links for 2009-07-16

"The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding and Dave Brown… will perform as The Doctor And The Pencil at the Macmillan's Brick Lane Takeover on August 13. The pair are being coy about their project – believed to be a DJ set-up."

Hypem sets up a fairly wicked twitter-driven music chart, and shows their math right there on the page: "We monitor Twitter for links pointing to tracks on the Hype Machine. We then give each of those tweets a number of points based on the number of followers (and the ratio of friends & followers) that person has. Finally, we add up all the points and figure out which tracks are tweeted by either the most influential twitter users, or by the largest group. "

Interestingly, a Four Tet remix of MF Doom is currently topping the chart.

I spent a good 12 seconds trying to find the joke in this, and then I found it, and I laughed.

"Word Magazine readers have been busy building this map showing where iconic album cover photographs were taken."