Forgive me; it's been 5 conferences and 2 months since my last Deliciousness post and I offer this one up by way of atonement.

• Stamford Brook, Parr's Ditch, Counter's Creek ... all part of the network of lost rivers beneath the streets of London. I grew up next to and played in one of them, Beverley Brook, as a (very muddy) child.
• Some maps are works of art but Jason LaFerrera makes works of art from maps. No, really.
• OpenStreetMap, waze and Map Maker announce the formation of the Closed Street Map alliance, but check out the date of the post and the registrant's details from the WHOIS record as well.
• A search for estate agents in Islington on Mountain View's favourite search engine seems to say that prisons and estate agents are one and the same.
• Forget dogs that look like their owners. Forget owners that look like their dogs. Fonts that look like dogs, that's the thing.
• While I'm on the subject of fonts; best alphabet. Ever.
• While I'm on the subject of best (ever); best beer name. Ever.
• The last time I mentioned bacon deliciousness was October 2009 so here's a double helping. Still cooking your bacon the old fashioned way, you know, in a frying pan or under the grill? Try wrapping it around your machine gun for a change. You're going to be thirsty after all that cooking (and possibly that shooting) so slake your thirst with a beer, bacon flavoured of course.
• I want this tee shirt, part one. Some days you make the coffee, some days the coffee makes you.
• I want this tee shirt, part two. Nerd is the new cool you know.
• I want this tee shirt, part three. Bacon makes everything better.
• Not much in the grand scheme of things but two of my Flickr photos made it into the 2010 London Schmap guide. This pleased me.
• Still drinking your coffee, the old fashioned way, by mouth? That's so passe. Inhaling is the new drinking.
• Not one KitKat. Oh no. Nineteen of them. In Japan only, sadly.

It's been almost two weeks since one of these posts; I've been pretty much conferenced out, with FOWA London taking up a sizeable chunk of last week and the AGI's GeoCommunity mopping up any spare time the week before that.

The hallmark of any successful tech conference is appallingly bad wifi which, despite the best protestations of the conference organisers, always buckles under the strain around 30 minutes into the opening keynote. All of which has meant that my Delicious account has been on a bit of a diet recently, but here's what did make it through the wifi ...* Yet more bacon products make it to market. Most of them are novelty value only but surely there's scope for bacon flavoured mayo, for those moments when the perfect BLT is just out of reach? * Twickenham Fire Station tested its' air raid siren last week and memories of the Protect and Survive public service announcements on British TV at the height of the Cold War came flooding back. * My talk's at the AGI GeoCommunity conference seemed to get people talking; both seriously and somewhat tongue in cheek and I also managed to out the (neogeographer) Geoweb chair as an old school paleogeographer. * The CEO of the company I work for finally managed to achieve the accolade of being faked on Twitter. * And the source of all the crop circles was finally found in a town in the US with a strangely familiar name.

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This week's trawl through what appeared on the interwebs and made it into my Delicious bookmarks. The march towards all things bacon flavoured continues unabated; now you can get bacon (and mint) flavoured, err, mints and that get-you-going-in-the-morning first cup of coffee can now be bacon flavoured as well. Where's this going to end? * Mac OS X 10.6, AKA Snow Leopard, got officially released today. Some people rushed out, bought it and installed it. But as ever, there's some compatibility problems, not the least of which (for me at least) is that the Cisco VPN client may (or may not) work properly. It's also for Intel based Macs only so a lot of PowerPC based Mac owners are going to be sad. * First reviews of the new Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book, not written by Douglas Adams on account of him being dead, find it "not really funny" and "less a case of So Long And Thanks For All The Fish and more a case of So Long And Thanks For All The Money*". * #wherecamp, the geogeeks (un)conference of choice, is coming to Europe in the form of the aptly named #WhereCampEU. Naturally, I'll be there. * While walking into Soho, I found one of London's lost streets right under my feet. Literally. * And finally, real men don't rock their child to sleep, they write a shell script to do it for them.

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A semi regular, almost weekly, trawl through the latest stuff on the interwebs bookmarked on Delicious.

• This fad for all things bacon flavoured is getting out of hand; a few weeks back it was bacon flavoured vodka and now you can get bacon flavoured lip balm.
• There's lots of geeks in the United Kingdom; now you can know where they are. I might be there as well.
• Someone posted the PIN number from your credit or debit card onto the interwebs.
• Twitter's popular these days; even the birds in the trees are RT'ing.
• If Ohio was a piano, ever wondered how it'd sound? Possibly the weirdest geo and mapping visualization. Ever.
• There's a spectrum from OMG to WTF, pasing through"I get it", "that's strange" and "I don't get it" along the way.
• And finally, UNIX turned 40. It's still younger than me though.

This week's selection of what caught my eye on the interwebs:

• After managing to acquire garygale.com I put up a personal site on the domain and cut down the subdomain proliferation that vicchi.org had acquired over the years, retiring blog.vicchi.org and where.vicchi.org amongst others.
• There's no accounting for taste it seems and some people think it's cute to have a small plastic dog humping the USB port of your laptop.
• Flavoured vodka; I can understand lemon, orange, vanilla and even chilli versions but bacon flavoured vodka?
• Possibly the best sign ever; "unattended children will be fed espresso and given a puppy".
• In order to define recursion we must first define recursion; Google demonstrates the principle of recursion by offering to look up recursion when searching for recursion.
• Twitter corrected follower counts by deleting spammer's accounts; I lost 100 followers overnight and the twitter-sphere howled in anguish.