links for 2011-07-18

The Zeitgeist app presents an alternative view of guardian.co.uk content, influenced by what users are finding interesting and not purely by what editors and journalists consider interesting. It is not a curated collection of content, but an array of different pieces that have received a lot of attention.

"Murdoch had British politicians scurrying to win his favour because he owns three newspapers here with a combined audience of a few million. Impressive? Not compared to Google, which handles 92% of all internet searches in Britain. Increasingly, what we 'know' is what Google tells us. Google is so fundamental to our life that it's a verb. There will never be a verb 'to Murdoch'... or at least not a very nice one."

You can't argue with a tube map that features WOTAN

Good essay about "the fold", useful debate in the comments too

Collection of images of proto-radar listening equipment [via Brainpicker]

But who's been going around saying tight bras cause cancer? That would probably be the Daily Mail in articles such as 'Is your bra bad for you?', published today - just three days after the Mail unravelled the myth, didn't like the look of it all unravelled, and promptly ravelled it back up again.