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Dish of the Day: The Reluctant Vegetarian's recipe for Triple the Greens Risotto
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"I'm not going to do ANYTHING for you"
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Nadine Dorries's new business: an engineering consultancy that has become a media consultancy
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Must watch: BioShock Infinite gameplay video
Columbia, Irrational Games’ flying city created for BioShock: Infinity (the third game in the first-person franchise), is really beginning to take shape — as is self-evident in this must watch 10 minute gameplay demo.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Wednesday, 22 September 2010 at 10:20 am
India’s games stink
Of all the sad and predictable problems to have emerged over Delhi’s ill-fated preparations for this year’s Commonwealth Games, one detail that caught the eye of many yesterday was the revelation that a number of the apartments that are supposed to house the athletes had been soiled by human excrement. One grisly report suggested that [...]
By Andrew Buncombe | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 22 September 2010 at 8:35 am
What Christine O’Donnell did to Mel Gibson
Forget witchcraft. There’s one toxic issue that Christine O’Donnell REALLY doesn’t want you to know about her past.
She dabbled in public relations for Mel Gibson.
The sullied name of Hollywood’s Jew-bashing, girlfriend-baiting star was removed from the Tea Party pin-up’s resume, the moment that the Republican National Committee got its hands on her website following her [...]
By Stephen Foley | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 9:19 pm
Another sliver of Twitter’s business plan goes public
Twitter employees are a rarity this side of the Atlantic, so it was no surprise to see a healthy crowd for this morning’s opening session “Twitter and Advertising: An engaging conversation” at digital media conference AdTech.
Twitter Product Manager Shiva Rajaraman was entertaining but fairly quiet on a lot of questions put to him by the [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 6:42 pm
Premier League remains the most exciting
There’s no place like home. Spain offers the riches of Real Madrid and the splendour of Barcelona. While Italy clearly have titans like Internazionale and Milan. And the skill on show at these chapels of European football invites songs of praise from watching hordes. Yet the most exciting, hair-raising drama unfolds on these shores.
La Liga [...]
By Giles Lucas | Sport | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 5:49 pm
Rally for Sanity
It’s a shame we can’t get the Daily Show here any more. (I suppose we could if we were computer-savvy enough to get round the region controls, but I can’t.) But we can still get this:
Daily Show host Jon Stewart announced Thursday that he will hold a rally on the National Mall in Washington D.C. [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 5:16 pm
OK Go (again), mama grizzlies, Freedom and more
The best of the web.
By Gillian Orr | Digital Digest, Notebook | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 3:29 pm
Micro-Armageddon
It is like “The Internet is Down” in miniature. Someone has hacked into Twitter, spreading black boxes over random messages, sending out what look like redacted MPs’ expenses under your name if you move the cursor over one of them and then turning the whole thing grey.
I have just made fun of the Daily Mail [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 2:21 pm
Banking Future: 21 years of telephone banking – where next?
21 years ago, at one minute past midnight on 1 October 1989, first direct opened the phone lines of its 24 hour call centre to offer the first real alternative to traditional high street banking.
Even the concept of first direct had radical beginnings, starting with the word “customer” in the middle of a blank sheet [...]
By Matt Colebrook | Notebook | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 12:30 pm
Did child poverty go up under Labour?
Can’t keep up with my own series. The above is Question to Which the Answer is No, number 388, asked by Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News on Sunday. It does not strictly qualify, because the purpose of her report is to show that the answer is No; it was Nick Clegg who was trying [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 at 12:24 pm
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