With so much emphasis being placed on the world economy, certain sports, including soccer, may be the inadvertent beneficiaries of good fortune because of it.
This piece takes a long and detailed look at the game, the history behind the premise, and discusses why a failing global economy may be just what the doctor ordered to bring soccer back to its state of prominence on the world scene. Between increases in the need of affordable soccer apparel to a decrease in teams that would lead to a reinvigoration of the sport, the article discusses topics that few have the guts to say Read more…
It really is funny. The picture, while a little risque, is not porn and actually has some humor to it. Still, this one was mysteriously buried despite showing no buries on Ajaxonomy. It wouldn’t be possible for Digg to manually pull a story down, would it? Either way, here’s the image. Funny, regardless of what Digg might think.
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I think I need some extra help on this equation in my pants.
This one actually still has a chance to hit the front page, but it doesn’t look good. Just in case, we’ll go ahead and post it here. This is unique news that covers a very odd portion of the internet - those sites that try to encourage people to commit suicide.
In case you didn’t catch that, let me repeat:
Website that encourage people to commit suicide.
As odd as it may sound, they exist, and the government is making it very clear that it is illegal. Read more…
Okay, so this isn’t exactly the traditional front page story, but it’s one that is pretty darn unique. Unique enough, in fact, that I think that 389 Diggs should have been enough to push it over the top.
It’s a perfect example of how submitters often matter the most to social media sites. Here is an interesting story about a new politically charged piece of artwork on display at an amusement park, Coney Island in New York. With waterboarding being a topic that has received a lot of social media attention over the last several months, this different perspective on the issue taken from an unusual angle would have been a “no-brainer” to hit the front page if the right submitters posted it.
On Reddit, it was an active submitter, and it was very successful. On other sites, not so much.
Social media failed, not because the submitters did anything wrong, but because the systems are not ready to accept quality submissions from people who aren’t “in”. Sad.
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A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it’s not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York’s Coney Island amusement park.
Okay, so it’s definitely not a “sure thing” that this should have hit the front page of social media sites, but you have to admit, in light of the recent ad campaigns by Mr. McCain, this is pretty funny stuff.
When a young lady with MS discovers that her biological father was a Marine who was shot down during his qualifying flight to get his wings, she goes through the difficult process of getting his wings rewarded to him.
This touching story is long, but it’s worth a read to remind us that there can be reward and vindication, even from someone who had never met her father.
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F ive years ago Stephanie Hanson knelt before her father’s name, etched on the wall of the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., and gently placed on the ground what she’d promised she’d someday deliver: the wings Gary Norman Young earned on the day he was killed in Vietnam in 1969.
What really makes this interesting is the perspective. “The Conflict is in the Mind” is how the story ends. In essence, it is also how it begins.
The premise is that if students in Israel were to take the Quran, the sacred religious text of Islam, and find positive psychological affirmations and teachings, then write stories of how they relate to life, then they will learn that the hatred associated with their “enemies” can be abated. On top of this, the instructor delves deeper into the psychology behind each story and gives a practical psychological correlation to it as it applies to today’s world.
Thus, Quranet was born. It is receiving pressfrombothsides of the issue. The video is worth the 2:20 that it takes to watch it and ponder.
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Quranet is an online attempt to highlight the humane parts and preaching on the Quran. Trying to bridge the Islam and the western world and values.
As much as I hate cheesy lists, this one is actually pretty decent. It proposes that at times, leading men in Hollywood are willing to take a role simply because it affords them the opportunity to make out with attractive females. Lists are, of course, subjective, so to say that some of the selections on this list are questionable isn’t really saying much at all. Every list, by its nature, has questionable aspects to someone.
With that said, it is likely that many of these roles wouldn’t have been taken had the actor not known who the leading lady was going to be. It’s a sad trait of the male gender, but we do take these things into consideration when making choices. Ben Affleck has a tendancy to get engaged or married with his leading ladies, so having him on the list twice is fitting.
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Listed are the top 10 movie roles taken by actors who were blinded by the opportunity to make-out with the female lead. Seriously. The only conceivable reason to take these roles was to make out on screen and hit that sweet va-j off of it.
This election, at one point looking like it could lean towards a runaway, is not getting appearing to have the tightness of the 2000 election. Every little vote counts, now. LiveScience takes a look at the body language that each of the candidates uses and helps to translate it into what we, as voters, are reading from it.
More importantly, it takes a peak at what they, as candidates, are trying to say by it. Can they be trusted?
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Body movement analysts say that McCain represents stability in how he stands firmly and holds onto the sides of a podium. By contrast, Obama has a forward-looking gaze and strolls about in a relaxed fashion during public appearances. Yet both men share an introspective quality that could make them strong leaders.
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