Guantanamo: the Xbox game

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg will take the starring role in a new computer game based on life at the prison camp.

In the game, players control a detainee at the camp, which has been sold by the US Government to a shadowy agency called Freedom Corp.

Before he is subjected to torture and scientific experiments, the character must shoot his way out of the detention camp to bring down his captors.

Megaphone: Winning 6 to 5, a group of homeless and formerly homeless Downtown Eastside residents beat a squad of Vancouver politicians earlier this month in a thrilling game of street soccer.

Portland FC, which is made up of residents from the Portland Hotel Society’s social housing and shelter projects, proved their grit by out-battling a team of surprisingly fit city councillors led by Mayor Gregor Robertson. […]

According to the Homeless World Cup—the annual, international street soccer tournament—the sport has helped a remarkable 73 per cent of its players improve their lives— either by kicking their drug or alcohol addictions, moving on to jobs, education and housing, or being reunited with their families.

One of the more horrible things I’ve read in a while:

On the night of Friday, November 13, 2009, 26-year-old Juan Martinez Matos picked up 19-year-old Jorge Steven López Mercado in Caguas, Puerto Rico, and drove him to the nearby town of Cidra, Puerto Rico. After discovering that Mercado, who was dressed as a female, was a man, Matos, in a whirlwind of rage, not only murdered Mercado, but beheaded him and dismembered his body. The remains were then partially set on fire.

Mercado’s body was discovered in the nearby town of Cayey, Puerto Rico. A search for the murderer immediately began, Matos was apprehended, has confessed, and is imprisoned with bail set at four million dollars. Initial reports seem to indicate that the line of defense will be invoking “gay panic”, a strategy commonly used in recent times with varying degrees of success.

In a troubling interview with Univisión, police investigator Ángel Rodríguez Colón went on record as saying (as translated into English), “These types of people, when they enter this lifestyle and go out into the streets know that this could happen.”- EVB

Vacuums & Bicycles

“Our relationship to the bicycle in Copenhagen is much like the vacuum cleaner. We don’t have five of them that we keep polished and well-oiled, there are no vacuum cleaner enthusiasts, we don’t go to a specialty shop to buy one or wear special clothes while we vacuum. The bicycle and the vacuum cleaner are just tools. One of them we clean our homes with, the other we use to transport ourselves around the city.”

Q. “What’s the advantage of living in White Rock?”

A. “Never having to say you’re Surrey.”

Har har. The post I picked that gem up from is actually pretty interesting.  It’s about an “open ideas competition” on how to turn Surrey from a suburb into a city.

There are lesbians who are trying to get this exact look.

cameronr:

What the fuck is this thing? What does that sign represent there, kiddo? The number of testicles you’re waiting to descend. OH!

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82°06′S 54°58′E — the most inaccessible point in Antarctica, the farthest from the ocean, and the coldest place in the world. Located there is a bust of Lenin staring off towards Moscow.Twenty feet below is an old Soviet research hut.

Reddit: Summarize your sex life with a Star Wars quote

“At that speed, do you think you’ll be able to pull out in time?”