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Guns and butter

The cartoon by Tohby Riddle below for me recalls Thomas Friedman’s oft-cited quote which just about every undergraduate international relations student knows (not that we’re of his ideological persuasion, mind, … Continue reading

17 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Intelligent clothes even play music

Hi tech T-shirt really rocks Richard Macey Sydney Morning Herald | November 13, 2006 – 2:00PM CSIRO scientist Dr Richard Helmer shows off his wearable instrument shirt which enables users … Continue reading

16 November, 2006 · 2 Comments

Serious games: tackling real world problems through video games

Games People Play SMH LiveWire | November 16, 2006 Game makers are tackling real-world problems, writes Chuck McCutcheon. IF YOU’RE a video game player whose social conscience isn’t fulfilled by … Continue reading

16 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

For civilisational dialogue

Ideology Widening Muslim-West Divide Mithre J. Sandrasagra UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (IPS) – The key reasons for the growing divide between Muslim and Western societies are not religious but political, … Continue reading

16 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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