I used to be an Agnostic but now I don't know what to believe

Justin Langer: Gough's final first class wicket

Seeded on Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:23 AM EDT (BBC News)

It's not a statistic I will remember with particular fondness, but I was Darren Gough's final first-class wicket. At the end of Somerset's game against Yorkshire at Scarborough, he smiled and goaded me by saying: "I am happy to finish with an Aussie in my pocket."

yorkshire, cricket, darren-gough, yccc, justin-langar, england, somerset

Veteran reunited with lost medals

Seeded on Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:59 PM EDT (BBC News)

A 93-year-old veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation has been reunited with war medals after they were recovered by scuba divers from the River Thames.

world-news, dunkirk, london, river-thames, wwii, southwark, rnli, positive-news

We need to stop being such cowards about Islam

Seeded on Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:04 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

This is a column condemning cowardice – including my own. It begins with the story of a novel you cannot read. The Jewel of Medina was written by a journalist called Sherry Jones.

religion, islam, mohamed, johann-hari, aisha, sherry-jones, the-jewel-of-medina, censorship, self-censorship

A Detailed Explanation Of How The BSA Misleads With Piracy Stats

Seeded on Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:22 AM EDT (Techdirt)

A couple months ago, when the Business Software Alliance (BSA) released its latest stats on "piracy," it's VP of anti-piracy, Neil MacBride, gave me a call to discuss my earlier complaints about the organizations methodology.

technology, techdirt, copyright, piracy, software, software-piracy, bsa, economics

Embroidered T-shirt: Price £4, cost misery

Seeded on Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:00 AM EDT (BBC News)

Primark is rightly being exposed over the use of child labour in the finishing of cheap clothes. But as evidence against retailers stacks up, shoppers are kidding themselves if they don't shoulder some of the blame, says Dan McDougall.

business, primark, gap, clothing, social-responsibility, ethical-sourcing, panarama

Carlisle 0-2 Leeds (agg 2-3)

Seeded on Fri May 16, 2008 1:41 AM EDT (newsimg.bbc.co.uk)

Leeds midfielder Jonathan Howson struck a 90th-minute goal to book his side a spot in the League One play-off final at the expense of heartbroken Carlisle. Howson had hauled Leeds level 2-2 on aggregate with the opener when he drove in a shot after 10 minutes.

sports, football, footy, soccer, leeds, leeds-united, carlisle, league-one, wembley, play-offs

Aussie straps in beer, not child

Seeded on Wed May 14, 2008 3:26 AM EDT (BBC News)

A car driver in Australia has been fined for strapping down his beer rather than his young child. Police said they were "shocked and appalled" when they pulled over the car south of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory.

odd-news, beer, child-safety, driving, australia, northern-territory, xxxx

Vaccines do not cause autism!

Seeded on Tue May 13, 2008 2:47 PM EDT (Bad Astronomy Blog)

I just can't make this any clearer. Vaccines do not cause autism. Study after study has shown this, in multiple ways.

health, vaccines, mmr, autism, measles, mumps, rubella, hpv, medicine, autism-spectrum

Why Ronaldo made the difference

Seeded on Mon May 12, 2008 10:01 AM EDT (BBC News)

Manchester United's triumph over Chelsea in a desperately close title race was not just down to one man. Too many others played their part at vital times for that to be the case.

sports, football, soccer, ronaldo, cristiano-ronaldo, manchester-united, manchester, premier-league

Young musician win for Peter, 12

Seeded on Mon May 12, 2008 8:05 AM EDT (BBC News)

A 12-year-old trombone player has been crowned the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the contest. Peter Moore, of Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, beat four other finalists at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre.

arts, brass, trombone, musician, young-musician-of-the-year, bbc, brass-bands, wingates

Not the gaffer, but the gaffee

Seeded on Sun May 11, 2008 8:17 AM EDT (BBC News)

Forget about the gaffe, it's the media mindset that makes so much of gaffes that is the real issue, says Clive James. Step forward anyone who has never made a gaffe. But that very instruction would be a gaffe if you delivered it to an audience of people in wheelchairs.

politics, bush, gaffs, mistakes, presidential-primaries, primaries, obama, clinton

Facebook Hates Me

Seeded on Sun May 11, 2008 5:11 AM EDT (Stumblers.net)

It all started because Facebook removed one of my favorite applications from the service. I wrote a short letter of complaint about it, and ever since then, I've not been able to access more than a single Facebook page.

