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South Korean man found crucified, wearing crown of thorns in abandoned stone quarry
Somebody’s Easter celebrations didn’t quite go according to plan.
korea  news  religion  weird  easter  crucifixion 
may 2011 by threedaymonk
Mainstream Failure
‘The media’s telling of the Japan story has been inexcusably bad.’
journalism  media  news  japan 
march 2011 by threedaymonk
The Sword of The Enlightenment
An excellent rant in support of Wikileaks.
news  war  wikileaks 
july 2010 by threedaymonk
Free content isn't a right but David Mitchell is still wrong about paywalls
‘[A]s more of your competitors go behind a paywall, the advantage in being outside the paywall increases.’
journalism  news  newspapers  paywall 
july 2010 by threedaymonk
London Fire Brigade
‘Latest incidents is regularly updated, giving information on fires and other emergencies attended by the London Fire Brigade’
london  news  fire 
february 2010 by threedaymonk
Why is the news media comfortable with lying about science?
science  news  journalism 
january 2010 by threedaymonk
11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever
humour  news  journalism  newspapers 
january 2010 by threedaymonk
Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
crowdsourcing  webdev  internet  uk  social  journalism  media  news  politics 
june 2009 by threedaymonk
Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government
A decent bit of rhetoric from the European Parliament.
uk  politics  news  economy  eu 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Insightful essay by Clay Shirky on the problems that newspapers face from the internet.
news  journalism  media 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
Old Growth Media And The Future Of News
‘That’s why the ecosystem of technology news is so crucial. It is the old-growth forest of the web.’
news  internet  journalism  sxsw  media 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill
Wow. Is that even legal? It shouldn’t be.
uk  news  amazon  business  health 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
Tattoo clue led police to thief
Car thief caught because he has his name and date of birth tattooed on his neck. Extra irony points: he’s illiterate.
weird  news  stupid  tattoos  crime 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Xinhua Runs Spacewalk Story Before Astronauts Leave Earth
Propaganda fail.
china  propaganda  xinhua  space  news  schadenfreude 
september 2008 by threedaymonk
Polish tourist killed by urinating on electric railway line
What a horrible way to die.
weird  news  darwin 
july 2008 by threedaymonk
Review as expletive gets marks
I’m bookmarking this purely out of delight at seeing BBC News publish the word ‘fuck’ without cowardice or bowdlerisation.
bbc  news  english 
june 2008 by threedaymonk
Sacked employee tortured ex-boss
Even for an estate agent, that’s pretty low.
uk  news  london  weird 
june 2008 by threedaymonk
BNAS
A kind of automatic Digg for BBC News stories, based on public APIs.
bbcnews  news  recommendation  aggregation 
june 2008 by threedaymonk
One dead as bus crashes into tree
I often take this bus, and usually sit at the front of the top deck.
news  london  transport 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Dangers of wearing headphones raised after helicopter death of B.C. student
iPods kill!
news  weird 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Japan worker in 780,000 porn hits
Climaxed at 177,000 hits in July. Didn't get the sack, though!
japan  weird  news 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
151,000 civilians killed since Iraq invasion
Hooray for freedom and democracy.
news  war  iraq  uk  us 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
Man hurt using gun to change tyre
As stupid as it sounds.
news  weird  wtf  humour 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
journa-list.com
Find the obsessions of journalists.
journalism  news  uk 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
Al Jazeera English
Via YouTube.
news  aljazeera  video 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
Premier Says France Bankrupt
Can I buy it for a Euro and put the entire population to work on my nefarious schemes?
news  france 
september 2007 by threedaymonk
The mother who suckles pet monkey
Some people love their pets a bit too much.
weird  news  india 
september 2007 by threedaymonk
Huge payout in US stuttering case
An amazingly unethical experiment: researchers tormented orphans to try to give them speech impediments.
news  language  psychology  science  ethics 
august 2007 by threedaymonk
Bhumibol Adulyadej 2
The video that got YouTube banned in Thailand. The video itself is just childish, but the outraged comments are comedy.
thailand  video  news  censorship 
april 2007 by threedaymonk
Toxic bin fumes ‘drug of choice’
Proof that some people will smoke anything: people are setting bins on fire and inhaling the fumes to get high!
darwin  weird  news  uk  drugs 
april 2007 by threedaymonk
Linguistic intervention in Iran
A linguistic analysis of what is probably clear to any native English speaker: that the British captives in Iran are having their statements written for them. Badly.
iran  uk  linguistics  news 
april 2007 by threedaymonk
BA sat corpse in first class
For me, the real surprise is that people still choose to fly with BA, even before this.
news  weird  airline 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
Sculpture that cost £132,000 crushed to dust
Is it art? If it can be mistaken for rubbish, I’d be inclined to say ‘no’.
art  news 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
‘Mr Ocalan’ conviction in Turkey
Six months for calling someone ‘Mr’; eighteen for writing campaign materials in Kurdish … I guess they've given up on that whole EU ambition.
news  turkey  politics  languages  kurdish  eu 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
Tidy tape exercise ‘is madness’
‘Black tape has been put on civil servants' desks to show them where to put their pens.’ More half-baked ideas from consultants.
stupid  humour  news  uk  consultants 
january 2007 by threedaymonk
Ilya Yashin: alive, presumed dead
Automated news system misinterprets article and posts an early obituary.
news  ai  russia  journalism 
december 2006 by threedaymonk
Cocaine harmful shocker!
Scientists also report that stinging nettles hurt, and more research is needed on the colour of the sky.
news  drugs 
february 2006 by threedaymonk
Agents’ visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior
Student visited by the Feds for trying to borrow a copy of Mao’s little red book. How’s that Land of the Free thing working out?
freedom  news  politics  privacy 
december 2005 by threedaymonk
Hollywood, BitTorrent Reach Agreement
The official BitTorrent site won't list unlicensed copies of movies any longer. The Pirate Bay, on the other hand, will.
bittorrent  news  filesharing  copyright 
november 2005 by threedaymonk
No smoking out jet door: airline to French flyer
She tried to open an emergency exit. Passive smoking can kill!
humour  travel  airline  news 
november 2005 by threedaymonk
UN: Scotland worst for violence
Glaswegians: Come here an say tha, an a'll glass yis!
scotland  news 
september 2005 by threedaymonk

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