrong moment

Yum

Spring evening

The restorative power of spring

Parklife

meme-jacking To spot an emerging idea on the web, nicking it and then spinning it for the mass-market - thereby making a quick, reliable and slightly…

Fashionable London

BAR STOOL GOING 35 MPH. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/edsbs/rss2/~3/OMoRnxjjZWE/

Inns of court

Liftism That moment where you nearly get out of the lift on the wrong floor

Man Eating Only Bacon For Entire Month of February http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fitsugar/~3/PPh7aL90PbU/2773557

Snow dog

likes the barbed lyrics to Lily Allen's song. I hope she means them that way I want to be rich and I want lots of money I don't care about clever I don't care about funny I want loads of…

lit by snow alone

shoe sausage A small ripple in one's in-sole that makes it painful to walk

hates Pink Floyd but is secretly enjoying listening to Wish You Were Here

Testing Posterous posting with a nice dog photo

I just did this out of spite

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Obama inauguration | Full text: Obama inauguration speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/obama_inauguration/7840646.stm

Another great rediscovery - The Smiths first album. Such an unlikely gem

maddress that annoying field in a web form that asks you to type your email address a second time

is neither east nor west

my favourite so far from Venn That Tune

was naively expecting the tube to be quiet this morning :-s

Winter solstice celebrating days now getting lighter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice

Golden boots

#picturequiz - what album cover is this a detail of?

Can't believe he's having a Rush revival. It'll be Hawkwind next :-s

Dylan is lovely

Winter in Nunhead

London lunch

More power to you

Bye bye ball

R2-D2 urn At Nunhead cemetery

Tubed To be sent the long way round by direction signs on the Underground when there are much quicker, unsigned routes

Jelly telly Programmes that require minimal brain power to enjoy. Invaluable when whacked after a long week - eg, Inspector Morse repeats

Closure

Sighns Toilet door signs with ambiguous graphics to deliberately blur the distinction between the men's and women's. can theme pub designers just stop doing this? It…

Paracoaster A coaster that sticks to the bottom of your cup/glass and then falls on the floor

Fris-been

New balls please

Champion!

Pooh Bear poo-pooed

Bunny Lake is missing some bits

Junctionitis The uncertainty that comes from a foreign traffic light showing an unexpected pattern - eg,flashing green

Bates' curtain A motel shower curtain that billows in the steam, clinging to your side like a soggy nylon magnet

Sarah Connor (T2) looks like Huckleberry Hound It's those hangdog eyes

Prezshunt A leaving do gift that is left behind in the drunken cab ride home

A pearler

Gluff The distracting tiny fluffy ball of ink that forms on the nib of a biro when writing

Mark from Peep Show looks like Dark Willow look how black his eyes are

Jay-Z looks like Junior Soprano

Andy Murray looks like Butthead

Summer in the city Just what I needed - a beautiful day and a book to read

Laser cannons Those CCTV cameras look ominous for a shop like this

fram Spam from your friends - crap jokes, Threshers vouchers, invitations to join yet another social network etc.

Double Jennings A dog poo that requires both hands to pick up. Named after the Irish goalkeeper's famously large mitts

Priced out of football

Making bacon

Brilliant lateral use of the tube map

William Blake's Peckham vision

They still look great

Early morning mural

Telectroscope Fab installation at Tower Bridge offering a live link-up with Brooklyn Bridge in New York

At Lord's before the Test

Spring has sprung

Spoonkler A spoon in the sink lying at exactly the right angle to spurt water all over you as soon as the tap is turned on

SE15 lovely building

Dog & bike

Mayoral election day

The binary bind Cheap rhetorical trick of making someone look evasive by forcing upon them a limited choice of answers when the situation is really more complex. "Will…

Gastronomical A restaurant whose prices are more substantial than their portions

The poor lamb...

