Unlike most things they do, I don’t have a problem with that. Curiously though, co-founder Ingrid Newkirk says she got into the whole animal rights movement because she was shocked to find out that some kittens she took to an animal shelter were put down.
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According to Today Tonight, phreaking is a new form of hacking.
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Advance Australia Fair, our national anthem, is not a bad one—it doesn’t mention God or war at all, for example. However, the second verse is rarely used, which is a shame. So, I propose taking the best bits of each verse and making the super-anthem:
Beneath our radiant Southern Cross
We’ll toil with hearts and hands
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare
In history’s page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
With courage let us all combine,
Advance Australia Fair.
This version:
- Does away with the antiquated notions of us being young and girtness
- Keeps the nature’s gifts part, because our plains aren’t completely boundless
- Gets rid of the self-referential line about singing the anthem (and the word ’strains’, which I certainly didn’t understand until I looked it up) and replaces it with the line that usually follows the ‘boundless plains’ couplet
and replaces it with easily the best part of the entire song
“Thanks so much”. They seem to always say that—in an over-sincere (close to patronising) way—after crosses (weather, other reports, etc). It always seems very out-of-place to me.
What were the odds that the voiceover guy on Australia Post’s ‘daily’ ads had a cold when he was doing the recording? You’d think they could have postponed it by a week or something.
I love the name of Stratco’s ‘Good Neighbour’ fences. Deliciously cynical.
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I suppose they really needed to have a slogan to clarify things. It’s a weighty concept.
Have started using del.icio.us. Is good.