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Party over for next-gen gaming?

There's a very interesting and thought-provoking post by Wagner James Au over on GigaOm. The games journalist -- who also files first-hand reports from Second Life -- has declared that next-generation gaming is over before it's even really got ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Wagner James Au

The antithesis of Ape's Bumfodder

Coincidence has inspired me to put to put together a sample of Kurt Vonnegut quotes, as an example of the irreverent wit that Peter mentioned, and as an aesthetic antidote to the ape’s bumfodder that Sam so ungenerously brought to our attention. Kurt ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  13 May 2008
Related Topics: Kurt Vonnegut,  Adolf Hitler,  Benito Mussolini

How to Spot Parisian Sleazes

Inspired by Pierre-Louis Colin, who has just written a guide on the various types of beautiful women to be found in Paris, quartier by quartier, I think I may rustle up a little book my own. It’s called How to Spot Parisian Sleazes. Here’s a sneak ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  6 May 2008

Plus ça change...

I always love it when I stumble on something in a book which reminds me that, however much we think all aspects of modern life are new and unprecedented, some things never change. Take this extract from E. M. Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady, ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  1 May 2008

Everything is Sinister

This is going to sound horribly sycophantic, but I'm going to say it anyway: David Llewellyn's new book is great. He's probably a familiar name to Telegraph readers as he had a stint here as a guest blogger last year and still posts, intermittently, on ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  25 Apr 2008

The man who wrote 200,000 books

I'm loving the story about the man who 'wrote' 200,000 books by using computer programmes to pluck relevant content from the internet. Can computers do better than Mills & Boon? The whole article is an entertaining read, but this particular quote ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  16 Apr 2008

Tom Cruise book scrapped in Britain

I saw this headline and first thought: good news. A biography of Tom Cruise will not be inflicted on Britain. Some kind-hearted publisher has concurred with the survey which found that celebrity life stories are the book world's soporific equivalent of ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  15 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Tom Cruise,  Andrew Morton

Try before you buy books

Excellent news: Random House is launching a widget that will let online readers browse the first 10 per cent of a book, bypassing the need to furtively flip though a few sample pages in a book shop. All they need to do now is tell you whether you’ll ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  14 Apr 2008

Is the Thesaurus sexist?

Thesaurus.com apparently thinks  'female' is a synonym for 'weaker'. Feministing caught the offending screen shot here, though the result has since vanished. Who are you calling a petticoat? That's not to say thesaurus.com now labours under a dearth of ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  11 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Boris Johnson

The Bible and the Ceiling Cat

This site is dedicated to translating the holy book, line by line, beginning with God creating the earth - or 'Boreded Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs': 1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem. 29 ...

From CERI RADFORD, The Telegraph,  9 Apr 2008

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