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Sound weird? It is. The site, www.homokasu.org, is run by a Finnish cyber-sect, the Homokaasu, literally “gay gas” in Finnish. According to the site, the name is there for “mythical shock value” only—there is no wider association to the online gay or gassy community. Homokaasu is primarily a forum for strange stuff. The Finnish webmasters have anticipated a wider audience, so all the crazy conspiracy theories and ramblings are conveniently translated into English...
...favor of more adult modes of communication, making enough money to eat something other than Easy Mac, buckling down and growing up in general—may be both less painful and less noticeable than we had anticipated. Selling out may, it seems, produce nothing more than a brief shock of unpleasantness. And then it is as though nothing had ever happened; seduced by the charms and very real benefits of having sold out (and, oh, it is nice to be able to call people whenever I like), we forget why we ever dreaded it. If our succumbing to this...
...over Kansas came as something of a shock to the Harvard swimmers, who viewed the Jayhawks as the stronger team on paper. They had been posting faster scores than for most of the season. Even Harvard coach Stephanie Wriede-Morawski had her doubts about the Crimson’s chances, and so Harvard went into this meet determined to swim its best but not expecting a team...
...More significant, however, is the steady torrent of rebukes directed at Barghouti from within the ranks of his natural base, the militant grassroots of Fatah who serve as the shock troops of the current intifadah via the al-Aksa Martyr's Brigade and other militia. They have been even more urgent and insistent in demanding that Barghouti drop out of the race in the name of the unity emphasized by all Palestinian factions in the wake of Yasser Arafat's passing. "We are against the candidacy of Marwan because it is contrary to the decision of the central committee...
...Plenel's resignation came as no shock. It was just the latest sign of the utter disarray at France's most prestigious daily. Recent books and news reports have alleged gaping financial losses, shady journalism, declining circulation and staff chaos. "The values that made [Le Monde] a cathedral to free speech are gone," says Alain Rollat, a former member of the editorial board. "Now it's a ruin." That may be a tad too dire, but the rest of France's quality newspaper sector is undergoing no less cataclysmic changes...