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Friday, November 30, 2012

In the Footsteps of History

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He was one of the first people I met in Sydney, and fate kept throwing us back together at random. At the movies, at the beach, at the bar. ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Magic of seven wonders of the world: The Strangers Who Resemble Us

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With an escape across the iron curtain on Seventh of the Seventh, seven wonders of the world, seven deadly sins, and seven days of the week...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Let the fingers do the talking

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"Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose the poverty within us is too fear...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Have you read your media dragon?

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The C.P.J. reports that government officials and their allies are now suspected of being responsible for more than a third of the murders of...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

The Silent Killer

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We can pretend that we’ve got this stuff figured out and we’re in this queer utopia and it’s all wonderful. We can invent our own identities...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Magic Keywords: Thanks of Giving at Citizen's Corner

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Scientists have uncovered water in Australia that is thought to be more than 1,000,000 years old. Vintage drop - our oldest water found The...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Atomic Memories: Antipodean History

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"'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing...

(Mis)Treatment Strategies

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"Omission and simplification help us to understand--but help us, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension ma...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Early Europeans: Rum Corps or NSW Corps

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They were nicknamed the "Rum Corps" because of their monopoly in trading in spirits. Early European Dragons Fairfax created A nu...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Renaissance Man visits Bluest Mountains

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His paintings are not beautiful. They spark no great emotion and can be fiendish to untangle. But what they do show is rare technical abilit...
Friday, November 09, 2012

This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us

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Why read books? To learn, yes. But also to escape the messiness of life, to establish a sense of superiority, to distract ourselves from our...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Blake: Honouring Excellence in Photography, Poetry and Popular Creativity

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"Artists (like Tash) are artists because they have an extra sensitivity--a skin less, perhaps, than other people; and the great ones ha...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Market Glut - Too Many Media Dragons?

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“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.” ― Junot Dí...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Resisting Amazon On Cup of Melbourne

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Resisting Amazon - A Few Unintended Consequences For The Behemoth "'At a certain point you have to decide how far you want to nail ...