October 2010
4 posts
The English drinking tea
“The English — a gentle people with a deep sense of justice and fairness, difficult to rouse and slow to criticise but, when the time comes, a people stubbornly determined to do what is right.” - George Orwell
The English drinking tea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRj2K0ulD8Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSSwrPT-ewE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqQc7hjhoU
The Internet is just a tool
“I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‘over the Internet.’ They don’t bother to mention when criminals use the telephone or the M4, or discuss...
Swiss Democracy
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” - Orson Welles
September 2010
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August 2010
2 posts
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A Simple Truth
“Anyone who slaps a ‘This page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.” - Tim Berners-Lee
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July 2010
13 posts
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Follow my leader
Australia is proud of its many unique attributes and achievements. The landscape, the people, the sporting legends and so on.
A few years ago we achieved something special. Former Senator and Minister for Communications Richard Alston was given the accolade of the World’s Greatest Luddite for his complete lack of understanding of the internet. Alston is:
…behind a number of ...
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FNQ Piccies
Fill yer boots :)
That’s a quick photo tour of FNQ and I could have added another 8000+ images. Feel free to use them as you wish.
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Political Compasses
Here’s my political compass results via news.com.au
Here’s my political compass results via Political Compass
Here’s Australia’s current political compass results via Political Compass
And finally, here’s Labor’s political compass via their spin doctors.