Archive for May 18th, 2005

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We Still Love This Game

Blogging
with the Dallas-Phoenix playoff game on in the background, the best of
the playoff matchups so far. As we get closer to the NBA
finals, the Dowbrigade, inveterate sports fan that he is, […]

Video Blogging in the Raw?

BOSTON
— Two Waterville, Maine, teenagers are in hot water after one was arrested
on suspicion of skateboarding nude through the center of town as his
friend videotaped the stunt.
[…]

Go, Crimson

If winning is everything, British anthropologists have some advice:
Wear red.
Their survey of four sports at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows competitors
were more likely to win their contests if they wore red uniforms or […]

Reorienting the Orient

PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) - At the Miss Tiffany Universe pageant - which
boasts dozens of gorgeous, lithe, smooth-skinned contestants - one thing
is undeniable: Thailand turns out some of the most beautiful transvestites
[…]

Games We’ll Never See

from Geek Culture

Remote Control Cars Replace Robots in Iraq

Front-line
soldiers in Iraq have been using Radio Shack remote control cars to prod
suspected
Improvised Explosive Devices. If they explode, they’re bombs.  If
they move, they are […]

Star Wars Last Supper

This Star
Wars sacrilege, along with the Red
Sox Last Supper, are stunning
testimony to the tolerance of our secular society and first amendment
[…]


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