The Guardian:
Talk about inscrutable. When Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored Hull City's late, late winner – a goal conjured, incidentally, by Jimmy Bullard – Adam Pearson's face remained impassive, the new home chairman merely giving a li (Read More)
FanHouse:
by Brett PollakoffFiled under: Bulls, Hawks, Jazz, Kings, Mavericks, Nuggets, Raptors, NBA Last NightEvery night there are some stupendous, silly, stupid, or downright outlandish individual lines from around the lig. Doing Li (Read More)
Daily Kos:
The unusually-tinted Minority Leader of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) has been to the floor repeatedly today to try to extract promises from the Democrats managing the health insurance reform bill that if the Stupak amendmen (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Gadget Helpline, a UK tech support service, found that well over half of their male customers didn't even bother to read the manual before calling tech support. C'mon guys, is that the best we can do? Apparently, 24% of all f (Read More)
Huffington Post:
This past week, we were sadly reminded that guns in the hands of the aggrieved or the disturbed can produce horrific consequences. Just as the nation dealt with the shock of an Army psychiatrist killing 13 and causing injury (Read More)
Autoblog:
Filed under: Etc., Safety, Videos, HumorSpectacular pole mishap - Click above to watch videoSpending all day blogging from the comfort of our mothers' basements and/or top-secret Dr. No-style lairs, we sometimes forget that t (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Amid Andre Agassi's self-serving revelations about drugs and his rivals, Geoff Dyer finds some thrilling insights into the game of tennisNorman Mailer reckoned that, as big fights loomed, great boxers "begin to have inner liv (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Jury duty means I'm not allowed to speculate. So stand by for rational thinkingEveryone says the recession has ushered in a fashion for the smaller scale. Bicycles not 4x4s, bedsits rather than loft extensions, allotment veg (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Amid Andre Agassi's self-serving revelations about drugs and his rivals, Geoff Dyer finds some thrilling insights into the game of tennisNorman Mailer reckoned that, as big fights loomed, great boxers "begin to have inner liv (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
How the Lebanese capital went from warzone to 2010's most glamorous tourist destinationA whole new road system has been built from Beirut airport to the city centre since the last time I visited. What's more, there are new, e (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Anyone who's anyone wears his rhyming slogan T-shirts. Supermodel Agyness Deyn is his best friend. And now this young peacock is putting the debonair into Debenhams…Henry Holland thinks that, on reflection, he did not inherit (Read More)
Daily Kos:
So earlier today, Republican Congressman Steve King actually said: "All Americans have health care, every single one." What a noble sentiment. And what a spectacularly, blatantly false one. One would have to believe King (Read More)
Pajamas Media:
The FBI seems to have developed a conditioned reflex that requires it to announce, within seconds of any act of murder, “there is no evidence of terrorism.”
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SFGate Sports: San Francisco Giants:
The rest of the sporting world must have chuckled to see the Bay Area media frenzy over Tim Lincecum's pot bust. Prominent headlines, top story on newscasts, non-stop chatter on radio talk shows. Major, major story, and outsi (Read More)
Kotaku:
During an interview on GameTrailers TV yesterday, Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime was quizzed on whether we'd see Zelda on the Wii next year. His response? Hedge-betting. "We haven't committed to Zelda in 2010" he told (Read More)
The Guardian:
Alex Clark interviews Sue TownsendIt is hardly acute literary criticism to say that Sue Townsend really knows how to hit the nail on the head, but that she does so with such apparent effortlessness and consistency is surely w (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 (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Alex Clark interviews Sue TownsendIt is hardly acute literary criticism to say that Sue Townsend really knows how to hit the nail on the head, but that she does so with such apparent effortlessness and consistency is surely w (Read More)
Film News from Times Online:
Michael Haneke on Hidden It’s super to be number one, I’m very happy. I am surprised Caché was a success because it wasn’t an easy film. Perhaps audiences aren’t as stupid as mainstream film-makers often think. I am not preoc (Read More)