The Guardian has a profile of Steve Sanderson, who is one of the owners of Oi Polloi, the best menswear shop in the world.

Now if only they would open a branch in London…..

Eskil Steenberg’s one man game, LOVE looks incredible.

Could be a defining moment in indie game development and good for everyone if it helps get us past the ‘games and violence’ debates and onto talking about video games as culture.

More here.

Talking of apocalyptic visions of the future.

On the anniversary of Black Thursday, October 24, 1929, the start of the Wall St crash, rumours fly that General Motors and Ford are filling for bankrupcy stock markets around the world crash (again).

Dow futures hit ‘Limit Down‘, the maximum amount they can fall in one day, before the market’s open.

Once again, that man Roubini, predicted it.

This could be the big one.

The recently revived solace in cinema has the skinny on an early review of The Road.

Knowing the book, I can’t  imagine a situation where I’d want to put myself through the agony of spending two hours going through it all again.

It sounds like one of those films you have to be in a really specific mood to go see, but is an ultimately rewarding experience if you manage it.

Rendezvous with Rama from Aaron Ross on Vimeo.

Yesterday’s Macbook announcement didn’t go down well with some folks.

Although it probably won’t matter in the short-term, alienating key usergroups, like musicians and film makers could certainly have long term consequences to the ‘Mac as default creative tool’ image Apple has been trading on for years. Roll into that an uncertain economic situation and you start to wonder if the decision making process at Apple needs to be recalibrated to take better account of it’s customer’s needs rather than the unquestioned self-confidence of old.

As Peter Kirn points out

And most of all, I think the mood of the world right now is that we’ll buy new tech when it’s ready for us, when we don’t have to throw out gear we care about just to make the case a little thinner, and when we can pay in cash.

Apple is in danger of missing the subtle but discernable change in season and being left selling form and luxury when the prevailing mood is one of functionality, austerity and looking for savings not reasons to upgrade.

Sometimes success is your own worst enemy.

Ridley Scott is making a new Sci-fi Movie, based on Joe Haldeman’s Forever War.

“It’s a science-fiction epic, a bit of ‘The Odyssey’ by way of ‘Blade Runner,’ built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise.”

It’s been a while since we’ve had a heavy hitting 70’s style epic.

Could be interesting.

more here

Who would have thought you would ever would see a serious op-ed piece with this as it’s first line ?

And from the New York Times’s widely respected Paul Krugman no less.

Credit where it’s due,  he seems to have done as well as could be expected in the circumstances.

(not that we’ll be seeing any such warm praise from the British press)

Now if he can only save himself….

link

Still on the fence, but warming up slightly after reading this.