Link roundup

1. A report that Chelsea Ives, "an Olympics ambassador who helped to promote the Games with London Mayor Boris Johnson was yesterday exposed as a riot suspect." Turned in by her mother. Via.



2. A fun conspiracy theory - - is this the real story behind Bin Laden's death?



3. Photo of Disney's Progress City.



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Link roundup (riot edition)

1. "It happened without us even noticing. Blackberry’s user base has shifted — from business executives to the urban poor. It happened so fast that it’s hardly been noticed in the media. RIM may not even know it themselves." Via.



2. Katie Krause: "Urban rioting existed before social media. You know what didn't? Large-scale community cleanups, organized within hours."



3. Misrepresenting the riots in New York 20 years ago. Via.

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1. "Earlier this year, aerial photos of a newly discovered tribe living in Brazil's Amazon rainforest electrified the internet. Now that entire tribe, numbering around 200, has gone missing—and a panicking Brazilian government fears that cocaine smugglers are to blame."



2. Really vicious article by Rick Reilly about Tim Tebow.



3. An interview with the maker of The Stanley Parable.

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1. How to find PDF manuals for electronics using Google and Amazon.



2. New York City worker admits masterminding $7M food-stamp fraud.



3. "The man tapped by Rupert Murdoch to oversee News Corp.’s internal probe of wrongdoing . . . is best friends with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, who is leading the U.S. investigation into the company."



4. The BBTS has available for preorder the hardcover collection of the #1 issues for all of DC's new 52.

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1. I love these sketches based on the original Conan movie.



2. Part of a good article about a successful NFL agent:

Like many agents, Segal went to law school, but never intended to find his fortune in the sports world. He was hired by a large "white-shoe" firm out of college, but says he quickly lost interest in the day-to-day grind of life in a big law office.



So he quit and moved back to his parents house. He had followed the careers of legendary sports agents like Leigh Steinberg and Bob Woolf and decided that was where he wanted to try his hand.



He printed up some business cards with his mother's phone number on them and began cold calling football players. It's not easy for an unknown lawyer with no office and no experience to convince professional athletes to trust him with their financial future. "A lot of guys hung up on me," he says.



Eventually, Segal landed his first client in Brad "Mr. Smooth" Baxter, a little-known running back for the New York Jets. Once he got that first client, however, the doors were opened and it wouldn't take long for other players to come through it.

3. This is actually a pretty interesting legal question (NSFW). Via.



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