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Via The Presurfer

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Tripe Soup has been out of action for a while as my imac g5 has been repaired. The whole midplane of the computer had to be replaced as it was suffering from bulging capacitors.According to this Wikpedia article Capacitor PlagueThe primary cause of these problems is industrial espionage gone wrong, with some Taiwanese electrolyte manufacturers using a stolen formula that was incomplete, and

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On the Subject of Railways and all things related, The British Transport Police have a small Rogues Gallery which contain some fascinating Mugshots. The scant details of their crimes and convictions are tinged with pathos and irony.John Yates (above) who got six months with hard labour for stealing a parcel, was lucky he didn't get life for the worlds worst combover.

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A post by Boynton lead me to London and North western Railway Telephone Directory, 1915. Making a telephone call must have been stressful for Railway employees if these instructions are any guide.TO MAKE A CALL ON TRUNK LINE.Insert the telephone plug in jack. If busy back buzzer sounds a private message is passing on the line and the plug must be immediately withdrawn.If when the telephone plug

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Eastern State Penitentiary Photographer: Jake Dobkin at Bluejake Licensed under a Creative Commons LicenseThis evening ABC Radios PM aired a Current Affairs Special on Eastern State Penitentiary a former American Prison that become a Model for hundreds of Prisons around the world, including Melbourne's Pentridge Prison.Built in Philadelphia in 1829, the prison was seen as revolutionary as it

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The UK Government National Archives have released the Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks from World War Two. These notes give a few brief snippets about the views of Churchill and his war cabinet to events of WWII.Here are excerpts from a meeting on the 15th June 1942, discussing reprisals for German Massacre of a Czechoslovakian Village: P.M. Conversation with Benes about possibility of reprisal for

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The Parrot has written an epitath for Kerry Packer that he justly deserves in this article in the Australian. Full of strange mixed metaphors;A giant oak tree crashed in the Australian forest of great people with the passing of Kerry Packer.Jones praises Packer for his generous, unselfish and inspiring spirit , and of course what Australian couldn't admire the heroic efforts of our richest

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A German Flickr contact Elizabeth alerted me to the work of August Sander who assigned himself to make a photographic portrait of the German people in the 1920's and 1930's. Sander Documents a wide range of people found in German Society of the period, there are portraits of Nazis, Industrialists, well known Artists, Peasants, Blue collar workers and the marginalised as in the image

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Bound for Glory: America in Color is an exhibition of early Kodachrome images taken by photographers employed by a US government agency to document the ravages of the Depression on Americas rural population.via Barista
Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the New Mexico Fair. Photographer: Russell LeeA collection of Black and white images of the great depression in America can be found at

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After a long break from blogging, I am thinking of reactivating tripe soup, a sort of early new years resolution. I have recently become interested in photography so Tripe Soup will be a partial photoblog.Number 2The wall of a fibro shack in a strange little street near where I live. Larger size can be found here

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from here via Barista

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Loved this story about the Government of Venezuela handing out a million free copies of Don Quixote to mark the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's novel.

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In the spirit of relativism or any of the other "isms" not approved of by the new Pope, I tried this Quiz "We reject the false doctrine that the church could have permission to hand over the form of its message and of its order to whatever it itself might wish or to the vicissitudes of the prevailing ideological and political convictions of the day."You are Karl Barth!You like your freedom, and

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An Australian woman Cornelia Rau has spent the last 10 months locked up in the Baxter immigration detention centre. Ms Rau, a former Qantas flight attendant, is mentally ill and spent the last few months in Baxter in isolation. A spokesperson for the immigration department stated that; "At no time did she state she was a permanent (Australian) citizen." Here is a post at Baxter watch lifted

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A very sad family story here. Even sadder is some of the sick comments attached to another account of the same story.

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The British media was having a great time analysing some doodles on a scrap of paper supposedly produced by Tony Blair at the International Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Mirror called forth a psychologist who after studying the doodles says the loopy letters and boxed-up issues are the tell-tale signs that our leader is a bit of daydreamer hoping for the best. The Times not only

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Mamdouh Habib, finally released from Guantamo Bay, has returned to Australia. This hasn't stopped Ruddock and Downer from persistantly proclaiming Habibs guilt, even though he was never charged or convicted of any crime. This evening I heard Ruddock state that Habib had prior knowledge of the 911 attack, is it believable that the Americans would have ever let Habib go if they believed this to be

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Kim Beazley has come out with a new vision for Australia, which looks a hell of a lot like his old vision for Australia. There was no need for Peter Costello to state that: "But if he can come to terms, I think, with the mistakes of Labor's past, if he can strike out on a new direction, especially in economic policy and support what the Government is doing, then I think he'll make a new start."

