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Tracey Emin: I'm really, really in love, passionately in love

The drone I can hear, that feels like it's living behind the backs of my eyes, is a cross between the fan in my bedroom and a hangover. Something which I haven't had for a long, long time. But last night I hit the town. I was smiling and happy – and I'm still smiling and happy. I'm really, really in love, passionately in love.

[ART JOURNAL] Pop Art gets it on with Mao Zedong

I went to see the Great Wall. You know, you read about it for years. And actually, it was really great. It was really, really, really great.¡¨

BLOG CENTRAL - ROBERT HIGHT

In Reading on Saturday one of my guys came up to me and said there was a guy that wanted to talk with me. I have to be honest I had just been out in my pit running around for what seemed like a couple of hours so I really just wanted a little break. I was trying to get into race mode. I had my fire suit on and we weren’t really qualified really well. I just wasn’t really in a good frame of mind. My guys said they thought I’d want to talk with this person so they brought him into my pit.

Really Bummed About Google's Decision

"I used Yahoo’s webpages for years and when I found Google Pages, I fell in love with the ease with which I can build simple sites (just for friends and family as part of our holiday newsletters), and haven’t gone back to Yahoo since. So, I would be really, really bummed if Google got rid of their pages." ~Teresa's Comment

Big boys take all the fun out of playing around online

It's the worst of times, it's the best of times to be writing a game that works just like a really well-known one. The travails of Scrabulous, the Scrabble (® ™ © and all that guff) playalike, have been well-documented: its meteoric rise to fame via the splendid timesink Facebook, the lawsuit by Mattel and Hasbro (which own the online rights but hadn't quite managed to get around to writing a version while Scrabulous began raking in the cash - reckoned to be thousands of dollars a month) and the diversion into a side road with Wordscraper, where you use round rather than square tiles. And Hasbro/Mattel have come up with an "official" version that everyone really, really hates. It's slow, it's advert-loaded, it's just corporate.

Samsung MV100 and MZ100 Consume Even Less Energy than the Korean Sex Cyborgs Presenting Them

Looks like Samsung keeps pushing for green computing. These computers are Korea-only for now, but the MV100 Tower and MZ100 Slim Tower, running on the Intel G43 chipset, consume only sixty watts in "power saving mode" and one watt in stand-by mode. I only have one question for you: Do you really care about how much energy your computer really consumes or you are now just thinking that the Samsung ninjas really need to eat a few pizzas? [Akihabara]

This question surprised me

I read an article yesterday called What is whitespace and should it be included in Web design?. Okay, I accept that many people might not know what whitespace is. But if you have to ask if it should be used in Web design, I wonder if you really are a designer. Whitespace is an important element of any design, be it Web or otherwise. Now, to give the article credit, it really isn't questioning the importance of whitespace in Web design - it's really just another definition. But it did surprise me that someone would ask if it should be included. My answer? Yes, most definitely.

Why Game Developers Go Rogue

cliffski writes "Jay Barnson interviews the new crop of indie game developers. How could anybody abandon the steady paychecks, access to the best tools and engines, large teams of skilled colleagues and the glory of working on one of next holiday season's blockbusters for a chance to labor in relative obscurity on tiny, niche titles? Steven Peeler was a senior programmer at Ritual Entertainment. For him, leaving and forming the one-man studio Soldak Entertainment came down to a desire for creative freedom. 'I really wanted to work on an RPG, and Ritual only made shooters,' he says. 'There were some annoying politics going on that was really frustrating, I disagreed with the direction the company was taking, I was really tired of pushy publishers and I just wanted to do my own thing.

Decisions, Decisions - Do You Really Need an iPhone 3G?:

Do you really need an iPhone 3G? We give you 5 reasons it’s the world’s best cell phone—and 5 reasons to wait to buy one or just keep rocking your 2G iPhone.

Is accesskey really accessible?

For a long time, it has been said that to make your forms and links more accessible, you should add an accesskey attribute to them. But does this really make them more accessible? There are some studies that have shown that doing this can make Web pages harder to use, which is, in effect, the opposite of accessibility.

Jetix Takes On Really Useful Role and Invites Pokemon In

Jetix Consumer Products has signed a deal with The Really Useful Group to handle merchandising for the musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats, Starlight Express and Evita across all European territories, Israel and the Middle East.

Debate: Would Apple really shutdown iTunes?

This latest news could be a little bit scary if it happens, we have titled it “Would Apple really shutdown iTunes?

Nintendo's Kirby Floats Through the SkiesKirby really flies! For one day only, Kirby, Nintendo's super-tough, pink puff, video game character turned the sky pink as thousands of Kirby-shaped clouds floated through the air. Nintendo released t...

Nintendo's Kirby Floats Through the SkiesKirby really flies! For one day only, Kirby, Nintendo's super-tough, pink puff, video game character turned the sky pink as thousands of Kirby-shaped clouds floated through the air. Nintendo released t...

