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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Oh Henry, what big EYES you have!

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

There is no there's no old piano playin' hot. As far as we could tell, there are no people laughing a lot. We most definitely did not see any eyeballs peepin' through smoky clouds. Oh, wait a sec'. Oh, it's a YELLOW door.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

A shed. Iveresk Railyards, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. Launceston. February 2012. There's nothin' short of dyin', half as lonesome as the sound, on the sleepin' city sidewalks: Sunday mornin' comin' down. Comin' down from all day stuck in the garden landscaping the bugger, that is. 38 degrees Celsius. I've obviously offended someone in a past life... Which leads me to today's Sunday Top Five: My Top Five People Named Henry! Henry [Fitzgerald] McCracken . You might know this bloke... Henry [Joy] McCracken . Not to be confused with that [above] bloke... Henry David Thoreau . Civil disobedience bloke... Henry Every . King of Pirates bloke... Henry Miller . Pervert bloke in Paris...

When a government spends, its citizens eventually pay, either today or tomorrow...

The Blacksmith Shop. Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Inveresk. February 2012. Here, amidst the array of forges, hammers, furnaces and the earthen floor, it becomes possible to comprehend the raw energy and forces of the Industrial Revolution. A walkway guides you through this unique experience with the voices of workers and sounds of machinery. Combine this with the WhistleStop Tour where you'll see a blacksmith at work with furnace fired and machinery powering and this unique experience becomes one of sight, sound and smell. The Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (as well as dancing hamsters.) The following are some things that I've had a look at in the last week. I call this: a Compendium of Click-throughs for Monday Morning ... Mapping global stereotypes... Are we surprised that Welthauptstadt Germania ['World Capital Germania'] - Hitler's wildly ambitious plan for a postwar rebuilding of Berlin - di...