New OK Go video (if only their songs were as good as their videos)

Finding out our Lucha Libre names with the Mexican Wrestler name generator

A double-edged acting masterclass from Sir Ian McKellen

Google's 1st Ave Machine - 3d mapping gone mental

Andrew Tanner's augmented reality ceramics

The poetic art of Robert Montgomery  on buildings, billboards and bus shelters, 

The extraordinary Sir John Soane's Museum

How this 5 piece band with 1 guitar between them makes do

The Singing Ringing Tree

Impressive AND entertaining youtube stats

Molly - she turns your tweets into sweets

David Shrigley's Brain Activity

All female Scala Choir & Kolacny Brothers covers of pop classics

Good Ideas (courtesy of Stewdio)

The Word-a-coaster - only at Selfridges

Wes Anderson - a true original

Lionel Richie's Hello - when it's reimagined

Nice hats, jewellery and photos all in one place!

A good old fashioned London boozer such as The Southampton Arms

 Mad Men new season poster  - minimal for maximum impact, aces

Karotz - the social network aware robotic rabbit

to dance, if only we were as good as these guys

Mail Ordering from Baileys Home and Garden

Re-Found Objects

Drink-Drawing at The Doodle Bar

MOVE by Rick Mereki

Learning to Surf - and classic surf movies

Katie Goodwin's cinematic art

Face Britain - awesome diamond jubilee project

Maru the stunt cat

The Walk of Shame - when it's not you!

Proof that our online lives are a tad unnatural

Chuck Tester Taxidermy -  keeping it real

Dancing Hamsters getting down

Kigu animal costumes for grown ups (!) - now also available for kids!

Tree-planting initiatives, especially in cities

Trying before buying with S.E.H. Kelly

Craig Oldham's hand writing project and everything else he does

Hand printing at Loligo

Shelf - purveyors of noted gifts and fineries

Illustrations by Telegramme

The Imaginative use of shipping containers at Boxpark

Airline safety card illustrations as art

Little Printer, although isn't it just a cute fancy fax machine?

Old Spice 'Smell Better than Yourself' campaign

Made in the Shade

Virtual Pizza: Dominos - not the best pizza but so ahead of the game!

Finding the right cocktail for your playlist with Drinkify

The Cloth Kits revival

The stories behind the tweets - sometimes 140 characters is not enough

Marcel the Shell with shoes on - beyond cute

Colours, there can never be too many of them

Giving The Thames a makeover with London's floating River Park plans

Yelping with Cormac: where two worlds collide

The Dream Factory

Self-publishing at Blurb.com

Youthful enterprise at SBTV

Discovering artists before they are too expensive

Secret Supper Clubs

Eley Kishimoto

The Un Fair exhibition featuring Eine

Breakfast,  New York Style

An Iphone geting outwitted by a Furby

A combination of the two things we like below: Guerilla Knitting!

Twisted knit kits from Prick Your Finger and woolie jumper pouffes from State of Craft

Cunning stunts

We remembered to like  Forgot Shop

Dinner Diary - nom nom

A well made cupboard from Plain English

Window shopping and poeple watching at Asprey - I mean, just look at this Crystal Fox Decanter

Contagious ideas that change the conversation

A  bedtime story

Ultimate dog tease

Groovy graphics from Print Club London

A good debate with Intelligence Squared or the Institute of Ideas

Becks' Green Box Project (though there's better beer out there..)

Armchair solidarity with Occupy's downloadable posters

McSweeneys' foray into food writing Lucky Peach

Gershwin, as sung by Peter Sellers

Multi-tasking - in a stitch and bitch kind of way

NY Times celebrity portraits - unfamiliar familiar faces

The Northern Lights - are they for real?

Non-classical music's orchestral collaborators of choice The Heritage Orchestra

Mushroom markets - dedicated to the delicious, weird, magic, funghi

The Thames Barrier (the only reason to go to Woolwich)

the Disappearing Dining Room

when people can recommend a good builder, like Camden Carpenters for example

Paddy Considine - depressingly talented

Knowing what people would take with them if their house was on fire!

Gymnastics routine + medium sized ball = properly amazing

Good Magazine

The Hipstamatic app. Digital photography never looked so analog.

The Ryan Gosling accent-o-meter

Good manners

Someone named a bar after us. Appropriate.

Rachel Louise Brown photos, beautifully creepy

The Alphabet

Rebecca Hossack Gallery, and the art's not bad either

Cubic UK's nautical range. Ahoy there!

Growing our own

Sifting through Etsy's handpicked stuff

Toast, Toast and more Toast

Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik - glass with so much class

St Jude's Fabrics modern and retro at the same time

Old Town - desireable clothing - even in cartoon drawings

Bentleys Oyster Bar & Grill - fishy goodness

Ottolenghi - shed loads of ingredients you can actutally taste

Floor wear from Luke Irwin, now we just need the house to go with it

Tuxedos, find an ocasion

Will Young, such a nice young man, so polite

Ordnance Survey Maps

Ray Mears - would win in a fight with Bear Grylls any day

Aesop - and not the fable kind

The Dining Club - the real Deal

A bit of garden trading of a summer's evening

The Lollipop Shoppe - it's not a typo and they don't sell lollipops

All things Tatty Devine, but especially the perpex jewellery range

VMCs designer hardback collection - books with good looks

Getting all nostalgic about things

The Hand Written Letter Project

Fox & Squirrel art walks

The mother of all toilets

Cinematic Cakes of Doom

Coppola's new horror movie Twixt . Come on!

