Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Beckham's son Brooklyn hoping for Manchester United chance

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Manchester United have been running the rule over Brooklyn Beckham with a view to offering him a place in their academy

= the main story on the football page

he is 14 years old

all the beckham boys will be fashion designers

show me someone born into that sort of privilege and I'll show you someone who'll live cushy

plus their mother is arguably as good a fashion designer as their dad is a footballer, and the former fits far better as a career with their lofty station

Don't the big clubs start recruiting even younger than 14?

Celtic have players in the youth academy at 6.

Brooklyn was in the la galaxy academy though, so already been professionally coached before, just at a smaller club.

he's in the QPR academy apparently?

the chance of a 14 yr old at man utd becoming a successful premier league player are probably about 4%, and he isn't even there yet, so until or unless the kid gets within some proximity of professional football file it with the rest of the sleb blather

isn't Sleb Blather chairman of FIFA though?

I'm a sucker for these sorts of lavish designs

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded

i'm not a fan of auto-play video in any form.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/30/posh-pop-debutante-ball-inequality

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/13/i-fucking-love-science-elsie-andrew/print

url gets her name wrong, A++

elsie!

if they have to do a long article about the inventor of 'i fucking love science', misspelling their name is the least they can do

Mexican costume
Are they racist?

I am usually a staunch defender of the website but snidely liveblogging a 1970s Carry On film may be a bridge too far.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/11/carry-on-dick-liveblog

wait a minute.
Back in the 1980s when the alternative comedy thing was huge and Carry On and Bruce Forsyth was "out" would the Graun be live blogging something like this?
Think not.
Right on!!!!!!

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Villas-Boas told to leave out Llorism by medics

no place for Llorism in the modern game

"http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=98014#unread"; no longer accurately titled then

They were liveblogging No Country For Old Men the other day. I don't understand that at all.

it allows them to keep running investigative journalism

http://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/quiz/2013/nov/12/is-your-child-a-yob-quiz?CMP=fb_gu

classy

J ‏@piercepenniless 5 Jun
I can't imagine what it must be like to have so profoundly little to say about the world as Tim Dowling does. Acres of paper, utterly wasted

dim owl ting

craig brown used to write things like that for the telegraph

dim owl ting

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:35 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IRL LOL

I really enjoy Tim Dowling's columns.

Craig Brown is a genuinely planet-sized douche

dim owl ting

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:35 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IRL LOL

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:40 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+1

it allows them to keep running investigative journalism

It's a bit like New Labour's pact with the City.

it allows them to keep running capitalism

I was referring to profits of the boom being skimmed off and spent on things like Sure Start.

i was referring to allowing the capitalists to continue to create the kind of gaping inequalities that made Sure Start necessary and doomed to fail

It astounds me the number of times I click on things then think "Ah, they know I clicked on this". I'm shaping the future of journalism by clicking on crap links.

Sponsored feature, Gallery (8 pictures), 15 Nov 2013

"I don’t live in the past,” says Guy Hills, who opens the door to his Victorian house in north London sporting plus fours, pointy slippers and Brylcreem. Once inside, it becomes clear his statement is at odds with his home, too: it’s furnished almost entirely with salvaged and vintage finds, revived and reinvented by Maria Speake, designer and co-founder of Retrouvius, a business devoted to saving and reusing the old. The four-storey house is in Primrose Hill, one of London’s most creative neighbourhoods (Nicholas Hytner and Helen Fielding live in the same street and every second house, it seems, sports a blue plaque). Regent’s Canal flows past the back garden: “We sometimes row to London Zoo with the kids, or to Camden Lock,” Hills says.

The building was divided into flats when he and his wife Natasha moved here in 2002. Having bought out the owners of the upper floors, they started work on creating a family home (the couple have three children, Amelia, 10, Hector, eight, and Rex, six), party pad and HQ for Hills’ textile and menswear company, Dashing Tweeds. They approached Retrouvius because Hills loves all things vintage (he has an impressive collection of snuff boxes).

enjoying the attempt to outflank the nyt here

groce

wouldn't "snuff box" be a great slang term for a coffin?

I'm a sucker for these sorts of lavish designs

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded

― sktsh, Friday, November 1, 2013 1:16 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

this is the worst shit in the universe, are you high

hurts not to be able to c+p the intelligence dossier graphic of like

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2474/3904152560_b208111ca5_z.jpg

U S President B OBAMA

xp mibbes aye. What am I not seeing that makes it so shit? (not defending it, just wondering why the visceral reaction 2 weeks on)

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/snow_fall_the_jockey_the_scourge_of_the_new_york_times_bell_and_whistle.html

I’m all for experimentation in Web journalism. I think videos, graphics, large-format images and other extra-textual elements can improve storytelling. But I suspect that years from now, we’ll look back at “Snow Fall,” “The Jockey,” and their copycats in the same way we now regard 1990s-era dancing hamster animations—as an example of excess, a moment when designers indulged their creativity because they now have the technical means to do so, and not because it improved the story or readers’ understanding of it.

You can't tell what works without experimenting and pushing boundaries and I can't imagine there will ever be the budget for something like this to be a regular thing. I think throwing everything at the wall in these pretty rare features is a good way to take stock, look at how they are received, see what works and throw away what doesn't.

the whole reason people went nuts over the snow fall story is because it obviously DID improve the reader's understanding of the story

not the case for all bells'n'whistles stuff granted

in the same way we now regard 1990s-era dancing hamster animations—as an example of excess, a moment when designers indulged their creativity because they now have the technical means to do so

That's not how we regard the dancing hamsters of the 1990s, though, is it? It seems to me they're exactly like Snow Fall: designers experimenting and coming to grips with what the technology now allows them to do. In one case the eventual result is .gif swallowing the world like it has, hopefully in the other we get online newspaper design that's as creative and expressive as print.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/20/hull-residents-celebrate-city-culture

can't even post picture of Hannah at a reasonable size