As much as I’d like to post to this blog more regularly, as well as predictably, I just find myself out of time, most of the time. I stumble upon quite a few interesting stories and articles on the web that I’d like to share with the very few (and of course, very lucky) people who accidentally find themselves here, but writing a thorough post to my satisfaction on each and everyone of those “stumbles” is simply out of the question. So as a solution I’m simply going to aggregate them into one post with light commentary for your reading pleasure.
Gus Van Horn and Myrhaf do this already - calling it Around the Web and Around the World Wide Web respectively. I would’ve loved to follow their footsteps, but I find “Caught On The Net” to be much more … snappy. So, Welcome to Caught On The Net 000!
1. Presidential Elections and the Supreme Court
Thomas Sowell has a must-read article at Capitalism Magazine that should ...
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GamesBids.com reports that the 2016 Summer Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro. In an agreement made at the 13th Transport Convention, all buses at the 2016 Games will use biodegradable fuel with 20% biodiesel content.... more
The IOC will soon be launching the bid process for the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014. As a first step, a letter was sent last week to all National Olympic Committees (NOCs) informing them of the procedure and documentation available for cities interested in bidding ... Bron: olympic.org... more
As a key part of the IOC’s transfer of knowledge programme, the IOC Official Debrief of the Beijing 2008 Games will take place from 24 to 27 November 2008 in London. This event, which will be attended by members of the Beijing 2008 , Vancouver 2010 , London 2012 and Sochi 2014 Organising Committees (OCOGs), as well as representatives of the 2016 Candidate Cities and other Games stakeholders, will give these future Games organisers the chance to learn from the experience and knowledg... more
Rugby faces a global warning Independent, UK - 42 minutes ago Returning the game to the Olympic family is one of their five strategic goals, with presentations being made recently to the International Olympic Committee ... ... more
A quick look inside the Olympic Village including the Birds Nest and Water Cube Author: dustrotter Tags: beijing china olympics village games Posted: 29 September 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0 ... more
City of Vancouver allegedly makes secret $100M loan to Olympic developer
Pressure mounts on Vancouver city council to come clean on deal
Christina Montgomery and Damian Inwood,
The Province , Friday, November 07, 2008
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In-camera meetings are often held for the three "Ls": land, labour relations, and legal issues.
In fact, under Section 165.2 of the Vancouver Charter, there is a much longer list of... more
Thank you very much for the memories, Mr East wood - Independent Share FROM the top of the hill, old fighters are remembered. Not in chrome or canvas, but in clusters of scarlet gloves dangling from the light-fittings. This is BJ’s place. The big house peers down towards the Bangor road, across shrub and lawn and Source: www.independent.ie
UK Boxing News - Secondsout.com According to the Guardian newspaper Beijing Olympic Gold medallist James DeGale has signed professional with... more
EHIME, Japan - Montedio Yamagata clinched promotion to the J-League first division on Sunday with a dramatic come-from-behind 3-2 win at Ehime FC.Ehime led 2-1 through Daisuke Aono’s double but Tatsuya Ishikawa leveled a minute from time before Beijing Olympic... more
From now on, we’ll be rationing tissues… Jacques Rogge, the head of the IOC recently warned member nations that the Olympic movement will have to tighten its belt, given the steadily worsening global economy. John Furlong, the CEO of Vancouver 2010, has sounded similarly gloomy warnings, suggesting that Vanoc may have to look for budget [...]... more
Track boss pulls no punches, smacks IOC prexy By Philip Hersh In the oh-so-politic world of Olympic governance, rarely do you find a major sports leader with the courage to call out another major sports leader. But that is what happened Friday, when international track federation president Lamine Diack of Senegal flat-out blasted International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge of Belgium. Diack called out Rogge on 1) his criticism of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt for celebrating the... more
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Yep, Skype is offering free, unlimited calling to any regular land-line or wireless number in the U.S and Canada right from your PC using the Skype VOIP application! You shouldn’t miss this one people.
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I was stumbling around on the web when I came upon this most interesting YouTube video about con men (”Psychic” Uri Geller and “Faith Healer” Pastor Peter Popoff) and the man who handles them best: James Randi .
Randi’s exposition of pseudoscience, deception and dishonesty are simply masterful, but it is something he says that hit it most with me … so I transcribed it below:
Why People are so drawn to the irrational is something that has alwa... more
New York really seems to be outdoing itself lately: first, it was a statewide smoking ban , then it was a ban of trans fats in all New York City restaurants. Then there was something more ridiculous: The New York City Board of Health decided that it would not only let people “pick” their gende r, regardless of what it actually is — but that it would also enforce that decision on others!
Now, State Senator Carl Kruger, seeing that New Yorkers will take just about anythin... more
Heed this — via the LA Times :
[June 8th, 2006 | Vienna, Austria] — Iran began to enrich a second batch of uranium in its research plant this week on the same day that world powers delivered a negotiating offer to Tehran conditioned on its suspension of nuclear activities, according to a report released Thursday by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Whoever says there is no justice in this Universe definitely does not watch the evening news.
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