A great film, charting the battle for the (1980s platform game) Donkey Kong high score.

55km off the shore of Azerbaijan (which is a very weird place anyway) the world’s first operating offshore oil platform has blocks of flats, a school and even parks. So many amazing Soviet legacies to see.

Quite a literal interpretation of this week's theme in the shape of a favourite old track from what I believe was the end of a golden age of hip hop.

Mark Smith is to train travel as Sheldon Brown is to bikes and Martin Lewis is to saving money. That is to say: an online authority and essential resource. Not to mention über nerd.

A high speed video recording in Tokyo at Shinjuku station by Adam Magyar.

Only just came across this book and haven't read it yet, but it's by the excellent Astra Taylor (Examined Life) so I'm sure it's going to be great.

When developing applications for a platform you don't control there is always the risk that the platform owner will build a more popular app than yours.

Bob Mazzer's back observing and documenting people on or around the platform

Bill Cunningham only shoots on film, but turns out no one can escape other 'content platforms' these days.

Hyde Park Speakers’ Corner photographed by John Gladdy.