This has just made my day: a walrus embarrassed by a birthday cake made of herring, via @rhodri - http://twitpic.com/4alo0x

2/2 ... Bloke walking past in the opposite direction looks over and smirks. It's Damon Albarn.

1/2 A London scene, today: Two girls walk past Pretty Green on Carnaby St. One points at huge pic of Liam Gallagher and says 'twat'...

Via @alexispetridis, Ken Russell's brilliant photos of teenagers in 1955, in a still-wrecked postwar London. http://t.co/Xk6xdFz9

'The something for nothing culture is unfair', says the heir to the 17th Baron Osborne, who is the beneficiary of a £4m trust fund.

So @waynecoyne just sung “Heroes” and now he’s popped off stage to check on a lady who had a strobe-induced seizure. Dude.

Owls! Swimming! Swimming owls! (via @han @debcha et al)  http://www.birdcanada.com/2012/08/unbelievable-snowy-owl-behaviour/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co …

Government to cut benefits of anyone who’ll be dead before next election http://t.co/tw0Uu2jt via @newsthump

I don't know whether this is going to happen, but I bloody love the design: Iceland's giant electricity pylons.  http://www.industrytap.com/giants-carrying-icelands-electricity/824?utm_source=EngNet&utm_campaign=c4464e1ddc-EngNet_Engineering_Network_01_29_2013&utm_medium=email …

By me: Thorium, its potential for lower-waste, non-proliferative nuclear power, and why it's not an easy option.  http://www.theengineer.co.uk/in-depth/analysis/salt-of-the-earth/1016456.article …

@stuarthoughton These folks:  http://www.plasticlogic.com . Develop in Cambridge, manufacture in Dresden.

This intelligent knife (via @imperialspark and @profkneebone) is incredibly clever.  http://youtu.be/efoKDp7JQAA 

@qikipedia And that's the long and the short of it.

Strange seeing David Miliband taking a principled stand over Paolo di Canio, when he was fine about colluding with torture.

For anyone who enjoyed #thechallenger last night, here's the real Feynman, and the actual O-ring moment.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCLgRyKvfp0 …

I think the Pope should regenerate as a woman. It should obviously be Helen Mirren.

Here's XKCD on going for a Sellafield Swim. Actually a very good piece on radiation risk:  http://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ 

I wish I'd seen the version of Doctor Who where the Doctor used the Tardis to take Solomon to face justice from the Silurians. But Chibnall.

@mckelvie Not as much as Run Lola Run.

Three yrs ago Melissa @fehrtrade had a bone marrow transplant. Now she runs half-marathons. Go sponsor her! http://t.co/BAghGuMZ