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Eyes on the Prize II
Wow, just finished watching episode 14 (the final) of Eyes on the Prize. When I tell people it’s a 14 part doco they think it must be long and tedious. However is it has flown past too quickly, and I’ll be re-watching a few episodes. This series is incredible and I highly recommend it to…
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Bush in Tanzania
This really is one of those classic ‘caption contest’ photos: (Image courtesy of the fabulous redesign of the ‘The Independent’ newspaper’s website.)
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The Free Software song
Having just watched Revolution OS for the umpteenth time, and finding that the words are freely distributable, for your reading pleasure here are the lyrics to RMS‘s Free Software Song: [To the melody of Sadi Moma:] Join us now and share the software; You’ll be free, hackers, you’ll be free. x2 Hoarders may get piles…
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Australians ‘are in Iraq for oil’
So says the BBC, but then those heathen pinko commies would, wouldn’t they? But seriously, high ranking government officials aren’t usually so honest about such things.
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Wiki Magazines
From the people that brought you wikipedia, there are now three wiki-magazines. I of course went straight to the politics site to get my daily conspiracy theory fix. I can’t see the politics site working that well, already there seems to be a large proportion of emotionally charged name calling….
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Obama 1, Howard 0
John Howard, aussie PM says in response to Barack Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from Iraq if he should win the Democrat nomination and then win the US Presidential election: Mr Howard said Mr Obama’s stance on Iraq “will just encourage those who want to completely destabilise and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and…
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Words of wisdom from Number 43
“The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership” – George W Bush
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From Salon.com
You’ll need to be registered at Salon to view this article, but here are some points I found particularly interesting: More urgently, the Bush administration’s delusional state about the progress of its war suggests that it is incompetent to safeguard the nation’s security. and The Sunni Arabs, who largely did not vote, have only 17…
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Busy busy…
Not much time for bucketFountain at the moment. Have just launched my first big (by my standards) PHP/MySQL site for a client in the UK. The application is OK. I mean, its all CSS, it’s generally fully compliant and accessible HTML, but as its also a CMS so I need to catch a few more…