Beware falling blocks: Tetris Party Deluxe on its way

Teris Party Deluxe will be launched on 3rd September across Europe and Nintendo will be hoping that its release will see long-standing Tetris fans and newcomers flocking to the puzzle game in equal measures.

By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 12:52 pm

Rapha 1910 Challenge: Now that’s tough

For all my unmanly whinging about the final climb of Sunday’s Etape du Tour, the punishing Col du Tourmalet (it made me not only cry but throw up), I’d do well to remember the guys who started the Tour de France’s Pyrénéen love affair 100 years ago.
Back in 1910, the world’s greatest race made its [...]

By Simon Usborne | Notebook | Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 12:00 pm

iPhones, Homeland Security and Radiohead on a ukulele

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By Gillian Orr | Digital Digest, Notebook | Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 11:41 am

Osborne’s timely reminders

Last month when the borrowing figures for May 2010 came in below analysts’ expectations the Chancellor said: “The public finances numbers today remind us why we do not need to get on top of the budget deficit”. Didn’t he?

By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 11:13 am

“Thank you for noticing”

I’ll shut up about Twitter in a moment, but allow me to record that it has just thanked me for noticing that it is not working. What does it mean? How could I not notice?

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 8:31 pm

Catch-Up Service

The trouble with Twitter, as one of my blogging friends said a while ago, is its impermanence. “Blink and a tweet is gone. A blog is for ever,” she said. Or words to that effect (because, although an email might be for ever, trying to find it again requires Gmail’s search facility, rather than the [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 7:55 pm

New music from Puro Instinct

Back in December I interviewed Piper of LA duo Pearl Harbor. She and her sister Skylar make music that slots into the current wave of US lo-fi bands mixing shoegaze and surf guitars, ethereal sounds and distant, somewhat flat vocals. One friend of mine sarcastically expressed his wish that such bands would just stand closer [...]

By Larry Ryan | Arts | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 6:07 pm

London Cycle Hire: (really) not ready for launch

So, as I hinted last week, Boris’ grand cycle hire scheme isn’t going quite according to plan. Transport for London admitted to me that the “vast majority” of docking stations would be ready for the launch on 30 July. Today, The Evening Standard splashes with news that as many as a quarter of the 400 [...]

By Simon Usborne | Notebook | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 5:30 pm

War Child goes Bowie to Bowie

The latest War Child charity record is an epic David Bowie tribute album featuring Vivian Girls, Warpaint and Carla Bruni.

By Larry Ryan | Arts | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 4:46 pm

A Statement Followed by a Question Separated by a Colon: An Effective Journalistic Technique?

Question to Which the Answer is No number 368, although this gem from The Onion is out of chronological order, as it first appeared two years ago. But such genius never ages.

Thanks to Julia Turner via Larry Ryan.

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 4:38 pm