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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

Got you in stitches?

You can have too much of a good thing, and that goes for knitting. Yarn bombing? Yawn bombing. But since all enthusiasm for the London mayoral candidates is unravelling, this could be just the impetus their campaigns need: mayoral candidates as seen on londonist.com

Countdowns

100 days till the Olympics. But – possibly more excitingly – only 22 until Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall sequel.

People pixels

Portrait of Audrey Hepburn by artist Craig Alan
Portrait of Audrey Hepburn by artist Craig Alan. Photograph: viningsgallery.com

Can't stop looking at Craig Alan's portraits, where people are used like pixels. Every person is a picture.

Full-time doodler

...required. You've been getting really good at DrawSomething and now you're ready for the next big challenge? Google is looking for a professional doodler. That's right. You get to write "Doodler" on all those forms that ask for your profession. And all you need is four years of doodling behind you: who hasn't got that?

The new charts

Starting Sunday, a new weekly chart based on sales at independent record shops, to run alongside the regular chart. What a great idea! Bet it'll be called something really cool and edgy! Er . . . it's the Official Record Store Chart. Someone needs a rethink.

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