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The Proceedings of the old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. via The Head Heeb

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Is this the end of the ipod as a cult fashion icon Bush prepares his iPod before a bicycle ride at a secure location earlier Condoleezza wants to be in the next ipod silhouette ad but George won't let her More images at A Private View of the President via Presurfer

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Early last december the Thai government dropped millions of paper origami birds, containing peace messages written by ordinary Thais, over the countries Muslim South. This was a response by the Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after recent fighting between local muslims and Government forces had resulted in the deaths of hundreds. A slick political stunt by Thaksin which probably went down

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The story of the week ( Bush inaugaration, Lathams resignation and landing on Titan not withstanding) has to be the attack by Dr James Dobson, founder of Christian Right Group Focus on the Family, on SpongeBob SquarePants, a children's cartoon character. Dr Dobson accused SpongeBob's creators of enlisting him in a "pro-homosexual video" in which he appeared alongside fellow children's television

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Robin Cook has written a critic in the Guardian of Bush's inaugral speech . Reading the transcript of Bush's speech I was disturbed by the Messianic quality of his words: By our efforts we have lit a fire as well, a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power; it burns those who fight its progress. And one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our

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While searching for something unrelated found this photo album of Italian troops occupying Albania during the period 1939-1940. The soldiers portrayed in these images almost look as if they are on holidays, with no sense of the disaster that the Balkans was to become for the Italian Army. Since I can't speak Italian I used google to translate this page which resulted in a rather poetic

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Fascinating background piece on Iyad Allawi, the interim Prime minister of Iraq by Jon Lee Anderson in The New Yorker. This article gives some insight into Allawis somewhat suspect past and reveals disturbing qualities in the man who could be the future leader of Iraq. Of particular interest was an account of a meeting between Allawi and Sunni leaders as can be seen in this discussion between

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Interesting French doco on SBS the other night about the popularity of books advocating conspiracy theories regarding 911. One of these books L'Effroyable Imposture or The Horrifying Fraud ,by the French Author Thierry Meyssan, topped the French best seller lists in 2002 . The Documentary outlined how Meyssan promoted his conspiracy theory on the internet before publishing his book. One of the

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After a dificult day at work I walked home through the parklands and it was nice to see that some public spirited person had been making these ugly posters more attractive.

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The Melbourne press seems to have written Port off in tomorrows grandfinal, assuming that the club would be happy to make the grandfinal. They just don't understand that the whole history and culture of our club is that we expect nothing less than victory. If Brisbane can include Fitzroys VFL history in its ALF stats why can't the Power use these stats: THE PORT FILE Port Adelaide in the SANFL

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A couple of my workmates who are encamped in the Oxford Scholar Hotel turned up on the front page of todays Age . When I downloaded the above photo from the Age I noticed the photographer had titled this image wportdrunks, which is probably a fair description. Hope you enjoy the game Darren and don't break the other ankle. I hope Port can get over the top of Brisbane tomorrow and at least Choco

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Saturdays Age had a snippet from the editorial of the Glasgow Daily Record who has been arrested in South Africa for his alleged involvment with a mercenary group involved with an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. This editorial shows the loathing left over from the Thatcher years Don't even think of shedding a tear for Mark, sorry, Sir Mark Thatcher. This waste of space would be even more

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recieved an email from Chris Strolin from OEDILF which has left the Wordcraft site and and set up as oedilf.com. Chris points out that; Due to a legal wrangle from the Oxford University Press legal department, "OEDILF" now stands for "Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form." Our goal is now to create a limerick for each and every word in the English language and not just those covered

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The proposed purchase of cruise missiles for the australian airforce has not only pissed off some of our neighbours, but highlights concerns that Australia is making defence purchases that are suitable for our armed forces to integrate with the American military in a large scale conflicts such as between the Koreas or Taiwan and China. We have even upset an old ally on the other side of the

