Heathrow co-pilot arrested for being drunk. Helen Mirren's dogs win award. Song devoted to Enfield homeless man. Henman versus Edberg in the Royal Albert Hall. Voice of Homer Simpson on stage in London Image courtesy of TwoCrabs via the Londonist flickr group.......

We're a little fed up of worthy awareness-raising 'days'. National Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Week might be really important, but it doesn't really turn us on. National Ammo Day in the US sounds particularly unsavoury too - not just for the subject matter, but also, for some reason, because of the abbreviation. Over here, however, the rather wondrous Chocolate Week 2007 is almost upon us! Woo-hoo! Our excitement has been uncontainable. In fact, the only......

mockney_piers' pearls and tie shows the future of his and hers housing. Perhaps there's a 'whacky' building up the road that wears a Homer Simpson tie.......

We haven't really gone to town on the radioactive Russian story in the way that the media are foaming at the mouth over each new discovery of polonium-210 and just how involved the Russian government could be. It's not that we don't want to help create a panic over eating sushi (because we quite like that idea) or map each hotspot (we'll get around to that), it's just that using toxic isotopes isn't very......

The chap behind all those neat little Google logos is in town giving the Beeb the chance to remind us just how much work goes into something that most of us take for granted as we type "dictator for life" or whatever into the search engine. Dennis Hwang works on the technical side of the Google empire, but also gets to throw art our way by designing all the neat little logos that reflect......

When we saw that Gothamist had a post up yesterday on a Wikipedia page listing all the songs about New York, we were initially filled with uncontrollable jealousy. Then we calmed down a bit and had a hunt round Wikipedia ourselves...and what do you know! Here's the exact same page but for songs about London. To paraphrase Homer Simpson: Mmmm, massive lists. It's a pretty extensive list but here's a few random ones that......

As Homer Simpson once said: "Television - teacher, mother, secret lover!" And he was right. Indeed, if the report over at the BBC today is correct, the UK public seem to derive most of their opinions from TV dramas: "Almost half of the UK population form their opinions about crime and the police from television dramas, a new survey has revealed." Out of 2500 people questioned 34% of people voted London as the UK's......

It's happening: the TV series of the book of the blog of the oldest profession. Channel Four is to dramatise Belle De Jour. Belle, the purported London call girl, thus becomes holder of a unique title: while many bloggers and webmasters have parlayed their efforts into books, she is the first to wrangle a small-screen deal. All this because she stumbled across the unique marketing tactic that writing about sex might be popular. So,......