The jester The first toy to go. Probably age 3 months

Mr rabbit gets it I'm sure he didn't have that expression to begin with

Croc'd Ruthless

Christmas cracked Festively dispatched

Chelsea Pensioners using their bus passes

Voicemaul To deliberately wait till someone's phone is off before calling - thus allowing you to leave a message rather than actually have to say it…

Kraftwerk tribute band

Grundywang The phenomenom by which, whatever time you come home from work, when you switch on Radio 4, it's always midway through the Archers

frinkling The socially awkward situation of leaving work at the same time as a little-known colleague and then having to make small talk with them all…

Cluff The Aaaah... sound that people make exclusively and particularly after the first sip of 'a really good cup of tea'

Red Arrows over Tower Bridge

Who knew?

Policeman with a flat tyre

West end forklift

Propeller head

Daffodils at night

The building that looks (a bit) like Doctor Who's dog, K-9

February blossom

Bags of history

Hidden church

Coffee morning

Fast-growing monsters nr Tower Bridge

Boy George looks like Margaret Thatcher

Alan Hansen looks like Action Man with real moving eyes

AJ from the Sopranos looks like Anne Widdecombe

Ringo Starr looks like Gary Lineker

Darth Vader with his helmet off looks like Bob Dylan

The Fast Show geezer looks like Furio from the Sopranos Careful, I'll nick it

Cary Grant looks like Bob Monkhouse

Bill Oddie looks like Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

Cello-pain Wanting to play your new CD/DVD but being frustrated by the unnecessary and seamless cellophane packaging. Guaranteed to break teeth or require scissors that scratch…

Ian Beale looks like Luke Skywalker may the fawce be wiv' you

Crashpoint The fruitless jab-jabbing of your card in an ATM machine that is still chirpily displaying "thank you for using" long after the last customer has…

wurds Words that you regularly mis-type, causing loss of concentration as you cursor back to fix them eg, incerase for increase or filed for field

Cousteau Cream A biscuit that breaks off during dunking and sinks to a wet, sugary grave of tea

Hourbottom The clock you don't know how to adjust so stays wrong by one hour until springtime

Bah code The crumpled barcode on a plastic packet that the cashier has to grumpily type in manually

Chonsil The little sticky-out bit inside your cheek due to accidentally, and painfully, biting yourself

Toothwaste The toothpaste that falls into the sink when you knock the brush over while trying to put the cap back on

Tile Fever The hard to suppress excitement of knowing you have a fantastic seven letter word ready for your next turn at Scrabble. It's bittersweet because there's…

Phring A phantom ring. When you reach in to your pocket to get your vibrating mobile only to find that you there's no missed call and…

The little lava The hot trickle of water inside your ear after you get out of the swimming pool and violently shake your head to clear the block

Shaving mistakes look like the Japanese flag Ouch.

The shelf-keeper The condemned soul employed by Pret a Manger to stand in front of you shuffling sandwiches around the shelves for all eternity

typpos Minor typos in emails you've spotted buyt can't be bothered to correct before sending. Advanced, devious usage: deliberately mis-typing a word in an email you've…

Fakebook To have a second, squeaky clean, identity on Facebook to foil vetting by future employers

Jack Dee looks like J.R. Ewing

Pecans look like cockroaches

Roger Waters looks like that surgeon off the new Harry Enfield show

Pigeons walk like policemen

Binbait Any item of food that is routinely not eaten. Best exemplified by the little white plastic bag of salad that comes - unrequested - with…

All cows look like Martin Clunes

Spuff The ceaseless stream of superlatives and self-important nonsense spouted by critics, soiling pretty much any BBC rockumentary ''Everyone who was at that gig went away…

Avondale The socially awkward situation created by an unsigned text message from someone who clearly assumes they're in your phone book, but they're not. "Hi. It's…

Interwhelmed Feeling humbled because, no matter how good you've got with a piece of software, there appear to be countless people on the web way better…

Geek tragedy Accidentally trashing valuable information on your phone/computer when trying to be far too clever

Poplar shift The woozy, uncertain feeling walking down a stopped escalator on the Underground. You know it's now a normal staircase, but your brain still says WAAAAA

Shinking Checking your reflection in the mirror in a lift as soon as everyone has got out. You've got about five seconds to gawp for food…

Backblog A list of things you want to post to your blog but haven't got round to doing

Bed fu The 'marital art' of re-arranging the duvet by a series of undercover kicks and punches. Often used to move the buttoned bit to the bottom…

