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Just one way? Princes Street, Sandy Bay. October 2011.

The Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (and ladies with zebras). The following are some things that I've had a look at in the last few week. I call this: a Compendium of Click-throughs for Monday Morning...

  • The history of turning tyrants from figures of fear into figures of fun...

  • How extreme wealth and absolute poverty have returned to disfigure the West...

  • The trick to creating healthy boys is not that tricky...

  • Bit of trouble? Feeling a bit down? The strange and curious history of lobotomy...

  • Did you know that the Easter Island “heads” have bodies?

  • Shocking news: social protections like income security and access to essential social services are essential for third world development...

  • A surprisingly poignant video of video game deaths over the years. On a personal note, it was great to see to see the grisly decapitation from Barbarian II make the cut...

  • On why there should be more than simple guilt over the calorie count over your chocolate fixation...

  • Frankie Fukuyama stays true to Hegel...
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    Brian Miller said…
    interesting stuff...read the poverty piece..actually it is not surprising...
    14 November 2011 at 11:06
    smudgeon said…
    Like all serious folk of my generation, I flicked through a few articles (Gaddafi dug Condoleezza? Unexpected.) before being fascinated with the computer game deaths. I didn't realise extreme groin-pain was potentially fatal, but I guess it feels like it at the time...
    14 November 2011 at 11:34
    California Girl said…
    I did not know the Easter Island heads have bodies.

    thanks for visiting my blog. Love this photograph. Excellent.
    14 November 2011 at 13:05
    Kris McCracken said…
    Brian, yet we keep making the same mistakes...

    Smudgeon, computer games deaths really are the most tragic kind.

    CG, I never knew either. They were a weird mob, those Easter Islanders.
    18 November 2011 at 14:23
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