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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Potentially interesting

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Sneak peek: Tommy Lee Jones in 'Emperor' | Metromix New York

The biggest worry is the potential bloatware

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Review: Microsoft Surface straddles divide Everyone who held the new Microsoft tablet device seems to have liked it, and the thin, go ever...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

My Gina Theory

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Why does Gina Rinehart like to buy into media companies? I have a pet theory about Fairfax, at least.  It might be as revenge for a far fr...
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Let there be Beer

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BBC - Travel - The Holy Land of beer  A surprising story here of how microbreweries are popular in Israel now, including a brand made by P...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Insightful

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The IVF lottery of joy and sorrow This article from The Age on the weekend was well worth reading.   It tells the story of the poor succes...

Technical issues

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I'm feeling vaguely technically competent after working out how to run Linux on an old laptop from a usb drive.  I used Puppy Linux, and...
Friday, June 15, 2012

A very sad loss

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ABC radio personality Alan Saunders dies What sad news.  Alan Saunders has done a great job for years and years at Radio National, coverin...

I see dumb people

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Rabett Run: Carrick finds a mirror Eli Rabbet tells us how Bishop Hill and Watts Up With That note with disapproval some of the vile death...

Modern lighting

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Gov't aims to make all lighting LED-based by 2020 ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Doing it right

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Blood pressure: Getting it right Here's a very detailed article on how blood pressure should be measured.  I didn't know there was...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Bioethicists up for anything

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BBC News - Three-person IVF 'is ethical' to treat mitochondrial disease Honestly.  Is there anything bioethicists or IVF doctors c...
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Bound to go over well in the US

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Cardinal Marx urges Europe to move ‘beyond capitalism’ | CatholicHerald.co.uk Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a “social market econ...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Seems an odd result

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Top risk of stroke for normal-weight adults: Getting under 6 hours of sleep The participants had no history of stroke, transient ischemic...

A three movie weekend

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It's been a good weekend in Brisbane to be inside watching movies on TV, and I'm inspired to give mini reviews of a strange trio of ...
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Friday, June 08, 2012

Much warmer

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US spring warming off the charts The United States, excluding Alaska, Hawaii and overseas territories, had an average temperature of 57.1 ...
Thursday, June 07, 2012

A great writer departs

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BBC News - Author Ray Bradbury dies, aged 91 At his best, Bradbury was a fantastically gifted writer, although I think his style was proba...

Increased realism

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Indigenous 'solutions' just disempower us further - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) I think it says a lot a...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Happy transit day

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I might take my binoculars to work so I can try projecting the sun and see the small dot of Venus myself.  But if that doesn't work, the...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

The problems with immortality

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Do You Really Want to Live Forever? - Reason.com It's rare that I recommend something from Reason.com (as far as I can tell, everythin...
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Crazy Mel

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Heaven and Mel review: Joe Eszterhas's e-book makes the anti-Semitic star sound worse than ever. Slate looks at a whole book Joe Eszte...
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