This interview with Cory Doctorow, main man behind the widely read blog BoingBoing mentioned these great London resouces...:
http://www.hotspotted.com/
Hotspotted helps people connect to the internet in the places they want to.
http://www.streetsensation.co.uk/
London's favourite streets. Entire streetscapes showing over 2,750 shops, bars and restaurants in the liveliest areas of London.

23, is a Magic Number (Apperently)...
Why did Becks choose 23?
Why 23 is so sought after in sport
mystical number has affected the course of history
A brief history of No. 23

Oooops !
Chelski update!
Looks like it may well have been The Sun who came up with the "Chelski" name... see: Russian tycoon swoops for Chelsea FC.
Interesting that a Google news search didn't pick up the Sun article [I guess it only searches news sites !].

First Spotting: new name for chelsea FC, "Chelski"
Hats off to the Gauardian's article for comming up with the (seems obvious now!) new name in this article: Chelski is born as Russian tycoon buys football club

Error and information messages from software we love (#6,032)
MS Internet Explorer, on startup:
"The Windows Update site has been updated. To update your version of the software and begin using Windows Update, click Update Now."
Er...so, that would be an update then....

As a long term follower of David Sylvian's music, it was interesting to see coverage in a UK daily paper David Sylvian: Songs from the fringe. The piece gives a brief retrospective and some recent quotes around his new (BRILIANT) release "Blemish".
"David Sylvian was a pop pin-up when he led Japan. Now, after years on the frontiers of the avant-garde, he has produced his most personal songs yet."

SCARY ! Covered in several places... however many of my techy and untechy friends have no knowledge of this stuff... This article (I link to the syndicated piece at the register - where I read it first) from Security Focus is a MUST READ, and serves as a good primer on a technology which will be with us very soon, and will (potentially) allow a disturbing level of monitoring of individuals.
RFID Chips Are Here

Cringley's most recent article Sucking Through a Straw - A Bandwidth Drought Is Coming is interesting as always, but I particularly enjoyed his reference to an old story about a Xerox PARC hero... "John Ellenby, who was in charge of building the Altos [prototype networked computer], named his machine Gzunda "because it gzunda the desk."

Ran across this interesting little application/tool IndyJunior - a fully customizable map which you can use to easily display your geographic location. It's apparently named after those nice retro-style animated maps used in the Indiana Jones films which show a transatlantic flight route.