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Perhaps the American and Iraq provisional government should have taken note of the myth of the Hydra Lernaia that was presented at the Athens opening ceremony. “The second Labour which he [Herakles] undertook was the slaying of the Lernaian Hydra, springing from whose single body were fashioned a hundred necks, each bearing the head of a serpent. And when one head was cut off, the place where

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One day into the Olympics and its fascinating to see the hype being churned out. An example being this piece in The Canberra Times by Doug Conway who writes; ATHENS: The country where the Olympics were born and reborn reclaimed the Games early this morning from the country that saved them. No-one does history better than the Greeks. Doug then goes on to point out that; The host city's most

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While their are ongoing investigations into mistreatment of prisoners by American and now British troops, I came apon this story in katu.com2 about Oregan National Gaurd members serving in Iraq who tried to intervene to stop abuse of Iraq prisoners by Iraq police. While on the subject of Iraq the interim government has closed the Baghdad bureau of Al-Jazeera. Evidently the Ministry of the

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The High Court in a 4-3 finding upheld the Federal Governments right to indefinitely detain failed asylum seekers that have no other place to go. While this decision related to two asylum seekers, stateless Palestinian Ahmed al-Kateb and Iraqi Abbas al Khafaji, there are 13 other asylum seekers who may be affected by this decision. This ruling overturns previous Federal court rulings which

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As the Olympic juggernaut is about to overwhelm us, here is an amusing account of the 1904 St Louis Summer olympics. The Marathon was a particular balls up with the initial winner being disqualified for hitching a lift. The eventual winner was a Thomas Hicks (pictured above) who finished the race in some distress: It seems that Hicks had begged to lie down about ten miles from the finish line.

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Jim Kunstler is an avid commentator on american architecture and society as seen in his Eyesore of the Month:Architectural blunders in a monthly serial Kunstlers writing can be quite biting as can be seen in his view of the above Ontario Art School a totemized retro-futuroid coffee table joined umbilically to its Soviet-style predecessor below. The message, apparently: art and design are

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A fascinating story via Dogfight at Bankstown through Pharyngula about the terror a woman felt when travelling on a US domestic flight with fourteen Syrian musicians. These musicians were a scary lot, one had a orthopedic shoe and another was carrying a McDonalds bag, and they made frequent trips to the toilet. This xenophobia shown towards arabic people has become commonplace since 911 as can

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Barista has a post about the conviction of Martha Stewart and then there was the sad story about the arrest of Bobby Fischer, another unlikable american. Well do I remember when Bobby took on russian world chess champion Boris Spassky in 1972 at the height of the cold war. This spurred a chess craze at my school, just as Nixons visit to China introduced ping pong as a popular pastime. Even

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Due to changes to Blogger have had to move from Mac's Safari Browser to Mozilla's Firefox. At least don't have to use Explorer.

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If there is any truth in this Paul McGeough article in the SMH then the shit will really hit the fan: Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.

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A fun little site by Sirius, live from Epping Forest, Manzill World is a great read and a good way to flog a few t shirts. Watch out for the Mistle Thrush. via Sedgwick Photos by underbunny an undertaker at flickr the photo hosting site. Seems Underbunny and I share a literary interest in Mervyn Peake. via Barista

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searched for entries under tripe in soup tales and found these lines by Sassoon: But as he stamped and shivered in the rain, My stale philosophies had served him well; Dreaming about his girl had sent his brain Blanker than ever--she'd no place in Hell.... 'Good God!' he laughed, and slowly filled his pipe, Wondering 'why he always talked such tripe'. Siegfried Sassoon in A Subaltern Siegfried

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I'm not a big fan of BIg Brother and found the following quote, in Soup tales, by the social critic Robert Putnam discussing the trend in voyeur television: "None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick."

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The recent gaffe by the Murdoch owned New York Post when it broke the story that Dick Gephardt would be John Kerry's running mate, only to find the following day that it was to be Edwards. May have only been an embarrassment for this Murdoch rag well known for its comic book style. However another Murdoch rag the Sun (UK) has recently reinforced a gaffe from 15 years ago which has cost a lot of

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Also in todays Age a nicer story about a refugees reunion with his cat.

