i’ve been speaking english for more than fourty years but one particular question about a certain language anomaly didn’t occur to me, until today… and thanks to good old internet here’s the answer, so there you go…
me news
the poverty map

i just stumbled upon this fascinating collection of victorian maps of london; all were of course, hand-drawn…

quirky stuff

some unusual photography and a baffling website ‘lightbox style’ navigation from tim johannis (only a shame that the site didn’t work properly for me: no back button once you select an image) tip via ‘rolf at grrr’

spell it out

the ‘stop motion video with letters made from objects and quirky movement’ trend continues in this promo for ‘we have band’, shame they didn’t wait until they had a tune worth putting all that effort into….
art imitates life

…the food portions depicted in paintings of the Last Supper have grown larger – in line with our own super-sizing of meals, say obesity experts…

interesting article on the beeb site