guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Manager admits England were not as slick as Wallabies• 'I think the pace and intensity of the Test told'Martin Johnson is not a verbose man at the best of times, and yesterday was definitely not the best of times. Faced with the task of explaining another defeat, and another lacklustre performance from his team, Johnson f (Read More)
The Guardian:
Good Champions League results on the road are being overshadowed by troubleThis season's vicissitudes suggest Sod's Law may have been framed specifically to victimise Walter Smith. How else to explain the Rangers manager producing a team whose most impressive Champions League performances are achieved on foreign fields, onl (Read More)
Jalopnik:
Get ready for the final race of the 2009 season, taking place in two weeks at chilly Thunderhill Raceway! More cars than ever before, and the most staggeringly wrong collection of vehicles ever seen on the same track. Ah, the Arse Freeze! Who could forget the incredible end-over-end Datsun B210 flip at the 2007 race? Or th (Read More)
The Guardian:
The outrage after undergraduate Philip Laing urinated on a war memorial has led many student unions to bar Carnage, the firm that runs the drinking eventsParticipating in at least a modicum of alcohol-induced mayhem is an integral and, some might say, a formative part of the modern undergraduate experience. But the company (Read More)
The Guardian:
A clutch of new films will cement Matt Damon's reputation as the hit of his generation. But that won't change this most reserved and politically committed of actors. Vanessa Thorpe reportsRunners taking part in the annual Miami Triathlon this time last year were surprised to spot a familiar face crossing the finishing line. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing them togetherWhen I began visiting Rwanda, in 1995, a year after the genocide, the country was still (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Michael Morpurgo's tale of a wild child ranks among his bestChildren's fiction often finds ingenious ways of getting rid of adults, forcing its protagonists to depend on their own resources and initiative. Michael Morpurgo's method here is more drastic than most. By the end of chapter two, nine-year-old Will has lost both p (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
With National Ethical Investment Week about to start, Sarah Pennells guides newcomers through the three main types of fund and suggests where to go to find out moreYou recycle, switch off lights and have a water butt. But is your wallet green? Tomorrow sees the start of National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW), a campaign de (Read More)
The Guardian:
Rich countries bullying poorer ones, mud-slinging and back-stabbing - environmental summits can be viciousAt 8am on Wednesday 7 October, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the first floor of the UN building in Bangkok and merged into a throng of diplomats, civil servants and environmentali (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
In sleepy Sussex is a group of dedicated cryonicists who believe they hold the secret to eternal life. Simon Hattenstone joins them for a demonstration – but first they need to make sure the hosepipe isn't too leakyIn a bungalow in Peacehaven, by the east Sussex seaside, a 72-year-old man and his 62-year-old wife are planni (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before the wingnuts tried to maliciously and deceitfully connect the Fort Hood shooter to the Obama White House. We just didn't expect it would take less than 24 hours.And of course the perpetrator is the reliably wrong conspiracy-meister Jerome Corsi, writing at WorldNetDaily:NEW YO (Read More)
Valleywag:
This week was all about gun violence and terrible elections and Jay Leno. Nouriel Roubini likes to rock the party. JFK blown away, what else did Mad Men have to say about how crazy it was that things were different in the early '60s? We endorsed not voting for Mike Bloomberg and, to be fair, a majority of New Yorkers took (Read More)
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We are happy to announce the release of Jetpack 0.6. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons.Jetpack 0.6 adds two major APIs to the arsenal: a secure preferences system and the ability to add and modify menus. With th (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Of more than 5,000 complaints against squad, less than 0.18% were upheldScotland Yard faced calls for an "ethical audit" of all officers in its controversial riot squad tonight after figures revealed that they had received more than 5,000 complaint allegations, mostly for "oppressive behaviour".Details of all allegations lo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Dennis Howlett got the attention of the Enterprise 2.0 community today, with his continued skepticism about "social" technologies and their place in the business world. Here's a quote from his post entitled Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate:"Why am I not surprised? I've argued for years that the notion of anything that has ' (Read More)