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You don't have to want Tiny Tim to starve in the workhouse to recognise what a bloated consumer nightmare the festive season has become. - Emsquared

Venice in peril but hey a chance for someone to sail their toy boat across St Mark's Square - Emsquared from Bookmarklet

"Meanwhile suspicious partners are finding more ways to check up on their errant spouses" - Emsquared from Bookmarklet

Simple Desktops: a collection of bling, drop shadow, and gradient free desktops to help keep you stay focused but also provide just enough eye candy to not be bored. It's here because finding these around the web is just too hard. - Emsquared

"A Christmas card by the late rock legend Joe Strummer is being used to raise money for the charity set up in his name - Strummerville aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians." - Emsquared from Bookmarklet

"The way Rage Against The Machine were propelled to the top of the charts in place of the latest manicured X Factor act shows a quality that runs through British life like a stick of rock. But why do people like to be so bloody-minded?" - Emsquared from Bookmarklet

"people should steal from big chains rather than small businesses... He said society's attitude to those in need "leaves some people little option but crime". - Emsquared from Bookmarklet

"The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, has given a provisional go-ahead for a project which could kick-start demand for internet TV." - Emsquared from Bookmarklet

"Sako Architects have designed the BUMPS building complex in Beijing, China.The building is characterized by it’s constant variation between the different levels.  Every two floors are set as a unit, and every unit is staggered by 2 metres horizontally, with the resulting set-back areas being used for terraces." - Emsquared from Bookmarklet

"Ever noticed how the more you look forward to something, like Christmas, the longer it takes to arrive but the exams you dreaded came only too quickly? That is because our perception of time passing depends on our state of mind, claims a new study by psychologists studying the science behind clock watching." - Emsquared from Bookmarklet

A limited budget need not be a barrier to eating healthily, as five portions of fruit and vegetables can cost just 80p a day, says a nutritionist - Emsquared

Cheques will be abolished in 2018. So how will you pay the milkman? Or buy school lunches? And how will small businesses cope? - Emsquared

The Samaritans deal with the emotional problems of millions of British people every year – and Christmas is the volunteers' busiest time of all - Emsquared

pupils at a small school in Gloucestershire do not take any of these exams and yet some still manage to get a place at university. - Emsquared

How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous. - Emsquared

A new study published December 17 by UK communication regulator OFCOM has suggested that TV watching is on the rise in Italy, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US. - Emsquared

The power of technology to mobilise the masses and force change has been felt across the world - and now a documentary film-maker hopes to offer "practical advice" for activists. - Emsquared

The idea that high-level incompetence is inevitable was formulated in the 1969 best-selling book The Peter Principle: Why things always go wrong. Its authors, psychologist Laurence Peter and playwright Raymond Hull, started from the observation that while jobs generally get more difficult the higher up any ladder you climb, most people only come equipped with a more or less fixed level of talent that corresponds to their intelligence, knowledge and energy. - Emsquared

Oatmeal Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes - Emsquared

It is ironic that women are now welcomed into all major professions and other positions of authority, but are branded as inferior and deprived of the equal right to serve God in positions of religious leadership. The plight of abused women is made more acceptable by the mandated subservience of women by religious leaders. - Emsquared

directed by: Luis Briceno - Emsquared

we've been experimenting with steeping various teas in our hot chocolate and getting surprisingly delicious results. - Emsquared

You Are (Variations), the conversation involves Hebrew psalms, mysticism and German philosophy. The first movement of You Are comes from the writings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a Hassidic mystic from the 18th century. - Emsquared

now based in southend and copenhagen respectively, robin and antony work separately from each other most of the time, communicating via post and internet - Emsquared

Posted via web from emsquared's posterous - Emsquared from Posterous

Simple technique changes sex of a mouse – and reveals the gender war that rages in all of us - Emsquared

Q2, WQXR’s vibrant new 24/7 music stream dedicated to contemporary classical music, kicks off its first full festival, Maximum Reich: A Celebration of Steve Reich on Thursday, December 10th - Emsquared

"I'm all for a more European attitude towards renting but as you imply that means stricter regulation, more rights for tenants and the sort of 5-10 year tenancy option security that exists in many parts of Europe along with much tighter control of the buy-to-let (*spit*) speculation market. I say this not as a home owner (so you might expect me to say that)." - Emsquared

"I'm all for a more European attitude towards renting but as you imply that means stricter regulation, more rights for tenants and the sort of 5-10 year tenancy option security that exists in many parts of Europe along with much tighter control of the buy-to-let (*spit*) speculation market. I say this not as a home owner (so you might expect me to say that)." - Emsquared

The Multiplier: Jeremy Peyton Jones/Orlando Gough/Michael Henry/Wayne Siegel/Ed Bennett/Steve Reich Kings Place, London, UK - Emsquared

On this New Sounds, hear works by violist/composer Jocelyn Pook, and her sometime collaborator composer, pianist and bandleader Jeremy Peyton-Jones. There's also music by the original young composer Geoff Smith, whose 4AD lushness coupled with minimalist cool, comes out sounding part-Cocteau Twins, part- Philip Glass. Listen for music by Michael Nyman and more. - Emsquared