If you could get the Sarcasts (Digg), the Grunts (YouTube) and the Silent (Londonist’s forgotten readers’ forum) into a room together, what would you hear? The Science Museum might have the answer. New installation ‘The Listening Post’ slaps up random content from hundreds of chat rooms simultaneously, bringing you an orgy of words. “It is an awe-inspiring ‘portrait of chat’,” says the press release. Alan Partridge is having wet dreams. The installation debuted in......

The second greatest comedy magazine ever to be named after a foodstuff has relaunched. Mustard (it's a gas) is the brainchild of Alex Musson, and draws on obvious influences The Onion and TV Go Home. Previously A4, the new-look mag is roughly the size of a piece of tin foil cut to a 17 X 23 cm rectangle. Cartoons, interviews, spoof news and other crap will leave you tittering with glea and glittering with......

As a wise man once said, "Bloody hell, it's Soft Cell!" Well, actually, it's not Soft Cell. It's just Marc Almond solo. And the man wasn't all that wise. It was Alan Partridge. Either way, though, Monday gives you a chance to see Marc Almond of Soft Cell at Shepherd's Bush Empire. It's his 50th birthday party, so buy him something nice. For those whose prefer sax to synth, septuagenarian free jazz legend Ornette Coleman......

We love Richard Madeley. Without him there wouldn't be Alan Partridge. Come to think of it we're not sure there ever was a need for Partridge when you have such great Madelisms as this one to John Lydon: If I could throw a fishing rod into the corridors of time and reel you in, you'd throttle you, wouldn't you? Or the time he sat watching a guest stutter only to reply "You looked as......

Reader Jamie Jenkins dropped us the above photo in an email: I thought you might be interested in the picture I snapped yesterday on Tower Bridge Road on the way to see my butcher... Look how the 'J' has slipped from her name. Maybe she does need some 'aid' As the snap shows the current climate is still frosty towards Ms G and with her about-to-be-released paperback now pulped Alan Partridge style, it would......

While Bollywood still seems set to make their own London bombing movie, closer to home that colossus of insensitivity Alan Partridge is leaving the subject of London and terrorism well alone according to Twitch: the original script was scrapped as insensitive following the London subway bombing. Now, insensitivity is kind of the point of Partridge, so what put them over the edge? The film was intended to revolve around an Al Qaeda seige. I......

The poor denizens of Norfolk. Just when those oh-so-funny Alan Partridge quips were beginning to die down a little comes a fresh source of dismay. National Express have decided to make cuts to their bus route into London, meaning no more day trips to the capital. Unless, that is, you board the only return service that day, which leaves 10 minutes after arrival in Victoria. So what can one do with only 10 minutes......

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week How To Grow Trees, at Gresham College Wikipedia has an amusingly impenetrable outlook when it comes to technical matters. It’s as though the wikislaves who lace it together are trying to out-jargon each other. While no-doubt correct, their definitions are of use to nobody but......

In a previous life, before blogging turned our heads, we actually used to read literature. Studied a few books too. In fact we spent more than one evening working our way line by line through the likes of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, but one novel we always came back to was Laurence Sterne's 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'. We were always bemused by the fact that Sterne managed to out......

Please, somebody, anybody, send us in a photo of this one. The world’s tallest man AND the world’s ‘shortest stuntman’, together, in Westminster, today. Why were we not informed? According to the website Life Style Extra, the liaison of contrasting statures was organised by Guinness World Records for the launch of the 2006 Guinness Book of Records (which officially means that Christmas is coming). Here’s how they measure up: Xi Shun, World’s tallest man......

A couple of weeks ago we ran a couple of stories about BBC's London news reporter Matt Barbet and what seemed to be a growing legion of 'Barbettes' - Barbet groupies who were watching Matt on the telly for more than his incisive reporting skills. At the end of one of those posts we suggested that maybe we should interview Matt to try and get to the bottom of this phenomenon. Well it seems......