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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 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.
Published 8 hours ago by ■ Paul Wallis in Politics
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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.
Published yesterday by ■ Paul Wallis in Entertainment
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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.
Published Nov 6, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Business
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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.
Published Nov 4, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Politics
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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.
Published Nov 3, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Lifestyle
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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.
Published Nov 3, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Health
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OK, how cheap can you get? This cheap. A Toronto journalist and her niece and nephew went trick or treating in the upmarket areas, and scored a total of one mint wafer chocolate, courtesy of a domestic. Not one of Toronto society’s finest hours.
Published Nov 1, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Lifestyle
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The fashion industry, famous for its endless social sensitivity and relevance, has unveiled its new look, Hobo Chic. A less than enthused audience of welfare societies is appalled. In the worst recession since 1929, it’s a reminder how crass people are.
Published Oct 31, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Lifestyle
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The value of recent Wall Street cheerleading can be assessed pretty easily: Non existent. The “expected” drop in consumer spending produced a 2.5 percent drop on the Dow, and a return to the US dollar as a safe haven.
Published Oct 30, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Business
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Some real numbers are now emerging from the Cannery Row outtake once considered monolithic news media. TIME Inc. is really taking a battering, dismissing 6 per cent of the work force in an effort to cut $100 million from the budget.
Published Oct 29, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Business
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A new perspective in online copyright is emerging as Germany attempts to create “a new kind of copyright.” To say this idea is currently a bit garbled would be an understatement, but everybody’s getting very defensive all of a sudden.
Published Oct 29, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Internet
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Yahoo has just closed the ailing Geocities site, after years in the wilderness. Although Yahoo has said that this won’t affect users, it’s looking like there are already some problems.
Published Oct 28, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Internet
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This is one way of reforming the health system: In 2007, dog’s owner collapses, dog barks and jumps up and down on the owner’s chest. Owner revives enough to call for help. Result: paramedic pooch does most of the work, owner alive and well.
Published Oct 27, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in World
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Studies are showing that dopamine is one of the big drivers in human behavior in ways nobody expected. Another interesting development is that many human vices stimulate dopamine wiring in the brain.
Published Oct 27, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Science
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Humpty Dumpty is recovering nicely, you’ll be pleased to hear. All the King’s men made Humpty “happy again”, according to a BBC rewrite of one of the English language’s classic children’s nursery rhymes.
Published Oct 23, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Education
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This isn’t about the standard theory that ice caps melt for no reason and glaciers are just shy. A Pew Research Center poll has produced evidence of a nuanced spin and a cultural paradigm shift in media news handling of global warming.
Published Oct 22, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Science
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You have to admire the level of remove from humanity which believes XP users will naturally rush out and buy a new computer to do a clean install on Windows 7. Apparently the guys who did Vista’s marketing are still on the run from the Smithsonian.
Published Oct 21, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Technology
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Somebody doesn’t like Australia’s atheists. Two websites, the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention, were both knocked out in major cyber attacks yesterday and were still offline today.
Published Oct 21, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Religion
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I wish the title of this article was a rhetorical question, but it’s a practical issue. Rather than “What is art?” we are now confronted with “Why is art?” As an artist and the son of an artist, I’d like to explore “Why?"
Published Oct 21, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Arts
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Yep, good ‘ol organized crime, the parasite that nobody does anything about, is doing nicely. Symantec has reported that up to 43 million people may have bought fake anti virus programs and in the process handed over their credit card details.
Published Oct 20, 2009 by ■ Paul Wallis in Internet
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