The blog with no name

There is an online vote to decide which of five contenders should be the Scottish National Anthem.
There is the chance to listen to each of them and read the lyrics.

At the moment, the UK anthem is played for most events but for sport events when Scotland has a saparate team, e.g. rugby, Flower of Scotland is played.

For many, they are the nerds of US politics: laptop warriors, with brains full of statistics, no social life and devoting too much time to arcane policy details.
But last week the political blogger - someone who runs an online journal - emerged into the mainstream and shed the stereotype in the glare and glitz of a Las Vegas casino. At their helm was former soldier Markos Moulitsas. At the age of 34, Moulitsas has progressed from private policy nerd to one of the best- known public voices in Democratic politics, described last week on Time.com as 'the left's own Kurt Cobain and Che Guevara rolled into one'.

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I think that everybody knows by now that the blog in question is the Daily Kos and this bloke has even his own Wikipedia entry.

KIEV — A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in the Kiev Zoo after he crept into an enclosure, a zoo official said Monday.

“The man shouted ‘God will save me, if he exists,’ lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions,” the official said.

“A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery.”

Police identified the man as a 45-year-old ethnic Azeri with Ukrainian citizenship.

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This is one of those pieces of news that are quickly all over the Internet,it is often labelled as weird or funny. But it all went very wrong for this guy.
I don't find it very weird or funny, I think most people would like to know that they are somehow protected, it is quite scary to be alone down here. And this guy went out to prove it once and for all, unfortunately for him that confirmed only my belief that even if God existed, he does not interfere very much with human affairs.

UK music fans no longer face the threat of prosecution for copying their own CDs on to PCs or MP3 players, as long as the songs are only for personal use.
Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said consumers would only be penalised if they made duplicates of songs for other people.

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Thank you for that. Considering that I don't own a CD player anymore, and I listen music on my PC, I might occasionally copy tracks from a CD I own that I particularly like to save me the hassle to get up to get the CD. I didn't even realise I was breaking the law after all I had bought the CD and I was using the technology available to make things easier for me.

If I had a MP3 player (I don't so I never broke the law there) I would have probably put tracks from my CD collection without thinking too much about it. What were we supposed to do buy a CD and then buy the same music in a MP3 format? Get real!