Ask The Experts: 'A Programmer Applicant's Checklist' (Gamasutra)
[What six things must every programmer do before applying for a job in the game industry? In the latest Ask the Experts column from educational site Game Career Guide, Jill Duffy follows-up the earlier article to "She Blinded Me with Computer Science," with a checklist for would-be programmers, students and industry-crossovers alike. We're also running this useful breaking-in column on ......more...Sound writing (Guardian Unlimited)
Poetry workshop: Fiona Sampson admires the responses to her exercise on listening poems....more... Interview: Rich Villar -- Getting to the Heart of the Matter (Blogcritics.org)
The louderARTS Project is a not-for-profit arts corporation committed to developing constructive and challenging spaces for artists to create, critique, present, and teach poetry. The following is my interview with Rich Villar, one of the louderARTS / Acentos collective, a poet and writer, and someone whose writing leaves an indelible mark in your mind. But before you read Rich on where he ......more... The CIS and Baltic press on Russia (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
Journalists believe that Moscow's decision to suspend its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) poses a threat to Estonia and Russia's other neighbors....more... Nigeria: Sordid Tales of Child-Abduction (AllAfrica.com)
THE inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, Mr. Mikail Kalashinikov, who turned 87, recently, in reaction to the worldwide deadly use of the rifle, manufactured 60 years ago, said, he could not lose sleep over the bloodshed caused by the gun across the globe. His words: "I sleep well....more... Salmond wants 'meeting of equals' with PM (The Scotsman)
ALEX Salmond, the First Minister, will meet Gordon Brown today, intent on forging a relationship of equals with the new Prime Minister....more... Dictionary Includes 100 New Words (WCVB Boston)
It was a ginormous year for the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster. ...more... 'We can win in Iraq' - Bush (The Scotsman)
PRESIDENT George Bush yesterday claimed that the United States can still achieve victory in Iraq and pledged that, despite rising opposition, he would not cut the number of US troops in Iraq....more... Marcus Trescothick back in the England frame (Daily Telegraph)
Marcus Trescothick was handed a way back to the big time after being named in a preliminary 30-man squad for the Twenty20 World Championship this September, writes Derek Pringle....more... |