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Power on at Indy!

October 19th 2007 08:33
indy track
The 17th Lexmark Indy 300 carnival has started and enthusiasts will party on for a whole week in Queensland’s spectacular Gold Coast.

The entertainment will spill out of the racetrack onto the streets with live stage shows featuring fire shows, dancers and percussionists to keep the energy pumping till late.

miss Indy
There will be Gala Balls, celebrity beach volleyball tournaments, flyovers by high tech military aircraft, and of course, the newly crowned Bartercard Miss Indy with 1st and 2nd runners up, presented in traditional cheque swimwear for the popular Pit Walks.

And then there’s the racing. Three days of V8 Utes, Carrerra Cup Porches, V8 Supercars and the main event, the Champ Cars.

power & car
Once again, the hopes of the host nation will rest on Will Power after the Queenslander was taken out in last year’s race.

In 2006, Toowoomba born Will Power finished fastest in qualifying and started the main race from pole position.

Power led the field for the first thirteen laps until Sebastien Bourdais entered turn three with locked brakes and careered into the front left wheel of Power’s Team Australia Lola.

With his steering and bodywork damaged, Power persevered with his stricken carto collect as many championship points as possible.

racing car
His efforts paid dividends with 12th place getting the Australian nine points towards the championship, adding to the two earned in qualifying.

Victory is never certain, but it is certain that it will be a feast of motorsports and madness on the Gold Coast this weekend.

It will wrap up with a wild beach party with drivers, pit crews, sponsors, promotional models, Lexmark Indy 300 staff and the Bartercard Miss Indy Race Team.
celeb party

A night of shoulder rubbing with the who’ s who of the racing world and a chance to farewell the 2007 Lexmark Indy 300 in style.
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It's NOT an oil rig

October 15th 2007 05:59
jack up barge
It looks like an oil drilling rig, but it isn’t. It’s a ‘Jack Up’ Barge which moves into position and then lowers its legs, jacking itself up to 10m above sea level, ensuring it is clear of the high-water mark.

The Self Elevating Platform Barge is 50m long and 25m wide, and is equipped with a 600 tonne crane with a sixty metre boom. Arriving on the Gold Coast in July the barge was imported from South Korea


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Hailstorms Lash SE Queensland

October 12th 2007 09:45
South East Queensland and the NSW North Coast have been lashed by short but intense thunderstorms, accompanied by hail, for four evenings in a row.

The Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and the Gold Coast have all been affected. Hardest hit was Lismore, on the far north coast of NSW. The city was pelted with huge hailstones, causing widespread damage and a few minor injuries. A State of Emergency has been declared to help the City of Lismore recover


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The American Super-Wealthy Elite

July 24th 2007 02:49
Super Rich girl holding money in a red dress
There's a Canadian song from the 90s which goes 'If I had a million dollars...'

Back in the 90s, a cool mil might have gotten you started. Now being a millionaire is so middle-of-the-road that low income families laugh at your predicament


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Usually, I'd turn on my sarcastic, satirical voice and make mocku-fun out of this story.

I'd like to state that we're on the verge of Fear and Insecurity taking over North America, plummeting America into its own devastating Dark Ages. All that's left is Loathing


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Johann Hari, writing for the Indepedant UK, published an astonishing article on AlterNet. She took a cruise sponsored by the National Review for conservatives and the conversatives that are even more conservative than conservatives.

Read the article!
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Pot growers are now terrorists

July 17th 2007 02:48
Black Hawk helicopter
Yes!

We can all breathe safely now, people. We've finally created a totally safe country now. The United States of America has finally come up with a way to deal with those horrible marijuana growers in California. They are now terrorists
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Michael Moore vs. CNN

July 16th 2007 02:58
There's been a lot of stink on the internet - and on normal news! - about the feud between Michael Moore, liberal documentarian, and the undead hordes of CNN.

Michael Moore made a movie called SICKO, which tries to rip off the facade on the American health care system. It stirred up quite a bit of controversy, especially among rich Americans that have good-paying jobs and private health care, as they long to believe that the federal health care system takes care of the workers in their arms factories


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Dick Cheney on the DC Madam list!

July 12th 2007 03:02
No one likes Mr. Cheney anymore. And no one has to... after all, big Dick just made millions on the Iraq war, with all the interests he has in military companies and oil contracts. Naw, he's just chuckling softly to himself as he tries to find someone else to shoot in the face.

He's pretty old, but even old guys can be perverts


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Live Earth produces a lotta greenhouse gases.

It's a concert for the Earth! The Earth is alive! Heyyyyyyaaaaaah! A-booga-booga-booga


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Bottled Water is Bad

July 3rd 2007 02:58
This excellent article in Fast Company illustrates how bad bottled water is for the environment and for our collective social responsibility.

In the past 10 years, bottled water has become a consumer phenomenon, with over $15 billion in sales last year - just in the United States


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chimpanzee
This week's edition of Nature includes a review of Michael Behe's latest book.

