Andrew's back writing about comics again, and specifically, about the (lack of) representation of those who are not straight, white, or male in the medium and the industry. I will follow this with interest, and I imagine a substantial number of my friends will as well.

This appears to be the coffee maker of my dreams. One day…

Good, if possibly depressing, article on what happens to partners when their other half has a famous career, covering sexism, being left at home and as a coda at the end, the Yoko factor, containing this quote. I've always had a soft spot for Yoko (despite loathing "Imagine" with all my shrivelled black heart)…

"Yoko was, and is, interesting in her own right. She's a remarkable artist and a unique thinker. All of the things you think of John Lennon doing in the late-60s and early-70s were inspired entirely and directly by Yoko: the avant-garde art, the politics, the whole peace and love thing. She is responsible for the Lennon we remember and love today, and yet she is at best ignored and at worst vilified… For what, exactly? Being loved by him?"

On the one hand: I would cook almost nothing from this. And it is hugely, hugely expensive. On the other hand: it looks utterly fucking beautiful. I've never cooked anything from my Fat Duck book, either, but I love it…

This is utterly brilliant. If I haven't decided where I want to be scattered when I die, then I want this done. Completely superb.

This has done the rounds over the last week. Yes, I am profoundly annoyed about this. Yes, were it another company, I would probably be saying "well, I'm going to stop using their products" over this. And when Apple produce products that actively use this patent or similar technologies, I will avoid using them, and/or seek ways to circumvent them. Just, y'know, so we're clear that yes, I worry about the privacy-infringing moves of companies I like, too.

On the one hand: a nerdy deconstruction of the plot holes in the Toy Story 3 and their implications for the franchise is rather missing the point of the film, in that it's a work about emotion, and you're supposed to forgive narrative flaws if you notice them, because they're in the service of a emotional point. But I'm certain Wallis knew that when he wrote this. His broader point, though, is excellent: that all narrative is now interactive narrative, and that people will take any narrative, and find things in it the creator never intended, and invent new material in the vacant spaces of all stories, and that decrying that is pointless – we should be embracing it.

I am particularly interested in the first two, and wish to remember to return to those ideas later.

This isn't big news, or anything I'm going to need later, this just made me smile.

Heatmaps for the city. Ten kinds of awesome.

This will be useful in the near-to-medium future.

I have no use for this right now, but I'm just bookmarking it so I don't forget – I really like a lot of the pieces they have here, and one day, I will have the spare cash and space for seriously nice furniture.

Facebook have added 4square like geolocation into their offering. Naturally, they've fucked the privacy settings up on it, by making it possible for your Facebook friends to include you in their location updates, so you'll need to go in and turn that setting off, so that your friends can't advertise when it's appropriate to burgle you. Fuckwits.

BERG produce a site that helps you understand the scale and distances of things in the recent, and not so recent past. If the Apollo 11 astronauts had landed at your front door, could the distance they walked have enabled them to buy a pint of milk? How far away from your parents house would the German trenches have been, if WWI had happened where you grew up? And so on, and so forth. Nice!

If I didn't have my Dodocase, or if, god forbid, anything should happen to it, I'd want one of these, I think.

China Miéville has a blog. I believe this may be relevant to our interest

In case were weren't aware NHS Tayside are offering a £68,000 a year job for a fucking homeopath, despite having laid off 500 people due to the current round of cuts. The level of angry this makes me is hard to fucking describe – it is a near perfect example of the counter to the "well, it can't hurt, and it might help some people" argument that others put forward. Anyway, setting incandescent fury aside for a moment, here is an amusing read: A qualified neuroscientist applies for the job.

interesting article on the daily routine of the Obama presidency, and the difference between the media now, and the media of a decade ago.

This has been doing the rounds, so you may well already have seen it. But in the event that you haven't, here's a fascinatingly in-depth look at Pac-Man – you may think it's a very simply game, and it is, but its very simplicity masks an awful lot of very subtle design decisions that are key to understanding the tactics required to win.

I haven't looked in the photojojo store in ages. There is a truly staggering amount of stuff in here that I really want. Just sayin'

Something that's been at the back of my mind recently: good fictional role models for boys.

Someone has dug up the add in support of net neutrality that Google produced 4 years ago. Now, I'm the first to admit that that what was true 4 years ago isn't automatically true today, and that people who can't change their minds about things in response to changing circumstance and new arguments are stupid people. But: I don't see that the circumstances and arguments in this particular case have shifted in that period.