The Journal
2009
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First Australian Woman to Win A Nobel Prize
Well, this is cool. Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Tassie, and studied in Melbourne before completing her doctorate at Cambridge. She is now the Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California. Her…
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Free Online Backup
With increasing down and upload speeds, online storage and backup is becoming a viable option. I have an automatic backup system that copies a full disk image every week to an external drive. But I would…
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Someone’s Uncle Once Lived in Rio – He, He!
From the always insightful Kate at Small Dead Animals: In a failed attempt to sway the the IOC’s selection committee into awarding Chicago the 2016 Summer Olympics, which went instead to Rio de Janeiro, the ever-grinning…
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Ridiculously Hot Sauce
Read this column by Jeremy Clarkson for the fun of it. It’s just a silly story about not realising how hot a bottle of hot sauce was going to be. But in passing, it makes a point I…
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An Australian Film Worth Seeing
I know, it sounds like an oxymoron. But it might just be true. I haven’t seen Paul Hogan’s new film Charlie and Boots yet. Philppa Martyr has, and has written an intelligent and amusing review, full…
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Hold Firm to the Sure Word
That is a quote from Titus 1:9 – the name of the blog of the Reverend Canon Dr Kendall Harmon. Dr Harmon is a traditionalist Anglican (ie, he is one of the few who persists in believing…
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The Airless Spectacle of Political Onanism
The title of this post is a quote, not about Australia’s Liberal and National party leadership (though it could be – more about that later), but from an article about China’s official 60th birthday celebrations. David Burchell,…
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Tightly Grasp Your Eyeballs
Or if you like, preese not feed fishes with your private. The Courier-Mail, not quite as dismal a rag as many Australian dailies, has an article about Shanghai’s ongoing crackdown on Chringrish. The article links to…
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Daycare Makes Children Fat
A study of more than 12, 000 British children between the ages of seven and nine has found that children who spend large amounts of time in daycare because both parents (or a sole parent) work, are significantly more…
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The Apocalyptic Cult of Global Warming
I have just finished reading Raphael Aron’s book Cults: Too Good to Be True (out of print now, I think, but his Cults, Terror, and Mind Control is still available). The introduction begins with this quote from…
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Still Here – Just
It has been a long time between drinks, but this blog has not been abandoned! For the last couple of months my sister Amanda has been in hospital in Adelaide. I have been as busy as…
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Sexist Ads
The two major Australian grocery retailers are both currently running offensively sexist ads. The Coles ad is the less offensive of the two. ‘You shouldn’t be taxed for being a woman’ it says. So Coles will…
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You Don’t Have A Problem With God, Do You?
It is worth the wait through the annoying ads (and the slow download speed) for this interview between a swish CNN interviewer and a rural US car dealer. Free AK47 with every truck. Mr Muller, the…
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Child Labour
Just got back from Adelaide where Kathy and I visited my sister Amanda in hospital. On every second bus shelter there seemed to be a poster exhorting us to put an end to child labour. It…
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Kick His Ask
Possibly one of the cutest things you will ever see:
