www.guardian.co.uk:
Call them 'twitchers' at your peril: how birdwatching has taken off in Britain. By Kate KellawayBirdwatching – when it is non-birdwatchers you are talking to – produces an almost uniform reaction: amused condescension, as if (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Many travel firms claim to be environmentally sound, but are they just cashing in? Here's how not to be taken for a ride…When you see some of the holidays masquerading as ecotourism you'd be forgiven for thinking the term "gr (Read More)
The Guardian:
Halfway through a 50-year project to raise football's profile in America – and on the day David Beckham plays in the MLS Cup final – the men in charge are delightedThe American investors who are investing abroad should invest (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Reading manager Brendan Rodgers watched his side claim their first home win since January, as the Royals beat Blackpool 2-1, and then proclaimed that the feeling was like "winning the World Cup".While Rodgers may have to stre (Read More)
The Blog:
The endless tangle of questions about bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and has obsessively fascinated, if not (Read More)
Gawker:
Kind of like a Harry Potter book, right? Michael Lohan's now Jon Gosselin's contracts expert. Nothing but squares at the Daily News. Robert Pattinson hates his life. Carrie Prejean: monumentally stupider than previously imagi (Read More)
Gawker:
Did you hear the great news? The MTA will not raise fares! Or cut service! Wonderful! Except none of the headlines say "for just one year." Or "not counting the existing fare increase and de facto service cuts." The new $11 (Read More)
Gawker:
Did you hear the great news? The MTA will not raise fares! Or cut service! Wonderful! Except none of the headlines say "for just one year." Or "not counting the existing fare increase and de facto service cuts." The new $11 (Read More)
Gawker:
Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to ask three designers to compete for a prize. The delusion their entries will look different. The vision to return January 14th, the delusion your audience will com (Read More)
FanHouse:
by Jay MariottiFiled under: NCAA FootballIf it's true that Kansas football coach Mark Mangino, upon seeing a receiver named Raymond Brown drop a pass, launched into a hideous tirade that concluded with a racially tinged threa (Read More)
Business on HuffingtonPost.com:
I filmed Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson discussing new and concept features on which the company is working. They included some tips on how start-ups can execute a solid web marketing campaign speaking before the Web 2.0 Expo aud (Read More)
The Guardian:
Great animation dominates this week's web videos – including what happens when pigeons get the bombGet ready for amazing animations this week on the viral video chart. In fact, with Spacious Thought, Pigeon:Impossible and Doc (Read More)
SFGate: Top Sports Stories:
Sunday's games 49ers (+6 1/2) at Green Bay, 10 a.m. Channel: 2 Channel: 40 : Aaron Rodgers won't be throwing five balls to Niners the way Jay Cutler did. PACKERS, 20-17 Cincinnati (-9 1/2) at Oakland, 1 p.m.: We believe. (Read More)
New York Times:
A federal jury convicted Charles McCall on five charges stemming from an accounting scandal, but acquitted another executive, Jay Lapine.
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Daily Kos:
Given the record of Goldman Sachs (as detailed in McClatchy's five-part series), AIG, Halliburton and other supposedly upright U.S. corporations, it's a tad arrogant to complain about the corruption of other countries. Endemi (Read More)
Perez Hilton:
Well, he didn't do it, but he was propositioned! As a guest on The Jay Leno Show, Taylor Lautner opens up about his most memorable Twilight delirium fan story! He says: "We're at a signing, an autograph signing … and there wa (Read More)
Perez Hilton:
Well deserved and rather overdue!Jay-Z and New York City have a lot to be proud of this week. Jay and his song Empire State of Mind have hit the big time: #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100!!!Remarkably, this is the first time (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Sixth damning ruling in Binyam Mohamed case • Foreign secretary's claims of security risk dismissedThe high court today flatly rejected claims by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA's i (Read More)
Gawker:
In a few months, after New Moon leaves the theaters, we will celebrate the milestone of being halfway through our national Twilight journey, with only two more films to go. But first we have to get through this weekend. • Aft (Read More)
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WASHINGTON � A rising proportion of fixed-rate home loans made to people with good credit are sinking into foreclosure, adding to concerns about the strength of the economic recovery.Driven by rising unemployment, such loans (Read More)