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aka Wanderlaugh
General nuisance and inner city gargoyle. I write books, (I've published twelve on lulu.com) play music, do graphics, and am roughly about that antisocial. I may well be literature's answer to Gidget.
Ah... what was the question, though?
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The H1N1 virus has been showing signs of mutation and resistance to the Tamiflu medication. This is a new twist in a picture that’s been getting fuzzier.
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Google, after a rather coy interlude, have demonstrated the new Chrome operating system for the first time. It’s fast, loads quickly, and isn’t apps-cluttered. Its initial version will be for netbooks and their solid state drives.
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Nobody will be surprised to hear that The Times, News Corp’s UK flagship, is looking at ways of implementing the pay scheme scenario. They might be surprised that it’s actually two schemes, subscriptions and a prepaid fee for 24 hour slots version.
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African army ants are famous for their ferocity. They can, and do, eat anything in their path. When rival army ant colonies meet, there are border wars. Yet when an army ant queen dies, the ants are “adopted” by other colonies.
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Hulk Hogan was supposedly injured by fellow wrestler, Ric Flair, in an all-out brawl at a press conference in Sydney. The Hall of Fame legend was left unable to stand after an incident with a flying table, but reporters later found it was a stunt.
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The Obama administration has taken the unusual step of publicly rebuking Israel for the approval of 900 new homes on the West bank. A White House spokesman said the approval made its efforts to restart peace talks more difficult.
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Plants created the hydrocarbons which are polluting the world. Now they’re about to provide the hydrogen, without the carbons. Scientists have duplicated the photosynthetic processes of algae.
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A Brisbane researcher has managed to come up with a “price list” of events in people’s lives. Men and women, it seems, have very different values. Some things men see as negatives, women interpret as positives.
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The Pakistani army considers the withdrawal of Taliban forces more like a rout than a tactical withdrawal. In recent fighting the army has been making inroads in the North West Frontier province.
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The somewhat-hyped, but interesting, Chrome OS is said to be ready for launch in the fall. This is a lightweight computer operating system, not a PC-style system, the same sort of monster as a Windows OS.
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Originally, New Zealand was part of the New South Wales colony. When Australia became a Commonwealth, the Kiwis decided to go it alone. Despite a terrible lack of vowels and hopeless addiction to sporting trophies, they’ve done pretty well.
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To say I need some persuasion to look at “fashion” except as a symptom of diseases, would be an understatement. China Fashion Week 2010, however, is an exception.
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A kid with a mother who was a convert to Judaism was refused entry to a Jewish high school. Using Orthodox classification, it was decided that since the mother wasn’t converted in an Orthodox synagogue, neither she nor the kid qualified as Jewish.
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That figures out as about 100,000 casualties a year. An average of 84 of those shot, die. As cultural statements go, this ranks about equal with “It’s not loaded”, and “There’s no place like… Get down, Auntie Em!”.
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The wait is over. The House of Representatives passed the Obama administration health bill in a close vote. Concessions about insurance for abortions and all, the bill is now headed for the Senate.
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Three songs, and they were walking out. Australian fans couldn’t stand the lip synch routines. That’s not entirely surprising, because Australian acts are all live. Lip synch is a traditional no-no. The $1500 tickets didn’t help, either.
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To describe Australia’s superannuation policies as grotesque is to flatter them. To add absurdity to injury, successive governments have been scratching their heads about “how to pay for the aging population” while taxing super to the bone.
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A year ago on DigitalJournal.com, a number of people covered the U.S. election in a live international blog. Now, the results are coming in from Obama's first year as President of the United States. The culture has changed, and so has the world.
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A German plastic surgeon has turned his wife into a sought-after model. Dr. Reza Vossough, whose practice is in Berlin, did a total of eight operations to transform his wife into an F cup model. Opinions of cosmetic surgery however, remain stereotypical.
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An Australian study has come up with results that some people will find very reassuring: Being a sad grump is good. It makes you more alert, less gullible, and improves memory functions. Snarl healthily, and read on.
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