Great Articles

Post interesting articles of any topic here. Should help pass the time until Super XV kicks off. Here are a few crackers I have come across recently;

Pat Dollard's War on Hollywood (highly recommended)
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/dollard200703

The Killer Cadets;
http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature.php&issue=1996-12-01

The body at Somerton Beach;
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/the-body-on-somerton-beach/

An American Drug Lord in Acapulco;
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/an-american-drug-lord-in-acapulco-20110825?print=true

The King of Human Error;
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/michael-lewis-201112.print

The Browser - The best collection of intelligent writing I've ever found on the internet.

http://thebrowser.com/

7 Things you wont believe you're doing wrong: http://www.cracked.com/article_19121_7-basic-things-you-wont-believe-youre-all-doing-wrong.html

http://byliner.com/jon-krakauer/stories/excerpt-three-cups-of-deceit

www.aldaily.com

Michael Jordan's old coach

http://cnnsi.printthis.clickability...m/vault/article/magazine/MAG1193740/index.htm

Readin the rolling stone drug lord story now, I really enjoy a lot of their longer features - thanks for posting!

An excellent site. This is my go to site in my down time now. Thanks for the tip.

Returning a 200km/h serve: http://theconversation.edu.au/austr...is-easy-when-you-know-how-but-not-really-4919

(A quick review of the current science behind it)

Here's a link from The Browser to a review of five books about Rugby. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-beard-on-rugby?page=1

The Strange Case of the Dentist and the Pimps

http://www.chicagomag.com/core/page.../index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0&mode=print

The Hacker is Watching

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201201/luis-mijangos-hacker-webcam-virus-internet

13 American Gangs That Are Keeping The FBI Up At Night

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dangerous-american-gangs-fbi-2011-11?op=1#ixzz1jh67hHfC

Joe Mac, having read that article on hackers, my already high level of internet paranoia has skyrocketed. I'll be recommending that to plenty of people I know.

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Not exactly 'articles', but I'm a huge fan of Late Night Live on ABC radio national. I download plenty of the podcasts from iTunes and listen to them when I'm on the go. There are few radio shows that I know of with such a broad array of interesting topics and guests. At the moment there is a selection of the best interviews conducted over the past 20 years -

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/inbedwithphillip/

Thanks Bryce, Ill have to have a look at that.

I put tape over the camera on my laptop out of paranoia last night!

Do Sports Build Character or Damage It?


http://chronicle.com/article/Do-Sports-Build-Character-or/130286/

Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/ff_masterthief_blanchard/all/1

Awesome Pictures of Somalian Pirates and others here.
Great Site for Insight Info into Modern Warfare, Intelligence and others here
Myths about Islam here
Guns, Guns Guns. You want to know about them or love them go here
Malware Removal Guide here
Biggest Ultimate Freeware and security list ever here

The last 2 was Guides done by me on Overclock.net.

Read this
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...aks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars/1

How hackers hacked HBGary and disgrace its CEO. HBGary is a security company doing lots of jobs for the FBI. Just read what those hackers did. Especially the reverse social engineering part on page 3. Was quiet funny

thanks