House of Holland: Virtually Scottish
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Fashion Wire Daily - The hottest and hippest show to attend in London this season is House of Holland, a witty collection of fashion in-joke clothes and a brand that's won an insider following of considerable fervor.
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By BEN McCONVILLE LONDON - Great Scot! A shortage of ceremonial kilts could leave thousands of soldiers without a stitch of plaid to wear as they parade to the skirl of the bagpipes.
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HOCHKIRCH, Germany  - He once governed Ukraine and Berlin, controlled Finland, and might have changed British history -- but is little known in his native Scotland.
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By Ian Swanson Scottish Political Editor  BUSINESS is booming for Scotland's organic farms.   New figures published today show Scottish farmers are now producing enough to meet 70 per cent of the demand for local organic food - twice the level five years ago.
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Exploring the family tree in search of roots (or royal family connections).
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English social realist ken loach has been doing his best work in Scotland recently.
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It's a still life Jim, but not as we know it The Scottish town of Linlithgow is building a memorial to its most famous, albeit fictional, resident. For Linlithgow is the birthplace of Montgomery Scott, more usually known as "Scotty", the Star Trek engineer.â¦
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A SCOTTISH company that has helped sell the image of its homeland to millions of Americans is now hoping to revive historic trading links with central Europe.
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How Scotland became the back office for London's financial industry.
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Help! The geeks are coming! Here's a poser for you: could there be anything more frightening than a bunch of open source geeks (proud ones, at that) milling around the mean streets of Edinburgh? Well, yes. How about if you put some of them in special Debian kilts?â¦
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A mythical and ghostly creature has appeared in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands.
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Home owners yesterday were warned of a dramatic slump in values. Student Ula Heywood could have been forgiven for underestimating how tough a Duke of Edinburgh expedition can be.
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Tycho:  Rhythm games aren't my forte, but I have a lot of inbuilt experience with meter which helps me fake it until I can build genuine skill.  And, as rhythm elements have crept into the entire medium, Tycho stock has been in a boom phase.  It's understandable, then, that while I soar and illuminate - and Gabriel sputters, bound to earth - tensions related to my prowess have begun to burn red-hot.  That is, until they cool again.  These things have a way of working themselves out in the fullness of time.          There's an incredible article over at Wired this month (and possibly also in the magazine?) about the Bungie's psychological approach to game design.  What a tremendous challenge it must be to retain authorial control in such a case!  As someone whose output is rarely screened by any agency, the whole thing gave me chills.  The right to fail nobly in a creative endeavor (as we sometimes do) is such a powerful luxury.  No such luxury may be extended to them, upon whose toil an entire platform rests.  God keep me from such a fate.          I keep hearing that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption isn't being promoted very well, but the person saying this always seems to know about it, and then when people share this complaint in the thread those people also seem to be "in the know."  It ships on the twenty-seventh of August, if you weren't aware - but since you almost certainly are, we needn't dwell on it.  What we should be dwelling on are the series of teaser vids that Retro has been trickling out.  Metroid's largely mysterious heroine has always been a huge draw for me, and going into deep detail about the character would actually damage the mystique.  But the universe she operates in need not be vague, which is why these clips are such a rich meal:  there's the Aurora Unit trailer that modernizes ancient Metroid canon in a classy way, and there's a treat at the end of the Valhalla trailer that ties it all together.  They both cover a setting that has gotten darker and more sophisticated, tones we don't typically associate with Nintendo.       We like to get kicks in on the post-Harmonix Guitar Hero, partly based on their "wacky" multiplayer concept - which ordinary gamers will probably love - but also out of a sort of tribal loyalty.  This having been established, they've built an authentically heroic tracklist that really has a lot of beef.  Going from the most recent Rock Band announcement out of Leipzig, both versions appear to have Radiohead's "Creep" and the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," which is something of a comfort.  After seeing different songs on each game from Metallica and The Rolling Stones, I wasn't sure if they were already traveling down the catalogues securing exclusive weaponry.  I hope that the labels in this case see the old wisdom of arming both sides.
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Seeing the world' the digital way on Second Life.
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Over the weekend, BBC Radio 1 kicked off the U.K. festival season with "The Big Weekend" in Dundee, Scotland, featuring acts like Pink, Snow Patrol and Mylo. But not all fans who caught the show did so in the real world. Instead, the BBC simulcast the concert on an island it created in Second Life, an online virtual world, where fans could listen to the music, mingle, dance, even dive down a mudslide&#x2014;all with no lines for the bathroom.
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By van den Ban, Anne  The Virtual Farmer: Past, Present and Future of the Dutch Peasantry, by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Assen, the Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum, 2003. 432 pp. Euro 3750 (paper). ISBN: 90-232-3892-3.
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I BELIEVE that this is a great time in Scotlandâs history. Our country is full of talent, enterprise, compassion and tolerance. Our economy is strong, employment rates are high and poverty is decreasing, particularly amongst children and pensioners.