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Was thoroughly out-manouvered and -gunned by two people with a combined life-span of less than two...

Was thoroughly out-manouvered and -gunned by two people with a combined life-span of less than two years.

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“I bring pornographic pictures and the opinions of angry...

“I bring pornographic pictures and the opinions of angry children.”

The Internet Is Back.

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“Kashmiri Muslims prayed by the body of Wamiq Farooq, 14,...

“Kashmiri Muslims prayed by the body of Wamiq Farooq, 14, during his funeral in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Violent anti-India protests erupted in Srinagar a daf after Wamiq was killed when the police fired a tear gas shell that hit his head, the police and residents say.”

Dar Yason for Associated Press on The New York Times ‘Lens’ Blog.

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Hitler is none too pleased with MTV’s decision to relocate the...

Hitler is none too pleased with MTV’s decision to relocate the cast of Jersey Shore for season 2.

Via popcrunch.

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"His wife, a police officer, was five months pregnant at the time. Krassimir (the Big Margin) Marinov..."

“His wife, a police officer, was five months pregnant at the time. Krassimir (the Big Margin) Marinov and his brother Nikolai (the Little Margin) Marinov, former wrestling champions who had been charged in connection with several other killings, have been accused of plotting the attack, though Little Margin remains at large. The two actual gunmen also have not been found.”

- For Bulgarian Writer, Death Imitates Art - NYTimes.com

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1940s London in color. howtobearetronaut.com via @ldn.

1940s London in color.

howtobearetronaut.com via @ldn.

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Via.

Via.

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HBO Presents ‘Funny or Die Presents’.

HBO Presents ‘Funny or Die Presents’.

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"Those of us who patiently, day after day, explain to a child or colleague that the reason..."

“Those of us who patiently, day after day, explain to a child or colleague that the reason there’s no Print item in the File menu is because, although the Pages document is filling the screen, Finder is actually the frontmost application and it doesn’t have any windows open, understand what’s happening here.”

- Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock. So very true — and most interesting take on the iPad I’ve seen.

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"The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (PG-13, 130 minutes). The characters in this movie should be..."

““The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (PG-13, 130 minutes). The characters in this movie should be arrested for loitering with intent to moan…

…sitting through this experience is like driving a tractor in low gear though a sullen sea of Brylcreem. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson return in their original roles, she dewy and masochistic, he sullen and manacing. Ah, teenage romance! One star.”

- ‘The Your Movie Sucks™ files’ — Roger Ebert’s Journal

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“Everyone always leaves.” Unhappy Hipsters.

“Everyone always leaves.”

Unhappy Hipsters.

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When calling a private school about admissions today, I had an experience equivalent to Patrick...

When calling a private school about admissions today, I had an experience equivalent to Patrick Bateman’s trying to get a table at Dorsia.

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"It was really exciting to see some of the technologies that Adobe has contributed to, like PDF and..."

“It was really exciting to see some of the technologies that Adobe has contributed to, like PDF and ePub support, taking center stage in the launch. Adobe technology is at the center of virtually every print and digital workflow, so undoubtedly a lot of what you¹ll see getting delivered to the iPad will have originated in Adobe creative software.”

- Apple’s iPad — a broken link? (Adobe Flash Platform Blog). Putting on a brave face, are we?

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These Whole Foods fuckers are really pushing the upper limits of...

These Whole Foods fuckers are really pushing the upper limits of any known ways of measuring doucheness.

‘Weigh Less, Pay Less: Whole Foods Offers Discount Based On BMI’ — Jezebel.

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"Apart from telling the film-makers what I don’t want to see in Tesco, then there is no..."

““Apart from telling the film-makers what I don’t want to see in Tesco, then there is no interference in the subject matter. Of course, I don’t want anything too risqué. Nothing that would be 18-rated and that would not sit well on our shelves.”

- ‘Tesco sets up film studio to adapt hit novels’ — The Observer. OK, “that’s it”, then. Not interfering, you’re doing it wrong. Anyway, hilarious. Will probably go as amazingly well as Starbuck’s record label did. Via @ldn.

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InstaReblog, via The Internet.

