A blog by Ben Gilman

I’ve just been putting the finishing touches to a simple website for an artist friend, Allan Williams to showcase the results of a recent project he’s undertaken to document the people and images of the soon-to-be London 2012 Olympic site in London’s East End.

Take a look at www.beforelondon2012.com to see all the pictures and interviews with the people involved.

Wordle is an excellent web-toy that generates word maps based on RSS feeds or Delicious accounts. It found the RSS for my blog slightly troublesome so here’s my Delicious bookmarks mapped out instead.

Wordle discovered via SimpleBits.

Continuing evidence that About.com covers everything that falls through the Wikipedia cracks… I present to you a German-English animal sounds dictionary.

[(CC) photo from Max XX]

To put it simply, the German language (naturally) describes the sounds made by animals with different words. As the related article puts it:

Have you ever heard a dog actually bark “bow wow” or a rooster enunciate “cock-a-doodle-doo”? Only some serious cultural conditioning leads us to believe that’s what they’re saying.

So the next time you need to discuss politics with an Angeln Saddelback, remember, it’s grunz grunz.

With a healthy nod to Monty Python, it’s the gloriously hatstand Hold Steady from their album Boys & Girls In America.

Presenting, a very silly video I made for work a few months back.

The topic was ‘If your money could talk, what would it say about you?’ Apologies for the shocking accent (and rather lame joke).