Archive for March, 2009
Will Jackson pay off his debts at the O2?
Just how many shows would Michael Jackson have to play at the O2 to pay off his considerable debts?
That’s the question that came to mind last week when the King of Pop began adding shows on an almost daily basis to the initial run of 10 nights.
As you can see, we make it about [...]
Most popular lyrics in the hit singles of 2008
“You”, “me”, “I” and “my”. It had to be, didn’t it? Here are the words used most often in the lyrics for UK No 1 singles last year, sized according to frequency. Being pop music, the first and second person pronouns are heavily favoured. (The only words used as frequently, which we took out, were [...]
Twittered Romeo and Juliet makes stage debut
Inspired by our ‘line every 15 minutes’ version of Romeo and Juliet on Twitter, Times Online designers have been playing round with a more thespian interface for our tool. Behold the ‘Flash version’, which will refresh with the latest 25 tweeted lines from the play each time you load this page. Should you fancy [...]
Mapped: the UK’s road cycling blackspots
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How perilous is it to cycle where you live? Here’s a map showing Department for Transport data of all the road accidents in 2007 involving cyclists where injuries were reported to the police. There were just over 16,000 accidents in total - about 46 per day. [...]
Using Twitter to help you lose weight
Nathan, over at Flowing Data, has developed a way for people to let Twitter be a kind of lifestyle/health monitor. The idea is that you register, and then send tweets detailing things like: what you eat, when you go to sleep, what time you wake up, your mood etc. and it spits back a ‘life [...]
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