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And the answer to the title question is “No. Probably not”. But MMOs have been drawn into the elaborate web of not very good lies that are the adventures of John Darwin. If you’re not familiar with the John Darwin saga, it is truly a gift that keeps giving. It is a sad example of what happens when two rather stupid people start thinking that they’re a great deal cleverer than they actually are.

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From the Telegraph:

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Christopher Hitchens is a man who I find profoundly irritating most of the time. He has perfected the art of arrogance to the level that even when he is saying something I agree with (It’s about 50:50), I still mostly want him to shut up. He has frequently been an apologist for Bush’s interventionist policies, and the ensuing misery that perpetuates from them. However he is nothing if not a complicated man, and he was recently willing to put himself through something pretty unpleasant for a piece in Vanity Fair. I hope his experience, and his conclusions, will inform his future pronouncements.

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Recently, at TED, the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference, Al Gore spoke about the challenges facing our world:

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I just handed back the keys to my old flat to the council. After a week of cleaning up the detritus of 5 years of not being terribly tidy, I am overjoyed to see the back of it.

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After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, rioters took to the street across Pakistan. Shops, cars, and infrastructure were burned. At least 47 people died in the riots. Rioters destroyed 176 banks, 34 petrol stations, 72 train cars, 18 rail stations, and hundreds of cars and shops. That unrest has yet to run it’s course.

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Sigh. Because apparently even Giuliani’s own adverts can’t stop playing with themselves, I’ve had to put it on it’s own page. It keeps repeating randomly. Not what you want when you’re trying to read happy stories about giant playmobil. Click below for the story.

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Russian RIA Novosti reports:

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Al Gore’s Nobel lecture, in full I hope.

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