• Mmm, pie and mash, surely the foodstuff of choice for plump-faced Cockney gobblers. True addicts will find solace in the Pie & Mash Club whose members compete monthly to guzzle as much beefsteak, mash, eels and liquor as possible. The 2007/8 season is now well underway, with frontrunner Tom walking away with the calorie-packed spoils at Manze's in Tower Bridge Road last month. [Even if you're not free on Friday lunchtimes, you might still find their directory of London's Pie & Mash premises invaluable]
• Ever find yourself miles from home and in need of a local radio fix? 48 UK commercial radio stations are now available to stream online with the Radio Centre Player. Perfect, should you ever want to listen to Cornwall's Pirate FM in Dundee, Dundee's Tay FM in Kent or Kent's Invicta FM in Los Angeles. [no need to sign in, just click the "default player" option]
• Roof Unit are a photography collective with their HQ on the top floor of a retired soap factory in East London. I bumped into one of them in the middle of the Olympic Park recently - both of us snapping away as bulldozers demolished the landscape all around us. My new random acquaintance then alerted me to an exhibition called Foundations which they're holding at the Space Studios in Hackney for the next six weeks. On show are 13 separate projects visually cataloging the closure of the Lower Lea Valley, including allotment evacuation, disappearing fish and general atmospheric wistfulness. [flier][part of the East London Photography Festival]
• This weekend Radio 4 launches a half hour magazine programme devoted to blogs, bloggery and issues raised by bloggers. And about time too, I hear you say. The programme's called ipm and, as you would imagine, it has its own blog (and its own Flickr pool). Here you can watch the show's running order evolve through the week (and indeed watch the tube map feature inspired by this blog drop from nearly-lead item to deleted also-ran). Be there at 5:30pm on Saturday. [or more likely Listen Again]
• If you don't want to get any work done for the rest of the day then try Bloxorz - one of those infuriatingly simple yet not-so-simple strategy games. Can you roll the block around the grid and through the hole without falling over the edge? I'm currently loitering on Level 25, so only another eight to go. But I'm sure you can beat that. [via Londonist]
