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Thursday, 18 August 2011
quote [ Three people have died this summer after suffering rare infections from a waterborne amoeba that destroys the brain. ]
CDC confirms waterborne infections. Cases present in FL, Louisiana and Virginia. The thumb is not a depiction of real events... for now.
[politics] [by nbob@12:56amGMT] [+10 WTF] [25 comments] |
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Monday, 15 August 2011
quote [ Indiana officials Sunday began investigating the collapse of lights and rigging at a concert stage at the state fair Saturday night that killed five and injured more than four dozen. ]
[by nbob@3:44amGMT] [+10 WTF] [64 comments] |
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Saturday, 16 July 2011
quote [ Wasted Youth, Part 1 takes place behind the walls of St. Frosts Academy – a school for slackers, troublemakers and idiots. At first everything seems normal, but soon, children start to go missing… ]
Fun little flash adventure game. Killed a couple of hours.
[by nbob@11:28amGMT] [+1 Underrated] [9 comments] |
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Thursday, 14 April 2011
quote [ Gerald A. Lawson, a largely self-taught engineer who became a pioneer in electronic video entertainment, creating the first home video game system with interchangeable game cartridges, died on Saturday in Mountain View, Calif. He was 70 ]
May God send him off with a gentle breath of air into his coffin.
[games] [by nbob@4:47amGMT] [+10 Informative] [10 comments] |
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011
quote [ There are many couples who share the good, the bad, the hopes, the fears and the trivialities of life in Australia. But some of them cannot get married because the Marriage Act 1961 defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ]
Pictures of Australians who can't marry, because I like going through other people's photos.
[politics] [by nbob@6:42amGMT] [+10 Good] [32 comments] |
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Thursday, 10 February 2011
quote [ Video footage has emerged of a gang of Muslim men beating to death three members of the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia. ]
cont...
Rights groups and the Indonesian government have condemned the killings, but some critics say a three-year-old law banning Ahmadis from spreading their faith incited the violence. [politics] [by nbob@1:56pmGMT] [+3 Informative] [15 comments] |
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010
quote [ South Korea says it has returned fire after North Korea fired around 200 artillery shells at one of its border islands, reportedly killing one marine. ]
And so it begins? First half of the article in extended.
[politics] [by nbob@9:00amGMT] [+10 Informative] [89 comments] |
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Saturday, 5 June 2010
quote [ An astronomer says a bright spiralling light spotted in the sky by people across eastern Australia this morning was probably a satellite, space junk or a rocket. ]
Not as pretty as the one spotted over Norway last year, but probably a similar occurrence
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html [sci&tech] [by nbob@6:23amGMT] [+6 Interesting] [46 comments] |
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Tuesday, 2 March 2010
quote [ LCWO offers a complete CW course, using the Koch method. You start with two letters (K and M) in lesson one, and after each lesson, another letter, figure or prosign is added. ]
Impress the ladies!
[by nbob@6:54amGMT] [+8 Underrated] [19 comments] |
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010
quote [ the stars of the book are the PM’s cat, Jasper, and dog, Abby, who face a race against time - and a battle against preconceptions - to thwart disaster at the Australia Day celebrations at the Lodge. ]
Like he doesn't have more important things to attend to.
Random stuff in extended... [politics] [by nbob@3:07pmGMT] [11 comments] |
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