The puffball fungus produces so many spores, that if every single spore germinated, after two generations the offspring would be 800 times the mass of the Earth.
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Last.fm has just had a redesign, and it’s a great service. Install the audioscrobbler plugin, and it reports the tracks you play in your chosen media player (iTunes in my case) and logs it all.Where’s the fun in that? It builds up an idea of what you like listening to, and you can download their radio player, and listen to your musical choice from their servers. One better, it recommends new songs based on what is in the playlist of other users with similar taste. It’s a great way of finding new music.
The service is completely free, but for a premium of �1.50 a month (which I think is a bargain) you get priority access to their streaming services, a few extra radio modes and so on.
There’s a comprehensive commentary on Last.fm and social architecture by Stowe Boyd over on corante.com.
Lions at a drive-through safari park in Merseyside are chasing small cars, thinking they are prey. According to the BBC, Smart cars and Minis are particularly easily mistaken by the pride.
Orange are running orange wednesdays, and as such have a promo appearing before the start of films at the cinema. The latest one shows Darth Vader approaching the Orange Film Funding Board with a script about a Sith Lord, only to get completely knocked back by the marketing executive.
I uploaded a whole bunch of photos to my flickr account this weekend, including some more of my beautiful car, some taken in my garden and lots taken in both the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is being made! There’s currently a teaser available, a website (which doesn’t contain a great deal) and of course an IMDB page. Glad to see they kept the nut-chasing squirrel, though.
To celebrate the birth of a baby anteater, London Zoo are offering free entrance to visitors with big noses over the weekend of 13-14th August. The zoo is, in my opinion, the best day out in London bar none.
Last night, I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with my friend Lou. I’m generally quite sceptical about remakes regardless of genre, time between films, persons involved, etc etc - with the exception of Starsky and Hutch (which I loved) and possibly the forthcoming Dukes of Hazzard (and there will be only one reason to see that one).
But Charlie and the Chocolate Factory joins that very prestigious (and very short) list. Tim Burton has managed to sign it with his trademark sinister side, while maintaining the magic of the original. Jonny Depp is somewhere between Dr. Evil and Michael Jackson (and a bit nasty at times), and Freddie Highmore is a brilliantly cheeky Charlie Bucket without being fucking annoying. And what’s more, my dad just rang to say he thought I used to look like Charlie.
Another flickr photo, entitled Ride It by Simon Pais. I’ve had this bookmarked for ages, as I love the colour blending, but didn’t get round to posting it until now.
Allegedly taken at Notting Hill Gate tube station
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