Michael Behe? He's the King Leonidas of the Intelligent Design (ID) wargroup, pushing to get ID back in the schools in America


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The Daily Show on Dick Cheney

June 27th 2007 00:22
There's quite a bit of hubbub about Dick Cheney recently, and I'm loathe to read CNN or Fox News and find out what it's all about.

I've said it before, and I'll probably keep saying it, but I find The Daily Show to be a terrific way to get quickly updated on what's happening


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The most massive star

June 7th 2007 23:47
Hubble photo image
From Bad Astronomy, astronomers have found the most massive star known to man - over 114 times the size of the sun.

114? That's it? That's the biggest that the universe can offer? Hell, if I was a clump of nebular matter, I could attract WAY more than a paltry 226 billion billion billion tonnes. Shee... once you do the first billion tons, it's all downhill after that


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They're not just fizzy water... no, soft drinks need preservatives in order to keep the freshness in. Freshness of what? Of that fresh cola taste! Mmmm-mmmm....

The issue is with sodium benzoate, otherwise known as E211... researchers have found that E211 can cause damage to the mitochondria in cells, perhaps linked to a host of diseases


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Residents of Hong Kong are enraged over a dirty, disgusting book trying to get entry onto Cantonese bookshelves. It's filled with rage and sex and fiery infernos. It's got hedonism and war. Murder and betrayal. And it goes by the name of 'The Bible'

838 complaints filed against the Bible!
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I'm a big lover of Open Source Software, and who isn't? The idea is to have quality software that responds to the community - at no cost.

Take cost out of the equation and technology becomes disasterously affordable. Who knows what kind of impact the open source revolution will have on developing countries


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Glycemic Index Database

May 10th 2007 17:35
Maintained by our own Australian-based University of Sydney, this database is the #1 tool for determining the glycemic index (GI) of foods around the world. Also included in the numbers are the results for glycemic load (GL), which are a better measure for how much effect one serving of a particular food will have on your blood sugar.

It's times like these that I'm glad that food scientists are getting to the bottom of things. When I played sports, it was all about the 'big carb' meal before game day. We'd all go out for massive servings of pasta, with the belief that it'd carry us for the next day


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Tim Ferriss is a successful author/lifestyle designer whose rabid enthusiasm for life and living well is careening towards lunacy.

He's got a lot of interesting posts on his blog, but the one that is propagating through the internet is his incredible muscle gain program. He gained 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks, working out only twice a week. Damn


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Pro-alien abduction groups are excited about recent news from European astronomers, who claim to have found an 'Earthlike planet' only 20 light years away from Earth.

Only 20 light years? That's essentially a cosmic bus ride away


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School Shooting at Virginia Tech

April 16th 2007 22:53
The news wires are alive this morning, screaming about the school shootings at Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 33 people before shooting himself in the face.

In fact, there were two separate incidents of gunfire, and the school is coming under pressure because they didn't cancel classes that day


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Jeb Bush
This sounds like a bad caricature of an offensive cartoon.... apparently, the University of Florida voted to NOT grant an honorary degree on Jeb Bush, younger brother of George, and former governor of Florida.

The university decided not to honour Bush since his actions during his iron-fisted reign as Governor were considered detrimental to education in the State


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Blogger Code of Conduct

April 10th 2007 02:32
Code of Conduct People walking
There's an angry wind in the blagosphere, with trolls and anonymous perverts getting up in arms about a draft of a Blogger's Code of Conduct.

A collaboration between Tim O'Reilly, the guy that made up 'Web 2.0' and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the Blogger Code of Conduct is said to replace freedom with politeness, according to BoingBoing.
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Where Evolution is taught in American Schools United States

Those of us that live in Australia often look at the United States with a kind of amused smirk when it comes to the Evolution debate - I know I do.

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What makes a decent field trip?

September 17th 2006 01:06
The joy of a science degree is the countless number of field trips one can go on. In my 2 years of Uni, I have been everywhere from Mud flats to tropical islands, with various subjects, doing various tasks.

No doubt, field trips give a student taste of real work- once we are out of uni and in the real world, what we can actually be doing with our life- collecting samples, travelling around, solving problems in the environment etc. But is this such a good thing


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The right way to wag a lecture

September 13th 2006 04:50
Whats this? A studious person like me would NEVER give you instructions on how to skip those must attend lectures. Whats more, surely not attending the lecture is enough?

Sure, for larger classes where the lecturer doesn't recognise your face, let alone your name, but for smaller more personal classes it becomes very obvious when you don't show up. So, incase you do have a lazy day and require time out from the dreary, mundane voice of the lecturer, here are a few pointers


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The Joy of statistics

September 5th 2006 06:24
My data did everything I wanted it to. perfect. JOY! YAY!

Unfortuntely my friends didn't. After her computer died on her the first time, she moved to my left and tried again, failing, and then redid it so it worked


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Due dates- a suggestion?

September 1st 2006 01:29
One major part of university life, apart from the socialness, is the actual workload. Even I, the ultimate slacker must get her butt into gear occasionally and produce a piece of work, indicating that I know what my degree is about.

An organised student will start their assignments the week they get them, and have it finished long before the due date. I envy these people, with their self-control, dedication and organization


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