September 2008
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August 2008
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Duke Ellington, “In a Sentimental Mood”, from a 78
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Slim Gaillard, singing “Baby Won’t You Please Come...
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Alex Marshall on the national anthems that do... →
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WatchZero Punctuation : Prince of Persia Retrospective
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“Q: What’s the difference between capitalism and communism?
A: In capitalism,...”
– Radio Yerevan Jokes
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“Indians are averse to declining requests. Remarks like ‘I will try’ become a...”
– Indian cultural nuances
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Another daunting olympic quest: The search for... →
In a cheat-plagued sports world, the International Fair Play Committee wants you to keep a sharp eye out for a type of behavior at the Olympics that’s harder than ever to detect: athletes willingly giving up a chance to win in order to stop another athlete from, say, drowning.
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“(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons”, sung by...
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Security forces seal off New Delhi as India fêtes... →
Happy independence day. :)
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U.S. and India consider ‘Asian NATO’ →
Newspaper article from 2003.
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Georgian villages burned and looted as Russian... →
Mood of panic as eyewitnesses say ceasefire being broken by Russian military and ‘irregulars’.
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Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr →
Microsoft has always been rather strident on the topic of copyright infringement, as you may have noticed, which makes tale of its “Iconic Britain” photo contest all the more astonishing.
The competition was designed as part of the marketing campaign around Windows Live Image Search, with Nikon as the prize partner. Unlike most photographic competitions, which tend to involve...
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Sharing 2999 songs, 199 movies becomes ‘safe’ in... →
Prosecutors in a German state have announced they will refuse to entertain the majority of file-sharing lawsuits in future. It appears that only commercial-scale copyright infringers will be pursued, with those sharing under 3000 music tracks and 200 movies dropping under the prosecution radar.
It’s bizarre how they always choose arbitrary numbers. You share 3000 songs and you’re a...
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EA choose BitTorrent for Warhammer Online... →
Electronic Arts, the publisher of the upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has chosen BitTorrent for the distribution of the closed Beta client. Included in the documentation is a recommendation to use a TorrentFreak ’speed up’ guide.
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Botswana is a rare African success story but not... →
An Economist article from earlier this year.
Immigration — and the Curse of the Black Legend →
A 2006 New York Times article on immigration to the United States and the predominant focus on the country’s English forefathers.
So amid the din over border control, the Senate affirms the self-evident truth that English is our national language; “It is part of our blood,” Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, says. Border vigilantes call themselves Minutemen, summoning...
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Chinese Exclusion Act (United States) →
A late-nineteenth century law that banned Chinese people from immigrating to the United States. It stayed in effect till 1943. A very interesting read.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history. The Act excluded Chinese “skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining” from entering the country for ten years under...
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nugacity |njuːˈgasɪti|
noun ( pl. -ties) rare
triviality; frivolity.
• a trivial or frivolous thing or idea.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from late Latin nugacitas, from Latin nugax, nugac- ‘trifling, frivolous.’
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“Man Smart (Woman Smarter)” by Harry Belafonte