http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute en-us Reader-submitted tips http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#2106541 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 I got an email about this for dancing. To be honest it looks like it’d be a laugh as long as it doesn’t rain! Massive Fame Stunt… Thing… http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#2057791 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1880522 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Pearson & His Long Bike Back http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1842652 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Bea’s of Bloomsbury’s cupcakes are by far the best in london!! they should have come first!! http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1816542 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 http://www.flickr.com/photos/taniebrand/3574327244/ F*CK YOU RECESSION by taniebrand http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1654107 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Photos of London taken from the upper decks of buses. www.ftud.net http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1649684 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 T-Mobile advert filmed in Trafalgar Square today, Pink was surprise guest. Follow up advert to the dancing advert in Liverpool St Station http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1647643 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Swine flu masks on sale in London — pic http://www.asylum.co.uk/2009/04/29/swine-flu-face-masks-already-on-sale-in-london-kind-of/ http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1640705 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 The Distillers across from Smithfields Market has free wifi. The staff will give you the password and is very accommodating http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1632661 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Try our new contribute box! http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1628157 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 http://www.flickr.com/photos/33810046@N07/3408713566/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Flowers Outside of Buckingham Palace http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1622291 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 the mcdonalds at strand close to trafalgar square has free wifi - 24 hrs allowed, so better than coffee republic, pret etc. http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1617816 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Hey, Joe Dunckley! What is your problem? Why are you stonewalling EvoWiki? http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1615323 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Google streetview live now in London http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1614758 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 I took this view from Richmond Hill looking towards the Thames with beautiful light enhanced by the clouds. View of the Thames at Richmond http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1610089 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Banksy’s “One Nation Under CCTV” in Newman Street, is now “One Nation Under a Thick Layer of Grey Paint”. See http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/3348501381_d18ea22f9b_b.jpg http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1605316 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Free wifi at westfield sheperds bush http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1602482 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Tower Gateway DLR has now re-opened - not Tower Hill as reported in these esteemed pages…… http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1595783 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 tate modern currently being evacuated http://twitter.com/se1/status/1240798647 http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1594490 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 re:Luardo’s of Whitecross - for a weekday lunch get there before 12:30 else the queue is massive! http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1583518 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 The Monument will be re-opening in just over a week’s time. http://www.themonument.info/ http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1580678 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 im i the only one who has been ripped off by mobile phone retailers like carhonewarehouse and e2save? i had been paying for insuarance on a mobile phone i lost in 2002. what ticks me off is that they know i cancelled the contract for the mobile phone and claim i had to call in to cancel the policy. it doesnt make sense. total rip off!!! http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1577407 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Skiing in London http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1571130 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 If you’re ever driving in London and stuck in a traffic jam, follow a black cab driver in your vicinity who will probably dart around a back route to find a way past the jam. http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1570479 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Thomas Tye (1713-1783) came to London from Derbyshire in 1738. His account book survives and I’m blogging it here http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1567205 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 cabbie http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1566182 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Not sure if you know that today is a sad day for chip starved clubbers everywhere. Dionysus Fish and Chip Shop on the corner of Oxford Street and Charring Cross Road closes its doors to make way for some train station I will probably never use. Being a Londoner of a slighter older vintage I can remember when this glorious etablishment was situated slightly further up Tottenham Court Road in what we used to call the Greek chip shed. The best chips and the smelliest pickled onions in the West End. I’ve heard they are going to try to find new premises. I hope they do. Even though my clubbing days are over a girl still needs to know where she can lay her hands on a damn fine bag a chips and under-the-counter onion vinegar. CJ http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1563699 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Emma Hignett’s voice destoyed Boots the Chemist and now has destroyed London Buses. Her northern ‘one’, and her ‘two’ pronounced ‘tyoo’ makes my jouney sheer hell. http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1563101 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 I am one of the Organisers of Manumission and would just like to share the correct reason we didn’t proceed with the Astoria Closing. It is as the Press release stated due to TFL reserving a writ coupled with the fact we were given 10 days to put together an event that should have been for free to Celebrate the Astoria’s history. That and the reluctance of The Owners to make it so prooved too much as we were also struggling because of Time of Year and Music Industrys lack of interest. We then managed to secure Babyshambles who were to take the Stage with Roger Daltry from The Who. Unfortunately, The Owners didn’t allow us to have Babyshambles as they previously sold out the Venue but never showed up. Without Talent the Last Night would have been a Club Night which is not what we had planned as this was to be the Mother of all Events. Subsequently, the day we cancelled Duran Duran phoned us along with other Artists and offered to play for free but in my eyes i didn’t believe we could turn around a Show that people expect from us given the time left.As far as Tickets , they were flying out and would have sold out twice over but again with a World Tour starting and our first time in London ever I didn’t want to let people down with a watered down version of what we are. We are leaving for South America to start World Tour to return to England to do The Royal Albert Hall in an Event that I hope Elton John Aids Foundation will be beneficiaries. Lastly, someone in our Organisation contacted Jeremy Joseph to see if he wanted to get involved as we wanted him to play the last record out of respect for what he has done there but he replied not so kindly. In later speaking to someone in The Owners Organisation about this the comment back was ” I wouldn’t piss on him if he was burning”which to my understanding is what alot of people say about him. His comment in todays article just shows what a Bitter Queen he really is for not being asked to close the Venue he spent years at. There is a Closing Concert/Party today, but not on the scale we were doing, by some lovely guys and I’m sure they will do very well and wish them luck. the reality is the Owners should have footed the Bill for this instead of trying to make money and got Talent to close this Venue properly. I’d have gone one step further and let JJ get involved but I guess not everyone thinks of other people http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1562693 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 As of the 1st October 2008 London City Airport has been offering free WiFi to all it’s customers, but as it is a simple re-direction page anyone standing within the radius of LCY can use it. It also has loads of free power sockets with in the departure lounge. Linky http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1561745 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Apostrophe cafe in Brunswick Centre (near Russell Sq) offers free wifi, but there are no power slots. http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1561404 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Thanks for the addition to the V2 map, Patrick. I can indeed see the crater, and have added a marker to the map. Best, Matt. http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1561356 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Re V2 sites : please pass on to Mat Brown, I could not register for some reason to leave this as a comment in the usual way. A V2, not on your plotted map, landed in a field just south of Lower Bedfords Road, Rise Park, Romford. About 30 years ago I dug up a fair bit of corroded aluminium shrapnel from the rear garden of one of the bungalows and was told that the building had been lifted partly out of the ground by the blast, however as it had a concrete raft foundation, it had dropped back down and survived with repairable damage. If you look on your map, (having reset it to satellite mode and zoomed in) you can still see what appears to be the crater mark in the field behind the bungalows (look south of Lower Bedfords Road, about ten properties east of Helmsdale Road and slightly to the north of a line extended from the direction of Nevis Close). Hope this is useful. Patrick http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1558167 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 Also free wi fi at Brill on Exmouth Market - ask for password http://www.Londonist.com/labs/contribute/#1558153 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:17:42 -0500 There is free wifi at Gossip on Broadway Market, near London Fields E8