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...those affected by the shooting at Virginia Tech got to choose a singer to memorialize their tragedy, the consensus pick would have to be Elton John, the man who wrote "Empty Garden" for John Lennon, "Candle in the Wind" for Marilyn Monroe and "Goodbye England's Rose" for Princess Diana. If Sir Elton were for some reason unavailable, they'd still have plenty of good-hearted high-quality pop singers to choose from - your Bon Jovis, your Maroon 5s - not to mention all those country singers born to sing in the key of heartbreak...
...course, we don't usually get the songs we want. More often we get the songs people need to write for the sake of their careers, which explains the arrival of "Rise Up," the Virginia Tech tribute song by R. Kelly...
...Game 2 of the series, Bennett Salvatore hit Golden State star point guard Baron Davis with a technical foul for a similarly mild offense. It was his second tech of the game, so Davis was also ejected. Last Thursday Dick Bevetta, a 32-year league veteran, rushed across the court to call a tech on Houston Rockets forward Juwan Howard in Game 6 of the Rockets-Jazz series. This call was particularly confounding since Utah's Mehmet Okur, not Howard, had instigated a mini-scuffle after the Houston forward committed a tough, but not intentional, foul. Last weekend, referee...
There's a clip from a Norwegian sketch-comedy show making the rounds on YouTube. It's called "Middle Ages Tech Support," and it's about a medieval monk who's having trouble with a new piece of technology, something called a "book." He gets his tech-support guy in to walk him through it. "Compared to the scroll," the monk complains, "it takes longer to turn the pages ..." And so on. Maybe it's funnier in Norwegian...
...Tech-savvy players immediately found novel ways to register multiple user accounts and increase their supply of armies, only to be brought to justice by honesty-prone teammates and, more often, by stubbornly vigilant rivals. We invalidated dozens of duplicate Leverett House accounts and unsubscribed more than 100 Adams House residents who had been signed up on a single computer—without their permission. “I did not sign up for whatever this is,” wrote one Adamsian. “If someone else is messing with my name/account that is very very very uncool...