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following on from Nab’s post…

another Good Thing is the people we have come into contact with via the medium of keyboard and cathode ray tube… here are some personal sites you may already know, or maybe not…

I don’t know much about art…

Like most SPs, I’m not too keen on the Empire’s blunderings. But in the interests of equal time, we should acknowledge that getting rid of Saddam was a Good Thing. Here’s a lovely little tale that illustrates this.

“Say hello to my lil’ fren”

No, I’m not quite sure why I posted this either.

Maybe it’s funny animals day or something.

Oh well, caption contest anyone?

Antique Fishing Tackle

A very rare mounted Tunny (Blue Fin Tuna) head, mounted onto an oak shield wall plaque with applied oval legend plaque “763lb Tunny Killed on September 10th 1933 by George Barker 25 miles off Scarborough after 4hours 55mins, Winning Paul Latham Trophy and Hardy Cup for Best Fish of the Year on Rod and 54 Thread Line”, 44in high…

Gold-Money

This might be worth a go with part of your puny cash, punks!

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I used to believe that a return to the gold standard was necessary to curb government abuse of currencies, but I have come to think that all we really need is the freedom to choose our own currencies. In a free market, those of us who believe that gold is a superior currency to fiat money could open accounts with e-gold (e-gold.com) or Gold Money (goldmoney.com), for example, and manage our affairs as we see fit. The establishment of gold-backed, electronic currencies such as these is definitely the first step in the right direction, although the gold-money industry is still in its infancy.

Paul van Eeden — March 26, 2004

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White Man Speaks with Forked Tongue

Recent Anti Terrorism and Defence Exercises on Oil and Gas installations in the TIMOR GAP betray Australian priorities in the region.

What I am getting at here is that Western Governments are acting more and more like Corporations & Racketeers i.e. they are running
‘Hidden Agendas’.

When found out the stock answer is that they are/were acting in
‘The National Interest’.

Hidden Agendas, however, have a fatal side effect. They foster fear and mistrust, to which our neighbors often attest.

The President vs David Hicks

Great Moments In Aviation, Pt VI

“Was it good for you too?”

Handy Ice Tray from Ikea

Who woulda thunk it? Those lovely Ikea people have made the perfect shaped ice cube for a…

The corporation as the psycopath

I just had a very entertaining interview with a really interesting company in Bristol. Naturally, I made one or two errors and rubbed my interviewers up the wrong way at moments; I do this sometimes, and must learn small talk and the retention of my more stupid comments. One day.

One of the areas in which I feel I caused friction was when I outlined my intense desire to avoid big companies, corporations, and evil babylonian lobbying blood-sucking profit obssessed pseudo-decent capitalist institutions. I have found that companies have variable thresholds beyond which reasonableness and honour and decency cannot exist, as the lumbering beast must be fed and ‘rational’ capitalist decisions must be made… I should have shut my mouth. For a change.

My interviewer astutely asked what I would do when this particular company became ‘big’. Good question. I am cornered. I like him. I fall into his perfectly timed heffalump trap.

Great Moments In Aviation, Pt V

BUGGER!

Life in the local paper

Bush turns his back on gays

Bush Allows Gays to Be Fired for Being Gay

Despite President Bush’s pledge that homosexuals “ought to have the same rights” ¹ as all other people, his Administration this week ruled that homosexuals can now be fired from the federal workforce because of their sexual orientation.