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A tale of two racist slurs: Israel

Wonder what the legal punishment is for such abhorrent statements? The Israeli Ambassador seems only to have been slapped on the wrist. 1. Israel curtails term of Australia envoy after … Continue reading

1 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

My favourite American campaign ad: talking to a Bush :)

Thanks very much to Meg for these, via Ludo. And my hat goes off to the creative types in the US who came up with it. The rest of the … Continue reading

1 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

FireFox versus Explorer

No contest though … Firefox better by far ;) Another triumph for OpenSource … IE v Firefox: the battle begins by Asher Moses Sydney Morning Herald October 30, 2006 This … Continue reading

31 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

ACTME: Sheikh al-Hilali and the Wisdom of Solomon

News item: Sheikh will step aside, Muslim colleague says (ABC)   ACTME Press Release [with interesting misogynistic quotes from all three Abrahamic religions; see latter half]   AUSTRALIAN COMMITTEE FOR … Continue reading

30 October, 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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