Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview

It's a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside. The two-bedroom house, on loan from a WikiLeaks supporter, is comfortable enough, with a big stone fireplace and a porch out back, but it's not as grand as the country estate where he spent the past 363 days under house arrest, waiting for a British court to decide whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face allegations that he sexually molested two women he was briefly involved with in August 2010.


-Rolling Stone

Michael Ballack avec l'Impact?

Âgé de 35 ans et évoluant au milieu de terrain, Michael Ballack est présentement sous contrat avec le Bayer Leverkusen, en Allemagne. Il a également porté les couleurs de Chelsea, en Angleterre, et du Bayern Munich, notamment, en plus de jouer un rôle clé avec l'équipe nationale allemande au cours des années 2000.


-La Presse

Our history of cheating

My boyfriend and I have fidelity issues. We haven’t strayed lately — at least, I think. But we both have a history of it. This was something we admitted to each other on our first date. The Greek chorus screeched so loudly when we decided to go out again, my ears still throbbed the next morning.

I want to feebly premise this by saying that we are both nice people. Ben especially (though Ben is not his real name). He spends much of his career helping others, and is adored by everyone he meets. I don’t know if this counts as much, but my hobby is chasing down lost pets and finding their homes. We both rabidly loved our wronged former partners, all of them. But that’s not the point, because it never is. Cheating is not about love.

-Salon

Ils n’ont pas assez pleuré: six mois de travaux forcés!

Corée du Nord - Il fallait mettre du cœur à l’ouvrage pour montrer sa peine, lors des funérailles du dictateur Kim Jong-il, en décembre. Les personnes accusées de ne pas avoir joué le jeu vont apprendre la leçon au prix fort.

-Le Matin

Vintage interview with tripping girl

"Everything is color." A wonderful bit of vintage footage also seen in the excellent 1986 BBC documentary, LSD: The Beyond Within.

The Wonderful World of Prison Inventions

Someone once said that necessity is the mother of all invention. Prison is one of the few places where very few common wants and needs are fulfilled; resources are incredibly limited and ardently regulated. Prisoners, who are not content to only posses what "the man" tells them they can have, are forced to use their critical thinking skills (prison-genuity, anyone?) to craft what can be some very MacGyver type shit. As many of us know from experience, situations in prison sometimes call for something a little more intimidating than a whittled down toothbrush shiv, or a sharpened spoon. The following is a tribute to those not satisfied with the standard prison accommodations - we have The Wonderful World of Prison Inventions:


-SloshSpot

Your brain won’t allow you to believe the apocalypse could actually happen

You may love stories about the end of the world, but that’s probably because, deep down, you don’t believe it could ever happen. But that’s not because you’re realistic. It’s actually a quirk of the human brain, recently explored by a group of neuroscientists, which prevents us from adjusting our expectations about the future — even if there’s good evidence that bad things are about to happen.



-io9

Fabulous Coffins from UK and Ghana

When you think about coffins - if, indeed, you think about them at all - you probably picture a polished mahogany casket lined with purple satin. But a free exhibition at the Southbank Centre in London shows that death needn't be depressing. 'Boxed: Fabulous Coffins from UK and Ghana' collects bizarre bespoke coffins from the famous Paa Joe workshop in Ghana - such as this pineapple-shaped casket - and Crazy Coffins in Nottingham.


-The Telegraph

Hong Kong´s poor living in cages

Small enclosures line the room, leaving just enough headroom to sit up within the confined walls. Money is as tight as the spaces hidden among multimillion dollar high-rise apartments.

Australia-based photographer Brian Cassey flew to Hong Kong, where he had discovered people were living in nothing more than cages because of dire economic conditions.

But nailing down the location of these caged dwellings proved to be harder than Cassey expected.

“The cage people are very well-hidden in dense, packed high-rise buildings,” Cassey said. “All cage homes are well-hidden behind several bolted doors.”


-leenks

Radiohead / Tracks

US creating cyborg insects for 'microbotic missions'

US scientists are training "cyborg" bees to locate mines and weapons of mass destruction.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing technology to control the insects by attaching electronics to them during the early stages of metamorphosis.

-News. com

La MLS de A à Z

Échaudée par la faillite de la NASL une décennie plus tôt, la MLS est née en 1996 sous les traits d'une entité unique au fonctionnement très centralisé. La Ligue gère elle-même les contrats des joueurs tandis que les propriétaires des 19 franchises sont essentiellement ramenés au rang d'actionnaires. Puisqu'il n'est pas toujours évident de naviguer dans les méandres de la MLS, voici un guide qui permettra de mieux cerner les prochaines échéances de l'Impact.


-La Presse