facebook, human-pets, social-networking, internet

The parish gossip and the fascist vicar

Seeded on Mon May 5, 2008 6:29 AM EDT (BBC News)

In the summer of 1940, the sleepy parish of Teigh, barely a smudge on the map of Leicestershire, denounced their vicar as a traitor and a fascist.

history, 1940s, teigh, leicestershire, england, wwii, fascism, gossip

Leeds fail with appeal to get 15 points reinstated

Seeded on Fri May 2, 2008 1:58 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Ken Bates, the Leeds chairman, has called for the Football League chairman Brian Mawhinney to resign after the club lost an appeal against a 15-point penalty imposed at the start of the season.

sports, leeds, leeds-united, football, soccer, football-league, league-one

RSA debate agrees – a secular state is best for Islam

Seeded on Thu May 1, 2008 3:31 PM EDT (blog.newhumanist.org.uk)

Broad agreement was the order of the day this lunchtime at the Royal Society of Arts, where four leading commentators on the role of Islam in Britain gathered to debate the question: "The Secular State – the best option for British Muslims?" The debate was chaired by the Muslim …

religion, secularism, islam, humanism, atheism, british-muslims, metaphysical-secularism

EFF to Ballmer: You owe MSN Music customers an apology, a refund and more

Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:26 AM EDT (Boing Boing)

EFF has published an open letter to Steve Ballmer upbraiding him for switching off the MSN Music DRM server and nuking the music collections of every customer trusting enough to buy music, laying out a suite of things that Microsoft needs to do to make amends

technology, drm, music, eff, steve-ballmer, microsoft, msn, msn-music

21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs

Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:17 AM EDT (10e20.com)

Do you want to sharpen your creative picture taking instincts? Do you want to combine new ideas with your current projects and techniques? These techniques will be better executed with digital cameras and meant as some direction or guidelines to taking 'better' pictures.

arts, photography, digital-photography, techniques, how-to

NYPD cops videoed illegally warring on photographers

Seeded on Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:43 AM EDT (Boing Boing)

In March 2007, a free speech and free assembly rally was held in Union Square to protest a new NYPD rule of dubious constitutionality instituting a permit requirement for any assembly of 50+ people on foot or on bike in NYC.

us-news, nypd, photography, civil-rights, protest, new-york, nyc, rights

When does kinky porn become illegal?

Seeded on Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:36 AM EDT (BBC News)

A bill outlawing the possession of "extreme pornography" is set to become law next week. But many fear it has been rushed through and will criminalise innocent people with a harmless taste for unconventional sex.

politics, sex, sexvine, law, pornography, extreme-pornography, rights, privacy

(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos

Seeded on Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:01 AM EDT (Smashing Magazine)

Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don't only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the emotions a photographer experienced when clicking the shot button.

arts, photography, smashing-magazine, photographs, photos, inspiration

Yosemite National Park - What Adams Saw Through His Lens

Seeded on Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:40 AM EDT (The New York Times)

WAWONA TUNNEL is a passageway from civilization to natural splendor. The tunnel, dug through a hill on the south side of Yosemite National Park in the 1930s, hides the coming view like a mile-long blindfold.

travel, ansel-adams, photography, yosemite, yosemite-park, landscape-photography

Astrologers fail to predict proof they are wrong

Seeded on Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:43 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Good news for rational, level-headed Virgoans everywhere: just as you might have predicted, scientists have found astrology to be rubbish.

science, astrology, research, skepticism, russell-grant, astrologers, hokum

'We are not the Shameless estate'

Seeded on Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:30 AM EDT (BBC News)

The headlines were uncompromising. "Estate is like a nastier Beirut" and "A real-life version of TV's Shameless" the tabloids screamed.

world-news, shameless, dewsbury-moor, dewsbury, yorkshire, shannon-matthews, working-classes

Taking photos in public is not illegal

Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:34 PM EDT

There have been a few news articles recently covering the problems that some photographers are having while using their cameras in public places.

Continue reading this entry ...

arts, photography, civil-rights, rights, law, police, street-photography, austin-mitchell

Ticketmaster creates fake Facebook profiles to boost fake popularity

Seeded on Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:04 PM EDT (Valleywag)

Ticketmaster, the event-ticket retailer whose monopolies on venues and exorbitant fees are legendarily evil, has somehow garnered nearly 157,000 fans on Facebook. And by "somehow" I mean "created thousands upon thousands of fake accounts."

business, ticketmaster, facebook, public-relations, stebe-jobs, pr, fake

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