On Wednes­day night, Mix & Mash was launched at the City Gallery, ask­ing peo­ple to use data to make new things. Of course, our Tom has been doing that for years, but painful­ly by hand, I believe. That should­n’t put you off enter­ing, rather it should inspire you.

In fact, you should go read the Mix & Mash web­site now, because I’m about to go off on a rant about the City Gallery, or more specif­i­cal­ly, their pol­i­cy of not allow­ing drinks in their audi­to­ri­um. Because appar­ent­ly they are Hoyts Cin­e­ma or some­thing. Okay, I under­stand why they won’t let red wine be served. I have friends who’d like to have that same rule in their house. And although all the peo­ple float­ing around to pro­tect the art works are spooky, I under­stand why they feel the need to keep their eyes on things of val­ue. But there is no art in the audi­to­ri­um. All there is are uncom­fort­able seats and no inter­net. WHY CAN’T WE DRINK IN THERE? It does­n’t make any sense, and it makes for much less ani­mat­ed evenings.