From the Age “Mr Howard arrived home yesterday from his Anzac Day visit. Before leaving Baghdad he said the trip had left him ‘more determined than ever that Australia should stay the distance and finish the tasks that Australia has’.”
That’s the Gallipoli spirit. Keep throwing troops into the fray in spite of the clearly evident [...]

First, boo to Steve Bracks. It’s long been clear that, rather than being freed from the bonds of Kennet’s economic rationalism, the Victorian Labor government simply replicates the Liberal ideals without the vision. AAP reports through NineMSN that :
The parties held conciliation talks in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) as nurses imposed work bans.
The [...]

Had a dream last night. One of those totally incomplete ones with no storyline but just some incidents or feelings afterward. Mon and I were either or both involved with others, but ended up in one of those situations where your feelings are too strong and you just have to kiss and hold the other [...]

Conversion of obscure units into modern Metric measure often is difficult. But, scholars have redefined many old terms in rational easily-understood equivalents for everday use. The following illustrate.

Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter:
Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup:
Won ton
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:
1 bananosecond
Basic unit for weight of [...]