The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago | International
Reza Aslan sums up the pro-Green reaction to Ahmadi's "alarming" nuclear rhetoric from Sunday: These announcements are a joke; they cannot be taken seriously. Not only has Iran thus far barely managed to enrich uranium to 5 percent, it can...
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Yesterday's Sunday Times had an interesting article that outlines exactly why Liberal Democrats are lukewarm about Gordon Brown's proposed referendum on voting reform. They report that Michael Thrasher and Colin Rallings, who are professors of politics at Plymouth University, have re-run the results of the 2005 general election as if Brown’s alternative vote system were in place. They say that...
Joystiq (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago | Video Games
In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz , Jamie MacDonald, former Vice President of Sony Worldwide Studios (the company responsible for EyeToy ), gave out a few pointers to Sony and Microsoft regarding their respective motion controllers . MacDonald warned that gamers are expecting more from the 360 and PS3's motion gaming than they do from the Wii, due to both consoles' beefier hardware. However,...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
The Tory grassroots are one of the last groups that it is acceptable to mock and caricature but there is more and more evidence that they deserve a much better press. Yesterday Jonathan Isaby published an analysis of seat selections in top and target seats. He showed that of 51 selections in Tory-held seats during this Parliament, 31.4% of selected candidates were women and 7.8% from a minority background....
Arseblog (Free subscription) | yesterday | Football
A better performance than United, the losing margin still the same. We wanted a response from the team and I suppose we got it, spending large parts of the game in the Chelsea half but over the 90 minutes the difference was Chelsea have a striker who is dangerous and efficient and we ... well ... we didn't have a striker at all. Over the course of the game I can remember two opportunities for us....
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010 | Politics
Welcome to the 155th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (31st January – 6th February 2010), together with a hand-picked quintet, usually courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don’t forget, by the way, you can now sign up [...]
Android Phone Fans (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Inbrics has announced the launch of their Android based MID M1 at next week’s MWC in Barcelona. Inbrics hopes the M1 will serve as a media controller for other devices as well so that users can share photos, music, movies and more. It boasts the following: 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen display Slide-out QWERTY keyboard with [...]
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday | UK
Welcome to the new, proud, brilliant multicultural Britain. The driver's behavior in this case is perfectly in accord with the Islamic supremacist notion that Islam is the plain truth, and everyone sees that, and thus those who don't believe are perverse and rebellious against God, and have no rights that...
Political Scrapbook (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago | Politics
CCHQ were left scrambling to save one of their star candidates this evening amidst allegations that she was forced out by local party members. Joanne Cash, the Tories’ PPC in the key target of Westminster North, resigned at an emergency meeting of the local Conservative Association attended by party chairman Eric Pickles and Lords leader Tom Strathclyde. This [...]
Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
With less than 24 hours to go before the deadline for applications to run as the Labour Party's PPC in Leyton and Wanstead, the right wing press is freshening stories about Deputy Leader Harriet Harman's alleged absence from NEC special selections panel meetings. It is alleged that this was for reasons linked to her interest in her husband, Jack Dromey, being selected as a PPC for Labour in the forthcoming...
TechCrunch Europe (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010 | Technology
There's a certain irony that TechCrunch's in-house satarist Paul Carr is currently slaving over the sequel to his book about his failure to launch a startup. Fridaycities was to be a site which allowed anyone to swap information about London, in real time, and eventually other cities. The site failed, Paul wrote his book (and a few other things, let's admit) and the rest is history, including our...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago | General
One of the UK's most impressive jazz exports, the versatile Sir John Dankworth, was deservedly famous – but never a snob "I've never been a purist about jazz, or about any music," Sir John Dankworth told me in an interview for The Guardian in 2007 . "It all seems too good to miss anything out." He and his wife, singer Cleo Laine, were celebrating their 80th birthdays at the...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago | General
contribution by Adam Lent Back when cuts mania was all the rage during the conference season of 2009, only the TUC, others on the left and serious commentators like Martin Wolf argued that cuts came with major economic consequences. These views were of course rejected by the small state right in the form of the Institute of Directors, the Taxpayers Alliance and the Conservative Party itself.
Coolest Gadgets (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Pico projectors haven’t really taken off in the past couple of years despite the rather early promise it has, but that’s to be expected since most places already have the facilities to accommodate a nice presentation on a large, projected display, so why go mobile? Perhaps things might change in the future, but the pico [...]
Coolest Gadgets (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Lately I’ve been thinking of replacing my wall clock and going for something completely different and with this Canvas Clock that’s exactly what I’ve found. Printed onto a pretty white canvas is nothing more than a clock. However, instead of purely being an image like it initially appears, it actually tells you the current time. [...]
