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The Telegraph - [CENSORED]’s losing game over [CENSORED] Olympics

[CENSORED] is increasingly finding that the Olympic Games are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they will celebrate the country’s astonishing economic transformation and, no doubt, the prowess of its athletes. On the other, they are drawing attention to its repressive political system and [...]

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The Times - Cats are out as Beijing starts to preen itself

Animal welfare activists in Beijing are up in arms over a decision by the city government to clear the capital of its stray cats as part of a sweeping Olympic facelift. No one knows exactly how many homeless cats [...]

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Yay lookit what I found!

Telegraph - Revelstoke Mountain: the world’s best skiing?

In what I consider to be the most exciting development in snow business on either side of the Atlantic over the past 20 years, Canada’s new, billion-dollar Revelstoke Mountain Resort - RMR - is poised to become one of the world’s most [...]

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Daily Telegraph - Seasick chain-smoker rows Atlantic

AN overweight chain-smoking aquaphobic has beaten an infection and the competition to be the first solo Australian to row across the Atlantic - a 76-day journey across 5500km of open seas. Pete Collett, 32, arrived at in the West Indies on Saturday night, after [...]

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(Here’s a story from July on Spielberg mulling this)

BBC - Spielberg boycotts Olympic role

US film director Steven Spielberg has withdrawn as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. In a statement, he accused China of not doing enough to pressure its ally Sudan to end the “continuing human [...]

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Ireland, being exceptional again.

Telegraph - Mrs Tiger Woods wins fake pornography case

At the bottom they’ve printed the text of the apology in full. Remarkable. Whoever wrote it should do speaking tours around the rest of the English-speaking world. American politicians (especially liberal, anti-war ones) should be forced to watch six-hour tapes of these talks while [...]

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This is sooo cool: Walk Score

Our little garret here gets a 88. Peter’s work gets a 98. My house in CA gets a 37. Peter’s house at home gets a 17 (hah!) but I dunno if where that is is public knowledge. I wonder how it’ll score Half’s mini-mart bicycling?

Update: Whilst waiting for this [...]

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We got to the third episode of the tenth season of Top Gear tonight (don’t pirate illegal video, kids!) and this. just. killed me.

It’s nearly ten minutes long but oh, god it’s worth it.

(Cameos (for those less familiar perhaps with the BBC’s personalities): John Humphreys, Fiona Bruce, and Dermot Murnaghan.)

But really, check out their conclusion [...]

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Literally.

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So you can just see Tiger Woods watching it, muttering to himself “Well sure, when he’s three, but I was golfing with Bob Hope when I was two…” and then he gets to the halfway point and says “Oh come on!”

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Telegraph - Old ‘leeches’ drive a wedge in golf clubs

Senior citizens who dedicate their retirement days to golf have been denounced as “leeches” on their clubs. Many elderly players, who pay reduced fees, spend more than half their week playing, ruining courses and annoying younger members who often pay a [...]

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The Times - All the best motorists are conservatives, by Michael Gove

Is driving inherently right wing? The evidence, initially, appears overwhelming. Many years ago, in Reithian times, the BBC used to produce a motoring show of quite narcoleptic dullness. The original Top Gear was a programme tailored for those who found One Man [...]

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The Times - Regeneration Games An intriguing Olympic stadium design but what happens after 2012?

Why, is it just a big canvas tent? ninme asks hopefully

The designs for the principal Olympic stadium, published yesterday, have been produced well ahead of time and construction will start many months ahead of schedule. The same has occurred for [...]

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Now we can all go to heaven!

Bubblehead - Get Thee Hence, Satan!

(So, I had an enjoyable evening last weekend with some cousins rubbishing the awful We Are Marshall all throughout the movie, due to its idiotic insistence that football is something that can make the tragic 88 good friends and family members a-okay and not [...]

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This could be a funniest item of the day, but Seattle in the news doesn’t deserve that.

AP - Overhead Cam Falls Onto Field in Seattle

An overhead NBC television camera mounted on wires collapsed onto the turf during a timeout in Sunday night’s game between the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks, causing a [...]

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