- France’s “children of the Huns,” now in their 60s, try to find their German fathers
- Facebook vs. MySpace isn’t exactly white flight :: Ms. Boyd got some answers from a group of people she’s been hanging out with over the last four years: U.S. teenagers. During the 2006-7 school year, her conversations with high school students began showing a trend of white, upper-class and college-bound teenagers migrating to Facebook — much like the crowd in the conference hall had. Meanwhile, less educated and nonwhite teenagers were on MySpace. Ms. Boyd noted that old-style class arrogance was also in view; the Facebook kids were quicker to use condescending language toward the MySpace users.
- Liberal Arts colleges are in danger of becoming recession collateral.
- Pentagon health experts want to ban tobacco use by U.S. troops :: That should be great for morale.
- California’s illegal pot farms resemble terrorist cells—they’re guarded by Uzi-wielding militants, and no one knows who runs them
- The science behind decaf coffee
- Saskatchewan Roughriders beat the Toronto Argonauts :: Again.
- NFL Won’t Let Players Use Twitter During Games: The National Football League won’t let wide receiver Chad Ochocinco play with his Twitter during games, spokesman Greg Aiello told ProFootballTalk.Com. "We already have a rule that prohibits the use of cell phones or other handheld devices in the bench area during games," he said. Ochocinco vowed to defy the rule (on Twitter, of course), posting: "Damn NFL and these rules, I am going by my own set of rules, I ain’t hurting nobody or getting in trouble, I am putting my foot down!!"
- Fan Wins Legal Battle Over ‘God Bless America’ Movement Ban at Yankees Stadium: Bradford Campeau-Laurion, a fan who was ejected from Yankees Stadium after breaking an unofficial rule against leaving his seat during the singing of "God Bless America" in the seventh inning last year, has settled the suit. Campeau-Laurion, a Red Sox fan, will receive $10,000 along with $12,000 in legal fees from the city of New York, and the Yankees have stipulated that they do not restrict fan movements during the song.
- Moneyball movie back on again
- WWIII Propaganda Posters – a set on Flickr
- Weight loss tips for geeks
- Too poor to make the news
- Rick Bennett has a great story about Arab Christians
- Mark Galli recently tackled the issue of recent Christians in the news in his article, The Scandal of the Public Evangelical.
- Who are the most annoying fans in the world? It’s not even that close.
- United Breaks Guitars :: What happens when you offer really bad customer service in the internet age.
- The fine line between informing and spamming your followers :: My rule for Twitter is "four to six a day or you’ll send your followers away". According to TweetStats, I send 4 a day.
- Google’s Microsoft Moment :: Is Google evil? It doesn’t matter. They’ve reached the point of corporate ambition and changing corporate culture that means they’re going to be perceived as if they are. Whether they’re able to truly internalize that lesson, accept it, and act accordingly will determine if they’re able to extend their dominance in the years to come.
- Youth riots return to France :: As The Guardian says in the article, the riots are merely the latest clash in a long-running fight between urban minorities and the French police. Numerous reports in the last year have shown the police force using ethnic profiling and human rights violations against minorities, and racial problems are not just limited to law enforcement, either.
- The Russians shot down more of their jets during the Georgian war then the Georgians did :: "The absence of cooperation between the Russian Army and Air Force led them to conduct completely separate campaigns," said the journal, published by the independent Moscow-based think tank, the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. This makes one wonder if Russia could win a war against a better equipped and trained opponent.
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