Absolutely superb hexagonal tiled map of London boroughs.

Once every seven yeats, Sagmeister closes his studio completely for one year. Here, he gives a talk at TED on what he gets from that year, and it's a fascinating and compelling idea. I wonder if I could arrange to take a sabbatical somehow – I've been at this for ten years, and I know my general level of enthusiasm for hacking about with the next is not what it was…

"I can just about forgive the tendency of these programs to hit the reset switch at the end of every episode, returning the universe to pristine un-played-with shape in time for the next dramatic interlude; even though it's the opposite of real SF (a disruptive literature that focusses intently on revolutionary change), I recognize the limits of the TV series as a medium."

Mr Stross hits the nail on the head of why I don't get on with televised SF – I'm less willing to forgive the reset switch for exactly that reason.

Ever wondered what your oystercard really looks like? The Ghost In The Field shows us the hidden signals underneath fabric of our cities – the invisible maps of data and super-frequency chattering that increasingly underpin our daily lives. What is your data ghost like?

"Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again." This is not just a rule for getting web traffic, it is the single simplest rule for a happy life.

By the look of it, Royal de Luxe knocked it out of the park again. I really, really wish they'd come back to London. I mean, I know we got them a few yers ago, and everyone should get a turn too, but they really are a dose of pure magic, and I would love to seem them perform again.

This is absolutely brilliant. I've just enabled it on my work Mac, which generally has 10+ apps running. (Browser, Mail, IDE, chat client, iCal, spreadsheet, DB client, RSS reader, terminal, iTunes, PDF reader, various others), and suddenly my level of visual clutter is down to near zero.

There's a few absolute gems in here…

A bunch of leading psychologists give their answers to the above question. It's interesting what's revealed – these are the people who best understand how our brains work, and the cognitive quirks that they throw up, and yet they're still at the mercy of these same quirks themselves.

Sexy *and* useful.

Hmm. Might want to have a play with this – I used to use Powazek's themes for all my sites, before deciding I wanted them to be a little more visually distinct. This one would suit tumblelog type content.

None of these are rocket science, when when considering them as a checklist, I suspect generally manage about 3-4 of these on any given day – one or two of them almost always fall by the wayside. Must try and find ways to structure my day so I hit all 5 more often.

Interesting definition supplied. I like the term "occult" because it's admirably woobly-woo resistant, when correctly understood (something far too many "practicioners" fail to do). As I'm sure most of you know, it means "hidden". And what is hidden may be revealed with science when we work it out. It's a lot better than "supernatural", which is a term I don't like – there is no supernatural, merely the natural that science has not fully explained yet.

Must remember to book tickets to see this.

Beautiful, and I kinda want one, but much, much too pricey to be worth it.

This sort of combination of abuse of power and utter moronic stupidity by the courts and major institutions makes me incandescent. There are far worse things that happen in the world every day, and I know it, but this sort of thing is a particular hot-button for me, because it's so self-evidently unjust and unreasonable that I cannot fathom how any sane person could conceive of it as a decent or sensible thing to do.

Well, this is crying out to be recycled into some nasty bit of horror/mystery fiction or something.

Interesting, if long, account of one man's unlawful arrest shortly fter the 7/7 bombings, and his long, slow progress to getting the records expunged, and a general apology for the shoddy behaviour of the police. Worth a read.

Really, really simply image portfolio system. Might have a go at this myself, as and when I get around to organising my photos in some useful manner.

This is awesome on a number of levels. I want several.

On the one hand, this is a tragedy. Someone's, y'know, dead. On the other, well…