February 2012
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How much power do publishers actually have? It’s not just the ebooks that...
– Anthony Horowitz asks ‘do we still need publishers?’
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For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a...
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- Agyness Deyn on changing careers
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Up to anything tonight? Oscars party?
Photograph: Gary Hershorn/REUTERS
Fancy watching the Academy Awards with us?
Play fantasy Oscars
Tell us what makes a good Oscars night for you?
See what’s on the menu for the ceremony
Hear from the nominees in our podcast
Remember Oscars from a different era
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Source: YouTube/Syrian4allWorld
Sunday Times photographer Paul Conroy appeals for help to get out of Homs. Conroy was injured in the rocket attack that killed Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remy Ochlik. In a separate video posted on YouTube, wounded French journalist Edith Bouvier also appeals for help to get out of Homs
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The Malvinas/Falklands: diplomacy interrupted →
Sean Penn writes for Comment is free - ‘Sending Prince William to the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, sends a message of intimidation’
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Keeping a hostage alive can be “hard fucking work,” the negotiator...
– A hostage negotiator talks exclusively to the Guardian about how he helped series producer and actor Trevor Eve convey the everyday brutality of dealing with kidnappers
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Source: YouTube/OhioTransportation
Ohio’s Fort Steuben bridge demolished:
The 83-year-old Fort Steuben bridge in Ohio is demolished using 70kg (150lbs) of explosives
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Source: xtranormal.com
Have you heard about the Greek debt crisis? It’s like, totally, over
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Andy Warhol's legacy lives on in the factory of...
guardianartanddesign:
Andy Warhol’s legacy lives on in the factory of fame
25 years after his death, Warhol still dominates the art market and popular culture. The artist described by Truman Capote, quoting Wilde, as “a sphinx without a secret” has never gone away.
Want more Warhol? fuckyeahandywarhol.tumblr.com and Andy Warhol quotes on Tumblr ought to do it.
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From the Tumblr that brought you Barack Obama singing Al Green…
Obama sings Sweet Home Chicago
Source: Reuters/PBS
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The Berlin hotel where you camp indoors →
Intriguing slideshow on a curios camping concept…
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Happy Pancake Day!
You want pancakes? We’ve got them:
Photograph: Colin Campbell for the Guardian
Norwegian ‘kveldsmat’ pancakes
Sourdough pancakes
Buckwheat gallettes
And perfect pancakes :)
Yum
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guardianfashion:
Burberry’s finale featured simulated rain and glitter. Models had brollies!
Catch up with everything that happened today at London Fashion Week thanks to Guardian Fashion’s Tumblr
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“Boys can work a girl out, fold her up and put them in their pockets. You...
– From Gang life: First he builds trust. Then you help out. Next you’re cutting crack. One ex-gang member describes how her life was taken over by a boyfriend, and how the cycle begins at school
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Clothes 'swishing' parties go global →
“Every year in the UK we buy around 2 million tonnes of clothes, and throw away 1 million tonnes , all of which comes with a colossal footprint of embedded energy, water and toxins (…) Swishing is designed to cut this waste by giving women “the thrill of retail therapy without the environmental side effects,” says Shea, and by “making swapping clothes an...
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Yorkshire puds and how to cook them
How to cook perfect yorkshire puddings
Do you favour one big yorkshire or lots of little ones? Let’s hear your dripping yarns and better batter banter
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People in the US have a wrong idea about the English. They think they’re...
– Billy Bob Thornton thinks there’s a strong affinity between the American south and the English. Which explains why three Brits turn up unexpectedly in his latest film, Jayne Mansfield’s Car
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Holly, 23, Journalist
guardianfashion:
Dress: ASOS Jacket: Topshop Boots: Kurt Geiger
Ali Winstanley
Guardian Fashion is at London Fashion Week…. follow for more tumblr goodness
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Those of us who have had to go through this are battle-hardened and hopefully...
– Michael Mann reveals his account of attacks by entrenched interests seeking to undermine his ‘hockey stick’ graph
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Steeped in Arab political history but also in its culture, Shadid recognized...
– Tributes pour in for New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid who died in Syria
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