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barnaby joyce
The Opposition Finance Spokesman is inarticulate and dishonest. He recently wrote an article about what he claims is the government's "massive debt burden", using this graph:
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last night, after christmas, i got home in the early evening. later i wanted dinner, but i only had pasta and was sick of making pasta. so i went out. nothing was open - it being christmas - except for a kebab shop - i bought a chicken burger and a lamb pide ( Read more... ) -
Thoughtfully Planned Communities
Today I got a little lost on the way home, and ended up walking through/around a place called The Domain. Added 45 minutes to my journey, but that's not the point. The Point is The Domain. It was a... development, a complex - a "mall" made up of a simulated "downtown" (sidewalks extending only between shops, of course); a restaurant district ( ( Read more... ) -
everyone's an expert
Come on, listen to yourselves! "Oh, the Iranian election seems dodgy to me"?? You didn't know there was an election until a week ago. You don't know how the Iranian system of government works, the historical reasons behind it, or any of the positions of the candidates!
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RIPLEY
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Writer's Block: Space Wars
Dark City is very good, Forbidden Planet, Dune; Starship Troopers is good except that everyone misinterprets it. I used to like 2001 but it seems kind of pathetic compared to Solaris, now that I've seen/read that.
in TV, Babylon 5 was ok, so was Star Trek: The Next Generation at times, Blake's Seven is a better version of it, and like the first ( Read more... ) -
why is docky part of gnome-do?
they're both good pieces of software, but they just aren't related ;_;
they benefit from common functions for dynamic process and file discovery, but that's what libraries and system caches like Tracker are for. in terms of user interface, being integrated into each other hurts both (mostly Docky, which is the better of the two). -
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the telltale Wallace & Gromit games are fun :)
