Tracy Tsang, an MA student at Middlesex University sent an email recently to let me know that she is using the my London Underground tube delays RSS feed to activate a piece of hardware, which she calls “The Tube”, to display line status information via LEDs in a plastic tube. This forms part of her [...]

Herself has recently been getting a lot of telephone messages for some midlands socialite named Mark. Neither of us know who he is, but the voicemail keeps coming. Spookily the phone doesn’t ring for him, ever, but still the messages appear. Thanks to the magic of the internet, using the audio player below, now you [...]

I don’t really understand any of this, but I don’t think Mr. T does either, so at least I’m in good company.

I’ve posted some (blurred as usual) pictures of some vintage computer gaming equipment taken while on a recent visit to London’s Science Museum for the excellent Game On exhibition of the history, technology and culture of computer games.
If you’re into old computer gear (and hey, who isn’t?) it’s worth a visit if you get a [...]

In the UK, when you text a fixed line phone, such as one in a home, from a mobile the text message is turned into a voice message read by a robot.
Until today (January the 7th 2007), in aid of the housing charity Shelter, Tom Baker has been providing the voice for this robot, and [...]

From The Register:
An Ulster used car dealer has had his dodgy cordless phone confiscated after airline pilots were entertained by “Arthur Daley-style banter about makes and prices of used cars”, The Daily Mirror reports.
Skyjockeys cruising at 25,000 feet through the Dean Cross air traffic sector - extending from Manchester to central Scotland - had been [...]

It all started when an unemployed British sysadmin decided he wanted to get to the bottom of the whole UFO phenomenon, and find out whether strange craft sighted over UK skies for many years were in reality experimental military aircraft belonging to the United States military.
Gary McKinnon would get smoked up, fire up a perl [...]

Everything you ever wanted to know about crypto: www.cypherpunks.to

“It is very bizarre that you know your computer has not run but you also know what the answer is,” says team member Onur Hosten.

I got a call from somebody claiming to be from my bank the other day.
They: Hello, am I speaking to Mister Keegan please?
I: Yes, speaking.
They: Hello Mister Keegan, my name is Kylie, I’m calling from XXXXX Bank, this is a service call.
I: I see.
They: In order to talk about your account I just need some [...]