This version of London's iconic tube map looks just like the official PDF of the transport network — but in fact it is created entirely from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Read More >>

After outsourcing the naming of its initial tunnelling machines to the public last year, Crossrail now wants suggestions for names of the last pair of machines due to enter service. It's requesting "modern day heroes" are used as inspiration for its massive mech moles, which we think means it wants to see names of Olympians. Read More >>

Well what do we have here then? Are we finally going to get that 'EOS' Windows Phone PureView Lumia Nokia's been promising for ages? Maybe an aluminium-clad Lumia 920? Who knows. Nokia's invited us all to "see what's next" in London on May 14th, so I guess we'll find out then. May sure is going to be one busy month. [AllthingsD via TechRadar] Read More >>

The UK premiere of Iron Man 3 is being postponed 24 hours, not because the actors are revolting, or because the cinema's all booked up for Star Trek, but because of Margret Thatcher's funeral. Yep, the Iron Lady gets the last laugh. Read More >>

The central London skyline is in the midst of a dramatic transformation right now. The Gherkin kicked it all off; the Shard is the latest addition, but there are many more currently in the works. Once some of the biggest names in architecture have finished all the buildings they've started working on, this is what it'll look like. Beautiful, ain't it? Read More >>

This clever animation shows how the human traffic flows in and around London, with map maker Oliver O'Brien combining touch-in and touch-out Oyster Card data into a lovely flowing animation he calls Tidal Flow. It tracks data at 10 minute intervals during the day, as traveller numbers increase from just about bearable to apocalyptic levels of forced physical closeness. [Now Here This] Read More >>

A bizarre stunt managed to combine publicity for this year's forthcoming Star Trek film with the weekend's Earth Hour awareness campaign, leading to the odd sight of a massive Star Trek badge hovering over London's City Hall for the best part of the night. Read More >>

Some of London's stupidest graffiti is being corrected out there on the streets, thanks to the work of a crack team of apostrophe-aware tutors armed with marker pens and keen to right the wrongs of poorly written street art. Read More >>

OK, so Microsoft isn't quite Google when it comes to crazy offices, but Skype's new London HQ still looks pretty rad, in an I-would-actually-like-to-live-there kinda way, rather than a place that simply makes you ask, what the hell have they been smoking? Read More >>

That round London tube map was pretty damn good. Now how about a version of the Underground map from an alternate universe where 8-bit graphics and Mario level cartography somehow became the cultural norm? It's the Super Mario Bros. 3 Zone 1 Tube Map! Read More >>

The Battersea Power Station is an iconic London building, but it's been tragically unused since it was decommissioned in 1983. Now architectural firm Atelier Zündel Cristea wants to turn that around with a proposal to make the abandoned spot a roller coaster. Where do we sign? Read More >>

It's not often government shows a touch of class, but TfL's gone and done just that. After a letter from the widow of Peter Lodge, the original "Mind the Gap" man, requesting that it be played on the Northern Line at Embankment, just so she could hear his voice again, London Underground has re-instated the classic announcement at Embankment, and is planning to roll out it to other platforms too. Simply brilliant. If you don't know the tale behind the iconic catchphrase, check out the story on [The Importance of Being Trivial] Read More >>

A lot of gory events have occurred since the London Dungeon first opened its doors 39 years ago. Around that time, Fred and Rose West were carrying out their nasty brand of business; Peter Sutcliffe was making his mark as the Yorkshire Ripper, and more recently, a whole bunch of people ate horse. Despite this, Merlin Entertainments has stuck to what it knows best: The charm and kitsch of London's past. Read More >>

Someone's been spending a lot of work time up the top of London's BT Tower with a camera, assembling an astounding 320 gigapixel panoramic image of the capital from 48,000 individual frames and building the world's largest panorama shot. Read More >>

Ok, so I know that the UK's rich history means we've got a backlog of slightly quirky laws, but most of them (like the infamous "you can shoot a Welshman with a crossbow in the bounds of York") have long-since been revoked. There's a fair few still on the books, though, so some (presumably) students with too much free time and a GoPro took it on themselves to break ten of the most ridiculous. Read More >>