http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsArticles/2008/May/McBrideDeparts.aspx

“McBride has enjoyed some memorable moments during his time at the Cottage and the striker will be remembered for his outstanding aerial ability and bravery leading the line.”

http://fulham.theoffside.com/team-news/adieu-mon-amour.html

It was a tragic inevitability that he would leave us. As Tom Wille predicted in the podcast from several weeks back, Brian McBride would not be a White if they survived. Well, McBride guided the club to safety and has decided to hang up his English boots.

A player that was more Fulham than the Cottage itself, McBride represented everything that was good about Fulham, soccer, and humanity and general. He was never a showboat, never a ham, never one to criticize his coach or teammates when things got rough.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/05/28/iron.lung.death.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Dianne Odell of Tennessee, 61, lived in iron lung after contracting polio at age 3. She died after a power failure cut the breathing device’s electricity. A spinal deformity kept her from using portable modern machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2353Ecfd5s

From the page: “A train, a homeless man and a mistaken identity….

Directed, filmed, edited and narrated by Richard Calvache”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/7421072.stm

For the next week, the BBC’s Simon Hancock will be chasing storms through Tornado Alley, an area of high tornado activity that runs through the centre of the US. He has joined a professional team which hunts out tornadoes using hi-tech gadgets.

http://www.darkladyplayers.com/

Did this black Jewish woman, Amelia Bassano (the first woman to publish a book of original poetry) write Shakespeare’s plays?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/a-crime-that-tests-our-willingess-to-stop-genocide-834602.html

From the page: “Imagine a town with a population of about 30,000. One moment it’s there and the next it isn’t.

All that remains of a once bustling community of schools, hospitals, shops, houses and, above all, people is ash, bodies, charred wood and twisted metal.

A couple of survivors, or perhaps looters, sift through the debris amid the smoke. It sounds like the stuff of nightmares or horror movies. But this is not the fruit of someone’s dark imagination. As The Independent reports today, horror on this scale has been visited on the town of Abyei in southern Sudan.”

http://www.maxim.com/Trueromance15yearslater/articles/24494.aspx?src=sharebar-digg

More than a decade after it tanked at the box office, Tarantino, Gandolfini, and others dish the behind-the-scenes dirt on the making of a true cult classic.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13983

God may work in mysterious ways, but a simple computer program may explain how religion evolved

By distilling religious belief into a genetic predisposition to pass along unverifiable information, the program predicts that religion will flourish. However, religion only takes hold if non-believers help believers out – perhaps because they are impressed by their devotion.

http://www.verkstad.com/stringballs.html

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