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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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9 days ago
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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12 days ago
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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13 days ago
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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14 days ago
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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17 days ago
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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26 days ago
The truth about Apple's mind-boggling low tax rate • The Register
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4 weeks ago
Walker goal takes Redknapp by surprise
29 April 2012 Last updated at 18:17 GMT Media Player help
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4 weeks ago
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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7 weeks ago
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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7 weeks ago
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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7 weeks ago
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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7 weeks ago
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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7 weeks ago
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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7 weeks ago
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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8 weeks ago
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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9 weeks ago
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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9 weeks ago
I can’t stop reading this analysis of Gawker’s editorial strategy » Nieman Journalism Lab
In January, newly minted Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio announced an experiment: Each day for two weeks, a single staff writer would be assigned “traffic-whoring duty.” [Language alert.] A…
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9 weeks ago
Billy Beane leaves Moneyball behind to refocus on statistical truths
Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team takes a close interest in European football. Photograph: Brad Mangin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Next Wednesday at the Tokyo Dome in…
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10 weeks ago
Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
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11 weeks ago
The seven types of commentard • The Register
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11 weeks ago
Comment is free readers on … the sexualisation of girls
A young girl puts on lipstick. Photograph: Getty Anonymous I was first scouted at the age of 14 by one of the world's most prestigious model agencies. I was told that my life had now changed and had…
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11 weeks ago
When Is a Game Not a Game?
The release of two very different games in the last month, Asura's Wrath and Dear Esther, has sparked up one of gaming's evergreen topics: what is and what isn't a game? More than just a question of…
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11 weeks ago
Villas-Boas' exit falls in line with Chelsea's problematic philosophy
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12 weeks ago
getting under the skin of Homeland's troubled CIA agent
Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison: 'She is a mess. The challenge is finding a way to play the truth of her being chemically unstable and a highly capable agent.' Photograph: Ronen Akerman/Showtime A…
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march 2012
The Object Is Present
“Sound adds life to the environment. There is a presence you get from hearing sound. It’s real. An image is on the screen, but the screen is more real than the image. When you have sound…
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march 2012
Ital Presses Buttons
Hive Mind by Daniel Martin-McCormick, aka producer Ital, is one of the best albums of the nascent year. It's ostensibly a house record, but it's presented by a guy who's put years into the hardcore…
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march 2012
L.A. Noire's False Notes
When it came to addressing the all-important "uncanny valley," L.A. Noire didn't bridge the gap so much as construct an inefficient high-cost rotary over the divide. Plenty of keystrokes have been…
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march 2012
The Last Gentleman
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february 2012
Can PlayStation Vita Save The High Street?
PlayStation Vita finally launched in Europe this week, but despite tons of fanfare there's also a lot of scepticism about whether it will be the kind of success Sony needs or wants. You don't have…
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february 2012
The Rise and Fall of Sega Enterprises
When Sega discontinued production of the Dreamcast console in 2001 and withdrew from the domestic hardware market, it marked the conclusion of one of the most tumultuous and error-strewn periods in…
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february 2012
Should Robin van Persie Get a New Contract? Remember Thierry Henry.
Not so long ago, in a stadium not so far away....Arsenal have had a hard season. On the final day of the campaign they've leap-frogged their rivals into fourth spot and secured Champions League…
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february 2012
Arsenal's flaws exposed as Sunderland stump opposition with hybrid approach
Aaron Ramsey is pressured on Saturday. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images Arsenal's 2-0 defeat at Sunderland said so much about so many aspects of their play – their mental strength, their…
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february 2012
What Are Some Tasty, Healthy Alternatives to Soda?
