Take a quick look around the offices of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and you might think you missed your plane to Shanghai. Rooms ripped straight from a meticulous English household offer a respite for the homesick, and commentary on Shanghai’s boom.
You can pretty much insert your local area’s landmarks in the following amazing images from photographer Andy Spain, because it’s an issue that obviously affects us all.
Seventy homes’ waste is enough to power this eco-friendly Volkswagen Beetle for a year. Whether you’d want to drive the “Powered by your own waste!”-emblazoned car is another thing entirely, however.
With Stieg Larsson books for £2.70 ($4.70) and the Twilight series going for a little over £3 ($5) each, Amazon’s UK Kindle Store has opened up shop finally. This comes after they finally launched the Kindle pond-side last week (available for pre-order at the moment, shipping at the end of the month), after months of only being able to grab one with hefty international postage charges.
At an artillery school in England, army troops are being taught shooting tactics on iPads so they’re better prepared when they’re shipped out to Afghanistan. Zombieville, this ain’t. (Hopefully).
Yeah, your local museum may think they’re pretty fancy with their glowing Helvetica sign, but does it have revolving parts that turn into a mirrored palindrome? London’s V&A museum is scoffing in the face of yours.
Little is known about this piano-bed, except it was designed for bedridden players circa 1935, and traced back to Britain. It may not have built-in fans or speakers like the bloggers’ bed-table, but lazy pianists, take note! [Flickr via Neatorama]
Sony Ericsson W350i – the phone of choice for British paedophiles, turns out. A massive UK child pornography ring with 70 members was discovered after a man left his phone on the bus, whose driver found indecent images of children.
As a BlackBerry user, I’m not sure how I feel about 1500 UK binmen being given BlackBerrys for work. I don’t want to be elitist, but if a binman wolf-whistles me and asks if I’m on BBM, I’d die.
I think each of the 4000 Brits who participated in a survey of the 10 greatest inventions ever should have their toilets taken off them for life. See if there’s an app for that!
