Strange but true … Last year Mark did a radio interview on global financial centres. Nothing odd there you might say, but then you may not know Mark. Later the same day, all eleven minutes of this interview appeared on the internet as a podcast – nothing too unusual in the digital age. The story becomes more far-fetched when the podcast was offered as a mobile phone ringtone. Whilst we all know that nobody is daft enough to download Mark’s dulcet tones onto their mobiles, Mark was secretly delighted at the prospect of hearing his voice on the 18:34 from Cannon Street as busy financial professionals were called on their way home. Imagine our surprise when Mark recently received an email telling him that his interview was one of the most popular downloads the radio station concerned had ever had! We haven’t sent you the link as the site tends to try and download something resembling malware … or is that Mark-Ware?

Not to be outdone on new media, Michael too features on a YouTube mashup ‘Handel with Mandel’. At an electronics music day, "Robobox", in Ipswich in 2008, then 16 year old Galen Reich and his father Fraser Reich scored and performed a video with Mandelbrot graphics featuring Michael on vocals using fragments of Michael’s 2008 Gresham Lecture “Perfectly Unpredictable: Why Forecasting Produces Useful Rubbish”, where Michael describes early uses of fractals in cartography. Trainspotters? Pas nous!