I've decided it's finally time to get rid of my twice-a-day soda habit, but the problem is, I really like soda. What are the healthy alternatives that can still match my cravings? Sincerely, Mr.…
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february 2012
ARSE 2 MOUSE
Over the course of the next few days you will be told that now is not the time to analyse the season. The line will be that we’re still in fourth and there’s Champions League…
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february 2012
Gameplay and Story Are Exactly Like Music and Lyrics
Look, okay. Let's press "pause" on the debate. You know the debate I'm talking about, right? That endless disagreement in the video game world about gameplay versus story. "The two things are…
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february 2012
'Gaming is an artform just like theatre'
The first thing I remember is Zork. The year I was born, four guys who had invented a programming language at MIT released an interactive text "computer game" that went by the futuristic, silly but…
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february 2012
Martin Amis’ Guide to Classic Video Games
The British journalist Sam Leith recently opened a review of Richard Bradford’s Martin Amis: The Biography with the following question: “Where’s Invasion of the Space Invaders?…
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february 2012
The Kickstarter Conundrum
"It seems like this little project could have an impact beyond itself". So said Tim Schafer's understandably shell-shocked post on Double Fine's Kickstarter page as the money pledged towards the…
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february 2012
Premier League clubs find value in free transfers
15 February ~ Have Premier League clubs ever been so shrewd with their signings? Thierry Henry has scored two decisive goals for Arsenal during his short loan spell in England. At Tottenham, Harry…
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february 2012
Arsenal are predictable, weak and lacking a winning mentality, says Dennis Bergkamp, ahead of Milan clash
If that was an emotional time for me, it was a happier one for the new signing billed as my replacement. “All the best Dennis,” I said. “Hope everything goes…
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february 2012
Fight to save Cooke's Pie & Mash
The Mods come to Goldhawk Rd - the Bush isn't defeatedThe 1960s returned to W12 this Saturday afternoon as dozens of scooters stood gleaming in the winter sun outside a Bush icon - Cooke's Pie &…
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february 2012
Old-school charm and new-school nous make Harry Redknapp England's No1
Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Redknapp is favourite to replace Fabio Capello as England manager. Photograph: Ian Kington/AFP/Getty Images It feels strange to be writing about the resignation of Fabio…
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february 2012
Team-mates don't need to be friends to succeed
Teddy Sheringham, left, and Andy Cole barely spoke off the field while at Manchester United but it never mattered once they were on the pitch. Photograph: Phil Noble/PA Given the expanding nature of…
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february 2012
Zonal Marking: Team Analysis
Milan might not have been the best football team during the middle of the last decade, but they were probably the most sophisticated. Think back to the successful sides of 2004-06 – Greece,…
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february 2012
Rocksteady looks back on Arkham City
By Xbox World 360 for Xbox World Magazine Subscribe now! Batman: Arkham City was an ambitious sequel to a game that is undoubtedly one of the finest of this generation. Not only did Rocksteady's…
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february 2012
Tim Vickery: Copa Libertadores a cradle of talent
This year's major international tournament, the European Championship, was first disputed in 1960 - which makes it a mere youngster in comparison with the South American version, the Copa America,…
article  football  south-america  from readability
february 2012
Harry Redknapp, Rube of the Year
Harry Redknapp does not have a soul, but he has a sort of dead-eyed Cockney sparkle that's served him as a pretty adequate replacement. England's most successful English soccer manager, he's also…
article  football  from readability
february 2012
Gaming's Newest Grind
Designers rarely envision all possible uses for their creation, which are occasionally given a life of their own. Wily users have converted CDs into frisbees, mayonnaise into lubricant, and books…
article  playstation  gaming  from readability
february 2012
Thought: Do We Own Our Steam Games?
By John Walker on February 1st, 2012 at 1:18 pm. What do you own? Looking through my possessions, I feel fairly comfortable that the food in my fridge belongs to me. And I have an odd confidence…
article  gaming  steam  from readability
february 2012
Who Killed Rare?
Through a locked gate, down a winding path and by a still pond a few miles outside of the leafy village of Twycross, England, a bonsai tree stands. It was a gift given to Rare by Shigeru Miyamoto,…
gaming  article  from readability
february 2012
The dangers of gamer entitlement
“Rip-off. Why should I have to pay for Cranky levels? You have lost a customer,” reads Coolcoco’s one-star App Store review for Where’s My Water on January 30. “I love…
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february 2012
Is the PlayStation Vita worth £230?
What a difference six months makes. In June last year Sony boss Kaz Hirai proudly took to the stage at E3 to announce that the Vita would retail for $250 (or $299 for the 3G version) - a figure that…
gaming  article  from readability
february 2012
an artistic journey along parallel lines
Dynamic tension: detail from Mondrian's Composition B (No II), with Red. Photograph: Tate, London Where were the paparazzi in September 1938? They should have been thick on the ground outside 60…
art  design  creative  article  from readability
february 2012
Madonna acts just like a serious male artist would – and people hate her for it
Madonna, a picture of military-industrial western masculinity. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images If you really want to watch vitriol flow on a monumental scale, be Madonna and dare to make…
article  music  from readability
february 2012
Rebuilding Syndicate
Jeff Gamon, an executive producer at EA Partners, confesses that he didn’t learn the etymology of Syndicate’s exotic-sounding codename until just recently. “The name Project…
gaming  article  from readability
february 2012

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