Communacopia: Scripps Interactive: Home And Garden Ads Holding Up; Shopzilla Arb Getting Squeezed

imageIt’s really quite something: Of all the cable players, you’d think home-heavy Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) (parent of HGTV and Food Network, among others) would be the most exposed to the housing meltdown. But CEO Kenneth Lowe insists things are holding up; at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, he acknowledged some spotty weakness here and there, but nothing to suggest that the floor was falling out of the business: “We really haven’t seen any endemic softening with respect to HGTV or Food.� He did suggest that certain advertisers, like a Home Depot, might be pulling up. But his basic line was that strong brands and continued solid ratings are keeping things afloat.

Copyright Expert William Patry Shuts Down Blog, As It's 'Too Depressing'

It was really disappointing, if entirely understandable, earlier this year when the until-then-anonymous "Patent Troll Tracker" had to shut down his blog. Prior to that, it had been one of the only sources (and in some cases the only source) to report on some important cases and trends in the patent world. Unfortunately, it appears the same thing is now happening in the copyright world. William Patry, recognized around the world as an expert on copyright, has shut down his blog. Tragically, he didn't just stop writing it, he's deleted the entire archive -- so even posts of his that we pointed to just last week no longer are live. This is really unfortunate -- and there seems to be no reason he couldn't have allowed the archives to live on.

BLOG CENTRAL - BOBBY BENNETT

You know, I really wanted a blog because everyone was doing it and I'd never really understood why I didn't do it on a regular basis. After all, I do have a somewhat different life than the average Joe.

Successful Moonlighting For Geeks?

Lawksamussy writes "Having just bought a really old house that's on the verge of falling down, I'm now trying to find a way to pay to fix it up. I have a great job in software development that pays the bills, but I'm looking to earn some extra cash in my spare time. Whatever I end up doing has to be reasonably lucrative (or at least have the potential to be so), not require any specific time commitment, and be doable equally well from home or from a hotel room. I'm also keen that it should be sufficiently different to my day job to keep my interest up, so the most obvious things like bidding for programming projects on Rentacoder.com, or fixing up neighbors' PCs, aren't really on. Above all, it should appeal to my inner geek, otherwise my low boredom threshold will doom it to failure before I even start! So, I wonder if any of my fellow S

Browser safe colors - do we care?

I was asked today if the browser safe colors are really required any more. In my opinion, the correct answer is "It depends". As it really depends upon whether your readers are using older monitors and computers or not. If they are, then yes, it is required. If not, then no. Based on my poll in May, most people don't think they are required any more at all. What do you think? Are browser safe colors an anachronism? Or should we at the very least pay attention to what our users can view and try to accommodate that?

3D in Photoshop: Simple Religious Icons Part 2

Manipulating the texture on a 3D object within Photoshop CS3 is really easy. If you know how to use the tools in Photoshop, there's really no limit to what you can do with a 3D material. Like a smart object, the 3D material is just an embedded Photoshop document. In Part 2, I check out other models which aren't as easy to break down as the geometry in the cross.

Doggyspace is for Doggy Lovers

If you love your pup, and we mean really love her/him, then you will want to join Doggyspace, a cross between Facebook and MySpace for canines. You can create a profile, share photos and videos, and meet others who are similarly obsessed. Launched last month, 3,000 dog fanciers have already joined the site and there are claims that there will be about 2 million by the end of the year. While Doggyspace is free to join, Founder Levi Thorton plans to make premium accounts with a percentage of the fee going to animal charities. We really don’t know what paying the extra means, but we assume that gives you a top dog.

Torvalds: No Picnic to Become Major Linux Coder

""The kernel is about pretty harsh technical issues, and mistakes are really frowned upon," wrote Torvalds. "In an OS kernel, there are simply more security and stability requirements, and the bar is really higher in some respects. That will inevitably also reflect in the response to patches.""

iPhone Battery Lawsuit Dismissed

It appears that not telling people about your battery replacement plan prior to them buying the product is not quite the same as really, really poor battery life. Unlike the iPod battery lawsuit, which eventually led to an out-of-court settlement, this one has been thrown out of court.

Podcast: Questions Show - Light speed, Andromeda Galaxy, Dark Matter and Black Holes

Another week, another roundup of your questions. This week listeners asked: will reaching light speed destroy the Universe? When is Andromeda going to look really, really cool with the unaided eye? Why didn't dark matter all turn into black holes? And there's even more. If you've got a question for the Astronomy Cast team, please email it in to info@astronomycast.com and we'll try to tackle it for a future show.

Bicycle riding robots

A lot of robots you see on television have an amazing amount of stuff they can do, but they often have one fatal flaw: they are really, really slow. Like they can figure out the mass of a planetoid by looking at it (Data), or can single-handedly shutdown an illicit drug factory (Robocop), but if you break into a brisk jog, you have them beat.

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