The Guardian:
If a demonstration against 'the Islamisation of Europe' takes place next month, our peaceful protest will be there to meet itEver since our successful demonstration against al-Muhajiroun (under the name of Islam4UK) on the 31 (Read More)
L.A. Times - Home & Garden:
My wife, Posh, is part Pilgrim. She's got all these funny ideas about religion and sex and is even pretty puritanical when it comes to what to stuff the turkey with.
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guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply:
It's good news that the government is considering how to make mapping data freely available under public sector information regulations (A new landscape unfolds, Technology, 17 November). But care must be taken to make sure t (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs:
Q: I admit that the world in which I live is not the real world. But there is a real world, of which I see a distorted picture. The distortion may be due to some blemish in my body or mind. But when you say there is no real w (Read More)
The Guardian:
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itsel (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : Connor SullivanConstantly new fads become popular that have to do with dietary choices and new miracle edible solutions One of the most recent fads among in the nutritional world is only eating raw food People who (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
AbelardAbelard was a brilliant early-medieval theologian and rhetorician who agreed to take on Héloïse as a pupil. The two began an affair, and when it was discovered, she was sent to a nunnery and he was castrated. The story (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection"O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date prophylactic sheaths!" The (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)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (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)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Once a place to escape to, the suburbs became a byword for conservatism. Owen Hatherley on a surprising exhibition at the London Transport MuseumA couple of years ago, I temporarily moved out of south-east London, where I hav (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Are you like me -- suddenly realizing that the holidays are only weeks away? And are you totally and completely convinced that you don't want to give the same old, same old this year? Then my favourite New Radical gift ideas (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The verse-writing of the new president of the European Council is good in parts, says the former poet laureateFirst let me say this: on balance, I would far rather that people in politics were writing poetry than not. Where a (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
"Open" is a great thing. Everyone likes it. Unfortunately, nobody agrees what open is. There are many meanings, but in general, I think "open" must be the opposite of "closed". In the world of abstract things like software, p (Read More)
Silicon Valley Watcher:
Last night I attended the Tech Awards Gala, which celebrates technology benefiting humanity, with the award of five $50,000 "cash prizes."Technology in the service of humanity seems a better description because all of the 15 (Read More)
Xconomy:
Public Companies, startups, trends Gregory T. Huang wrote: It’s been a busy week around here for the big tech companies. At Xconomy, we don’t usually report on things like product releases from Microsoft or sales figures (Read More)
Submitted by PinkLisa
from Google Reader:
The blog's stats for the last couple of days show that my last post, about the Cannondale Dutchess concept bike for women, has generated a LOT of interest. That certainly doesn’t surprise me. Having seen quite a few student d (Read More)