You beauties

Lovely work from England’s cricketers. Some bowling and catching to destroy Sri Lanka. Awesome.
Room with a view

Room with a view

The hotel has only been open a couple of months, but is very, very nice indeed. As well as very shiny and sparkly. Waldorf Astoria on the Bund, if you ask.
Pegasus on 87

Pegasus on 87

They have a Pegasus cocktail at Cloud 9th in the Grand Hyatt, Shanghai. I had to try one. It tastes like Ribena. Nice, but dangerous.

Westminster Hall

Funny watching Obama tour the palace of Westminster. I was privileged enough to tour it several times a year for four years, and it never got stale. Yes, it’s an absurd gothic pile, but the history it represents is just gobsmacking. And standing under beams from...
Wikipedia boy

Wikipedia boy

xkcd: Extended Mind is spot on. I was called Wikipedia boy on a big group holiday in Scotland in 2004 or before. Such a shame that all my favourite gadgets have gone to the wolves (thinking of Psion and Palm specifically). Individual augmentation rocks.

China and America’s misunderstanding

America is misunderstanding China in fundamental and potentially damaging ways. One example: China sees its economic prosperity as regaining a position it had as late as the early 19th century (an estimated 30% of world GDP then, not even 10% now), not as a developing...
Supermassive black hole

Supermassive black hole

El Reg pretty much gets this one right: Extragalactic black hole particle fountain awesomeness. The lobes are one million light years long. That means light, travelling at 300,000 meters per second will take a million years to get from the central galaxy to the end of...