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Bringing Down the House

Posted by Nicholas Farrell on Sun, Mar 7, 2010

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Guten Tag, everyone. Here’s some unusual news from the Fatherland. It’s been noted that Germans have a thing for planning and strategy. A group of German men took such inclinations to extremes yesterday, forcefully exiting celebrity poker tournament Promi-Poker-Tournier with the winner’s share — an excess of 800,000€ ($1 million USD) — after having laid [...]

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Transparency or Cyberstupidity?

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Tue, Mar 2, 2010

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It’s clear that the coming years will present major tests for security on the internet. We’ll also likely see further debate about privacy and First Amendment issues online, with personal data, intellectual property and child pornography topping the laundry list of concerns. But in the wake of the attack on Google in China, let’s start [...]

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Hurrah for Poli-Sci-Fi Radio!

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sat, Feb 20, 2010

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This is the definition of Teh Awesome. Broadcast from LPFM station The Radiator in Burlington, VT, Poli-Sci-Fi Radio is hosted by community media guru/Contrarian contributor Bill Simmon and superstar political blogger Steve Benen. The hour-length program features Steve (one of the most influential web scribes in the country) talking about the latest political hullaboo for the [...]

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Tiger Woods Apologizes For Awesome Life; Announces Plans To Begin Private, Insanely Wealthy Retirement

Posted by Neil Cleary on Fri, Feb 19, 2010

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Tiger Woods, in a hushed press conference today at a crazy posh Florida resort, shamefacedly apologized for his life as both the greatest golfer who ever lived and legendary Dionysian sex god. Woods, who has been silent under the shadow of revelations about his totally epic carnal exploits, today expressed remorse for being amazingly successful [...]

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We’re Here, We Play Soccer, Get Used to It.

Posted by Nicholas Farrell on Tue, Feb 16, 2010

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As a follow-up of sorts to my piece on Robert Enke and mental illness in the game of football (soccer), I encourage readers to have a look at Patrick Barkham’s Guardian story from this past week on the unspoken presence of homosexuality and homophobia in the world’s game. Barkham provides a brief history of sexuality in the European [...]

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