Anyone for croquet? - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 23, 2008 (1)
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IF ANYONE CAN deliver croquet from the shackles of its stuffy Victorian image, then surely Andrew Johnston can. The 28-year-old from Wicklow is on the Irish team (yes, we have an international croquet team). Together with his colleagues in the Croquet Association of Ireland (CAI), he seems to be on a mission to make the sport cool - or if not cool, then at least not quite so emphatically uncool.
Ma.gnolia Chooses the Open-Source Route: Will It Help Win Over Delicious? (7)
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Today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle creators of one of the most popular social bookmarking services Ma.gnolia (but definitely far behind Delicious) have announced that they have decided to make the code behind the service open-source and rely on the developers community for further updates and growth of Ma.gnolia. What’s more, being open-sources for Ma.gnolia means that any webmaster or any company will be able to take the code, customize it and install it ...
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The dream of federation is powerful, indeed.
Euro spray painters held in US - Scotsman.com (1)
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Euro spray painters held in US - A COUPLE said to have spray-painted their way across Europe were held by police when they flew home to the US.
Tartan Army's outbreak of pessimism is a tad premature (1)
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LEAVING Hampden Park after Scotland's goalless draw with Northern Ireland the other night, it was not difficult to form the impression that, in terms of making the 2010 Wo
BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | North West Wales | 'Oldest' caravan celebrates 100th (1)
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An Edwardian holiday home is marking its centenary at a motor museum, which claims it could be the world's oldest caravan designed to be pulled by a car.
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World's oldest automobile trailer in Wales.
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Nation-switchers trouble Olympic chiefs (1)
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Switching nationality in order to compete at the Olympics has become more noticeable in Beijing than in previous Games and it is beginning to cause concern among international sports bodies. The BBC's Alex Capstick reports.
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Increasingly problematic citzenship rules.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Leicestershire | Rare treasure found on farmland (1)
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Two rare and valuable treasures have been unearthed in the East Midlands in the past few weeks.A jewel-encrusted gold ring from the 14th or 15th Century was found on a Leicestershire farm by John Stevens, a businessman from Hinckley.Earlier this month, an Anglo-Saxon gold cross from the 7th Century was found by another treasure hunter on a farm in Nottinghamshire.
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Archeological finds in the East Midlands.
BBC SPORT | Olympics 2008 blog (1)
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The men's football semi-final between defending champions Argentina and their arch-rivals Brazil was like nothing else I've witnessed at these Olympics. In fact, it was like nothing else I've witnessed full stop.
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BBC essay on the football semifinal
I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button (2)
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A fellow Vietnam POW of McCain's warns of the candidate's "quick and explosive temper" and suggests McCain is exaggerating his imprisonment.
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Swiftboating McCain? - "A fellow Vietnam POW of McCain's warns of the candidate's "quick and explosive temper" and suggests McCain is exaggerating his imprisonment,"
New Bike Racks, Courtesy of David Byrne - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog (2)
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The musician and cycling enthusiast David Byrne has designed nine bike racks, which have been installed and will remain in place for about 11 months.
Was McCain tortured in Vietnam? Bush says "no" (11)
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Andrew Sullivan makes an excellent point. In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar? According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured. Cheney denies that McCain was ...
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If there was one line McCain could have held it could have been that one. Oh well.
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Just saying, you know.
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too awesome
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 10 ways Britain changed over the weekend (2)
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The weekend's goldrush in Beijing has left the British in an unusual position - celebrating real sporting success. And some things will never be the same again.
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The UK has had a very successful Olympics, though you wouldn't know it from NBC. Some implications.
