www.guardian.co.uk:
Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humourIt's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
On the 10th anniversary of Paul Bowles's death, Paul Theroux remembers the writer and traveller who set him on his wayThe Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles's first novel and, although he honed his art almost to his dying day – n (Read More)
The Apple Blog:
Speaking yesterday at the Professional Developer’s Conference, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie explained what’s really important when it comes to the smartphone business, and it’s apparently nothing at all to d (Read More)
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I spent a lot of time this week (unintentionally) tuned into Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s extremely enthusiastic – and extremely long – DreamForce keynote address and (intentionally) thinking about the implications of t (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Once hailed as the man to shake up Hollywood, the maestro of dizzying, exquisitely choreographed action movies has returned to the far eastLet's say from the start that the life of a major league film-maker, with a thriving c (Read More)
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Less than a month after the Washington Blade, known as “the gay paper of record,” celebrated its 40th Anniversary at a glitzy reception at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., comes news that the paper will no (Read More)
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It’s an accepted fact that we love an underdog in this country. Overdogs don’t even get a look in. From “Eddie” The Eagle Edwards to his conjoined grandsons Jedward, we have a soft spot for the tryers, doomed to failure. We (Read More)
The Guardian:
Xbox 360/PS3/Wii/DS, £29.99 - £39.99, cert: 7+, Warner BrosSomeone at Lego really deserves a bonus. They're not the most obvious toy company to embrace the world of video gaming but not only have they done it, they've done it (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conferenc (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Twenty years after the launch of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we must do more to listen to vulnerable childrenTo 13-year-old Mumo Katumo, the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is an (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Health visitors under Conservatives would be encouraged to tell mothers and fathers about websites offering advice on parentingDavid Cameron said yesterday that a Conservative government would promote Mumsnet and other "good (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
British peer says she will show she is the best person for the job of European foreign minister over the next few months and yearsEurope's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic (Read More)
BetaNews.Com:
By Carmi Levy, BetanewsI'm sure I'm not the only one who looks at renderings of Apple's long-rumored tablet - or iTablet, or whatever name the faithful have assigned to it this week - and wishes the FedEx truck would pull up (Read More)
VentureBeat:
If you’ve followed coverage on R2EV, you already know that some are skeptical about a battery designed to be swapped out in a network of “Greenbox” facilities nation wide. Perceived problems with interoperability, improper in (Read More)
New York Times:
As the musical children’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” continues to take significant steps into mainstream popular culture, its producers crave more support from its network.
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guardian.co.uk Society:
It is immoral to encourage young people to risk brain injury by repeated blows to the headYour article on the resurgence of boxing highlights an irrational, immoral and dangerous funding strategy that encourages people to ris (Read More)
Mashable!:
Back in August, The Huffington Post asked their readers to help identify the top game changers across 10 different verticals to “honor and celebrate people who are using new media to reshape their fields and change the world. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Europe's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic climaxtonight when the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, and Britain's Cathy Ashton, were appointed as the two top offic (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Foursquare has just gone global with the announcement of 50 new cities worldwide, doubling their previous coverage. The company says it chose the cities based on feedback from users requesting the service.The new cities take (Read More)