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Saturday, 18 October 2008
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BAVENO, Italy - Former Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Basso said he has
paid his penalty after serving a two-year doping suspension and is
ready to challenge the world's top riders - including Lance Armstrong.
The 2006 Giro champion will make his return to professional cycling
Oct. 26 in the Japan Cup. His main objective for next season will be
the Giro, the second most prestigious stage race after the Tour de
France.
That will pit the Italian rider against Armstrong, who
announced this week that he will ride in the three-week Giro for the
first time as part of his own comeback after a three-year retirement.
Canada East Oct 18 2008 6:00AM GMT
[Moreover Technologies - Sports: cycling news]
7:44:00 PM 
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Swimmers have been warned to swim between the flags as deadly sharks haunt Australia's popular east coast beaches.
I don't live on the east coast of Australia. I live in a gulf in South Australia, in the south of the continent oddly enough, although my local beaches are in the west. However, it is a reasonably shark infested part of the world. Actually, the great whites are always out there. The troubling thing for our coming summer is that fishers are reporting a persistent great white in local shores. As more swimmers go into the water the risk rises, although it has to be said, given the reported shark behaviours, swimming off the back of a boat out in a fishing area may be the only higher risk action.
[ABC News: Breaking Stories]
7:07:17 PM
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Important
While this article about The Wire deliberately contains as few actual spoilers about the show as possible, it does contain numerous links to pages with information that will tell you critical spoiler information about the stories and fates of the show[base ']s characters. The article also contains language and links that are very much not safe for work. Please proceed with caution on all fronts.
This is Merlin Mann writing about the BEST TELEVISION SHOW EVER MADE, and using the writing for it as a way into discussing good blogging.
It is really worth reading!
And it turns out that Merlin Mann also thinks it's the BEST TELEVISION SHOW EVER MADE!
Much has been written about the dense, literary quality of the show (read Kottke for context and great links), so it may not surprise you to learn I[base ']m one of the many people who consider The Wire to be the best series that[base ']s ever appeared on television; my wife and I have watched the first (and, in my opinion, best) four seasons at least three times.
5:20:57 PM
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Sounds like a fantastic party:
In 1980, Stanley Kubrick came to the Timberline Lodge to film one of the all-time great horror classics, The Shining. In the film, Jack Nicholson slowly loses his grasp on reality and loses himself in a hallucination of a 1920s era ball. Twenty-eight years later, Nike Sportswear and Fantastic Fest have joined forces to recreate the very same ball at the very same lodge.
Check out the photo of the Timberline Lodge on the about page, and compare to the composition Kubrick used in the film for this shot (and this storyboard).
John Gruber [Daring Fireball]
3:16:27 PM
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LAWS designed to protect the community from terrorism are being used to deny Victorians access to their police surveillance files.
Deputy Police Commissioner Simon Overland told The Age police
had asked the Government to amend FoI laws as part of the 2006
Terrorism (Community Protection) bill because requests for information
were almost always denied but time consuming to process.
Great quote from John Cain who says this exposes "the mad desire of the police to get all sorts of information
regardless of whether it is inaccurate, insensitive or inappropriate".
[The Age News Headlines]
2:53:48 PM
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The [British] government is acting to end the prosecution of so-called "Metric Martyrs" - traders who continue to sell goods using imperial measures.
The Poms are completely mental about imperial measurement. String 'em up if they won't use metric I say. I can't believe that even the EU has backed down on this. What a backward country.
[BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
2:28:58 PM
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Marilyn sez, "Astronauts returning from spacewalks have noticed a distinctive smell of fried steak on their space suits when they take them off. Who knew?!" Turns out, the cosmos is not vegan.
He said: "When astronauts were de-suiting and taking off helmets, they all reported quite particular odours.
"We have already produced the smell of fried steak, but hot metal is more difficult.
"We think it[base ']s a high energy vibration in the molecule and that[base ']s what we[base ']re trying to add to it now."
Space smells of steak, say Nasa
(Thanks, Marilyn!)
[Boing Boing]
6:46:06 AM
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