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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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Kids These Days

Posted by Nicholas Farrell on Mon, Mar 1, 2010

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Greetings from the Fatherland! I love the directness of Germans, even when asserting the need for a parenting guide. Translation: What’s next, dear parents? [Editor's note: my guess is dyeing her hair blue in a hostel group toilet with bad Euro techno blaring and a guy named Otto mainlining antifreeze the next stall over.]

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Critical Condition: Field Music

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Tue, Feb 23, 2010

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Got stung by a pair of ailments last week: a low grade stomach thing and the return of my arch nemesis, lower back pain. When my back goes out of whack, it does so in a big way — near-crippling shocks of lumbar torment that leave me bedridden or hobbling around like a geriatric searching [...]

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South Pole Whisky Update

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Fri, Feb 5, 2010

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Remember a while back when I told you about an expedition to recover some rare Scotch whisky that was lost to the Antarctic more than 100 years ago? They did it! The hooch was abandoned during polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s failed 1908 bid to reach the South Pole. Beverage company Whyte and Mackay found out about the [...]

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