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when you've sat in the dirt, surrounded by the cousins,
aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters,
talking language, teaching culture
when you've sung elvis songs together to a busted guitar
while the great emu rises in the sky

when you've shared roo casserole
shot that day
from a cast iron pot over the fire
when you've curled up to sleep by the fire,
a dingo at your back against the wind
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So a friend posted this article from the SMH on rescuing flood-damaged computers and other electronics, which is full of contradictory and downright bad advice (I know! In a Murdoch paper?? I'm as surprised as you are!). Let's try and set the record straight, shall we?

Rainwater and most tap water is fairly benign to electronics; nearly everything electronic is water washed at some stage during its manufacture.

Floodwater? Silty, muddy, possibly contaminated floodwater? Not so much.
( Are you sitting comfortably? )

Dream Sat 070309

It begins as a "story so far" from a previous dream. There's been an attack on a wedding party at a temple complex. I fly (as in superhero fly, not aeroplane fly) over the roof of the complex and see bodies lying everywhere. ( Read more... )

In the context of wide ranging reforms of the Australian Federal Family Law Act, a window seems to have opened for legal recognition of some forms of non-monogamy.

Please excuse the headline and general tone of the article: the Herald Sun is a shameless tabloid rag. But as I was perusing it for lulz over a beer today, the sentence I've bolded below leapt out at me.

Could be beat, could be nerdcore, could be rap, not really sure.

Anyway: ( onwards )

Date:	2008-07-20 23:49
Subject:	Green paper worse than doing nothing
Security:	Public
Mood:	irritated

I'm forming an opinion about the recently proposed emissions trading scheme.

I'm beginning to think that it is far more than merely not good enough: it's a disaster, for both the economy, and the environment, and will have the worst possible outcome for both.

( follow the stupid )

Large, well established warehouse - two double spaces for rent from 1st June, one more from late July. X-posted to melb_artists, melbournemaniac ( Read more... )

Inspiring success story of a village and a couple of NGO workers making biofuel.

Here we were hoping to compete with the big oil producers in the back yard of a small village and using an untried collection of old car parts, old pipes and taps attached to a used chemical container, all put together in an image downloaded from the internet.

Via afrigadget

Yes folks, I have a new job. I'm now the "Internet Sales Co-ordinator" at Computerbank Victoria

What does this mean? It means I rummage through piles of odd IT and multimedia gear, research specifications online, and then list them on ebay. For a day a week of this and a couple of hours from home, they pay me $23.50 an hour.

And as God is my witness, I'll never go dishpigging again.

w00t!

Nipple ring search procedures faulty, TSA admits

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration said Friday its officers at a Texas airport appear to have properly followed procedures when they allegedly forced a woman to remove her nipple rings -- one with pliers -- but acknowledged the procedures should be changed.

OK, sorry for the ultra-creepy killbot just now. To remedy, here's the cyyyyuuuutest robot ever - the little Yellow Drum Machine.



The image will take you to the video. For the full story click here.

Here's Robert Henke of Monolake fame demoing his custom, hand-built MIDI control surface for performing live in, well, Live. It's a 90 minute video, so I'll just post a link that you can peruse at your leisure.

Meanwhile DON'T LOOK AT THE SCARY ROBOT

We just finished a marathon Six Feet Under session - seasons 4 and 5. I'm exhausted and disturbed. That was hard work!

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Awesome car videos at Car-Videos.Biz

Now, Little Mu knew that the woppleberry tree grew only in the deepest, darkest, spookiest part of the forest. Nevertheless, once every blue moon (and only then) she bravely made her way over rocks and slippery slopes, logs and leaves, all the way up the creek bed.

Darker and more tangled grew the forest, and the sounds of rushing water and swishing leaves grew louder and louder, until there it was, towering above her, the only woppleberry tree in all the land.

She climbed up the tree-trunk, and made her way out to the very ends of the branches. One by one she inspected the woppleberries, until she found the juiciest, plumpest ripest one there was. Carefully she lifted it onto her back, and down the trunk she went, down the creek bed, over rocks and slippery slopes, logs and leaves, until she reached her home.

She bit into the woppleberry, and the juice ran down her face. The flesh was the colour of coconut meat, and it tasted a little like strawberries, and a little like mangos, with tiny dark flecks like poppy seeds. She ate and ate and ate until she felt like a big juicy berry herself.

And even though Little Mu (being so little) knew that she could only carry one woppleberry home with her, and only on a blue moon, she knew that it was the juiciest, plumpest, ripest one there was.

And so she rested, full and happy.

via pixiewitch

+ Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
+ Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
+ Post them here for everyone to guess.
+ Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
+ NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

The list is beyond ... ( Read more... )

In other news... I quit my completely sucky low-paid job last week. Aaaahhhhh :-)