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In The Age Tony Parkinson in his column entitled Time will come again to let slip dogs of war writes that The growing number of nations pursuing a nuclear weapons program means a pre-emptive military strike such as that in Iraq is inevitable. In a sneaky bit of hack journalism Parkinson spends half his column discussing remarks by Mohhamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic

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Dublin Dictionary: A dictionary of Dublin words and terms. Since a lot of these terms are sent in by readers, don't be surprised if some of these terms are just as likely to be in use other english speaking countries. The Irish Travellers get a mention in this dictionary with entries such as Knackers, Jolliers and Nacaragua all terms which show their marginalisation in Irish society. Another

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Mick Fealty's site Slugger O'Tool, looks at various strands of political aspects of life in Northern Ireland. Reading the extensive comments in some of the posts, such as this one on an Orange Order parade which went past a nationalist area, is fascinating. I suggest drinking a few pints of Guinness while doing so as they can be a long read. Liked this quote I saw in the comments by hurdy

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A link to spoons at Boynton revived a childhood memory of the eerie sound of the saw Other unusual, ethnic or experimental musical instruments can be found at Oddmusic.com Listen to the Tsabouna a traditional greek bagpipe that has an ancient history, or the Hang which reminds me of a musical wok. Benjamin Franklin invented the Glass Armonica in 1761 and Mozart composed two works for it.

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Dedicated to Romani (Gypsy) culture and history and to extending awareness of the continuous Roma struggle to achieve and maintain dignity and freedom. Patrin is a learning resource and information centre about Romani culture, social issues, and current events. Photos of the Rrom people at the site of Photographer Yves Leresche. While the various tribes of the Rrom originated from India there

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The Nixons share a laugh with Chou En-lai More photos of Pat and Dick on their historic visit to China in 1972 can be found at the Ollie Atkins Photograph Collection

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The Rare Books Collection at the National Library of Scotland has Provided an online resource of broadsides (broadsheets) or How Ordinary Scots in bygone days found out what was happening called The Word on the Street. You can browse through this collection of nearly 1800 broadsheets under various subject headings here. Read about Burke and Hare", the Irish bodysnatchers and murders, and verse

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As the election draws near the weighty political issues of our time come to the fore. Hence this discusion about flagpoles at Back Pages and then the revival of the Fridge magnet be alert but not alarmed campaign. My last Fridge magnet was accidently thrown in the bin so I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of its replacement. For as the Prime Minister has stated we all have to ensure that this

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Time for a bit of nostalgia from the late 70's when a friend at work told me that the Bard of Salford John Cooper Clark, was still performing. I have reproduced the the lyrics of my favourite JCC work Beasley street below since the text of the song at the JCC site is almost unreadable. I don't know if the image below is the actual Beasley street in Manchester, but it was the only one I could

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Wordcraft a community of linguaphiles has started this epic project, to produce a version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in limerick form (OEDILF). The OEDILF project has only started words beginning with a at the moment, below are three limericks in the words beginning with ad contributed by Bob Hale With tap dancing a problem is posed Ditto with picking his nose He cannot wear rings

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The Prime Minister, well known impersonator of Max Gilles (pictured above) and fawning admirer of the late Don Brademan, after calling Muttiah Muralitharan a chucker, got a right old bollocking in this article by Christian Ryan. In the first paragraph Ryan manages to use two of Howards obsessions (Ming and cricket) against him; Sir Robert Menzies, among his many good turns for Australian cricket

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Boynton had this fascinating link to an image of Myrtle Foster batting. A feature of this image was the unusual bat. The Worcestershire Women's Cricket site has a brief history of woman's cricket and this following image. It seems Woman's Cricket, along with slaughtering some of the local fauna, was quite popular in some parts of Britain among the leisured classes. From the middle 18th century

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Have linked to Hemlock's Diary "The ravings of Hong Kong's most unpleasant and obnoxious expat". The author of this blog sees himself as a modern day Samuel Pepys, but I'm sure Pepys for all his faults was a much more likable personality. However I have to admit reading the extensive diary of this malevolent misogynist was fascinating. Even If you can't stomach his writing he does have some

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Washington Professor of psychiatry Dr. Justin Frank has written a soon to be published book titled Bush on the Couch:Inside the Mind of the President In this publicity blurb for the book from HarperCollins its claimed that Frank explores: Bush's false sense of omnipotence, instilled within him during childhood and emboldened by his deep investment in fundamentalist religion The president's

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from Nicaraguan Murals via Central America and Beyond through mango latte. David Holidays Central America and Beyond has a number of post discussing Reagan, especially the effect his presidency had on Central America. Also some Reagan Quotes from Brainyquote Well, I learned a lot... I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all

