So Apple has forced the makers of a dictionary iApp to remove ‘objectionable content’ before approving it for use on the iPhone and iPod touch. ‘They provided screenshots of the words,’ explained the developer, presumably while quietly shaking his head continue
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Are we allowed to say ‘hypocrisy’?
on 6 August 2009
So what does Chávez’s mobile sound like?
on 14 May 2009
It’s hard to know what to make of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who prefers regional solidarity and social reform to appeasing a US-centric world economic agenda but doesn’t appear to have a coherent economic agenda of his own, more a make-it-up-as-you-go-along mix of expropriation, energy deals with Mugabe and, oh yes, badly organised coups d’état. continue
Digipop
on 10 June 2005
Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific product designers of the day, best known for mass-market barnstormers like the Garbino dustbin, which sells for under a tenner. continue
Skin
on 19 April 2002
Accompanying an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, this impeccably produced book is bound in squishy covers printed with an irresistible trompe-l’oeil texture. If you can stop squishing long enough to open it, the pictures are stunning and the text, although written as if to be read slowly on Radio 4, worth ploughing through for its well-turned insights. continue
Exposed: The Sensual and the Erotic in Photography
on 22 February 2002
Don’t panic, citizens of W1: Mapplethorpe this ain’t. Accessible art dealer eyestorm has raided its catalogue of limited-edition prints for an exhibition of images ‘inspiring reflections on desire and the physical form’. continue
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