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Not only what #6 said, but have you ever played bridge? What a game.

The only way I can think to explain it is in analogy. Take anything you love - a food, a musician, a blog - but you have to really really love it. Say Peanut Butter. You know how, when you love peanut butter, you just never _not_ have any in the cupboard? And if you run out, you always know to pick one up _that_ _day_ And you don't mind eating it for three meals in a day at all, and you can't remember the last time you went a week without it. Your friends think you are quirky, but not certifiable.

Almost every bridge player I've ever met, including me and my bridge partner, are like that. Bridge can be played or watched or read about in a weekend paper equally as enjoyably.

As a friend of mine says "it's the bombshit".

+1 good idea

Are me and Harper's the only one to make this link?

...the Nigerian government distributed billions of dollars of windfall to corrupt state officials. Thirty-five countries and 25 oil companies met in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to try to fix global oil prices...

Not that I think that either the Nigerians or corruption are the _only_ ones to blame. But really.

Go Solar. Reduce yr use.

Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/ ) is my prefered audio player for linux. It's great. I'm happy for vids to not be included (they may well be, I've not checked) - I find that Miro covers everything I need in that department.

mate, that "Link to audiobook" at teh end of the story is a 404

@UltraBob +1

@SuperElectric: all those that have mentioned Jello Biafra here know exactly what you are talking about. It's can be unnerving and a real struggle. BUT, wow, is it worth it. Same goes with Jello.

Sounds like something that would happen in a developing nation under the duress/behest of the IMF/WTO/WEF/OBBI (other big bad institution).

I can't believe that there are no kick backs involved here. Who are the local representatives, and who has donated to their campaigns recently?

Either this video has been boingboing'd or it's been pulled?

I got half way through and now I'm getting this video doesn't exist errors.

anyone download/offer a torrent?

welcome!

is there a mp3/torrent we can grab? Us aussies don't have the pleasure of cheap downloads - I only want to grab it once...

:|

Joel trumps Cory to the news. Will we see inter staff rivalries erupt?

Vale ACC.

link on pic is b0rk3n: http://www.wired/ ?

That's not NERDS!

test for fm support

lol! start the slag fest. Let me be the first to say, Microsoft Windows Mobile makes me feel icky!

Hey, I love that you cats are getting paid to do BB - if you are getting paid :), cos I love to spend time here, but, well, yeah, icky. And honda+environment in particular is well, icky^2.

Please excuse me if I also continue to use adblock-plus.

congrats to you and Alice!

I"ve never read, but I've often thought about who this Robert Shea was. Thanks a bundle!

I think it was Sydney's Daily Telegraph that once had the doozy "MENTAL HOME NUDE SHOCK".

For the non Australians, while "we weren't even allowed to Format Shift until a couple years ago", it didn't stop us.

In fact, it has put us in a very interesting position regards copying. Since everyone was doing it anyway, the fact that the law didn't reflect reality never phased anyone. Added to our (self) important self-identity of "disrespect for authority" if anything.

And from what I can gather, despite the law going against us, no prosecutions were ever bought on the small scale like we are seeing with RIAA in America today.

mp3 players (well, the iPod) were available for two or three years before we had access to an iTunes store (the American version only takes American credit cards). Hence there were many people, our former Prime Minister John Howard included iirc, with iPods filled with illegal music.

Absolutely no consequences.

Further, almost all stand alone dvd players sold here are multiregion or have region 0 set by default. We've never had any problems playing anything. I don't know why we are ignored by the multinational media companies, but we like it like that :)

Love yr enthusiasm cobber, but as a local, I wouldn't trust the Melbourne Airport ("Tullamarine Airport") coffee ever. But I will go watch. I noticed my barrista in the zone yesterday, and it was like watching a ballerina. Awesome.

Happiness Pie time for some of you. "happy freelance artists" has always made me lol, not because I don't know any, just because he's trying to jam so many syllables into a small space.

+1 JimH
+1 MOJO JOJO

ouch.

Where else would you see

... I CAN'T use the Hin pilABCD operon as a positive-positive control because when I try to transform it into the cya gene of Rd it will just try to recombine with the existing pil operon in there.

in the post before one that says

This is Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age. They came to Vancouver on Saturday and rocked the Bill Copeland Sports Hall down to its shower cubicles.

Love the Andrew Wiles reference.

I have not rtfa, but from what I recall, it was actually Roland Barthes that declared the author was dead - http://www.google.com.au/search?q=the+author+is+dead

what, no filterset.g for your adblocking goodness?

Can someone post it onto the Internet Archives or something similar please?

Alternatively, Cory, how do you subscribe to iTunes in Ubuntu ?

I highly recommend Zeros and Ones by Sadie Plant as being a great read in regards to the historical impact of women in computing and the web:
http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/body/lgl1.html

I don't see it - the link ends at craphound front page?

Three more tracks at the root:

http://www.howardhallis.com.nyud.net:8080/mash

Flowers for egypt (with graphic)
Good Towelie Times
Ween Waits

Pork Kimchi Ramen doesn't seem that weird. In fact, it sounds like what I have for lunch when I can get the house to myself. My flatmates claim Kimchi makes them nauseous and I'm not allowed to eat it in the house while they are there. Good winter food.

I still can't believe that this is news. Maybe the last book wasn't selling so well? Or are they keeping it in the media for the Xmas lead up...

Yeah, solidarity from someone that's lived through a couple down here in Australia.

beaten to it by mneptok - wtf does IE need a "web viewer" for?

When you get to the product page (
http://www.anbsoftware.co.uk/viewproduct.php?id=11 )it claims (lolz):

"This program has been developed to give Windows Mobile users the facility to have a very useful and functional tabbed web browser. Other tabbed mobile web browsers are either bulky, slow, or not free. This program is entirely free to use and uses Pocket Internet Explorer to show the web pages."

I take it they mean free beer, not free speech :)

I just created a new flickr account for the woman I'm house sitting for to upload photos of her new kittens. When I got to the flickr new user welcome page, there he was! lolz...I wonder if the alogrithm that chooses those photos is done on # of comments or # of views?

The most terrifying thing here is that it stinks of Corporate America outsourcing it's authoritarianism. Similar to it's sweatshops - it get's what it needs made on the cheap in countries with little or no respect for people or their rights, and then can import said control extra cheap and easy, while pointing a finger at other country of choice saying "it works for them..."