h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm supportive of whatever decision he makes but I don't have to be brave about it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8572803/Gay-Girl-in-Damasus-unmasked-by-web-footprints.html


Troll

>>Troll <<

Would that be a "sockpuppet" or "troll" using the lingo employed on
this board?

Andy Murray beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win Queen's

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/13739645.stm

Me thinks 'Troll', since it was an attempt to cause strife and mischief.

'Sock puppeting is setting up another persona with completely opposing views to your own, controlling both sides of the argument and seeing which disciples of each join in Quite an art to make one's sock puppet credible

At best it was 'flaming', though that generally involves goading an already contentious discussion A fine balance between Devils Advocate and just being a @*&"%

'A brother-and-sister duo from Iqaluit has successfully kite-skied 3,300 kilometres through the Northwest Passage in 85 days.

Eric McNair-Landry, 26, and his sister Sarah, 25, started their ski trek — using kites to help move them along — from Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., in late March and headed east to Pond Inlet, Nunavut.'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/06/13/arctic-ski-trek-mcnair-landry.html






And, for the soundtrack . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI

Of course giving big publicity to this idiot will make more people distrust news obtained other than from official channels.

The big corps are bound to benefit.

Hold on! Was that my post that is hidden? It was a story about two young siblings successfully skiing the length of the Northwest Passage together with a link to a video of Stan Rogers singing his song 'Northwest Passage'. It was a pleasant uplifting news story.

I haven't had a mod email yet.

Thanks for the explanation Norti

Big schiaffo for Berlusconi

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/14/silvio-berlusconi-italian-referendum

ahh now we have the title back

I'd be interested to find out why my post was hidden for a while.

I suspect the PETA brigade objected to the description
of whacking a polar bear on the nose with a shovel. Or
the Health and Safety Army for making polar ice-skiing
look like a fun family outing. Or the Victorian Mothers'
League for the titillating notions of brother/sister
tent sharing.

~jwf~

or maybe it was the mention of Tuktoyaktuk. It just sounds dirty.

French parliament rejects same-sex marriage bill

http://www.france24.com/en/20110614-french-parliament-rejects-gay-marriage-bill-homosexuality

Austerity packages will unseat the Greek government and possibly lead to a general feeling of malaise in Tunbridge Wells.

Quote of the Century? Fifty years ago (15 June 1961):

"No one has the intention of erecting a wall."

Walter Ulbricht, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party and GDR State Council chairman.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/09/iceland-crowdsourcing-constitution-facebook

"It is not the way the scribes of yore would have done it but Iceland is tearing up the rulebook by drawing up its new constitution through crowdsourcing."

Homeopathy Awareness week - wonder if they are going to water down the message this year...

http://www.britishhomeopathic.org/what_you_can_do/homeopathy_awareness_week.html

Medical academics get their heads around violence in the Asterix comics

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/16/asterix-books-brain-injury