Drivers always seem to make my life as hair-raising as possible as I cycle round our Cities’ streets. Luckily we have some good cycle lanes in Brighton, but here’s a sit that focuses on the very strange ones: www.weirdcyclelanes.co.uk.

I’ve noticed the start of the proposed Seafront-to-Downs has been created with cycle paths going up two blocks up The Drive. If anyone knows where they’re going next please let me know.

News:

A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.

New generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for most patients, research suggests.

1 In Every 99 Americans Now Behind Bars. While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine. Land of the free?

The World’s largest digging machine. Weighing in at a portly 45,500 tons.

The Wire’s War on the Drug War. Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price and David Simon the creators of HBO’s The Wire have their say on the drug war.

And finally:

I’ve never bought much lingerie but this site my change my mind. The interactive knicker picker. But for some reason I can see Men using this site a little more than women.

Using one of these nifty wingsuits:

For those that use HTML in their life, why not test your memory:

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Oh, and take a look at this amazing Depth Of Field site, all done with Flash.

Long interview with Adam Curtis about the future of UK TV.

Play Castle Smasher. My highest score in 2274 and I can’t seem to finish level 5.

Interact with a head by playing Feed The Head. You could spend hours playing with this.

M.C. Escher in Lego. Featuring the amazing ‘Ascending and Descending’ and ‘Belvedere’.

Audio cassette tape nostalgia.

Just thought I’d get in there first after reading this story:

“If you think about the spin of a particle, such as an electron, it can point up or down or at any superposition of the two; partially up or partially down,” said Professor Awschalom.

“You can store an almost infinite number of bits of information in one particle space,” he added.

Here’s all the online crap I’ve found interesting in July:

The Story of My Sands - A look at the codewords used over tannoy systems. I well remember a Mr Sands on Brighton Pier and Somerfield.

Heavens Above. Calculates where satellites and the ISS will appear in the sky. Apparently you can see Iridium Flares in daylight too if you know exactly where to look.

What The World Eats. Time Magazine photo study of the food consumed by different cultures around the world.

Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs That We sing - (listen by choosing ‘5:55 The Album’)

The 12 Master Formats of Advertism. Nice video explaining the 12 main advertising tropes.

Mike Read is backing Boris Johnson. Not the dead cockney one but the dire radio DJ. Not only is his article pure reactionist gold but the comments are hilarious too. I say Mike Read for Mayor!

Trailer for a crazy South Korean movie about dragons with rocket launchers, called D-War.

The iPhone v the Nokia E70. An interesting article (contains comedy and swearing).

My new Uniqlock Casio watch arrived today and very lovely and red it is too. By the end of the Uniqlock campaign there will probably be over 20,000 people enter this competition and I’m the fifth winner (out of 60), woo!!

You can check all the worldwide competition stats at a special section of their website.

Here are some more great mix mp3s for you to download for summer listening:

The new Charles Webster radio show is up at Ibiza Sonica. Download the 1 hour mp3 here. It’s a bit less souly and more techy and beaty than usual but still superb. Tori Amos into Amp Fiddler? Well somebody had to do it.

Here’s the tracklisting found at Charles Webster’s own Miso Records label:
kid sublime - ?
kidd sublime - get up daddy
swell sesions - nasa;s theme
panama II - long train running (prins thomas edit)
boof - to make up for it
tori amos - devils and gods
patchworks - celebration (amp fiddler mix)
furry phreaks with Terra Deva - all over the world (ambi mix)
slope - gemini
? - red barn road
kadabasten - caracas soul
thief - sunchild (reprise)
scott grooves - it doesn’t have to be…

Also recommended on a deep and techy vibe is the Attic 4 mix by Miles from Demizen.com. Featuring tracks by Charles Webster, Isolee and Chez Damier.

Fancy something a little more chilled out? Ben Mynott from Fluid Nation has his latest chill out mp3 mix available for download here. Featuring tracks by Crazy P and Secret Stealth, it really is one to relax to.

More weird techy stuff is available at DJ Jogarde’s website. His Freilauf Sessions Vol.3 (mp3) has tracks by Furry Phreaks, Roy Ayres, Carl Craig and Quentin Harris and is a perfectly mixed CD-length classic.

For more of a soul weekender vibe download the Playing With My Emotions mix by Dr No available at Dangradio.com.

Oh, and I promised you some Stephen Fry. Here he is telling us why he loves the Internet.

See more Stephen Fry on Video Jug.

After about 48 hours of trialling ecommerce systems I think I’ve finally found the one I can hack into enough to achieve what I want. I’m making the mother of all baby stores and it’ll look amazing. More on that soon.

Slideshow from The Guardian: “Peter Walker talks to North Korea expert Nick Bonner and photographer Charlie Crane, who have produced a book of photographs from the country’s capital, Pyongyang. The pair travelled to the city three times to photograph people, tourist sights and hotels. Laid out as a guidebook, the pictures in Welcome to Pyongyang are accompanied by commentaries from North Korean tourism guides.”

Follow Me Now: The Zigzagging Zungazung Meme: “Do read the following, then, as but a draft of a more measured, more textured cultural and social history — a zigzagging story about the migrations and manifestations of a well-traveled musical figure. I will continue to version these texts and sounds no doubt, on the blog and — before too long we hope — in a book.”

The Atlas of the Universe. There’s quite a lot of stuff less than 10 light years away.

Listen to: A brilliant heavy dub and roots mix CD called HEAVY SOUND SYSTEM STYLE mixed by MadMongos.

Watch: The first part of the first episode of Filthy, Rich & Catflap:

Yes, I finally got around to changing the look of my business site, King Websites. The old site had a lot of content and no design but this has now been reversed. It’s also broken down into the two main things I do now; small business web design and freelance coding.

Yes, it does look like it’s been designed by a five-year-old who’s just found the shape tool in Photoshop, and in some respects they’d be right. But heh, it’s better than my dour last attempt. Hope you like!