They found him in the bathroom,
exit wound identifiable,
7.62mm,
full metal jacket,
muzzle velocity,
2,800 feet per second,
blew the back of his head,
clean out.
The blood on the wall was…
in the pattern of?
well, possibly…
Any symbol of the times which,
the media could assign it,
however stupidly…
“If it bleeds, it leads”…
Oh look!…
It’s a swastika,
or a hammer and sickle.
Maybe it’s the morally broken cross [...]
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I dont’ know about you but I’m not a great fan of anger.
Not sure why - think it might be that it’s destructive rather than constructive - for both yourself and ‘the other’ (the ‘target’) - anger on a personal level…
Personally I was ‘lucky’ in some ways - didn’t really ’see’ anger until I was [...]
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A ‘revolution’ is loosely defined (skimming over the variety of definitions quoted at Wikipedia) as action(s) which result in socio-political change. Or, less specifically, by Cambridge’s Advanced Learners Dictionary, as “a very important change in the way that people do things”…
An ‘evolution’ is, again loosely, generally agreed to mean change or process, often with an [...]
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Immersed in War of the Worlds, Live on Stage! I can’t quite imagine how one could, audio-visually, make oneself feel any smaller… (and, in my case, deafer :-) )
A fantastic tale - an amazing concert - many talents - the story, a good way of reinforcing the hopelessness we live in, even in fantasy - [...]
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That, the title, an infamous media line, immortalised by ‘The Dude’ in the cult classic The Big Lebowski.
But that’s not what I came here to talk about…
(another infamous line, coined by Arlo Guthrie in Alice’s Restaurant)
Both, in their way, are about what I’m thinking about writing about. I’ve observed a thematic tendency to my [...]
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We have all heard of Wikipedia…
But do you know about Wikinews, or Wikibooks, or a host of other concurrent projects that the Wikimedia Foundation run on over 100 servers based in Florida, The Netherlands and Korea?
Whilst researching the Wikimedia Foundation I found the information I wanted and, as is usual with the Internet, quite a [...]
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A starting point for the theme of this post is ‘personal knowledge’…
It’s somewhat difficult to explain, but I’m going to have a ‘crack at it’ anyway. The original theme was ‘knowledge, what a blessing’ - but as you can see - just the language of that could easily be confused into some quasi-religious [...]
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A couple of sayings which recently caught my ear
On the nature of people’s heritage and culture…
If a fly is born in a horse’s barn it doesn’t make it a horse
and in regard to inherited features from ones parents…
An apple never falls far from the tree
These can be meaningful to every human being I’m sure.
And on [...]
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Well even though we don’t have an election yet (it hasn’t been formally announced) Google has put its stake in the ground to extract some advertising revenue from the whole thing by launching their 2007 Australian Federal Election site. Cynicism aside, they intend to ‘mash up’ a whole host of stuff including party video channels [...]
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“Virtual Terrorists” - what waffle…
The fact that this article (via Ordinal’s Cabinet of Ephemera by Ordinal Malaprop) is published in an Australian ‘rag’ is pretty depressing - one might hope for better from The Australian even though it is a Murdoch ‘rag’.
One could spend quite a lot of time writing about its short-comings but [...]
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