InstaReblog, via The Internet.

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Japanese business men next to me at bar drinking whiskey. I thought that was a movie thing.

Japanese business men next to me at bar drinking whiskey. I thought that was a movie thing.

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Why can’t I find a Collector’s Edition,...

Why can’t I find a Collector’s Edition, Director’s Cut DVD boxset of Nanny Fine? Long-tail, my ass.

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Haitian citizens crowd a ship in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on...

Haitian citizens crowd a ship in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.

Candice Villarreal/U.S. Navy via Bloomberg on The Big Picture.

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This is a must-read for anyone even mildly interested in the...

This is a must-read for anyone even mildly interested in the 2008 US elections. The dirty details, the true (maybe/probably/hopefully) extent of the trainwreckness of most of the major campaigns, the expletives hurled between candidates, the exposing of breasts by Edward’s wife… it’s US Weekly for nerds like me. Strong buy.

“Game Change” by Heilemann/Halperin.

(It’s called “Race of a Lifetime” in the UK where it also has a nicer cover. So there.)

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What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Shift+Esc 2. Right...

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Shift+Esc 2. Right click on any process 3. Select “Goats teleported”

What is the expected result? I expected Google Chrome to teleport maybe three, maximum five goats!

What happens instead? About 3*10^6 goats get teleported! I won’t be able to pay for teleportation of such huge amount of goats!

Huge amount of goats teleported.

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Glitch in the Matrix.

Glitch in the Matrix.

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"Just tried the new Dominos pizza. It sucked. Could be because mine was overcooked but not so sure."

“Just tried the new Dominos pizza. It sucked. Could be because mine was overcooked but not so sure.”

- CONTENT POSTED BY USERS IS NOT NECESSARILY SANCTIONED, ENDORSED OR SUPPORTED BY DOMINO’S PIZZA AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF DOMINO’S PIZZA AND THE DOMINO’S PIZZA SYSTEM. How sinister does “The Domino’s Pizza System” sound?

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"Push the Envelope"

“This phrase came into general use following the publication Tom Wolfe’s book about the space programme - The Right Stuff, 1979.”

Really?

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Cultural insight: America seems to enjoy the television of grownups playing with a ball.

Cultural insight: America seems to enjoy the television of grownups playing with a ball.

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Cultural insight: America seems to enjoy the television of grownups playing with a ball.

Cultural insight: America seems to enjoy the television of grownups playing with a ball.

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Off to San Francisco for the first time in months. Sure hope they still have burritos. And beer....

Off to San Francisco for the first time in months. Sure hope they still have burritos. And beer. Enough for 5 days, too.

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I agree that this delivery method combined with that message...

I agree that this delivery method combined with that message would be very powerful, indeed.

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“Modern Toilet Restaurent”. For real — Siim’s...

“Modern Toilet Restaurent”. For real — Siim’s been there.

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Instant movie: “‘I put my hand on his side of the...

Instant movie:

“‘I put my hand on his side of the bed, and I remember feeling it empty,’ she later told the US television channel NBC. Weinberger leapt from bed in alarm to find that her husband had vanished, taking with him his passport and money he had stashed secretly on board.

It was the beginning of a five-year flight from justice that ended this week even more strangely than it began, almost 6,000 feet up in the Italian Alps. Two officers of the paramilitary Carabinieri, led by a mountain guide, trudged up to the southern slopes of Mont Blanc to find one of America’s most wanted fugitives living in a tent. He was surviving in temperatures as low as -18C on dried and tinned food and snow he melted on a portable stove.

Dr Mark Weinberger, a 46-year-old ear, nose and throat specialist, was tonight in a secure ward at the Molinette hospital in Turin recovering from a wound he sustained when he tried to take his own life at the Carabinieri station in Courmayeur, below Mont Blanc.”

‘America’s most wanted: doctor found living in tent on Mont Blanc’ — The Guardian.

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The underwear with the explosive worn by alleged Northwest 253...

The underwear with the explosive worn by alleged Northwest 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is shown in this undated photo.

Northwest Airlines Bomb Photos - ABC News.

