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links for 2010-08-22

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  • The results, so far, for yesterday's Australian Federal Election are quite interesting. We seems to be left with a hung parliament, the choice of who to form a
  • links for 2010-07-23

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  • Spying the Ferris wheel over the overpass at Darling Harbour.
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  • John Howard must be eating his own liver around about now. He had only to look sideways at a little brown foreign chap and the media would be all over him for dog-whistling up a storm of racism. Granted, he might well have been blowing some wicked tunes on the bow-wow flute, but he'd have been called on it. The Orange Roughy meanwhile is in danger of popping her eyeballs out she's blowing so hard but nobody's calling her on it.
  • The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians' web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause "premature unnecessary debate".
  • links for 2010-07-20

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  • A long row of people stand on platform 22 at Central Station, Sydney waiting for the train going around the city circle via St James.
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  • Why the Internet filter issue is just a beatup by IT journos. And that the election will be decided by issues that more Australians connect with.
  • Because some parents do not understand the Internet, Professor Matt Warren thinks that the Internet should be censored for all Australians. Dumb down the Internet to cater for the lowest common denominator.
  • Lots of piles of crashed cars on the set of Transformers 3.
  • The Australian Christian Lobby was briefed one day before Labor's major announcement on delaying its controversial internet filter plan.
  • On how it was possible that the expert would be able to access pages automatically blocked by all Australian ISPs, the spokeswoman said: "The independent expert will have powers to carry out their job." The government is not saying how much the expert will cost taxpayers. (Or how they will deal with checking 10,000 pages individually)
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