I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot
TS Eliot … the inspiration for countless rock musicians The New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wrote in a review of the…
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Hearts' Paulo Sérgio: 'I don't know if this will be my last game'
The Hearts manager Paulo Sérgio holds aloft the Scottish Cup after the 5-1 win over Hibernian. Photograph: Pool/Reuters Paulo Sérgio hailed his Hearts side after they secured the Scottish Cup with a…
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Juan Mata: 'It's important to have the European Cup in the cabinet'
Juan Mata has adjusted to life off the pitch just as well as he has on the pitch for Chelsea. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian He has changed countries, cities and clubs. He has changed…
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How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
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14 days ago
Living in Lego City
Police checkpoints. The Burj Khalifa. Bears. What kind of urbanism is Lego creating?     “LEGO City is busy. The police are looking for thieves, the fire brigade is on the move,…
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Anatomy of an iTV rumor
Via Techmeme FORTUNE -- It is perhaps a measure of how badly broken today's commercial TV viewing experience is -- the cookie-cutter sitcoms, the ridiculous reality shows, the ever-shifting…
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Brendan Rodgers: Spain have been a great model for me over many years
Brendan Rodgers calls the shots during a Swansea training session, which he keeps a close eye on at all times. Photograph: Alex Morton/Action Images It is 9am on Wednesday at Glamorgan Health and…
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20 days ago
Do It Differently
Everybody’s sick of this debate, but there is an interesting assumption underlying the claims made by film critic Roger Ebert and the editors of n+1 that videogames, as a matter of…
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Walker goal takes Redknapp by surprise
29 April 2012 Last updated at 18:17 GMT Media Player help
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A Non-Designer’s Guide to Typefaces and Layout
Whether you realize it or not, you're designing every day. It might be a simple document, an updated resume, or a presentation, but either way you're making design choices, in particular about…
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Why I’m Worried About My Daughter’s Video Game Future
This is my daughter. Her nickname is Cheeks. I really want her to play video games. Like, I really, really do. One of her favorite things to grab when she wanders around the apartment is an Xbox 360…
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Intuition Taste Test #1
[In this Game Developer Magazine reprint, designer Ara Shirinian discusses affordances -- how interfaces suggest what they let people accomplish versus what they actually let people accomplish --…
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Mail Supremacy
On Thursday, January 19th, the front page of the Daily Mail carried a story about Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. During Goodwin’s tenure, from 2000…
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Prince of Persia
The prince and the unpopular. On paper, 2008's Prince of Persia revamp was a pointless game. Don't get me wrong, it had every reason to exist, but its story and mechanics were essentially a long,…
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The death of arcades
By Rob Beschizza at 10:44 am Saturday, Apr 7 Kyle Orland traces the long, slow decline of the American arcade, from cultural phenomenon to background noise at pizza parlors and movie theater…
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How Licensing and Hardware Bottlenecks Confound Magazine Text on the iPad
For the most part, text on the new retina display iPad looks amazing. Load a PDF with proper vector-based text onto it, and your document doesn’t just look like paper; it looks like perfect…
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8 weeks ago
Just One More Game ...
In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo…
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Zelda Just Keeps Getting Worse. But It Isn’t Beyond Saving
Late in the original Zelda's second quest, I got stuck. I couldn't find the relocated and very well-hidden eighth dungeon. Then one night I had a dream in which I took a map of Hyrule and drew large…
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Madonna: MDNA
Madonna's 12th studio album is the product of both a merger and a divorce, but as much as the singer attempts to milk the latter event for pathos over the course of its 16 tracks, the tone is mostly…
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