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“Shaikh’s advocates say he suffered from a bipolar...

“Shaikh’s advocates say he suffered from a bipolar disorder and that he was tricked into carrying heroin into China with promises of a career as a pop singer.”

China executes British citizen for drug smuggling.

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Niklas and crew (well, probably just crew) are...

Niklas and crew (well, probably just crew) are blogging/Twittering from the boat during the Sidney-Hobart race.

Rán Racing.

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Anyone up for currywurst in London today? Kurz & Lang.

Anyone up for currywurst in London today?

Kurz & Lang.

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TimesPeople are SadPeople

Saddest, loneliest and most broken social network of the year: TimesPeople from The New York Times (2 goldstars if you’ve even ever heard about it).

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Yuletide Pork Fiesta.

Yuletide Pork Fiesta.

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"What I saw was profoundly shocking. The Chinese premier, Wen Jinbao, did not deign to attend the..."

“What I saw was profoundly shocking. The Chinese premier, Wen Jinbao, did not deign to attend the meetings personally, instead sending a second-tier official in the country’s foreign ministry to sit opposite Obama himself. The diplomatic snub was obvious and brutal, as was the practical implication: several times during the session, the world’s most powerful heads of state were forced to wait around as the Chinese delegate went off to make telephone calls to his “superiors”.”

- ‘How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room’ — Mark Lynas in The Guardian. Via marbury.

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Made @ian’s famous Mac’n’Cheese tonight....

Made @ian’s famous Mac’n’Cheese tonight. It’s perfect.

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"Many weeks and tearful interruptions in the making. But finally I’ve managed to put together a..."

“Many weeks and tearful interruptions in the making. But finally I’ve managed to put together a new mix - http://bit.ly/christmasmix”

- iaintait. You know what to do.

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The sky’s blue, water’s wet, Logitech makes shit software.

The sky’s blue, water’s wet, Logitech makes shit software.

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Stephen Colbert is a special kind of amazing. Alicia Keys and...

Stephen Colbert is a special kind of amazing.

Alicia Keys and Stephen Colbert - ‘Empire State Of Mind (Suburban Version)’.

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"Newspapers have become deadweight commodities linked to other media commodities in chains that are..."

“Newspapers have become deadweight commodities linked to other media commodities in chains that are coupled or uncoupled by accountants and lawyers and executive vice presidents and boards of directors in offices thousands of miles from where the man bit the dog and drew ink.”

- ‘Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper’ — By Richard Rodriguez (Harper’s Magazine). Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a sentence.

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No joke.

No joke.

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“Moments later a man came outside and introduced himself...

“Moments later a man came outside and introduced himself as the manager on duty. And then, ‘I’m sorry but we had to blow up your laptop.’”

Actually, they shot it three (3!) times, they didn’t blow it up.

‘I’m sorry but we blew up your laptop (welcome to Israel)’ — Lilysussman’s Blog.

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Via juliasegal, via richgone.

Via juliasegal, via richgone.

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"Surely Tiger’s decision to outsouce sexual services to a range of competing providers is in..."

“Surely Tiger’s decision to outsouce sexual services to a range of competing providers is in line with Management Consultancy’s established best practice?

Previously he had been tied to a monopoly Scandianvian supplier - with the cripplingly high social costs this usually entails. Moreover, given his wife’s age, it is possible that she was on the brink of becoming a depreciating asset who needed to be moved off the balance sheet as soon as possible.

Admittedly he could have off-shored more - to girls from low-wage economies. But the arrangement where he could have anything from nil to three girls on call at any one time allows for better load-balancing, enabling him to handle the peaks and troughs of demand better than under than the previous inflexible arrangement. By sourcing girls locally, he was also reducing distribution costs and helping the environment…… while allowing him to adopt a best-of-breed aproach to sexual delivery, rather than depending on a single source.”

- ‘Why on earth has Accenture ditched Tiger Woods?’ - Rory Sutherland’s Blog (via Marbury).

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Oh dear.

Oh dear.

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Hmm, I wonder what the laws in the UK are. “Don’t...

Hmm, I wonder what the laws in the UK are.

“Don’t Talk to Cops”.

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