Stats from dating site OKCupid: "despite what you might’ve heard from the Obama campaign and organic cereal commercials, racism is alive and well"

Tom Watson on opening UK postcodes: "I like to think that the liberation of public information in re-usable formats using open standards is an agenda shared between progressives in both Labour and the Liberal Democrats. At the heart of the debate is a profound belief that citizens should have a greater say over the public services they use."

Does the iPhone app store actually sell that much?: "This isn't to say that the iPhone App Store is a failure. In fact, I'd argue it's been a huge success in making the iPhone significantly more valuable. But as evidence that there's a huge market out there of people willing to pay for content if it's just packaged up nicely? There's just not enough there to be convincing."

Letter from a postie about the current Post Office shenanigans: "The Royal Mail have been fiddling the figures. This is how it is being done."

More on generative music, this time making audio from the internal operations of programs;

Coping with change on Scrum projects - advice for testers: "With concepts such as TDD and BDD, the testing effort has shifted from a traditionally tail ended process to a front ended process and as a result quality is built in right from the start."

How to present whilst people are twittering: "Presenting while people are twittering is challenging. But isn’t it better to get that feedback in real-time when you can do something to retrieve the situation – than wait till you read the evaluation sheets a few days after the conference – and find that you bombed?"

Nokia are working on AR language translation: "you know you’re living in the freaking future when you can point your phone at a bunch of alien characters and have them magically make sense"

Ghost in the field, lovely visualisations of RFID fields, reminiscent of Dunne & Raby;

The ultimate uncluttered tube map: "the whole network distilled into three lines and twelve stops"

Simon Maddox has very kindly published the stats from his 0870 app for the iPhone; not sure if it's reasonable, but I found it quite shocking that an app which was downloaded and used to such an extend generated so little in ad revenue ($680.82 in two weeks);

Sketching in hardware: "We are coming from years of passiveness to the possibilities of designing and modifying pretty much everything around us"