July 2010

Great octopi of our time, No.2: Paul.

Submitted by rickeyre on July 8, 2010 - 2:30pm

Following last December's stunning revelation of graphic footage of a coconut-carrying octopus comes the news that an Oberhausen cephalopod by the name of Paul has correctly predicted the outcome of every match Germany has played in the current FIFA World Cup. Including their semi-final loss to Spain this morning, of which El Pais reported, "El pulpo acertó."

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Only in a Merica

Submitted by rickeyre on July 5, 2010 - 7:31pm

Yesterday was the 234th anniversary of the collective breakaway of thirteen British colonies from King George III's empire. On New York's Coney Island they know how to celebrate. With the help of that responsible sporting powerhouse Major League Eating.

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Howard loses. ICC loses. Everybody loses.

Submitted by rickeyre on July 3, 2010 - 9:32am

John Howard was always going to be a bad choice for the ICC presidency. But with his nomination collapsing at the first hurdle, no one could have understood how bad it would get.

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From Newsvine to Delicious

Submitted by rickeyre on July 2, 2010 - 12:16pm

I have decided to deprecate the use of Newsvine as the clippings service on rickeyre.com from 1 July 2010. Any new clippings that I bookmark from that date will be held on delicious.

The reasons include delicious' greater flexibility, configurability, wider user base, and (important) the existence of an API. Delicious is owned these days by Yahoo!, while Newsvine is part the new-media extension of old-media behemoths NBC and the Washington Post.

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