video platform video management video solutions video player It had been a pretty good week for Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign. He put in a strong performance in Monday night's debate, he got a near-endorsement from Sarah Palin (she said ‘If I had a vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I'd vote for Newt.’), a poll yesterday
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Spectator on 19th Jan 2012 (via spectator.co.uk)
Telegraph View: Osborne recognises that Britain is a relatively small player in a fast-changing global economy.
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Telegraph on 16th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
It there’s one thing that can bring rival football fans together, it’s a player or manager who’s bonkers.
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Spiked on 16th Dec 2011 (via spiked-online.com)
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player This was, by some margin, the most talked about moment of Saturday night's Republican debate. Accused by Rick Perry of changing a passage in his book advocating an individual health care mandate, Mitt Romney stretched out his hand to the Texas Governor and said 'I'll tell you what, ten thousand bucks? Ten
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Spectator on 12th Dec 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
Casually perusing through a newspaper in the house of a friend, a piece about an erstwhile world renowned footballer caught my eye. Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, concisely and universally known as Socrates, the former Brazilian soccer international, had died at the age of 57. In 1982 Socrates was the gifted player who captained the finest Brazilian team not to lift ...
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OrganizedRage on 12th Dec 2011 (via organizedrage.com)
For fans of Tibetan ecclesiastical politics, here’s an interesting rundown of the ongoing split between the Dalai Lama and mainstream Tibetan Buddhism and the Dorje Shugden sect, with Beijing as an increasingly interested player on the Dorje side. The interesting...
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BloodAndTreasure on 6th Sep 2011 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
It would seem that the government is about to amend copyright laws, so that it will be legal to "format shift" recorded music that you have legally bought to a different format. For instance, people will now be able to legally copy the music on a CD to their PC, or perhaps to an iPod or the music player of a mobile phone. Ignoring for the moment the absurdity of the idea that government and...
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Samizdata on 3rd Aug 2011 (via samizdata.net)
Derek Jeter gets 3,000th hit with a home run and Christian Lopez gave the ball back! Under the heading of WWYD, Christian Lopez, the fan who caught Derek Jeter's 3,000 hit that just happened to be a home run ball, gave it back to the player. Conceivably this ball could have brought the 23-year old Lopez, a cell-phone salesman, hundreds of thousands of dollars. "Mr. Jeter deserved it. I'm...
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PoliticsandFinance on 10th Jul 2011 (via politicsandfinance.blogspot.com)
This one beggars belief. During a game between the Astros and the Diamondbacks at Minute Maid Park, a player tossed a baseball to a little girl in the stands. An absolutely horrid woman standing next to her first tried to reach in front of her to get the ball. When she missed and the little girl caught it, the woman simply ripped it out of the girl's hands and took it away from her. And then ...
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JOSHUAPUNDIT on 18th Jun 2011 (via joshuapundit.blogspot.com)