Gizmodo:
Unlike T.S. Eliot, I can't measure life out in coffee spoons. I tend to lose the darn things. That's exactly why this self-stirring, self-heating, USB-chargeable coffee cup is the stuff my caffeine-deprived daydreams are made (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
The England coach believes consistency, rather than creativity, is the way forward for his under-fire players"It's been a tough week, I can't deny it," Martin Johnson said yesterday, giving some hint of his response to the cr (Read More)
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The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20)In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not (Read More)
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The culmination of a triumph of storytellingYour Face Tomorrow III: Poison, Shadow and Farewellby Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 560pp, Chatto & Windus, £18.99Part two of Javier Marías's metaphysical epic, (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as mu (Read More)
The Guardian:
Thierry Henry's calculated handball showed football is all about getting away with what you can when you canIt is understood that the canonisation of Thierry Henry has been postponed indefinitely. During his eight years at Ar (Read More)
The Guardian:
The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companiesIn a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the p (Read More)
The Guardian:
Originally published on 21 November 1945NUREMBERG, NOVEMBER 20.When Lord Justice Lawrence, British President of the International Tribunal, opened the great Nuremberg war trial this morning he called it unique in the history (Read More)
The Guardian:
Lucy Mangan on the people in the headlinesStripped blogger Belle de JourThe blogger-turned-bestselling-author who documented her secret life as a call girl revealed after five years of carefully maintained anonymity her true (Read More)
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Readers' responses to The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiKiran Desai was not the first novelist who has come to speak to the Guardian book club and confessed to having second thoughts about the ending of her novel. Several (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday!We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, speakers, sponsors and the press. I (Read More)
The Daily Dish:
David Feige worries about the consequences:In an idealized view, our judicial system is insulated from theribald passions of politics. In reality, those passions suffuse thecriminal justice system, and no matter how compellin (Read More)
Gawker:
The Tinz just wrapped shooting for her reality show and it looks like her showmance, Prince Casimir Wittgenstein-Sayn, has gotten the boot for a new beau. Who's the lucky guy? Former American Idol contestant Constantine Marou (Read More)
Perez Hilton:
Move over, Michael! Robbie is back! After a very shaky start for his comeback, Robbie Williams reigns supreme! The singer has taken Michael Jackson's crown as king of the current European charts! Robbie's Reality Killed The V (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Photo: Rolls RoyceDoes It Matter? Depends How You Look at It...Autocar reports that a source inside the company told them that Rolls Royce could have an electric version of its Phantom super-luxury car on the road by the end (Read More)
FT.com - Serious money:
Investors still have great expectations of equities, and of UK fund managers – but they should be questioning the latest profit forecasts. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxesIf someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would make a fortune today: the only thing anyone can find (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Obviously, unless sometime between now and 2012 there occurs a rip in the space-time continuum and the country slips into an alternate reality, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck will not be running on a joint ticket for the presiden (Read More)