litter Vote for your favorite–or most hated–Gallagher brother by throwing your trash away Jennifer Sandlin

Science This 1900 film of a solar eclipse may be the oldest footage of an astronomical event ever (video) David Pescovitz

art This 1929 drawing of Piccadilly Circus underground station is a thing of beauty Jennifer Sandlin

Animal Rebellion enjoys pouring milk on store carpets Mark Frauenfelder

music Incredible handmade marionettes of early rock-and-rollers David Pescovitz

Shut In Sounds Robert Fripp launches weekly ambient music series Gareth Branwyn

surveillance London cops are subjecting people in the centre of town to facial recognition today and tomorrow Cory Doctorow

sexism Man angry at famous woman's appointment to literary society Rob Beschizza

uk London's amazing underground infrastructure revealed in vintage cutaway maps Cory Doctorow

tv commercials Bose locks down central London to shoot commercial Mark Frauenfelder

computer science Wrong things that programmers believe, a curated list Cory Doctorow

Games To do in London: digital storytelling with Rhianna Pratchett and Leigh Alexander Cory Doctorow

Japan Collapse in filial piety, poor social net produces cohort of elderly Korean prostitutes Cory Doctorow

art & design Soho Dives, Soho Divas: Sketching London's burlesque artists Rian Hughes