Marco from BB5 is Digital Spy's Big Brother columnist. This, his first column, is surprisingly insightful... enough so to make me keep reading. Whether I keep watching the show is another matter. It is still curiously compulsive, I will own...
A Gamer's Manifesto. Entertaining, at times a little OTT and a bit too optimistic, but there some salient points nontheless. Plus: it made me laugh.
I love both of them dearly, I really do, but I also love comics, and so The Amazing Adventures of Lethem & Clay is, all in all, a very beautiful thing. Curse you, Candace Bushnell.
BBC Backstage launches. Lots of RSS feeds (and APIs in the near future) to play with - and, with a few caveats, you're free to do what you want with all that lovely data. I've written a bit more about the scheme over at the other weblog I contribute to. Suffice to say, Ben Hammersley is right - this is seriously exciting stuff. The BBC are on the Cluetrain. Who's next?
Comprehensive archive (with scans) of 50s and prior romance comics. It's a genre you may not be very familiar with, but tons were churned out in this era; in some ways, the ads in each issue are even more interesting (from a cultural-history standpoint) than the comics themselves. Warning: they have severely dated. Just in case you hadn't guessed.
37Signals latest webapp, Backpack launches today. 10am CST, which will be some time this afternoon. If it's anything like as good as Basecamp or Ta-da lists, it should be something special. Keep your eyes peeled, folks.