Elaine Gennard-Levy spent 20 minutes searching for a bathroom while shopping on London's Oxford Street. She decided it would be easier to build her own. Well we can think of simpler ways to relieve ourselves, but they don't payoff in people giving us a fiver for the privilege. This is the story of the luxury loo on Oxford St that we mentioned back in December. Now Boing Boing and DIGG have picked up the......

Remember the silly Chelsea flat filled with rubble and carrying a £170,000 price tag? We suggested it was only good for diminutive film stars, but Flickr user Simple Simon came up with a much more detailed look at just how such a small space could be used constructively. Check out the set. via Boing Boing......

There's a neat little post over on Boing Boing about the rise of Firefox in Europe. That got us to checking our own stats to see how Londonist readers balance out regarding browser choice. Here's how you're looking right now: It's all a little skewed of course because so many of you are sneaking looks at us at while you are supposed to be doing something else and IE still rules supreme in the workplace.......

Boing Boing picked up on Simon Elvins' map of London's quietest spaces: Using information the government has collected on noise levels within London, a map has been plotted of the capital's most silent spaces. The map intends to reveal a hidden landscape of quiet spaces and shows an alternate side of the city that would normally go unnoticed. It looks great, but isn't very practical to use if you want to escape the noise......

Yesterday it was the evolved poster, but today we have a way to stop London's little distractions - Private Public: A series of objects that highlight the privacy we sacrifice when using mobile technological devices in public spaces. Users of the wearable mobile phone scarf can venture into public spaces confident that if the need to compose a private text message were to arise the object could be pulled over the face to create......

We saw this on Boing Boing yesterday and immediately dispatched Matt to investigate. Alas, many hours later he has yet to emerge from Victorian London dot org. We don't want to worry his family, but he could have been marked as a plant by some notorious jolly or even charmed into going beak hunting. Let's just hope to high heaven he hasn't gone on the shallow. Be sure to check out the Science &......

Is just one of many things more important than the World Cup. This vital bit of information was made public after Boing Boing received a silly letter warning them not to stream any football matches illegally on their website. Baker & McKenzie LLP can't use the Internet very much if they thought there was any danger of that happening: Oh brother. I don't even know what the FIFA World Cup is. I'm guessing it's soccer,......

This is just fantastic and something of a bitter slice of eye candy for those of us that thought living in the 21st Century would be all about the GIANT ROBOTS. Cory sums it up over on Boing Boing: Cris Rose, a graphic designer, remixed photos of the buildings on London's Brunel University into awesome, science-fictional mecha-monsters Now if only one of these guys would wander into town and punch Mecha-Centre-Point right in the......

Chris Martin may have declared to the world that it's sick of him and his band, and hey, who should know better than the gazillion or so people who put his last album to number one in 28 countries simultaneously than Chris himself, but it hasn't stopped him from getting behind the microphone again. At least that's according to andPOP, who claim that whilst Pa Apple was at Abbey Road preparing for a secret......

Peter Pan is back. Captain Hook couldn't kill him, Robin Williams had a damn good try while Jeremy Sumpter's attempt was mostly ignored, but now children’s' author Geraldine McCaughrean has breathed some fresh life into Michael Jackson's inspiration for messing around in kids' bedrooms. The not so catchy 'Peter Pan in Scarlet' will tell readers what happened next not only to Peter, but the rest of the gang too: McCaughrean said: "Neverland was such......

Even after reading Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, we’re still not quite sure of the difference between flotsam and jetsam. And something else we didn’t appreciate until now is just how attractive the fruit of the Thames can look when arranged in a fanciful way. So thanks to Boing Boing, for pointing us in the direction of Gary Phillips’ Last Gasp Gallery of Thames paraphernalia. Like some kind of aquatic Womble, Gary makes good use......

I like nothing better than spending the day down a disused mine shaft under Northmoor trying to work out what happened to my daughter... oh hang on that was Bob Peck's perfect Sunday. Like Ken I'm not constrained to living for the weekend - although sometimes the problem with working freelance and from home is that I have to spend the occasional Sunday working through a soon to be released DVD box set of......

Well there goes what's left of the afternoon. Just spotted this on Boing Boing: This crazy Swedish website is a simple yet fun way to kill time. Type in your message and it will "sing" it back to you using fragments of well-known songs. You can email your singing messages to friends. Who can resist having a go at that? Not us obviously. We're actually off to Sweden soon and we'll need something to......

Garry Glitter used to be more famous for his BBC props department inspired wardrobe and that one song that Bill Drummond nicked the best bit from when he was going through his Timelord phase. Now of course Glitter goes hand in hand with kiddy porn, paeodophilia and NAMBLA: Glitter was sentenced to four months in jail in Britain, but served only two, after admitting downloading more than 4,000 images of children, some as young......

We had heard tell that Cory 'Boing Boing' Doctorow had been seen making the ocassional foray into Speakers' Corner, but we always thought it might be difficult, nay impossible, to find hard news coverage of said event. Then we stumbled across ZD Net.co.uk (Where Technology Means Business folks) and our curiosity was sated. We even got a photo of Cory on a stepladder, which we've reproduced here in flagrant opposition of copyright laws...if you......

Remember Rentaghost? That’s right, the kids show from the early ‘80s, in which spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools were available for hire, and proceeded to act very camply. Perhaps electronic artist/architect/handyman Usman Haque has a 21st Century version of the service in mind, having found a way to artificially give you the heebie-jeebies. As highlighted on Boing Boing, he’s requesting volunteers from the London area to take part in a simulated spook-out.......

It's becoming increasingly difficult watching the disaster unfold in New Orleans without getting angry at the mentality of the authorities who were ill prepared for this and those that have now armed themselves and are stopping aid and rescue workers from doing their jobs. It's very hard to imagine such an event unfolding here and how exactly our government and people would cope, but there's also the problem of scale. The BBC reports that about......

What we need right now is something to take us back to a time when explosions were fun and the men that carried them out were rocket scientists and occultists. We first got interested in reading the book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons when we saw it mentioned on the rather splendid Dark, But Shining. When it got picked up on Boing Boing we decided to get in......

This is nice and would be nicer if we lived somewhere else. Londonist has often noted that Mexico City has a better underground than we do and Stefan Magdalinski noticed the same thing on his travels through Thailand, Argentina, Korea, Tokyo... just about everywhere. When he noticed that Transport for London were publishing disruption maps he grabbed some and threw them together in this quick time movie: 15 Days of Tube Hell in 3......

We saw this over on Boing Boing and thought we should share it. PledgeBank is a simple idea for people who want to achieve something, but are worried that it's too big a job to tackle solo. Say you want to get a group of like minded people together to recreate Blakes 7 set in a motorway service station* but are worried that you'd be the only one dressed up as Avon (or worse......

Over on Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow is trying to be positive about the not so new news that Viacom is going to riddle Tottenham Court Road tube with video ads. 66 screens are going to be installed with easily updated advertising and (more worryingly) audio! Just what you need to get you in the mood for a Saturday afternoon elbowing tourists on Oxford Street - all singing all dancing flat panels reminding you that......