Blue Monday falls on the third Monday of January and is widely considered to be the most depressing day of the year. The barrage of cold weather, stacks of unpaid Christmas bills and failed New Year's...
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If you think everything there was to invent in Christmas shopping has already been invented, think again. A New York entrepreneur Andrew Shaffer has discovered an unlikely Christmas shopping market niche. He is...
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Laura Barton offers her picks, hits and misses on Music to help you get through the credit crunch (The Guardian, July 21).She first mentions The Filter (a recommendation site with Peter Gabriel amongst its founders. As the name suggests they filter music for you) who she says...
Brown's choice in art is conventional in many respects and shows a good solid taste if perhaps a little dark. The Hodgkin piece with typically the painting going on to the actual frame is an interesting choice. "...
A music writer for the Guardian, Dorian Lynskey, had an interesting idea for his column this week--invite readers to name their favourite songs about mental illness. It might sound a little crude, but he...
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Congratulation to novelist Alison 'A.L.' Kennedy for her Costa 'Book of the Year' Award win. As a sometime stand-up comedian, however, her book doesn't sound quite like the 'pick me up' one might imagine could...
Good riddance, I say. It is a right and bold step. Kudos to the institute."The Nobel Laureate who provoked an international row by apparently claiming that black people are less intelligent than whites left...
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"Things are gloomy south of the border. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the United States seldom shared by so many people.
Only 25 per cent of U.S. residents...
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"The gloomy stretch of Bagot Street between Princess and Queen seems like a strange place to find a busy bakery like Card's. They clearly favor flavor over frill here.
The shop is basic. It doesn't look particularly nice or stylish. The food doesn't either. It does, however,...
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Five months ago, Wired writer Kevin Poulson had one of those crazy ideas: write some code that would catch sexual predators at MySpace.Poulson took data from the national sexual predators registry, and wrote...