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Connor’s pie was cooked on the oven rack. He picked it up and dubbed it :
Wolverine Pie!!!
Posted at: February 28th, 2007 - 9:11 pm - Number of Comments » 0
Everyone in the IT world knows all about the predatory and unethical practices that made Microsoft the business success it is today. Bill Gates at the helm of the company is surely responsible, but with the efforts of his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to combat global poverty and health issues, especially AIDS, the [...]
Posted at: February 24th, 2007 - 6:14 pm - Number of Comments » 0
If you travel to and from the city of Melbourne on the Belgrave/Lilydale line, on the southern side of the tracks you can see this message writ large upon a factory’s back wall, in bold and hurried white paint :
CAPITALISM IS CANNIBALISM
I was for a while convinced that globalisation is part of a painful process [...]
Posted at: February 22nd, 2007 - 11:49 am - Number of Comments » 4
I think movie ratings are a great idea. Rabid libertarians can get uptight about them, but when compared with outright government censorship, tagging a movie with a rating means people can make informed decisions for themselves, including the decision to watch something that others might find offensive. But the simple letter system isn’t informative [...]
Posted at: February 19th, 2007 - 5:36 pm - Number of Comments » 0
Listen to this wombat, he knows what he’s talking about. (~600k flash movie)
Posted at: February 15th, 2007 - 9:32 am - Number of Comments » 1
Do bewildered golfers wear nonplus-fours?
Posted at: February 13th, 2007 - 10:24 am - Number of Comments » 0
You don’t have to be very old to remember the hopelessly-obsolete-by-today’s-standards Nintendo Entertainment System. Some things are badly dated now, as better versions of the same idea have replaced them, but some of the old NES games are irreplaceable classics. Super Mario 2 will always be the best platformer ever in my eyes, [...]
Posted at: February 8th, 2007 - 12:39 pm - Number of Comments » 1
