Great Articles

[Schadenfreude]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...tman-this-guy/2012/03/28/gIQA8nPjgS_blog.html

 

[Joe Mac]

CONSUMED

Whitewater kayaker Hendrik Coetzee had decided to call it a career after a decade of first descents on the wildest rivers in Africa. The river’s most feared predator had a different ending in store.

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/athletes/Consumed.html?page=all

 

[Cave Dweller]

CONSUMED

Whitewater kayaker Hendrik Coetzee had decided to call it a career after a decade of first descents on the wildest rivers in Africa. The river’s most feared predator had a different ending in store.

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/athletes/Consumed.html?page=all

That was a very good story. Unfortunate what happened to him.

 

[Joe Mac]

Undercover Anarchist
What happens when a cop falls in love with the radicals he's spying on? Mark Kennedy found out the hard way.
http://74.220.215.94/~davidkus/inde...nt&print=1&page=&option=com_content&Itemid=54

 

[El Jefe]

I should probably make my first post rugby-related, but this is an interesting article from the New York Times about the political climate in Australia and New Zealand. A few inaccuracies but interesting nonetheless. Apparently almost all of us are Democrats: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/opinion/friedman-elephants-down-under.html

Also, this is an excellent source of good articles culled from all over the Internet: www.thebrowser.com

 

[Joe Mac]

Rick Ross's Simple Lessons for Bosses, Dons, and Bitches

In the age of hipster rap, the dude on top is a 300-pound former corrections officer who stole the name of a drug dealer. Devin Friedman spends one day and one wild night learning from the reigning godfather of hip-hop

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201109/rick-ross-interview-gq-october-2011?printable=true

 

[Joe Mac]

A Giant Among Giants

Glencore -- founded by famous fugitive Marc Rich -- has cornered the market on just about everything. Now that it's going public, will its ties to dictators and spies stand up to scrutiny?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/23/a_giant_among_giants?page=full

 

[Joe Mac]

Astronomers find new planet capable of supporting life

Astronomers have discovered their "holy grail" - a planet capable of supporting life outside our solar system.

http://www.readability.com/read?url...nd-new-planet-capable-of-supporting-life.html

 

[Joe Mac]

Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston, gambler, died on April 29th, aged 83

http://www.readability.com/articles/rg1bn25u

IF YOU found yourself sitting at the poker table opposite Amarillo Slim, you were wisest not to say one word. He might try to get you talking, of course. How are you and how’ve you been, any sort of yakking. Best to keep quiet. He could get a tell from you just by watching the sweat on your upper lip. In fact he could know your whole hand by looking at the pulse in your cheek. If you tried to read him back, you’d find those cool hard eyes hidden in the shadow of his big old Stetson hat. He had a rattlesnake head on the band of it—killed by himself, so he said—and he might tell you that as a token of affection he’d put a rattler in your pocket and ask you for a match.

 

[light]

Still find myself checking this thread daily for your posts Joe Mac, absolutely brilliant stuff. Thanks heaps.

 

[Joe Mac]

Juicers, Trippers, and Crocodiles: The Dangerous World of Underground Chemistry​

Steroids, narcotics, and psychedelics are flowing freely from underground labs around the world.​

http://www.readability.com/read?url...rs-crocodiles-dangerous-underground-chemistry

 

[MrTimms]

I 've read plenty of these, lost many hours, but never contributed...

I thought this one was interesting:

Tania Head's 9/11 survival story was the stuff of Hollywood, shooting her to fame, a position of influence and capturing the hearts of many. ​

But it was all a lie.​

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/lifestyle/life/tall-tales-a-towering-lie-20120521-1yzju.html

 

[Joe Mac]

I 've read plenty of these, lost many hours, but never contributed...

I thought this one was interesting:



http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/lifestyle/life/tall-tales-a-towering-lie-20120521-1yzju.html

Gee that's a pretty big phib!

 

[Joe Mac]

This is a real cracker:
THE MOUNTAIN OF MOUNTAINS

“Schoening leaned into his ax and braced himself for the impact. The rope thinned, then drew taut as a steel wire. For the next five minutes, he kept six men from falling of the face of the mountain.”
http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/asia/pakistan/The-Mountain-of-Mountains.html

 

[Joe Mac]

Anyone read "born to run?" ​

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Caballo Blanco’s Last Run: The Micah True Story​

When Micah True went missing on a run, the search for him eventually turned to a section of Little Creek in the Gila Wilderness, near Silver City, N.M​

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/sports/caballo-blancos-last-run-the-micah-true-story.html

 

[Torn Hammy]

This is a real cracker:
THE MOUNTAIN OF MOUNTAINS

“Schoening leaned into his ax and braced himself for the impact. The rope thinned, then drew taut as a steel wire. For the next five minutes, he kept six men from falling of the face of the mountain.”
http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/asia/pakistan/The-Mountain-of-Mountains.html

Pete Schoening was also involved with the deadly 1996 climbing season on Everest. Shoening,68, and his nephew Klev, were with the Mountain Madness team lead by Scott Fischer. Eight people died that season, including team leaders Fischer and NZer Rob Hall. Pete failed to reach the summit and while Klev was successful, his descent was a terrifying experience recounted in Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev.

 

[Joe Mac]

The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn’t a Crook—He’s an Artist​

http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/ff_counterfeiter/all/1

 

[Joe Mac]

Special Report: The algorithmic arms race

(Reuters) - It's the day after Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday party and David Harding, the head of one of the most successful hedge funds in the world, is bubbling with talk of black holes.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/21/us-trading-blackbox-idUSBRE84K07320120521

 

[Joe Mac]

All the world is staged
ON THE MORNING of Feb. 20, 2011, a man from Singapore walked into the central police station of Rovaniemi, Finland, a town that sits along the Arctic Circle. The man told officers that another Singaporean, Wilson Raj Perumal, was in Rovaniemi on a false passport. He offered no other information before leaving the station abruptly.
http://espn.go.com/espn/print?id=7927946&type=story

 

[bryce]

Special Report: The algorithmic arms race

(Reuters) - It's the day after Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday party and David Harding, the head of one of the most successful hedge funds in the world, is bubbling with talk of black holes.

Interesting. I've got a few friends who study maths and always have guys from the City knocking on their doors, taking them out to lunch, trying to get them to work at their hedge funds or investment banks. One of them in particular, he does something involving theoretical physics, (he explained it once but I barely understood a word) has an office next door to Hawking and has limitless options for when he finishes his PhD. Bastard!