Since when is this an Olympic sport? Awesome!

The course looks sweet, and an Aussie guy named Kamakazi just got through to the semis.

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He’s pretty special, right? And I didn’t realise how amazing his ‘miracle’ finish in the butterfly was until I saw these photos from Sports Illustrated.

How did he do that?

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Rick Warren, of Purpose Driven Life fame, has appeared in TIME this week.

It’s fascinating to observe some of the differences between evangelicalism in the US and in Australia. Being a much, much more secular country, it’s almost too hard for Aussie Christians to conceive of how an evangelical could have so much clout in [...]

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How good is this:

Via Gizmodo.

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From The Big Picture.

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In the body of an email sent to customers advertising an internet pre-sale offer for The Dandy Warhols, Ticketek accidentally included a dump of its email database.

Honestly.

From the SMH.

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There’s some sort of major sporting event kicking off tonight (Teak—write something acerbic, will you please),

Apparently, someone hacked the official Olympics site, although I haven’t found any screenshots of what they did (make headlines orange. Wow—don’t hold back, guys.)

Now it looks like the Chinese (or someone) has hacked the protest site associated with the [...]

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Bill Gates doesn’t think philanthropy can solve the world’s poverty problems — but capitalism can.

This is Creative Capitalism.

Catchy.

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In all my years as a journalist, first working on large city dailies, then Christian magazines, a brief stint as an Episcopal Diocesan Managing Editor and now as an Internet Online news writer, whose website annually draws more than 4 million readers from 172 countries, I have never encountered such appalling spin, outrageous lies, pure [...]

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The first, front page article in the June edition of the South Sydney Herald:

Anti-homophobia rally closes Gloria JeansDespite the Rudd Government promising to remove all forms of anti-gay discrimination, about 100 people turned up for the International Day Against Homophobia rally in Newtown on Friday May 16.The rally started outside Gloria Jeans, in response to [...]

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Thank God for this.

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I’ve never been much of a fan of Richard Glover, but he’s totally won me over. In Saturday’s Herald, he wrote the most commonsense article I’ve read on the the ‘crisis’ so far.

Basic message: it’s not going to be pleasant, but the market will adjust. And we’ll live through it.

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