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  • Film: The Flying Scotsman

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    Just came back from seeing a preview with the family. We all enjoyed it. There are some great comic moments as well as the feelgood drama of an athlete on the fringe making his mark without the backing of a… Read More ›

  • One for the Albee aficionados

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    Those who don’t already know this trivia, anyway. Just listened to Edward Albee in a radio interview, and he said that when he originally sold the movie rights to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf to Hollywood, he asked who they… Read More ›

  • Wish I could read German

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    I love the button anyway. Wonder why the button’s in English when the site isn’t?

  • One whole day in committee

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    Andrew Bartlett notes that the Government has used its Senate majority to stifle thorough examination and debate of the legislation it’s proposing over indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and over water management in the Murray-Darling Basin: both bills were… Read More ›

  • Note to SBS

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    A couple of old bones which cause a revision of an evolutionary timeline model (about which species coexisted with which others when) do not “cast doubt on the theory of human evolution”. All this discovery may mean is that instead… Read More ›

  • Absolute classic

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    AussieBob over at Road to Surfdom does a spoof reply from our PM to the Kevin07 stuff – John007 | Cabinet: The Movie. Bonzer.

  • Another Howard YouTube, another day of the corporate media taking the bait

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    Mark and others have previously pointed out that Howard is not using YouTube to actually reach out to YouTubers, he is using it to game the news cycle. The applications for the Armed Forces Gap Year program open today, after… Read More ›

  • Predictable

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    The one time I read a newspaper report of a social study that actually is reported with a bit of attention to fine distinctions and looks like a reasonable summary of the actual journal paper, what happens? The comments section… Read More ›

  • Being assimilated

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    Our HAT Facebook group is now up and running, with 20 members so far! So, I wish to have a Sydney Femmobolsho Gathering towards the end of this month, if we can get enough people willing to down margaritas somewhere… Read More ›

  • Wednesday Wow – photoshop edition

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    …this is just a really appealing image…

    Click through for two contrasting totally natural shots of a dune in Namibia at dawn and dunes in Libya at sunset.