This seems interesting. Shame it's a third of the world away.

"Lured by Red Stripe and other totally legal substances, the scientists wowed festivalgoers with the delights of space travel and Jupiter's moons, the neuroscience of music and the propagation of waves in conga lines"

Event aggregation, done prettily, but (I contend) wrongly. By smushing photos and blog posts down to the level of posts on Twitter, it drowns good content in mundanity. It also tries to work around Twitter's lack of decent metadata (hashtags? you're making me snort) by using times to pull out session commentary, which only sort of works. Still, add some of the slick design of this to the versatility of metalatest and you'd have a winner.

The latest from Alf Eaton: a page that pulls together posts on Twitter, Flickr, blogs (via Google) and delicious for a given search term (in this case, OpenTech, the conference today in London). A friend of mine was asking for this a week or two ago, and it's really nice to see it pop up. (I'd call it 'aggregation' but I've always meant that to be personal. Event aggregation?)

Kevin O'Neill's notes from yesterday's talk at the British Library. I should go through mine and see how they compare, but this probably does a better job of capturing the event than I would have anyway. Hurrah.

Why do I always find out about these things after they've finished? And why don't the Guardian offer embeddable video? (Ads, I suppose.)

"The London Festival of Architecture 2008 is a celebration and exploration of the city's buildings, streets and spaces, aimed at Londoners and visitors alike." Looks like this replaces the London Biennale.

Apparently quite a good, introspecting, API library for getting to upcoming.org.

It'll be nice to see the relaunched hands-on science playground without the screaming hordes. At least, that's the plan. Free, but requires pre-booking.

Five free posters available at major Underground stations this week. Obviously by now you've missed two, but Thursday's seems like the most desirable to me.

I ran across Brian Griffin's work in, of all places, Reykjavík. Turns out he's just done a series of portraits of the workers on the St Pancras / CTRL project, and this is a talk on it.

Coming up later in October. I might finally get myself organised and go to the game evening thing.

"OK, folks, what does this cryptic invite mean?" Could it be an iPhone release date and carrier info?

"The Burble is a massive structure reaching up towards the sky, composed of approximately 1000 extra-large helium balloons each of which contains microcontrollers and LEDs that create spectacular patterns of light"

I applied ages ago but don't think I ever got a confirmation email. Now I'm confused. I think I'm going. Maybe I'm not. Wibbling seems to be the order of the day.

"The agility of embedded DSLs" from the APL group, hosted by the British Computer Society. Features "a DSL for iTunes so he can summon his date's favourite tune as soon as he gets her home."

Sunday afternoon. Still seem to be tickets.

Cheap! Cheerful! Doesn't take all bloody day!

An expensive, longwinded version of London Flickr Scavenger Hunts. Save £10 and have more fun anyway

Nice summary of the talks. Saves me having to remember them.

I'll have to try to make it to some of these things