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How do you take digital information into the physical world? Print it, of course. But that's just the beginning...
- The forecast for 2009: Mobile is the key, says Goldmund Byrne of The Sun | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"An increasing number of mobiles are coming with flat-rate data access as standard. Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby for a quick impulse buy." No more in the article than that. Ranty counterpoint in the comments.
- The new vegetarian: Yotam Ottolenghi makes chickpea, tomato and bread soup | Life and style | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
My new favourite winter recipe. Making the pesto from scratch adds a fair amount to the prep time.
- An ABC of R2 | Help | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"A series looking at different aspects of guardian.co.uk's rebuild and redesign project, which ran from October 2005 to September 2008." Must read.
"There's nothing quite like a proper homemade chutney or pickle to add a welcome crunch or hit of spice to all manner of dishes". Oh yes, it's chutney-making season.
Raw Scotch beef with land cress, parsley & capers, Roast hake with artichoke & roast tomato, Lemon salad, Quaking pudding.
- Nigel Slater's early summer dishes | Food and drink | Life and Health lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk
Crushed new potatoes with herb butter, Grilled lamb, pea and mint mash, Braised lettuce with broad beans and bacon, Warm asparagus with melted cheese, Marinated strawberries.
- Knobbly needs | Weekend | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
Jerusalem artichokes may not look up to much, but beneath that gnarled exterior is a nutty, sweet vegetable that's a welcome treat in the winter kitchen
- 'Vinyl has been eliminated' | | Guardian Unlimited Arts arts.guardian.co.uk
Should any music be able to weather such a storm, it's reggae. If nothing else, its largely informal economy allows it to adapt much faster than the major labels in the US or Europe.
- With friends like these ... guardian.co.uk
Facebook has 59 million users [but] you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site
- You like my poems? So pay for them | News | Guardian Unlimited Books books.guardian.co.uk
For those of us who make a little bit of money from royalties and permission fees [..] it's different. Free publicity has no value if all that happens is that even more people download your poems from the internet without paying for them.
- Cory Doctorow: How comes Amazon gets it wrong on digital? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
Amazon is ahead of the competition when it comes to selling physical goods over the web - so it is galling when the company gets it so wrong with digital downloads, says Cory Doctorow
- Guardian food month: Christmas dinner in a pie lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk
Mmmm.
- Why history will repeat itself with JavaScript and the web | Technology | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
If history repeats itself, we can expect a compelling SDK (software development kit) to emerge providing programmers with a standard user interface for their web applications.
- @Second Chance Tuesday: Last.fm - the "conviction entrepreneurs" | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | Guardian Unlimited blogs.guardian.co.uk
The first time Martin Stiksel and Felix Miller, Last.fm's founders, have spoken publicly on the acquisition of their site since it was purchased by CBS in May
Since this is a technology blog I want to focus on just a couple of technical areas that I’ve been tracking — templating and layout, and some of the issues we’ve had there.
- A menace to science | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
"For years, 'Dr' Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in." Nice one!
"Having just turned 50 - and with my last visit to a doctor somewhere in the 1970s - I thought that getting some checks like this might be a very good idea. My NHS GP agreed, although explained that, as I wasn't displaying any worrying symptoms, I would h
- Nigel Slater: Chorizos to be cheerful | Magazine | The Observer observer.guardian.co.uk
"Spicy, paprika-infused Spanish pork sausages". So yeah, the vegetarian thing is going well so far.
- Global warming: the final verdict | Climate change | Guardian Unlimited Environment environment.guardian.co.uk
A study by the world's leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought
- Aida Edemariam talks to Barbara Hadrill on travelling the green way | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
Barbara Hadrill [...] is the bridesmaid so perturbed by our wrecking of the planet that instead of flying to Brisbane for her friend's wedding, she quit her job and set off by land and sea instead.
We claim to be a nation of foodies, yet vegetables still mystify many cooks - especially those weird specimens that turn up in the weekly organic box. What exactly do you do with chard or salsify? Do turnips have to be a turnoff?
- Safe sex advertising campaign offers the bare facts | Health | SocietyGuardian.co.uk society.guardian.co.uk
"A hard-hitting government advertising campaign on sexual diseases, featuring raunchy scenes of young people grappling in pubs, clubs and on deserted footpaths, launches today in an attempt to make 18- to 24-year-olds think of condoms as "essential wear"
- Guardian Unlimited Travel | Saturday section | Green houses travel.guardian.co.uk
Eco-correspondent, Richard Hammond, picks 30 of the best green places to stay around the world.
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Jonathan Freedland: Al Gore on his mission to save the planet guardian.co.uk
Al Gore was the nearly man of US politics, the wooden Clinton sidekick who never made it to the top job. But now he's back with a mission to save the planet - and this time he's passionate.
- Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | We can rebuild you guardian.co.uk
Eighty per cent of us will suffer back pain in our lifetimes [...] Yet for decades sufferers have been given the wrong advice. Instead of lying down and taking it easy, we should be up on our feet.
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Peta Bee investigates whether walking is enough to get you fit guardian.co.uk
It is one of the easiest and least stressful forms of exercise you can do. But is walking really enough to get you fit? Only if you do it right
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Is five portions of fruit and vegetables a day enough? guardian.co.uk
While we Brits struggle to meet our fruit and vegetable quota, in Japan they aim for an astonishing 17 portions daily. But who is right? And what counts anyway?
The production of wine also throws up a number of concerns, with the reality often far from the bucolic idyll of lore.
- MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | BBC unveils radical revamp of website media.guardian.co.uk
The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.
- Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Film of the book: top 50 adaptations revealed books.guardian.co.uk
A longlist of what are deemed the 50 best film adaptations of all time.
So why are we hooked on throwing away razors encased in plastic?
The ideas interview: Mark Jaccard. Fossil fuels can keep the world going, and they need not be dirty, the energy expert tells John Sutherland
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Getting your goat guardian.co.uk
It was the feelgood Christmas gift of choice last year - a goat delivered in the name of a loved one to a poor family in the developing world. But what happened next? Aida Edemariam went in search of the charity goats
The pub menu conjures up visions of fresh produce, the chef's ranting in the kitchen, and the price is reassuringly high. Everything, you might think, is made on the premises. But Joanna Blythman sounds a word of warning
- Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | On the buses guardian.co.uk
The bombing of the underground was widely interpreted as an assault on the symbol of London. But for many it was the wrecked number 30 bus - cheap, jolly, universal - that truly represented the capital's wounded spirit.
"Big businesses are not the only ones who can benefit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too. Ben Hammersley investigates" I might try and get my del.icio.us linking done offshore to save some time.
- The Observer | Magazine | What's the word observer.guardian.co.uk
5, 4, 3, 2, 1... Emergency Dance Party!
- Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Why Dalston's Culture House is exactly what inner-city London needs guardian.co.uk
The four-storey, steel-framed cultural centre now houses the Vortex jazz club, removed here from Stoke Newington, as well as a cafe, shop, gallery and artists' studios.
- Guardian Unlimited Books | Extracts | Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami books.guardian.co.uk
In this extract from the opening chapter, Kafka discusses his escape plans with the mysterious 'boy named Crow'