(EDIT: Scroll down to the bottom of the posting for video of the August 11 press conference with Rockefeller / Gerhartsreiter’s attorney.)
I’ve continued to follow the “Clark Rockefeller” / Christian Gerhartsreiter story over the past few days as it just keeps getting more convoluted, and as the subject’s apparent/alleged pathway between Germany and the USA starts […]

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A one-Euro coin with Homer Simpson’s face on it has turned up in Spain.
No, really. (more here and here)
 
By rights, though, it should have turned up in Greece. (Just sayin’…)
Tags: Homer+Simpson, Euro, coin, forgery, hilarious, Simpsons, counterfeit, defacement

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Some days ago the thought occurred to me that the original story got very viral very quickly. Well, maybe there was a reason for that. Gawker puts forward their theory here…
Myself, I’ve been chuckling over the whole business since it started, as I have my own referent for monsters off Montauk. …For certain values of […]

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When those images of the big Berlin gathering at which Obama spoke started turning up on the Net, I said to myself, “Hmm, this is going to provoke certain kinds of language here and there…”  And when the word “demagoguery” started turning up here and there in conjunction with his name, I thought, “Hmm. It’s only […]

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Like a lot of other people, I’ve been following the “Clark Rockefeller” kidnapping case and its sequelae, bemused by the net of false identities that the guy seems to have woven around himself (partly because I’ve had a very annoying identity thief of my own in the past), and also now grimly interested by his […]

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This is cool!
And apparently it’s still growing (to judge by the “Add An Event” button).
 
Tags: Internet, history, meme, online

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…And it’s fascinating.
Purported descendants of the Knights Templars are suing Pope Benedict for recognition of the seizure of a hundred billion Euros’ worth of their ancestors’ assets and property in the mid-1200s. (The seizure was secondary to accusations that the Order was heretical, and involved — among other things — in devil worship: but these accusations now usually […]

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It was a charming convention. I look forward to coming back some time (with Peter, this time).
Stockholm is a city I look forward to visiting again when I have more time. The light here is very special. (The dark, not so special. Or maybe it is, but I’m a little set against it at the […]

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Spent a super day amongst the Swedes. No more to say about that at the moment, except that I’m about to go back to the hotel and fall over. (NB: Sweden looks a lot like Ireland when it’s raining. But you knew that.)
 
Tags: StoCon, Stockholm, convention, Sweden, Swedes

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Gaah.
Tags: computer, detention, laptop, examination, gaah, paranoia, government

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…This is a canned blog entry. At the time it’s posted, I’ll be on my way to Dublin to catch my flight to Sweden. But I saw this and thought that by the morning, maybe there’ll be some take on whether the subject is a hoax, or a genuine monster in the technical sense of the […]

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Before introducing footage from the new Wolverine movie, Hugh Jackman jumps down off the stage to shake Len Wein’s hand.
What a super moment! And so very deserved.

Once he was back on stage, Jackman gave a really heart-felt speech to Wein saying, “I waited a long time to thank you personally and I wanted to shake […]

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