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5 October 2007
It could happen to anyone
A Venezuelan guy woke up in the middle of an autopsy. Apparently some one had mixed up the forms, so instead of getting “Heal and take care” form he got the “Examine and take to caretaker” one.
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13 August 2007
“Fuck the average reader”
David Simon interviewed by Nick Hornby himself.
The most important message of the interview follows:
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant […]
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2 March 2007
Great walls of fire
“Corner Blog - Banned in China”
The modern Great Wall of China is the firewall which filters the web traffic and only allows “approved” and “authentic” content for Chinese surfers.
If you’ve wondered which pages it will block there’s now a solution for that - empirical tests using greatfirewallofchina.org.
I tested if corner.rahina.info is available in China […]
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6 February 2007
Video: US Airforce bombing British convoy on 2003 in Iraq
If you need to find one good thing about tabloid magazines is that they publish anything to get viewers and publicity. The Sun just published “a video that does not exist” on their website about the bombing of English convoy by US Airforce on 2003 which lead to a kill of a British soldier.
The video […]
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1 January 2007
Top-10 Orwellian moments of 2006 in US
WFMU-blog listed top-10 Orwellian moments of 2006
Fox News airs an infomercial for torture
Federal semantics eliminates the hunger problem also seen elsewhere in the Corner Blog
Defending the First Amendment by proposing that we scrap it.
Halliburton contracts to build large detention camps in the US
The Inexorable Worldwide Rollout of RFID Chips
Stay What? Apparently US has never “stayed […]
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18 November 2006
A security guard captured using excessive force
The whole nation of Finland was shocked and surprised as “The Voice of Truth”, Helsingin Sanomat, published a video on wednesday showing a security guard using excessive force. The news of naturally came as a surprise specially to the more alternative looking youth with long hair or political outwear.
The police forces published their intention of […]
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30 July 2006
Bodies counted and visualized
Israeli/Lebanese coffin counter vs. US/Iraqi coffin counter
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25 July 2006
The middle east buddy list by Slate
The middle east buddy list by Slate
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21 June 2006
Extort.com
Extortbeta is a web 2.0 service allowing you to blackmail a friend. They operate from “sunny Kgryjstan” and have a call center that “might record calls for training porpoises”.
The idea is simple: tape a footage of your friend doing something, preferably, illegal. Upload it to Extort who will then send it to the “victim” keeping […]