June 2011
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NYT: Pakistani Journalist Who Covered Security and... →
A well-known Pakistani journalist has been found dead after being abducted over the weekend in an upscale neighborhood of the capital and receiving repeated threats from Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency. The journalist, Syed Saleem Shehzad, 41, […] disappeared Sunday evening in the center of the capital, Islamabad, just two days after writing an article suggesting that a militant...
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May 2011
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Homeland security ends post-9/11 registration of... →
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It’s like a “Saw”-style torture-porn movie with a laugh track […].
Is...
– ‘The Hangover’ and the Age of Jokeless Comedy
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If you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt...
– Jonathan Franzen - Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts. - NYTimes.com
JF at his most perceptive and brilliant on technology, narcissism, and birdwatching. A great piece
(via byronic)
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Urban Outfitters unequivocally denies copying... →
One of Urban Outfitter’s core missions is to provide a platform for emerging talent in design, art and music. You can see this in the products we sell, the people who work in our company, even the music we play. This deep commitment to emerging talent has perhaps found its fullest expression over the last three years in our series of Designed By: collaborations. The main goal of this program is...
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So Zuckerberg only eats meat that he kills? Explains why I haven’t seen...
– @Baratunde
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House Passes Bill Authorizing an Endless... →
The Republican-led House has passed a defense spending bill Thursday with a number of controversial provisions. If signed into law, the bill would prohibit any non-U.S. citizen suspected of terrorism from receiving a federal trial regardless of where they were arrested. In addition, the bill expands the president’s ability to wage an endless worldwide war against terrorism suspects and against...
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I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger. Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look...
– Father Riccardo Seppia, a Priest in archdiocese of Adviser to the Pope on Pedophile Priests, arrested on pedophilia and drug charges. He has admitted that he is HIV positive.
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