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Double-Tongued Word Wrester records words as they enter and leave the English language. It focuses upon slang, jargon, and other niche categories which include new, foreign, hybrid, archaic, obsolete, and rare words. Verwaltungsvereinfachungsmassnahmen is probably a useful term if you live in Europe, and yes there is a difference between the meaning of dub and dub-dub via The Presurfer

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Caught somewhere between trying to impersonate Winston Churchill and a Lemming over Britains involvment in Iraq Tony Blair returned from Reagans funeral to find that labour had lost nearly 500 seats in Council elections. The PM, who has been at Ronald Reagan's funeral, urged Labour MPs to hold their nerve amid the anti-war "protest" vote. It was a difficult time and "lessons had to be learned"

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The ABC science show Catalyst aired a story about Sébastien Murat training to break the free diving record. While I usually find Extreme sports boring and rather silly, there is something about what Sébastien Murat does that transcendes all that. Sébastien Murat known as “The Human Sub” attempts to break the world record for extreme human breath-hold diving, made famous by the feature film ‘

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Thanks to Dogfight at Bankstown (another Adelaide based Blogger) and the Perth based Spiceblog for Linking to Tripe Soup. Have included both these blogs in my links column. Due to the improved changes in Blogger comments are now enabled.

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After being held for two and half years in Guantanomo Bay, Adelaide man David Hicks was finally charged by US authorities. As can be seen in this ABC Transcript, at least two of the three charges against Hicks look somewhat Dodgy. Here is a site advocating a Fair Go For David Hicks

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Watched the Jim Lehrer Newshour on SBS this evening and it was fascinating to watch US Attorney General John Ashcroft getting a grilling from the Senate Judiciary Committee about allegations of a memo that suggests the President is not bound by International treaties prohibiting the torture of prisoners. A transcript of the program can be found here. Juan Cole points out that; A Republican

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Today the Transit of Venus occurred. Not much to look at I'm afraid. This Melbourne Observatory site is worth a look, has information about the 18th and 19th Century Transits of Venus. The Airy Transit of Venus Simulator is not as erotic as it sounds.

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Ronald Reagan former Actor and US President died today, probably reached the high point of his career with this. Sadly missed by his family and the Iron Lady who once wrote about Reagan that he "did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions." A quote which is probably better applied

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The rift between the French and the White House seems to be over with Bush now saying that Chirac is now welcome to visit his Ranch. What the rabid anti Arab/French contributors to this site will make of all this is yet to be seen.

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Today Tonight finally got to air its story on Trish Draper. The limits of her relationship with Derek Sands don't seem match with the line the government are pushing on the requirments for a funded spouse. There is more about Derek Sands and the Trish Draper affair at Crikey who has quite a bit to say on the subject.

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Thaks to Evilurl I now have an evil Url http://evilurl.com/URINEkillBUSHdie which points to http://andyfarnsworth.blogspot.com/ via Idletype

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Full page Ad in The Australian today featuring the Senate candidates for Citizens Electoral Council. This weird organisation has strong links with the very disturbing Facist Lyndon LaRouche and his bizarre blend of extreme right and left wing conspiracy theories. More about LaRouche here.

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Your belonging in The Mysteries of Udolpho is quiteevident; a world of intrigue, melancholy,sublimity and terror. You belong where thereare danger, gloomy edifices, and evil Italianguardians. Your passion for the passion of theMediterranean, the divine contemplation ofnature, and for adventure stories, makes you aprime contender for a spot in a gothic romance. Which Classic Novel do You Belong

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Finally after a long dry spell we are getting some rain tonight. After bit of Googling I discovered the consequences of a Rainy Day in Adelaide. "It was a rainy day and there was no rabbit shooting", he said. "The old-fashioned remedy for irresponsible vandalism was a good sound whipping," Mr. Scales replied. He adjourned the case for a week so that the boys could each be given eight strokes of

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You're The Guns of August! by Barbara Tuchman Though you're interested in war, what you really want to know is what causes war. You're out to expose imperialism, militarism, and nationalism for what they really are. Nevertheless, you're always living in the past and have a hard time dealing with what's going on today. You're also far more focused on Europe than anywhere else in the world. A

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Am subscribing to Bitterlemons a website that presents Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on prominent issues of concern. It focuses on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and peace process. A related sight is bitterlemons-international which covers issues relating to the entier middle east region.

