guardian.co.uk Film:
The Guidelines: random notes from pop cultureThere are copious strings to 50 Cent's platinum bow. As well as being a rapper, self-help guru and inspiration to many, he's an actor and videogame voiceover artiste. Recently adde (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no no (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)
www.guardian.co.uk:
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:
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:
Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world warThe friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student da (Read More)
The Guardian:
Ivan Klasnic reveals the story behind his two kidney transplants and the debt he owes his familyIvan Klasnic winces as he remembers the day his life was turned upside down. It was November 2005 and Werder Bremen had just beat (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
He left Britain after his girlfriend Rachel Nickell was murdered 17 years ago, to escape the trauma and the press. This week André Hanscombe returned – to force the police to face their mistakesThe picture is attractive – pal (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Peter Thornton was ousted from the family business – Thorntons chocolates – by his brothers and cousin. He talks about the bitter rivalries that ended his careerPeter Thornton always knew he would inherit the family chocolate (Read More)
iheartsl.com Second Life's largest community blog:
Irina is a formal elegant dress. The fabric of the garment is in embroidered lace and remembers the christmas color. The Flexible parts are in sweet black fur. Who did'nt have this one in inventory for your fashion in second (Read More)
New World Notes:
The BBC's news magazine has a grotesquely lopsided article curiously entitled "What happened to Second Life?", which largely recapitulates points from Wired's notorious 2007 article, which was fairly skewed in the first place (Read More)
Kabalyero:
Recently, many Second Life merchants have started removing their items in XstreetSL.com in response to Second Life’s new Roadmap on Managing Freebies in XstreetSL. The roadmap includes adding listing fees on both freebies and (Read More)
Official Second Life Blog:
Hola! Ciao! Boas Tardes!With roughly 60% of Residents based outside of the United States, localizing the Second Life experience is an important area of focus for us, so we’re pleased to share two pieces of good news on that f (Read More)
New World Notes:
I haven't had a chance yet to explore the War Poets Exhibition in Second Life, an extremely ambitious Oxford project that presents World War I poetry contextualized in an immersive simulation of WWI battlegrounds. (Read More)
Livin? La Vida Segunda:
I vacillate between shuddering and laughing when I go back to the first pictures I took in Second Life. Shuddering at my composition and technique, which haven't really advanced much in three and a fraction years, I fear, but (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)
Lifehacker:
When you've placed yourself where you need to be, kept at something past your initial doubts, and taken a risk at failing, you're running at 100 percent. Weblog The Simple Dollar suggests thinking of challenges that way—40/30 (Read More)
Gawker:
Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to ask three designers to compete for a prize. The delusion their entries will look different. The vision to return January 14th, the delusion your audience will com (Read More)
What Is This Crap?:
Laura Hansen of the BBC is doing the usual British Tabloid tactic of smearing Linden Lab and Second Life for all the wrong reasons.Here's how she starts:Once upon a time Second Life had a Twitter level of hype.Hype means noth (Read More)
What Is This Crap?:
You know, I'm going to start calling them Labbies instead of Lindens.Sounds nicer.This post by Barney Boomslang (formerly of Lummerland) just reaffirms my position that any involvement of Colossus Linden in the future of musi (Read More)