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Clegg throws it all away
It was all going so well for Nick Clegg as he stood in for David “Junior Partner” Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions. He told Jack Straw – who is officially in the shadow cabinet list the “acting shadow deputy prime minister” – that the deadline for withdrawing from Afghanistan was 2015, not 2014, and it [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 4:34 pm
Donkeygate: a reply
Why finding a parasailing donkey funny does not make you a maniac.
By Archie Bland | Eagle Eye, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 3:59 pm
Deerhunter’s halcyon experiences
I was at the Vice/Intel Creators Project shindig with my colleague Jack Riley in London last weekend. Beyond all the attention grabbing music and interactive digital art exhibits, the most interesting thing I attended all day was something far more old-fashioned; a talk by Berlin based “media artist” and university professor Joachim Sauter (right).
As Jack wrote [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 3:23 pm
Xbox Kinect priced at £129.99 but is it worth it?
Having been designed to rival Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s similar device, the PlayStation Move for the PS3, it seems strange to see the peripheral debut at a price just £35 less than the Wii console and double the price of Sony’s Move.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 1:34 pm
The now completely contradictory Mercury Prize
Yesterday came the announcement of the final shortlist for the 19th Mercury Prize, but have the organisers and mysteriously faceless judges finally smacked the last nail in an already tightly secured coffin?
If you weren’t already bored of the annual run through of “up and coming”, painfully cool, “next big thing” contenders, this year it seems the [...]
By Gareth Vipers | Arts | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 12:26 pm
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By Gillian Orr | Digital Digest, Notebook | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 12:00 pm
Must watch: Multiphysics engine
A ‘multiphysics engine’ is a lame thing to watch a video of, right? Wrong. It’s not lame. It’s amazing. Especially the bit when the shape that you think is a rabbit turns out to have the consistency of blancmange (2:20).
By Jack Riley | Digital Digest, Notebook | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 11:22 am
Meeting Harold Chapman
One of those rare pieces, speaking to an artist at the end of their career, which is really quite moving (the last time I think I felt this, really, was when meeting Liv Ullman at Karlovy Vary in 2005). Harold Chapman photographed all the Beats in Paris. I went to his home in Kent and spent a lovely couple of hours with him.
Can the iPad Fix Healthcare?
Number 370 in my inexhaustible series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked in a press release by the New England Complex Systems Institute, which is launching a programme (no, I don’t call it an “app”) called Healthcare 101.
The iPad is a magical device, but can it fix the healthcare system?
A new app “Healthcare [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 7:09 pm
Kele Okereke interview: Beyond Bloc Party
While his reputation as a difficult interviewee precedes him, I was still excited to get a chance to talk to Kele Okereke at the Creators Project last weekend. I figured that since I wasn’t going to be asking him what he had for breakfast, or doing a meta-piece on his disdain for the interviewing process, as the NME tried in 2005, I’d be ok.
By Jack Riley | Arts | Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 5:04 pm
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