
From @npsport: Hey @nationalpost, we see your baby panda photos, and raise you ONE SOCCER ELEPHANT
Gratuitous soccer elephant of the day: Meet the “oracle” who predicted the results of the women’s World Cup this summer. Fabian Bimmer/Reuters
Meet the man behind the Alberta falling-satellite hoax
Sebastian Salazar will openly admit he’s no Orson Welles, but for one night, the aspiring filmmaker offered his very best impression.
Salazar was the source of the social-media hoax on Friday night that claimed a NASA satellite that had been falling to earth had crashed into a farmer’s field near Okotoks, Alta., about 40 kilometres south of Calgary.
“If it worked for Orson Welles in 1938, I wanted to see if it worked on Twitter in 2011,” he said. (Photo: NASA Handout)
Photos of the day
The sun sets behind the TV tower in Berlin, September 20, 2011. (Hannibal Hanschke/AFP/Getty Images)
Il ne suffit pas de rêver la Lune, il faut toujours redescendre sur Terre et écoper les remontées d’égouts et de dégouts.
nationalpost : A Russian Soyuz TMA-21 space capsule carrying International Space Station (ISS) descends in Kazakhstan, Sept. 16, 2011. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Reuters)
Today in politicians playing tennis: Michelle Obama at the U.S. Open. (Photo: Mike Segar/Reuters)
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Revenir à la racine de la crise de l’euro c’est dans Andromaque (Acte V Scéne 3) quand Hermione (rien à voir avec Harry Potter) dit :
“Tais−toi, perfide,
Et n’impute qu’à toi ton lâche parricide.
Va faire chez tes Grecs admirer ta fureur,
Va ; je la désavoue, et tu me fais horreur.
Barbare, qu’as−tu fait ? Avec quelle furie
As−tu tranché le cours d’une si belle vie ?”
(Photo “Albigeoise un 29 juillet à 21h11 - Albi Juillet 2011)
C’est une Gué-Hantise
nationalpost:
Did the 9/11 attacks irrevocably shatter American civil liberties?
“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America,” George W. Bush said.
“We are becoming a national surveillance society,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project in New York. “We have developed an entrenched emergency mentality that has had an incredibly negative impact on the rule of law.”
(Photo: Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
La journée du 11 septembre vue par les chaînes de télévision
Why so serious, riot police?
A student plays with a toy gun in front of a line of riot police officers during protests in Santiago, Chile, on August 25, 2011, during a 48-hour national strike. (Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)