16. future tube map

From motorwaymap I found a link to Owen Massey's Mappers Delight. I must say, I do like a good map.

This one is a projection of what the London Tube Map will look like by 2025 if all proposed TFL projects get completed.

15. Postcodes

School of Life doesn't have a blogroll, so back to things where I found this useful little postcode map on a site called motorway map. Just the sort of thing I'll never use.

14: School of Life

Now here's a first. 14 hops in and while rummaging through things extensive blogroll I found a client of St Luke's, the lovely School of Life, for whom we recently developed the daily aphorism campaign. The aphorism campaign cost next to nothing to produce and even less in media costs yet, with the help of some PR detonation in the Guardian and Scotsman, generated a ton of raffic to the School of Life. We're very proud of it.

13. on a bus

Can't get enough of things and love the low-tech aesthetic of on a bus.

12. Top looking pedals

Still messing around on things I found Boss virtual pedals. They sound great and look even better. Try the acoustic ones.

11. Vintage washing machines

From Spitting Image I hopped to things magazine, which was set up by some V&A amd RCA historians in 1994 in the belief that objects can open up new ways of understanding the world. If that sentiment ever needed validation then one only has to hop over to automatic washer where vintage automatic washers, driers and dishwashers to be found alongside restorations, video clips of the machines working, a cyber-museum, a patent-of-the-day feature, pictures of a graveyard for automatics called Aberdeen Farm and even a sister site called Vacuum Land. Life is good.

10. Blogger Obituary

next up is Spitting Image Unfortunately this blogger has died, here is his obituary:

"John Cieciel, July 01, 1949 - November 09, 2007

John was a long time contributor to News of the Weird, coconspirator and eventually primary blogger behind spitting-image.net, and the author of the original and brilliant Overheard Starbuck. Readers of this blog knew John as a generous sharer of information and a keen observer of American culture, and anyone who had the pleasure of receiving his e-mail valued him as a wise and honest friend. John was proud of the accumulation of this site, which shall remain, a spark of light among the constellations. I will dearly miss him."

Overheard Starbuck is worth a look. It does exactly what it says on the tin and is full of gems like this:

"He had motive and opportunity."
---"And you have a tv set on which you watch cop shows. Seriously--who the hell talks like that?"

and this:

"It's almost like not being in a cult at all."

9. Tiny Horse

I couldn't resist the tiny horse. Posthuman Blues comprised a treasure trove of alien related sites and blogs. Among them was the strange Aberrant News who carried this story from that weirdest of sources The Daily Mail. about something very much of this planet, but still strange.

It may not look it, but it is not a toy. According to the Mail, "the 15 in silver dun tovero was born 10 days ago" in Australia and will grow to 24 in.

8. TV-B-Gone B open source

Remember TV-B-Gone? It was a gadget that allowed you to turn off any telly, great for those pubs which have TV's flickering away depsite no-one watching them, especially when they are playing music videos which bear no relation to the music actually playing in the pub.

It was invented by a bloke called Mitch Altman and, after discovering 'hackers' had been building the gadget into hats, mobile phones and even a long range sniper model, he has made the firmare open source. Which is nice.

Found this by hopping to posthuman blues and then to a blog entry which took me to gizmo

7. Steampunk

This is steampunk. Basically sci-fi set in the age of steam power. I found it on edgetrends, a link from the Vividians.

The movie City of Ember was seemingly "the best steampunk allegory" for many a year

Time to hop

6. The Vividians

OK, i got a bit stuck in the last blog because there was no blogroll to hop from. I rummaged around in his Last.FM friends list and his delicious page but to no avail. My breakthrough came today when Tom very helpfully posted this link to the Vividian Design Movement. Now, i had heard of Light Greens (green is the new black types) and Dark Greens (back to the dark ages types) but I had never heard of Bright Greens. Bright Greens believe that the planet can be saved by better design, new technologies and innovation. I like the sound of this lot.

Anyway, the Vividians are among the original bright greens. Or were. For this site is their reuquiem: "After the years transpiring – various disasters, wars, financial collapses and a major change in political tone – the world has become a different place.It remains only to close the Viridian episode gracefully"

I did like this piece of par though: "I strongly recommend that you carry a multitool. ...It's a set of possible creative interventions in your immediate material environment. That is why you want a multitool. They are empowering."

anyway, he also mentioned something called Steam Punk...

5. Bike Hero

Now this is very precious. A bloke plays guitar hero with his bike.


I'm having trouble getting away from this site as there is no blogroll.

4. I am near

So next I find Tom. Tom is a developer for the iPhone. He has developed a version of "I am near" for the phone. He says: "After a few hours I’ve got a native version of i am near working, which performs a similar function to the site, but with the ability to fetch the user’s location directly from the iPhone. It’s simple, but effective."

It's seems quite handy. The photo is pubs near St Luke's.

3. Cozy Powell Record Player

This is lovely. Found it on magic nihilism. Nothing happens, it just plays to the end. But doesn't it look beautiful?

2. Computers Behind Blogs

Ian Tait has set up a Flickr groups called Computers Behind Blogs. It is basically photos of the computers bloggers use to write their blogs. It is quite enchanting and a little bleak, the lack of people in many shots creates a feeling of loneliness.


As you can see, my macbook has been around the block.

1. Introduction

It started here at The Whole Buffalo.

Blogscotch is a game I dreamed up over a coffee one afternoon although I cannot believe that no-one has thought of it before. There must be million variations of it out there already.

Blogscotch is about hopping across the web one blog at the time. It could be called blogfrog (like leapfrog) or blogging stones (like. you know..) but it's called blogscotch because it is not just about hopping. The idea is to hop from one blogs blogroll onto another blog, pick up something interesting from that blog to post, then click on that blogs blogroll. And so on, forever or until I get bored (very likely) or run out of blogs (as if)

I was actually 8 posts down the line before it occurred to me to set up a separate blog - so the next 8 posts are just pasted over from The Whole Buffalo.