Shuffleboard checks in at Foursquare’s NY HQ

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Foursquare – the location based social networking website that currently allows over 15 million users to “check-in” around the world at venues on their mobile phones – has moved into a huge new office space in New York City, USA.

The company (which launched in 2009) now employs over 100 people and they’ve decked out their two-floor, 56,000ft office with everything cool a young company should have.

From idea walls and mystery meeting rooms to cafeterias and a prized shuffleboard table…
If you’re looking for a new job, take a look at these pics and lick your lips!

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Model Lily Aldridge & singer Caleb Followill celebrate wedding with some shuffleboard

Shuffleboard love = Rockstar and Supermodel

Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill and gorgeous Victoria’s Secret model Lily Aldridge set up a shuffleboard table at their wedding reception to entertain family and friends on the day…
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The Woden Tradies gets a shuffleboard table

The Woden Tradies Shuffleboard Table

The Tradies has been a Canberra institution for over 45 years and operates licensed community clubs in both Dickson and Woden. The clubs boast live entertainment, special events, major promotions and ice cold beer, but now the Woden Tradies has an extra little somethin’ somethin’ in the shape of a Southern Cross Shuffleboard Table…

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Celebs That Love Shuffleboard: Prime Minister Julia Gillard

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is all style on the shuffleboard table

Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister (and first female Prime Minister) of Australia on 24 June 2010. Arguably the busiest woman in the country, Ms Gillard still had time for a little table shuffleboard play when she visited Queensland late 2010… Good style!

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Robots battle for shuffleboard supremacy

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Robocop, Transformers, R2D2, Bender, The Terminator and now S.H.U.F.F.L.E.B.O.T!

Robots aren’t taking over the world just yet, but they did begin taking over our shuffleboard tables last week, when a group of Oregon State University students showcased some shuffleboard playing robots at a technology exhibition in the USA.

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Novelty Table Shuffleboard Tees

Comical table shuffleboard tees

"Sex. Money. Table Shuffleboard." and "Table Shuffleboard Is Not A Crime"

Guys love novelty t-shirts… From “I’m With Stupid –>” to “Vote For Pedro”, novelty tees have humoured us and embarrassed us with comical lines about this and that for years.

Movies, TV shows, video games, sports, celebrities, sex and beer are usually the main targets of novelty t-shirt jokes and it’s often the ones with cult followings that earn the most attention. Table shuffleboard has its fair share of comical collateral and the following are a collection of six must-have novelty table shuffleboard tees…

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Editorial feature: Pop Magazine

Pop Magazine Editorial

Southern Cross Shuffleboards has scored some awesome editorial in the new issue of Pop Magazine, Australia’s premier free-press action sports mag. Similar to Blisss in America, it covers skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing news along with interviews and a lifestyle section covering music, cars, technology, fashion, films and opinion pieces from around the world.

Pop Mag’s “2011 Outerwear Issue” – which features Berrics co-owner Steve Berra on the cover – includes editorial on film-maker Kai Neville, TSC founder Jarrod Wouters, model Erin McNaught, tablets and electronics, and a full-page feature piece on Shuffleboard.

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Survivor Shuffleboard – Win or get off the island!

Survivor Shuffleboard

Reality TV changed our world in the 1990s and Survivor was one of the main catalysts, isolating a bunch of random dudes and good-looking chicks on a tropical island to complete challenges for themselves and their tribes all in the name of cash and other prizes.

The world’s most exotic reality TV show has thrown a lot at its contestants over the years, dishing up challenges of endurance, strength, agility, speed, problem solving, teamwork, dexterity, willpower and, er, table shuffleboard…

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5 x places to play shuffleboard… In Chicago, Illinois

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Michael Jordan is arguably the greatest and most famous athlete in the history of sport and hence the city of Chicago, where he dominated the Bulls basketball court for most of his career, is almost as well known across the globe.

Southern Cross Shuffleboards is a huge supporter of basketball and big fan of the Chicago Bulls (including this year’s MVP, guard Derrick Rose), but we are most impressed right now to hear that the Windy City has a thriving shuffleboard scene!

Check out these five hot-spots for playing table shuffleboard in Chicago…

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VIP at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach

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Celebrity chef Shannon Bennett & friend get their shuffle on.

Where did you spend your Easter Holidays? Southern Cross Shuffleboards spent the week in the VIP Bar of the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, celebrating the event’s 50-year anniversary with the world’s best surfers and celebrities alike…

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