Two-way on Piccadilly?

This looks like another good revamp of an important part of central London. I am a big fan of the “get rid of street furniture” movement.

Escape from the room

Maddening, but you kind of want to beat it. Oh, sorry, no pun intended. And you can cheat, of course.In many ways, this retro room is better (although not particularly work safe).

Taxpayers demand tutorial from Ashcroft

Lovely Mash. There is a more interesting question here: if a “British” company that makes over half of its money abroad (GSK, BG, BP, HSBC, Tesco spring to mind) donates to a political party, is it a problem? With Ashcroft, it is the years of obfuscation...

Olympic winning time symphony

Fantastic chart and audio guide from NY Times showing quite how close the times were on the Winter Olympics skiing, sliding and skating events. I find it astonishing that there is so much consistency in who wins over the year given the minuscule gaps between athletes...