We are headed for Quarter Finals!

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Netherland’s Arjen Robben (L) celebrates his goal as Slovakia’s Vladimir Weiss reacts with dejection during their 2010 World Cup second round soccer match at Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban June 28, 2010. REUTERS/Paul Hanna The second round in South Africa is over. Actually, there is no surprising result for me except the game between Ghana … Read more

Politically motivated surveillance in US, ACLU reports..

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ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A new ACLU report, “Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity,” documents recent cases of politically motivated surveillance across America — cases in which people were put under surveillance “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their … Read more

Antro roundup: “Why anthropology proves Toy Story 3 is not sexist” and more

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Why anthropology proves Toy Story 3 is not sexist from An Eye on the Culture Wars by Dr. K A sad, strange little review of the new Toy Story movie in Ms. Magazine has kept me busy blogging on their site. You can see my responses to the conversation going on there but I thought I would … Read more

G20 Roundup. Looks like Canadian police is a bit harsh, by the way…

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A guide to Obama’s weekend at the G-20 summit from Wash Post Europe by Michael D. Shear Canada, eh? President Obama arrived in Canada Friday morning for a three-day summit with world leaders to discuss the global economy and what can be done to keep it from plunging back into recession. My colleagues Howard Schneider … Read more

A viral video: A reenactment of Suicide scene in Aşkı Memnu in Sims 2

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EPT Tallinn sets the stage for Season 7 of this popular poker marathon.

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The 1st event of the 7th EPT Season will run August 11-16th at the ultra luxurious Swissotel in Tallinn, Estonia. This event is guaranteed to be the richest poker tournament in the history of the Baltic States. Satellites to qualify to this tournament are well underway on PokerStars.com, with over 50 prize packages that have … Read more

Sonisphere Istanbul 2010 aftermath, photos, videos…

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will probably be updated;) Güneş, Ali and Burak are my concert buddies. A fine moment: Video: Manowar’s Joey Demaio speaks Turkish Video: an 8 minute high quality Metallica video can be found here. Radikal’s review of Rammstein… Happy Erkan. I have finally watched Slayer, Manowar, Megadeth and Anthrax live for the first time. I have … Read more

No Apology, No Airspace: Turkey begins to bar Israeli military planes

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Turkey Barring Israeli Military Flights From Its Airspace

from NYT > Turkey by By SEBNEM ARSU and JACK HEALY
The new measures were part of the diplomatic fallout over Israel?s deadly raid last month on a Turkish ship.

Israeli plane barred from Turkey

from BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Turkey blocked an Israeli military flight from Turkish airspace, in apparent retaliation for Israel’s raid on a Gaza aid convoy.

“An Undeclared Crisis”

from Istanbul Calling by Yigal Schleifer

I have a piece up on the Eurasianet website that takes a look at the ongoing evolution (devolution?) of the Turkish-American relationship, from “strategic alliance” to “model partnership” to the next, yet-to-be named stage. From the article:

Turkey officially demands Gaza aid ships back from Israel

from Hurriyet Dailynews
Turkey has formally demanded that Israel return a Turkish aid ship that was raided by the country almost a month ago.

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“Yekpare” and an Istanbul roundup

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“Yekpare” is a storyteller which narrates the 8500 year story of Istanbul. The story embraces symbols from Pagans to Roman Empire, from Byzantine Empire to Latin Empire, and finally from Ottoman Empire to Istanbul at the present day. Haydarpaşa Train Station, with its brilliant architectural forms, is the building on which the story is projected. … Read more

Yahoo’s style guide for web content

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here is the style guide site here is the news about it: Email? Not ?E-mail?: Yahoo Creates Style Guide for Web Content ************** British Columbia?s Capital City Officially Names June 30 Social Media Day *************** ROUNDUP EXCLUSIVE: First Teaser For ?The Social Network? [VIDEO] from Mashable! by Christina Warren Facebook Unleashes Open Graph Search Engine, … Read more

A video: The Social Network (Facebook Movie) Official trailer

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Movie Trailer For ?The Social Network? Is Released

A video: Turkish Porn Star Şahin K’s comedy film trailer

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“Scapegoat” is the new movie’s title in English..Şahin K in Wikipedia…

Elif: Aşk-ı Memnu: Forbidden love killed a woman and injured the rest

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Aşk-ı Memnu (Forbidden Love) which is usually humorously called as Seks-i Memnu (Forbidden Sex) had its final episode on Thursday night. The final of the series was a complete tragedy as expected. The protagonist Bihter who plays the woman who fell in love with Behlül committed suicide because of feeling miserable, helpless and guilty while … Read more

The Big Four of Thrash Metal takes stage today.

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Thrash Metal on Wikipedia Today is the very big day. Sonisphere festival the 3rd day brings us the 4 big thrash metal bands (Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth) together on the stage. Anthrax begins at 16.15 and I will leave home soon to start the last day. Well, I am quite with the first two days … Read more

Can Erol: First Round is Over: The desperate of all: France, Italy and Switzerland

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Italy’s Riccardo Montolivo (rear) reacts, after Italy’s missed goal chance, during their 2010 World Cup Group F soccer match against Slovakia at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg June 24, 2010. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon It was quite certain that France would fail with Raymond Domenech. We can easily say that nothing positive about him. He did not … Read more