Sunday, July 31, 2005

John Lennon fights Islamic fundamentalism

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Life is too short to spend too much time exploring the truly weird and wacky corners of the Web, but sometimes a site gets brought to one...
Friday, July 29, 2005

I've heard of weeping statues, but walking?

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World news from The Times and the Sunday Times - Times Online The link is to a story of a "walking", semi-human statue of Mary in...

The science of dating

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Also from New Scientist , just what we need, more science on dating stategies: "Men who spend big money wining and dining their dates a...

Trees cause deserts?

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This is the sort of story (from New Scientist) that Tim Blair loves to have fun with: " Planting trees can create deserts, lower water ...

Death rates in Iraq

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News about Attrition at StrategyPage.com's How to Make War. The above link is to an interesting article (on a web site that may or may n...
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Miscellaneous stuff

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A quick round up from this morning's browse of the web: Daniel Pipes and Janet Albrechtsen in the Australia : both good reads. The Eco...
Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Fun from Scamming

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Aimless web surfing while I should be working has led me this morning to this site , which is quite amusing. (It's copies of email corr...
Monday, July 25, 2005

A Brain Change?

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Goodness, what odd things can happen in this world of blogging. Alan Brain (see left) kindly recommended this site in a post a few weeks ag...
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Pearson on Ronald Wilson

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Christopher Pearson's article in the Weekend Australia about the late Ronald Wilson was a sizzling read, and I expect a strong counter ...

Feeling away morality

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I am sure Currency Lad could do a better job on this, but I can't let today's peculiar opinion piece by Michael Read in The Age go ...
Friday, July 22, 2005

Multiculturalism wars

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A matter of respect - Opinion - theage.com.au An opinion piece in the Age today (above) rushes to the defence of mulitculturalism. The argum...

Give me space

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Sitting ducks - Tips - Travel - theage.com.au I missed this article from earlier this week about the erosion of airline seat space, especial...
Thursday, July 21, 2005

Take sugar tablets instead?

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Efficacy of antidepressants in adults -- Moncrieff and Kirsch 331 (7509): 155 -- BMJ Wow, this story in the British Medical Journal will cau...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

More on Iraq / al Qaeda

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The DIA and CIA Go MIA This story is about the issue I raised previously , namely the disconcerting way the main stream media is, by and lar...

A Jakarta Post opinion piece on London bombing

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The Jakarta Post - After the bombs, London searching for the root cause of terrorism Contrary to the headline, the above article contains no...
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