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It is that time of the year again when Australia plays Ireland in an International Rules two game series in a hybrid game made up of partly the Irish Gaelic football and partly Australian Rules Football. From what I can tell, there isn't much from Australian Rules football involved in the hybrid game ( Read more... )

The other night I saw an advertisement by the Australian Childhood Foundation which is seeking to raise awareness to a problem which seems to be a growing epidemic in western civilisations and that is child abuse. The ad has the NIN song "Hurt" in the background, the Johnny Cash version and I found it to be quite moving although the ad isn't ( Read more... )

My sister sent me this today, I liked it so thought I would share it. :P ( Read more... )

I was reading that the FIFA world ranking system is heavily flawed and saw mention of the ELO World Ranking system which has become more of an accepted standard which seems to more accurately reflect a side's true ranking ( Read more... )

Wooo! Our first World Cup in 32 years, never scored in the World Cup before ( Read more... )

World Cup starts this weekend, I am pretty excided about it given the last WC Australia qualified for was 32 years ago, happened to be in Germany for that one back then aswell ( Read more... )

For those that didn't hang around until after the credits, there is a really brief scene where you see a guy laying in bed, you do not see his face, but in Professor Charles Xavier's voice you hear him say hello (used her name but forgot it ( Read more... )

Today our government repaid the last of $96 billion borrowed in terms of foreign government debt, the country now has no more government borrowed debt and are making a sizable surplus each year thanks to our draconian taxation system ( Read more... )

My ISP is no longer offering the plan I have been on for the last eight odd months but has offered to put me on their ADSL2+ plan for the same price as my current plan. The new plan will boost my speed to 24,000kbps, my current ADSL is 1,500kbps ( Read more... )