Minification The soothsaying appearance of Mini Coopers in a neighbourhood; the first sign of urban gentrification - precedes delicatessens, gastropubs and Starbucks by approximately 12 months

Binstructions Commonly ignored guidelines - such as the directions to leave a microwaved meal after cooking for two minutes 'to stand'. cf: binutes

Paper staring Being so bored on a delayed journey that you re-read the only newspaper you have, in the vain hope you'd missed something

Crimbo Limbo That bit between Xmas and New Year when nothing happens

Midriff crisis The expanding waistline that comes with heading towards 40

Chadwick A film trailer that gives away too much of the plot

Hat lag Continuing to wear unseasonal clothing in denial of winter's arrival

Hell's help The hackneyed bits of guff during on-hold messages that those listening don't believe and those making it don't think about "All our call-handlers are very…

The slippy grip Unexpectedly having to shake hands after a trip to the bathroom. You know they're wet because you've washed them, but the other person can't help…

Remote rage The interminable sixty seconds of copyright at the start of a DVD that you can't fast-forward through

fauxthentic Giving your upmarket bar a downmarket name. eg, The Fulham Bar and Eating House Eating house??

sacrificial staple the first little metal fella in a new set of of staples, destined to be cast into the void after the ker-chunk "let's staple-thin-air test"…

mini zorro the universal swishy hand signal in a restaurant that signals "the bill please"

door tetris The ignominy of taking four attempts to open a double door, e.g: push left door nope pull right door nope push left door nope finally...…

The email of shame The follow-up mail you send that this time really does include the attachment you promised in the original email

Going "cold budgie" Withdrawal headaches from giving up coffee

Eschering The process of re-recording your voicemail greeting over and over again until it sounds right - though of course it never quite does

Binutes The minutes of an awayday that are forgotten once you're back at the office

Rock Goggles The phenomenon of people who'd not warrant much of a second-glance in normal life become sex gods when they're in a band and wear shades

Liddeling The disconcerting way people alter their tone of voice when saying goodbye on a business call from their conversational norm to a inappropriately intimate, breathy,…

Wezumping Announcing your engagement to friends, only for another couple to subsequently announce theirs AND an actual wedding date - thus nabbing the nuptial limelight

whitmore a cocky waiter who memorises your order instead of writing it down - leaving you with the nagging feeling that he's bound to get something…

purves rogue over-the-shoulder seatbelts in a black cab that won't budge whether pulled forcefully, teased gently or sworn at purving - to tug pointlessly at said…

fruitile The inevitability that 90% of clementines in a brimming fruitbowl will end up being thrown away

tubescence the victorious feeling when an arriving tube comes to a standstill with its doors exactly where you are - giving you a clear run at…

half-butler The joy at getting past the halfway point in a paperback

Neolojism a new rude word

Choc bottom To reach that point where you have eaten so much bad food esp. over xmas that you finally get the motivation to go on a…

smessing up Comic mis-spellings created by errant use of mobiles phones' inbuilt text dictionaries. e.g. I wolf you up this morning woke Smessing up can be serendipitous…

loosing it Annoyance at seeing lose invariably mis-spelt as loose

Terrypole The central spine of crumbly chocolate that cements the rest of the Terry's Chocolate Orange together. A nice bonus bit you feel guilty about snaffling

sleeplines Waking up with marks on your body caused by deep sleep next to fabric patterns & creases. They often resemble spectacular body art or, one…

tonguebobble Indecision about whether to bite off one of those tiny white spots at the end of your tongue

Trundle Alley The life-sapping parade of illuminated posters in airport terminals advertising business gadgets and management consultancies

binlifter A person who distracts their tv-watching partner with random, unlikely fidgets

brownhouse a person who comes across as a grumpy pants, but reality they're just too ashamed of their bad teeth to smile

talking stepladders speaking utter guff in a very sincere voice whilst asleep

garricking uncomfortable after-work team drinks arranged by a well-intentioned new manager, when you'd all rather be on your way home

fluffdating finding a receipt in the pocket of a coat you haven't worn for ages, allowing you to identify when you last wore it

whuffcandle the sense of relief when getting back into bed after having had a pee in the middle of the night, safe in the knowledge that…