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Remember that time way back in the spring when one of the biggest stories around the Blue Jays was the roster spot competition between Eric Thames and Travis Snider? That feels like so long ago, doesn’t it? And did we ever figure out who won? Thames started the season in Toronto but didn’t last, and …
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Over the weekend, people on Twitter and probably other places I don’t frequent started getting all up in arms about this RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) fundraising ad. Yes, that acronym looks weird to me, too. “It makes blindness out to be pathetic,” they said! “This commercial is garbage!” “Makes us seem like …
After yesterday’s post, Ro sent me a pretty interesting article on Im Dong-hyun, the legally blind archer. I’m glad people are asking these questions, even though it seems they’re near impossible to answer definitively. Column: World record, yes. Blind? Not exactly LONDON — The headline sounded too good to be true: “Legally Blind Archer Smashes World …
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Whether I bother watching a little or a lot of the Olympics has still not been decided, but what I know for sure is that this is about the handiest thing I could have found. Here Is Your Handy Olympic Master Schedule A list of when everything is going to take place, with the added …
I’m hardly what you’d call one of those stuffy literature people, but this sounds kinda horrifying. Thanks to all this Fifty Shades of Grey junk, a company called Total-E-Bound Publishing has enlisted some of its romance writers to add sex scenes to the classics. Some original fans of Jane Eyre might be unhappy to discover …
Update: Our pal James has suggested that this post needs a soundtrack. He is correct. Yes, they gave us a nice discount thanks to that ridiculous internet outage last week, but based on what I’ve just seen, Rogers can still go fuck themselves, preferably in the eye with something large, flaming and uncomfortable. Our bill …
Well, doesn’t this just swell the Olympic pride and make the old heart overflow with joy. Cleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed ten to a room at a huge temporary compound. The campsite in East London, hidden from public view, has 25 people sharing each toilet and 75 to each shower. They sleep …
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It’s always lovely when things like this happen in your town at places you walk past all the time. And who the hell does this kind of thing during lunch hour at an open bank where there’s likely to be witnesses and where help is never far away? The incident happened around 12:20 p.m. at …
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It’s things like this that make me think that, in spite of all the great accessibility work they’ve done, Apple kind of sucks. Apple has pulled from its App Store a utility that revealed how the software installed on iPhones is fondling punters’ data. The Clueful app was created by security company Bitdefender and approved …
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I’m going to openly show off my ignorance here, but I have a feeling that even if I did have a good understanding of the whys and hows of the British TV licensing scheme I’d still think it was horrendously stupid. Just look at this article on how not to get your workplace dinged £1,000 …
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