Porto beats out Man U

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In what sounds like a last minute thriller, Portugese club Porto scored in the 90th minute to advance past English giant Manchester United in yesterday's Champions League game. Manchester was winning 1-0 until a free kick resulted in a goal in the last minute of the game. Until then, the 2-game aggregate score stood at 2-2 and ManU would have advanced based on the away goals tie breaker.

Man Utd 1-1 FC Porto: FT Report

The end came when Phil Neville fouled Edgar Jankauskas on the edge of the area and Benni McCarthy, scorer of both Porto's goals in the first leg, sent the free-kick arrowing towards the top corner.\ Tim Howard clawed the ball away but Francisco Costinha reacted fastest and lashed the the rebound into an empty net to send United spinning out of the competition before the quarter-final stage for the first time in eight years.

Tags: Soccer

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Fun on Bush's campaign site

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On wonkette via Sandy. The Bush reelection folks have put out a great online tool where you can make your own Bush-Cheney 2004 posters. Their gonna get a lot of unintened hits and posters this way so enjoy while the app is up.

Here are my two:

Voter Tested, Supreme Court Approved\ Big Brother

Read more Bush campaign slogans

Tags: Politics

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Die, Click Here, Die.

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My annoyance at using "click here" for links a few weeks back inspired an idea for a quick cartoon that I have yet to put down on paper. Luckily someone has collected all the reasons why click here is bad text to use in links:

"Click here" just looks stupid.

"Click here" looks especially stupid when printed on paper.

"Click here" is useless in a list of links or when in "links reading" mode, or whenever a link text is considered as isolated from its textual and visual context. The problems of link texts out of context will be discussed in more detail below.

Tags: Web Design

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