sojus recommended A big lump of horse ran into your burger? Don't wave it around or everyone'll want one from guardian.co.uk:

As a consumer, you implicitly understand that each time you buy a "value" meat product you are entering into a gentleman's agreement with the producer. Your end of the deal: you won't ask awkward questions and you'll swallow as fast as you can.

sojus recommended Django Unchained, Djack Whitehall and Djames Delingpole from guardian.co.uk:

Of course, today, simply "taking offence" isn't enough. Instead, you have to immediately run around honking on about how offended you are, as though this is some kind of devastating eureka moment that absolutely must be shared with the rest of humankind. It isn't. Go home. And next time wrap a towel around your waist before running outside.

sojus recommended 'Scientologists believe the Holocaust was planned and carried out by psychiatrists' from independent.co.uk:

The reason I went with dog bloke is simple. It wasn't the lavishness of the advance – a pint and a packet of crisps. It was because every single major publisher in Britain said "no" to my book. The reason some gave was legal risk. The Church's lawyers in Britain, Carter-Ruck, libel specialists beloved of celebrities, politicians and major corporations, have said: "Free speech is not an unfettered right." You can say that again.

sojus recommended The Definitive Story of How President Obama Mined Voter Data to Win A Second Term | MIT Technology Review from technologyreview.com:

“You’re making significant resource decisions based on 160 people?” asks Mitch Stewart, director of the Democratic campaign group Organizing for America. “Isn’t that nuts? And people have been doing that for decades!”

sojus recommended The forgotten story of … Heleno de Freitas from guardian.co.uk:

"The guy was a myth," Santoro said. "He was lost in time. He'd been the biggest celebrity at the time and the 40s really saw the birth of soccer. It wasn't cool to be a player at the time; soccer didn't have a good reputation. He was wealthy, he was a prince in Rio society and he left it all behind to be a soccer player."

sojus recommended Switzerland: inside the chocolate box from guardian.co.uk:

It comes as no surprise to find that Darth Vader's mask was based on an old Swiss infantry helmet, or that a Swiss artist has imaginatively reworked Vader's headgear with motifs of clocks, cows and rustic figures. The world is of course addicted to a Jekyll and Hyde view of the Swiss republic.

sojus recommended Q: What do Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and a hamburger have in common? A: See below from guardian.co.uk:

His dastardly plot involved cutting Gotham City off from the rest of the world and turning it into an anarchic hellhole. Except it wasn't that much of a hellhole. The residents of Gotham experienced slightly slower Amazon deliveries than usual, but that was about the extent of their suffering.

sojus recommended Are video games art: the debate that shouldn't be from guardian.co.uk:

The next time someone tells you that something isn't art, that it can't possible even qualify, know that what they're really telling you is that they are bewildered by change.

sojus recommended Pulitzer wanted for reporter who broke story on Nazi Germany’s surrender from washingtonpost.com:

“We can sell these pieces of dead trees only by creating the illusion that they are alive. This we attempt to do, with varying success, by headlines that grip the eye and written material that clutches the heart and soul of man.”

sojus recommended Made In Chelsea's Louise Thompson Reveals Exactly How Spencer Smells from sabotagetimes.com:

This is the birth of Mascilinism. It’s like feminism, only it’s for fat blokes who feel the weight of the worlds physical expectations of them are greater than the weight of their gut themselves.

sojus recommended Adieu, Adieu, Newsweek Magazine, Thy Plaintive Anthem Fades from vanityfair.com:

Pairing stock images and incendiary statements at random and slapping them on the cover did not, in the end, turn out to be a business-saving publishing model.

sojus recommended Hustlers Anonymous from thefix.com:

Hustling is his best opportunity to make a decent living, the sole job available that he finds appealing, and an essential part of his personal identity.

sojus recommended Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women from guardian.co.uk:

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me

sojus recommended Themenüberblick from news.orf.at:

Regenumhänge werden sehr gerne getragen - auch wenn es schon lange nicht mehr regnet. Es gibt Menschen, die sich merkwürdige Dinge ins Gesicht stempeln. (Nein, sie werden sich das doch nicht tätowieren lassen haben?) Und die Erkenntnis: Es hat schon einen sehr guten Grund, warum es in Discos eher dunkel ist.

sojus recommended The Olympics: better than they looked on the tin from guardian.co.uk:

Seacrest is America's answer to Ant and Dec, but less so. Imagine someone used a computer to combine Ant and Dec into one body, then accidentally leant on the keyboard and deleted their imaginations.