The Wellcome Collection - London at its most unpredictable 

Alpha-ville - where art, technology and society intersect

Beautiful bikes from Bobbin

Brilliant Press Photography

Nan Goldin

Tennessee Style from Yee Haw - all letterpress all the time

Book Stuff with a bit of reading thrown in for good measure

Real letters written on real letterhead

Mental animals - side-splittingly funny

When photos are brought back to where they were taken - poignant 

Guerrilla Gardening

Harry and Paul's Royal Surgeons - Forty? Forty-Five?

Wild Nights Out with Zoo lates

Knowing what everyone's listening to in the street

Have a brief encounter or take your Nan to Soho's Secret Tea Room  

A good hot bath

Proper Tradespeople, like Drapers 

Goodbye Antique Shop - hello Salvage Yard

Having the Sistine Chapel to ourselves (via this Virtual Tour!)

Fleet Foxes - how the Beach Boys would sound if they had lived in the forest

High tea at  St Pancras Renaissance

Once Was England - in memory of a vanishing land

Healthy food = expensive? Not at The People's Supermarket

Perfectly Vintage for handbags, compacts and brooches no-one else has

Artworks for every emotion at Present Joys

You Must Create - and that's an order

Sausages at The Ginger Pig

Real Flower company - the thinking person's interflora

Idyllic Thames-side garden centre and cafe Petersham Nurseries

Hat-wearing

Our favourite department store - Liberty

The other Corner Shop - Labour and Wait

Church's English Shoes - classic

Glamping

Barbour - totally British, totally savage

Animal Textiles by Emily Bond

The Book Club - only in Shoreditch

Carboot Sales  you don't need to drive to

The hub for curiosities that is The Last Tuesday Society

Little White Lies  (as in the magazine, not telling porkies)

Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz - our favourite couple, ever.

Fried Chorizo and Rocket on Ciabatta at - Borough Market

Our favourite London Museum - the V&A

Charleston Farmhouse - idiosyncratic arts meets design meets nature

Riding bicycles and drinking coffee, though not at the same time

Andrea Allan's Uncommon Ground series

Boo-ing

Vernacular Typography Polaroids

Seeing how other people work from their desk

Good book design, like what neversink do

Music City, the App that gives buildings a soundtrack

Jonathan Glazer's Last Tango in Compton - who knew selling cars could be so hot?

A nice cup of tea, from a teapot, using cups & saucers, maybe a bit like these?

The Crouch End Festival Chorus

Elizabeth Mahoney's pick from the Desert Island Discs archive.

Things & People

826 Valencia's Pirate Store

Chromaroma - making commuting magical

Great Wine from a Great Wine Merchants.

We like it when the film title gets used in the film

A stylish new Spring wardrobe from D.S. Dundee

Best kitchen gadget demo ever - it's Slap Chop and if you liked that, try Slap Chop Rap

From the BAFTA archives Daniel Day Lewis's paean to South East London. A true gent, keeping it real.

James Smith & Sons - the best umbrella shop in Londinium. 

Punch it! Crank it! Left jazz hand! Work those Double Dream Hands!

 St John Hotel

There's only one Dolly Parton.

The most important meal of the day

Reviews of the most important meal of the day!

Margheritas in Wahaca followed by burgers in Byron . You in?

The Lamb & Flag's resident Jazz Quintet of a Sunday evening.

H&M Homeware. Predictably cheap. Surprisingly cheerful.

Living Architecture, including the Boat Hotel. Can we move in?

Who knew Darth Vader could be so cute?

Sound advice for Shakespeare's heroines from Sassy Gay Friend (avoid imitators)

McSweeneys - the most beautiful literary quarterly in the world

Magma. Great for gifts. For yourself.

A speakeasy worth seeking out - The Experimental Cocktail Club

Gemma Lister  jewellery design - unusual, affordable, fabulous

Franco Manca sour dough pizza - worth queuing for. 

Our office coffee machine. Now we can all be Baristas.

The Wapping Project - an idea consistently in transition

Animal Voice Overs - tickled

Albam: Soho menswear emporium

Drink, Shop & Do  - our kind of place

Wilton's Music Hall - the city's hidden stage

Magazines. Get the latest and best by subscribing with Stack

Young playwriting talent (aged 9-11) should be Scene and Heard

Hand made cards from Sort Design - very Corner Shop

The Urban Walking Route Planner - exercise without pain

We never liked Kim Jong-Il but check him out looking at things

Venetian Tapas is the order of the day at Polpo. Get in line.

Good spelling is important to us, take a test here

The future of classical music is safe - in his hands

Cassette Boy Vs The Only way is Essex

It's nice this

Hawksmoor - Steak with a side order of Lobster. I think so.

Murwillumbah Banana Festival - it's, er, bananas, right Kasey?

Our Local in East Sussex: The Tiger Inn

We loved our B&B in Wales Allt y bela

The best meat pasta in London and just across the street. Half and Half anyone?

Sipsmith - copper stilled in London and tasting mighty fine

The School of Life: beacuse learning never  stops

Beautiful French Farmhouse to rent:  Le Rouch

The best pub in Cornwall - and it has rooms.....

Perou: awesome photographer, all round nice guy and turkey breeder!

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