In Daily Source Code episode 759, Adam Curry played Hit Test 122, which is available for download and was brought to you by OPSOL, the Organization for Preservation of the Soundtrack of Our Life!Hit Test answers & iTunes linksAlso check

We're happy to introduce a new column in which we publish Moscow's raw radio communications, courtesy of a Russian amateur radio enthusiast. This issue, eXile readers are given a peek into the secret conversations of Moscow's traffic police, the notorious

Heh. I got a chuckle out of the Facebook Widsets Pets application: you can create your own virtual pet out of yourself and have your friends take care of it.You get to take virtual care of a picture of someone

Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg today called for tax cuts for low and middle-income earners after a decade of tax hikes and unprecedented public spending rises.

Failure in Afghanistan would be "devastating" while the Nato mission was "hanging in the balance", Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said on a visit. Speaking during his first trip there, Mr Clegg warned that without lasting peace and stability

Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK, it has emerged. The plans, reported in the Times, are at an early stage and may be

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Marks and Spencer, the British consumer institution, has long since been considered a 'bellwether' for British spending - that is to say, its profit margins provide a general guide for the way the con...

Four kickass Russian films that you just have to see this summer.

Everybody knows that the result of the US presidential election later this year will have a decisive influence on the future direction of global politics. But of course only US citizens can vote...But here is an opportunity for you: make

André Breton, the apostle of surrealism, would probably have been amused rather than annoyed. Art historians and critics are puzzled and angry.

Same store sales of books at Hastings Entertainment had a solid first quarter, up 5.6%, the company reported this morning. Hastings said sales of new trade paperbacks, including Eckhart Tolle's New Earth, as well as higher sales of used trade

Harry N. Abrams has appointed Chuck Lang managing director of its U.K. office, Abrams UK. Lang, most recently v-p of publishing and marketing at Langenscheidt Publishing Group, had previously been with Dorling Kindersley where he was senior v-p, publishing, and

Two stories of neglected history have won this year's Commonwealth writers' prizes. African-Canadian novelist Lawrence Hill has won the headline prize for his novel The Book of Negroes, based on the true story of a Malian woman's journey from enslavement

Before inviting the web to create a collaborative novel using a wiki in 2007, Jeremy Ettinghausen asked, "Can a community write a novel?" The answer is yes but a terrible one! A year later the Penguin publisher told researchers at

Random House's Vintage Anchor has lost a longtime editor: Marty Asher, head of the highbrow paperback imprint, has stepped down to become an editor at large for Knopf.

German media giant Bertelsmann AG has tapped the head of its printing unit, Markus Dohle, to head its Random House unit, a move that could shake up the big and influential book-publishing business, says a person familiar with the situation.

He fought and defeated the Germans in two world wars. He foiled plans for a Russian invasion of Britain and scuppered a Japanese plot to poison Allied pilots with chewing gum and chocolates.

would you?Well, that's exactly what I did and it turns out that it is possible, although you can't hang around and watch life go by from one of the cafes: lunch on the go is the only way.We did it