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Bifurcated Rivets described this site as Extra-specially weird. After having a detailed look I thought it was not only sad but just a bit frightening.

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A history of movable books explores the genre of the 'popup' or movable book.  via Things   

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Danish architect Jan Gehl, a guest on Late Night Live, suggested that Australia could change its Flag (as illustrated) as Australian Mary Donaldson is to marry Crown Prince Frederik. A better looking Royal couple than Charles and Camilla although I was intrigued by one of the Crown Prince's Titles, the Knight of the Order of the Elephant. However a more suitable couple has been travelling

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Apothecary's Drawer has some links based on popular Victorian fiction. Paul Guinan's History of Robots in the Victorian Era is a fascinating site worth exploring. Also has other links about literary characters from this period.

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Some of my work mates were grieving and/or angry about the untimely death of the South Australian Cricketing Great David Hookes. Hookes aggressive batting made him a sporting icon in South Australia and he will be sorely missed. Interestingly I saw in todays Advertiser that he was born in Mile End where I presently live.

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You are Sylvia Plath - a fiery bombshell with akeen wit, and a gift for lyric poetry. Youwill forever alter the literary canon with yourmind bending imagery, your sardonic wit, andthe mythology you build around yourself. Youare a voice to be reckoned with. Which Dead Poet Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

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We do not know where this journey will end. Yet we know this: Human beings are headed into the cosmos. PRESIDENT George W Bush People tell me the cosmos is near where the Grecians are. The details of George's vision look a little dubious: The proposed funding for the new exploration initiative will total $12 billion over the next five years, with much of it coming from reallocation of $11

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Speaking to British troops in Iraq Tony Blair said: Brutal and repressive states who because of their brutality or because they don't have the support of their people are developing weapons of distraction and destruction on a massive scale. via Radio National

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Thanks to Richard (at work) for pointing out this site of oral poet Benjamin Zephaniah. I like this one. Wot a Pair (not published in book form) "I waz walking down Wye front street When me trousers ran away, I waz feeling incomplete But still me trousers would not stay, When I found where they had gone De pair addressed me rather blunt, And they told me they were sick of being put on Back to

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The obsession with National Security in the United States has reached new heights of the ridiculous with Fish and Almanacs becoming targets for the forces fighting the evils of terror. (via Presurfer) While intently watching for suspicious behaviour such as travellers with maps, authorities failed to notice that Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy had crossed the border from those degenerate

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My link to Salam Pax and his co-blogger Raed now seems to take you to a Printer supply company in Argentina. Very weird? Update Have now found site with whole family: mother: fayza, sons: raed, khaled and majed writing down their diaries. Father: azzam is not interested.

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Leslie Harpold's Advent Calendar. 25 fun filled Days with surprises

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The other night Radio National had Philip Adams interviewing Daniel Ellsberg about his book Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg made some interesting comparisons between the war in Vietnam and the present conflict in Iraq. Phillip Adams seems to be the number one enemy of the many of Right Wing Australian Blogs on the net. Most of their readers seem to be Septic Tanks

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An estimated 35,000 people in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have been declared dead, by unscrupulous relatives, in order to steal their property. Transparency International via The Man in Blue and more on the living dead "I'm here. I'm alive," Lal Bihari told revenue officials after discovering he was listed as deceased in 1976. "That may be so," an unruffled clerk replied, "but according to

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Had one of our first hot days this summer, and I haven't acclimatised yet. Fortunately a cool change is coming tonight. Found this strange little archive of machine translated text when I googled term Hot Adelaide: When me this thought came, I was even before the carpet seaweeds, which zierte at that time each backyard and thus also our meadow, because she had the function of a backyard, in

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Have put togethor a new blog with iblog. the blog is called Zenith Blue (see sidebar)

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Extracts from the Odd spot column of The Age. Tuesday November 18, 2003 A man's year-old corpse hung for nearly a day in Budapest's Arts University after builders and students mistook it for a modern sculpture. The man hanged himself a year ago but was found only after the closed building was reopened for repairs. Saturday November 15, 2003 Nazi saboteurs plotted to blow up Buckingham Palace

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This is my very first Post. I thought Tripe Soup was a suitable title for a blog and was inspired by my desire to return to Turkey where Tripe Soup (işkender çorbasi) is very popular with the locals.

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