http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com A European Look at Human Culture and Stuff Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:10:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Possibly as an antidote to the increasingly pervasive influence of big business in football, I have recently joined the over 30,000 football fans from 122 different countries that have invested the modest sum of £35 a year to own our very own football club, Ebbsfleet United. The members of MyFootballClub.co.uk bought ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/sport/football/ebbsfleet-united-a-different-kind-of-football-club Three years ago I started a tiny blog all about Manchester United, the World's Greatest Football Team (copyright © 2008 Christopher Rose), stunningly titled About Manchester United. Due to a whole ton of reasons which will one day be chronicled elsewhere, I haven't been keeping About Manchester United (™) up to ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/sport/football/football-is-big-business By now, it's quite possible that the whole world (plus dog, cat, or other assorted pets) has reviewed the new and improved Apple iPhone 3g. I, however, decided to wait and see; to use the device for a few weeks and determine exactly what it offers before offering my opinion ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/scitech/technology/hardware/hardware-review-iphone-3g Combat! was a sixties American TV show that ran for five seasons. This 4 DVD set contains the first half of the inaugural season, kicking off with the D-Day landing in “A Day in June” and covering the push through France, culminating with the liberation of Paris. The show focused ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/entertainment/dvds/tv-tomb-combat-season-1-campaign-1 Following yet another lethal stabbing of a young man in the Greater London area, I heard this morning that this was the 18th death this year. It's bad enough when it's one on one but there have been several headlines highlighting gang beatings literally kicking and stamping people to death and ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/culture/crime/happy_knifings_and_cctv At around 9 p.m. this past Wednesday, on a baseball field in Omaha, Nebraska, a young right fielder named Steve Detwiler took a catch that made sporting history. His team, the Fresno State Bulldogs, had just beaten the University of Georgia to win the College World Series - the national ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/sport/baseball/dr-dreadfuls-letter-from-america-it-sure-aint-the-boat-race Why should you choose to read classic literature? Classic literature is the best of the best from a bygone era. It offers a glimpse into our former social habits and customs, the foundations of our modern society and intellectual reasoning. In coming to understand those times and people, you ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/entertainment/books/how-to-be-well-read-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn According to an investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme, as much as $23 billion (£12 billion) of US taxpayer's money has gone missing. The money has been lost, stolen or simply just not accounted for by as many as 70 private US companies. The BBC reports that the US Justice Department ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/politics/23-billion-dollars-lost-in-iraq Eurocritics writer Pete Wilder's first book, The Oracle - Lost in Time, is a lavishly illustrated children's adventure story and a Treasure Hunt for real cash prizes - if you can decode the clues. The adventure is the story of two brothers, Richard, 14 and Jorden aged 5, who stumble upon ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/entertainment/books/the-oracle-by-pete-wilder The launch of the third and final Skynet military communications satellite, originally scheduled for 30 May 2008--as reported here on Eurocritics--is now scheduled for Thursday, 12 June. The original launch, on a heavy lift Ariane 5 rocket, was called off "after a software programming glitch was discovered during the final countdown". The ... http://www.eurocriticsmagazine.com/scitech/news/skynet-revisited