My Name is Dave

Icediving an underwater forest in Kazakhstan

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:43:58 +0100

Icediving an underwater forest in Kazakhstan:

Incredible images - via Metafilter.

Sloth-tastic! This video is a good start to any day. ...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:47:57 +0100

Sloth-tastic! This video is a good start to any day. Here’s the sanctuary’s website for more.

Dancing Robots! (via angelachan22)

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:17:08 +0100

Dancing Robots! (via angelachan22)

c1959 posters as found in disused area of Notting Hill Gate tube...

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:23:26 +0100

c1959 posters as found in disused area of Notting Hill Gate tube station, London, 2010 (by mikeyashworth)

Incredible images of 1950’s posters found during refurbishment of Notting Hill Underground.

"Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like..."

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:19:41 +0100

“Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.”

- Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. A piece of absolute genius.

Today's Guardian (Phil Gyford’s website)

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:19:21 +0100

Today's Guardian (Phil Gyford’s website):

Really nice implementation of a ‘low-friction’ reading interface for the Guardian’s online version. There’s some great thinking here. Whack an Instapaper button on each article and make it scale to fit small screens like iPhones and you could have a real winner for reading articles on the web.

Edinburgh voted best place to live in the UK - again.

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:17:00 +0100

Edinburgh voted best place to live in the UK - again.:

Sweet! Guess where I moved to in March :-)

An incredible set of maps showing the differences between...

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:27:56 +0100

An incredible set of maps showing the differences between photo-taking habits of tourists versus locals, as analysed through geotagging data (the map above is London). These ‘heat maps’ are the first visual example I’ve seen of the segregation of most major modern cities into Touristlands that are instantly recognisable from films, television and books and the rest of it where the vast majority of people actually live. Absolutely fascinating. Found via The Morning News.

How The Male Angler Fish Gets Completely Screwed - The...

Thu, 27 May 2010 13:24:56 +0100

How The Male Angler Fish Gets Completely Screwed - The Oatmeal

Horrifying but hilarious. I freaking love The Oatmeal.

The Haunted Household - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com -...

Thu, 27 May 2010 13:20:27 +0100

The Haunted Household - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com - Awesome use of simple photography.

The peerless Eclectic Method (I’ve seen 1/3rd of them...

Mon, 24 May 2010 19:47:04 +0100

The peerless Eclectic Method (I’ve seen 1/3rd of them live, they’re incredible) hits it out of the park with this Robo-tune.

I’m a big fan of American English, normally - I enjoy some...

Thu, 20 May 2010 14:10:18 +0100

I’m a big fan of American English, normally - I enjoy some of its more colourful metaphors. But the phrase highlighted here by the peerless David Mitchell sets my teeth on edge. Especially because it is quite simply a society-wide mistake that has become normalised through years of repetition. The point about ‘holding down the fort’ is a cracker too.

itsfullofstars: ilovecharts: (via Life’s Little...

Wed, 19 May 2010 15:53:29 +0100

itsfullofstars:

ilovecharts:

(via Life’s Little Mysteries)

Trippy.

I've voted.

Thu, 06 May 2010 12:04:12 +0100

I hope you have too.

A beautifully put together and well-argued article from Craig...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:56:00 +0000

A beautifully put together and well-argued article from Craig Mod about the future of books. I particularly like his methodology of splitting text into ‘Formless’ and ‘Definite’ categorisations, and I think he’s right about the relative value of printed materials for those categories.

Have a read, it’s thought-provoking stuff.

Awesome and really well done. I thought these kind of Heath...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:23:44 +0000

Awesome and really well done. I thought these kind of Heath Robinson-esque videos were kind of old hat, but this is top notch.

An Unlikely Twitter Synchronicity between Mr Samuel JOHNSON and...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:04:07 +0000

An Unlikely Twitter Synchronicity between Mr Samuel JOHNSON and Ms Kirstie ALLSOP ‘Pon the subject of the BRIT awards.

In Transition

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:33:30 +0000

So in the whirl of getting ready for our big move to Scotland and the excitement of finding a new flat (omg, it’s huge), we somehow didn’t notice until the other day that we really only have one weekend left in London. Nearly six years for me and three for Valerie will be over pretty soon. All of a sudden things we’ve been meaning to do for years have become things we’ll probably do on a future trip to London, rather than when we actually live here. We haven’t left yet, but the days are literally numbered.

So, now we’re in limbo, the house is full of boxes and pretty soon we’ll be waking up to a medieval castle in the distance and clean, cold, drinkable water in the tap. Blogging has been and will remain pretty light here while I work hard to make the move a success (my new office in Edinburgh is lovely and I’m getting very familiar with the East Coast mainline as I begin to work with Scottish clients) and we both get our little shoebox of a house packed away, but after that you may see a fair few posts as I reacquaint myself with the city of my birth.

I can’t wait for the move, but I’ll admit to a few melancholic moments as I’ve gazed at London’s skyline from various high places these last few weeks. It’s a big, dirty, noisy, smelly expensive madhouse of a place, but it’s been an education.

Old school Irn Bru cans rule.

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:36:38 +0000

Old school Irn Bru cans rule.

"Tomorrow, it’s Prague - and if it’s possible to have too much pork or too much beer, this is where..."

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:08:09 +0000

“Tomorrow, it’s Prague - and if it’s possible to have too much pork or too much beer, this is where that would happen. As you’ll see, I hope, it’s spectacularly beautiful there and the food, while a bit on the heavy side, is, in fact, delicious. But if ever a place had me craving a salad, this was it. If you commit a homicide as a vegan, they should sentence you to the Czech Republic. That would teach you the error of your ways. Death by sausage.”

- Anthony Bourdain