Gizmodo:
When Roku released their new HD-XR box, they mentioned that big new features would be launched in the coming weeks via software update. Now the Roku Channel Store is finally here, but it's awfully short on excitement. The Roku Channel Store is an open platform for delivering content to Roku boxes beyond the already-integrat (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Jack Straw's move is welcome, but cosmetic surgery won't be enough to end this international embarrassmentJack Straw's announcement at the weekend that he was committed to reforming libel law is a significant step forward in the campaign to tackle our infamous laws. Does it mark a sea change? The justice minister's evidence (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Every character in Cast Offs, which starts tomorrow, is played by a disabled actor with the same disabilityFrom the one-armed presenter Cerrie Burnell joining CBeebies to James Partridge – who has a facial disfigurement – reading the lunchtime news on Five, disability in the media has itself been the subject of intense medi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Evgeny Lebedev, son of London Evening Standard proprietor Alexander, talked freely while enjoying lunch with the Financial Times. Some highlights:On turning the Standard into a free paper: "It was a difficult decision, but the right one... Perhaps it is the future for all newspapers... People were worried about [the paper] (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply:
The readers' editor on... flouting rules and flaunting styleI must watch what I say. Half a dozen readers took me to task over a rash statement in last week's column about the misuse of "cannot underestimate", when "cannot overestimate" or "should not underestimate" is meant. "Only one or two readers noticed each of the exa (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
The latest in our series of technological dilemmas involves an anonymous blogger who strikes a bit too close to homeFor some time you've been watching the progress of a notorious - but anonymous - blogger who has been writing posts that have ridiculed and embarrassed organisations you don't like, with exposes of bad corpora (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Astronomer Stuart Clark joins us in the studio to look at the latest thinking about the effects of variations in solar activity on the Earth's climate. Dark matter gets a mention too. Over the coming days he will be conducting question-and-answer sessions on Twitter - both on solar activity and dark matter. Follow him at Dr (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
South Africa 250-9; England 252-3England won by seven wicketsHello.Hello?Hear that tap-tapping sound? That's me knocking on the screen to see if anyone is out there.No one said anything about an 8am start. It's an unholy hour to be up and working on a Sunday.While you're busy rubbing the sleep out of your eyes and squinting (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
• The chain hopes to sell about 36 of its 45 bookshops• Lack of credit insurance led to difficulties in buying stock The sale of Borders UK, the troubled book retailer, appeared to be foundering today, raising fears for the future of the hard-pressed business.The company, with 45 stores in Britain, has been hoping to sell a (Read More)
The Guardian:
• The chain hopes to sell about 36 of its 45 bookshops• Lack of credit insurance led to difficulties in buying stock The sale of Borders UK, the troubled book retailer, appeared to be foundering today, raising fears for the future of the hard-pressed business.The company, with 45 stores in Britain, has been hoping to sell a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Bawdy farce involving Tom Jones's penis becomes a multiplex sensationThe Hollywood blockbusters 2012 and A Christmas Carol are playing to respectable audiences Merthyr Tydfil's Vue multiplex, entertaining fans with their multimillion pound effects.But in screen eight, the staff are having to drag in extra beanbags in an att (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Working women who claim partners don't pull their weight do so to feel more feminine and in charge in the homeIf there is one thing on which many working mothers agree, it is that their partners do not pull their weight on the domestic front.But research to be published this week reveals that men are being unfairly accused (Read More)
The Guardian:
Hajj is meant to bring Muslims together in brotherhood. But in 2009, more than ever, security is getting in the way"The hajj is one of the great cultural and spiritual events on earth, but one which most of us know far less about than we do about things that happen in outer space and under the sea", says Taran Davies co-pro (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
On the eve of Denman's comeback, Paul Nicholls reveals how an obsession with his craft has led to a singular obsessionPaul Nicholls could have had a quiet life had he wanted one. After starting out as a trainer with eight horses in 1991, he enjoyed such quick success that the boxes in his yard at Ditcheat, near Shepton Mall (Read More)