Australians Confuse A Britney Spears Concert With A Singing Performance
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Britney Spears' lip-syncing draws outrage and controversy in Australia, proof the Aussies have unrealistic expectations from the pop star.
Posts Tagged ‘Controversy’
Wozniacki faces betting investigation
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Wozniacki faces betting investigation • Retirement while leading causes betting exchange controversy • Dane denies link to gambling, pulled out for ’sporting reasons’ Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki was under investigation by the Women’s Tennis Association, it was reported last night, after the world No6 withdrew in contentious circumstances … First Trials Begin in Crackdown on China’s ‘Mafia’ China has been transfixed by news of the country’s first big mafia trials. Protected by corrupt of
Netgear slammed for doing the right thing
Monday, October 12th, 2009
Over the weekend a controversy erupted over Netgear’s shipping some proprietary software with its GPL router, the Rangemax Wireless-N . This is one of those stupid kerfluffles that give open source a bad name. Harald Welte, one of the good guys, got things started with a blog post titled Netgear trying to fool their users with “Open Source Router,” (Picture from Wikimedia Commons .) The text doesn’t match the intensity of the headline. Welte’s complaint is that Netgear did not “study
Author John Lacombe’s Response to the Winter Games Controversy
Friday, September 18th, 2009
This guest post is in response to the controversy over the SPR review of John Lacombe’s novel, Winter Games - further explored in the post, Reviewing the Reviewers . John Lacombe answers the criticism here. I was recently made aware of the controversy that followed Carol Buchanan’s review of my novel Winter Games . I have been following the string of comments below Ms. Buchanan’s review with mixed emotions. On one hand, it stirs an amount of pride in me to see so many readers coming to
Can a mere domain name be defamation? Glenn Beck says yes
Friday, September 11th, 2009
When someone registers a domain like glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com , they probably expect to hear from Glenn Beck's lawyers. In this case, it took two days. The site's anonymous operator tells Ars that the whole thing is satire—but that may not be enough to avoid charges of defamation. Gilbert Gottfried, what have you started? The controversy started a week ago in the Fark forums , where someone picked up on an old Gilbert Gottfried roast of the "comedian" (scare quotes ful
