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Today’s Google News links to a Toronto Star review of the movie W, titled “Sympathy for the Dubya.” Some time after Google picked up the link, the Star seems to have changed its headline to a much less witty “Oliver Stone’s W. a sympathetic portrait of Bush.” I imagine the paper’s editors thought it was [...]

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After more than a year, a Nebraska state senator’s lawsuit against God has finally worked its way through the courts and been dismissed — not because it’s silly, but because the legal paperwork omitted the defendant’s home address, in violation of state law. From CNN: State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued God [last year], [...]

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AnnieB — the runaway all-time points leader over at thesixtyone and as dedicated a musicophile as you’ll ever find — has set up her very own music blog: AudioRx. Based in sunny SoCal, Annie has a knack for finding obscure underappreciated tunes that demand to be heard. Give her a listen.

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Apparently tired of covering the election, the war and Iceland’s emergence as a terrorist state, the “Most Trusted Name in News” is apparently also looking to become the Most Trusted Name in Not-News: From CNN: More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with [...]

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Husain Amer, a photographer, filmmaker, modelling agent, erstwhile English teacher and good friend of mine has been tromping through China for the last year and is recording his exploits as he goes. Recently he documented a trip from Beijing to Xi’an via the ancient trading city of Pingyao, in China’s northeast. And for all you [...]

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According to the U.K., that there is a map of the world’s newest terrorist state. As stock markets continue to dry-heave at the toilet of the world economy — and as financial-sector CEOs continue to dry-hump the American taxpayer — we’re discovering that British municipalities, police forces and other investors had a lot of money [...]

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They’re not good at all. I’m not terribly good at math, but I really like numbers. I like their finality, and although they’re often misused, it’s not their fault — numbers don’t mislead people; people mislead people. If the town of Boulder, Colorado has 91,685 residents, then you can say what you like, but that’s [...]

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I’m not usually this philosophical in the morning, but watching this video I kept thinking about how incredibly neat it is that humans have created a new circulatory system for the Earth, with ebbs and flows regulated by the planet’s rotation. There’s something beautiful about this. It’s also instructive to see that Africa, with its [...]

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What? Why was a moose in a helicopter? Why did he fall out? And what the heck does “DNR” mean? The CBC reports: An endangered moose died as a result of a fall from a helicopter sling, the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources says. Department spokesman Dan Davis said veterinarians have confirmed the moose [...]

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If you’re a regular reader around these parts, you may know that I can sometimes be a little harsh when it comes to the fine city of Toronto. So to restore a bit of balance here at flickeringpictures, and as evidence of my journalistic integrity, here’s a positive post for a change — one that [...]

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