scuba-diving to work

Hydo-Manhattan
Atmospheric concept for making a city aquatic while still retaining its metropolitan feel with the potential for scuba-diving to work.

New Diana Krall album
Quiet Night is released at the end of March in the US and Germany. No sign of a UK date yet but it is on import.

New Media Guru: Meet Joss Whedon the Web Slayer
Horrible title for a particularly detailed interview that focuses on the writing process. Joss apparently only works in final drafts, because he find placeholder dialogue very difficult to replace. Though his placeholder dialogue is probably ten times cleverer than most of doggerel which gets filmed elsewhere [via].

It Girl Carey Mulligan
Doctor Who's Sally Sparrow has been doing amazing well at the Sundance in the film An Education about a May to December romance. The film's won the World Cinema Audience Award and Best Cinematogaphy and has now sold to Fox Searchlight for $3 million. New York Post thinks she's the new Audrey Hepburn. Well done you.

"The Tottenham Outrage" centenary
"At around 10:30am on Saturday 23rd January 1909, 'Paul Helfeld' and 'Jacob Lepidus' pulled off a wage snatch at the Schnurmann Rubber factory in Tottenham. During the course of the robbery they fired gunshots, which were heard by the local police. They began to give chase ..."

Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
Survey of animation which is still only available on laserdisc. Would you believe Tex Avery?

What real life bad habits has programming given you?
Sadly, I too can claim some of these, though I think my addition would be a lower attention span [via].

Computers Destroying the Print Media: A History
Which I'm mentioning simply for the incongruity of seeing good old Pages From Ceefax mentioned on Gawker, introducing it to America (they forgot Minitel). When I was very young and we only had a black and white television, I used to look forward to going to the Barclay's Bank in town with my Dad because they had a teletext television within the foyer (I think with the idea that people could check the business news).