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business plan
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yenInstructions here.
(thanks KO)
Update: it appears that Mark Twain was right:
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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someone showed me a picture and i just laughed
It’s with a mixture of fear and incredulity that I discover that Cate Blanchett is to play none other than Bob Dylan in a film about his life and times. A suitably disturbing full-sized picture is can be seen -
one more cup of coffee
Coming soon: soap which stimulates you in the shower. No, not like that, you pervert – for people too lazy to make a cup of coffee in order to get their caffeine fix, the option may soon exist of just… -
be careful not to touch the wall, there’s a brand new coat of paint
News.com.au reports on Canberra politician Steve Pratt, who managed to spend several hours destroying a commissioned mural in a stunt about reducing graffiti. The MP described the work as anobnoxious piece of vivid graffiti vandalism
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going through all these things twice
Looks like I wasn’t the only one to notice The Australian‘s little effort yesterday: Crikey ran a similar piece here.
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i’m not lazy, i’m just phase-delayed
This is a great example of a new approach to an old problem: an alarm clock that literally jumps off your bedside table, rolls away and hides, and then goes off again a few minutes later, forcing you to get… -
a standing army of newswriters – today’s australian
Australia’s only national broadsheet, The Australian, is one of the best sources of real news and analysis in the country. Unfortunately it is also utterly biased, not only in its editorial section but also its news and features.… -
an atheist’s point of view
This first blog entry by Atheist’s Wager contains a very interesting take on religion.
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with your hands on your head or on the trigger of a gun
The latest shooting spree in the US is invariably going to turn into a debate about guns (it must be gun week on this blog), so here are some relevant statistics to assist in wading through the emotional and political… -
just another broken heart, another barrel of a gun, just another stick of dynamite night after night
Interesting little article here about the portrayal of torture in popular culture, and the program 24 in particular. 24 has had 67 torture scenes in its first five seasons, mostly ones in which the ‘good guys’ use violence… -
hard-core pawn
“Chess is very sexy game,” breathes Miss Manakova, in heavily accented English. “When two people make moves, like in sex, like in love, they do some moves to win. Yes, not only he, but she, the woman. There are very…
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talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to live it
This blog post is a fantastic comment on something very mysterious: why so many Christians spend so much time ranting and raving about homosexuality and abortion, which are barely mentioned in the Bible, and so little time doing something about… -
oh the history books tell it, they tell it so well
This was in the Oz today: British teachers are allegedly avoiding teaching their students about the Holocaust and the Crusades because this might offend Muslim sensibilities:These kids are told at home or by Muslim preachers that the
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but I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers
Two people are detained in a war zone. Both are alleged by the military force which detains them to have been somewhere they shouldn’t have. Both are held captive, without proper charges or any prospect of genuine legal process. Both… -
we remember the light on the hill
An Australian singer once sang this song:So you cut all the tall trees down, you poisoned the sky and the sea
You’ve taken what’s good from the ground
But you’ve left precious little for me…