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Read Wendi Deng Murdoch’s Mash Note Allegedly About Tony Blair: “He Has Such Good Body”

Mark Seal on the alleged affair that helped end Rupert Murdoch’s third marriage.

Click to view the original at vanityfair.com

Hasnain says:

"Seduced and Abandoned

The 14-year marriage of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng ended abruptly last year, after the News Corp. chairman came to believe his third wife had been romantically involved with a former head of state and with a prominent Silicon Valley executive. Talking to friends of the couple’s, Mark Seal reports on the shifting power dynamics in the Murdoch household as Deng’s ambitions changed, and tackles the question now being debated: Who blindsided whom?"

[former head of state] = Tony Blair
[prominent Silicon Valley executive] = Eric Schmidt

Posted on 2014-02-23T07:16:05+0000

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The Dark Power of Fraternities

A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.

Click to view the original at theatlantic.com

Hasnain says:

"One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole."

Hilarious intro aside, this article addresses a very serious problem and presents a very interesting look into college and fraternity life.

Posted on 2014-02-23T06:13:40+0000

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Hasnain says:

I am not a fan of hockey, but this is mesmerizing.

"For the past quarter century, Canadians like me have been especially smug about what seemed to be an endless supply of elite goaltenders from Quebec. Yet at the same moment that Finland’s goalies have glided so effortlessly onto hockey’s biggest stages, a crisis of confidence has begun to emerge in Canada.

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A bunch of half-cocked theories have emerged to explain how these Finnish goaltenders came to be. People I asked would cite everything from the welfare state to the stoic national character. Then I began to hear too about Urpo Ylönen, the old man who lived on Finland’s southwestern coast. People who knew hockey and Finland spoke of him the way Jedis would talk about Yoda or Obi-Wan Kenobi. That they referred to him simply as Upi only added to the mystique."

Posted on 2014-02-23T05:25:04+0000

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ImperialViolet - Apple's SSL/TLS bug

Yesterday, Apple pushed a rather spooky security update for iOS that suggested that something was horribly wrong with SSL/TLS in iOS but gave no details. Since the answer is at the top of the Hacker News thread, I guess the cat's out of the bag already and we're into the misinformation-quashing stag...

Click to view the original at imperialviolet.org

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Facebook Buying WhatsApp For $16B In Cash And Stock, Will Keep The Messaging Service Independent...

Facebook is purchasing messaging giant WhatsApp for $16B in cash and stock, according to a regulatory filing. The deal is being cut for $12B in Facebook..

Click to view the original at techcrunch.com

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Google will explore bringing Fiber to 34 new cities including Portland and Atlanta

Google just announced that it's invited cities in nine metro areas across the US to explore "what it would take" to bring its Google Fiber gigabit internet service to more locations. "People are...

Click to view the original at theverge.com

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