VIDEO: Prices of Vices Around the World – the $20 Test
Wonder no more traveller, here is a minute-long guide to where the cheapest Starbucks, most expensive cocaine and most-cigs-for-your-buck is to be found!
Google and Time Magazine Launch 30-Year Time Lapse Of Entire Planet
In partnership with Google, Time Magazine has launched Timelapse - an interactive online timelapse showing how the Earth has changed in 30 years of property development, deforestation, glacier melt and the like.
“Working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA, and TIME, we’re releasing more...
Master Yoda Reads SatNav Instructions
I can’t believe I only just saw this year-old viral ad for Tom Tom SatNav. It’s a brilliant and rare example of someone using a LucasFilm licence in a way that doesn’t make me want to rewrite my childhood. Indeed, it’s a great example...
AV Referendum Results Map
From light green for ‘no’ through orange for 'no, but only just’ to purple for 'yes’
That’ll be a no then…
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The Best Music of 2012
2012 - the year of the Olympics, the apocalypse, the year that saw a song in Korean become the most watched video on YouTube and a British X Factor runner-up become the biggest band since the Beatles. Here are my personal highlights of 2012...
New Com Truise Track: Colourvision
Colorvision (WIP) by Com Truise
As I mentioned in my rundown of the best music of 2010, Com Truise has good times up ahead of him, whoever she/he is. Yes, there’s an awful lot of crap styled around the 1980s but Com Truise have nailed...
UPDATED: Maps Of The Week’s Mystery Mass Animal Deaths
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Following the mystery large-scale animal deaths that are sweeping the globe, Canada’s National Post has compiled this handy map for us.
UPDATE: Google have created a real-time map…
Mass Animal Deaths map courtesy of Google
Yesterday io9.com offered some rational explanations for the dead...
Abbey Road with Alan Parsons
This weekend I went along to Abbey Road in London, the world’s most famous recording studio, to attend an extraordinary talk by Alan Parsons.