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Jul 5 ’09
"The Ushers brewery in the Wiltshire town of Trowbridge used to produce award-winning traditional British real ales. After an extraordinary journey, it's now being used to brew a beer dubbed the 'Pride of Pyongyang'."

Jul 5 ’09
julyshewillfly: allandonly: Finally. I’ll wait until full details are released before I get full-on excited, but this is a long overdue and welcome development. Now I’m just waiting on you, Wonder Years.

julyshewillfly:

allandonly: Finally.

I’ll wait until full details are released before I get full-on excited, but this is a long overdue and welcome development. Now I’m just waiting on you, Wonder Years.

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Jul 5 ’09

oomb:

I don’t know if it’s possible to express the feelings of nostalgia and giddy expectation I have about this.

Trev told me about it the other day and my heart sang.

Here comes Guybrush Threepwood’s glowing sword of hot monkey vengeance.

I’m deeply ambivalent.  Monkey 4 was so awful.

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Jul 3 ’09
“People will pay for it if it is good enough. By good enough I mean that it will have to be: well researched; brilliantly written; perceptive and intelligent; professionally edited; accurate and reliable. This is not the territory in which aggregator sites or amateur bloggers will do well…” - John “Boofhead” Hartigan

“People will pay for it if it is good enough. By good enough I mean that it will have to be: well researched; brilliantly written; perceptive and intelligent; professionally edited; accurate and reliable.

This is not the territory in which aggregator sites or amateur bloggers will do well…”

- John “Boofhead” Hartigan

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Jul 2 ’09
quikflix.com.au - Australian Netflix

Jul 2 ’09

Okay, I give up.

How can I get disqus comments onto my tumblog?

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Jul 2 ’09

"Verb" Clothing

oomb:

  • Transitive with respect to the wearer: sweater, leg warmer, suspenders, choker
  • Transitive with respect to the elements: windbreaker, flipper, clodhopper
  • Transitive with respect to the clothing, i.e. passive voice: pullover, slipper
  • Intransitive: bloomers*
  • Assisting the wearer in action (though not, necessarily, directly inducing it): jumper, romper, sneaker, boxers, loafer, boater, deerstalker

*named after a person, but the action fits nicely

(via annagrams)

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Jul 1 ’09
This video warms my heart :).  AusComePlay on youtube.

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Jul 1 ’09
“These are not uncalculating politicians. By poking a stick inside this particular cage they are making a meaningful statement about media power: how it is evolving and diffusing; how the spectre of Murdoch no longer acts as a curb on politicians doing the right thing; how new media is recalibrating the unhealthy influence of the old media establishment; and how political leaders now feel confident enough to believe that the machinations of one newspaper empire can no longer unseat governments, destroy careers or turn political tides.”
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Crikey, on Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard openly criticising Rupert Murdoch’s Courier-Mail and Daily Telegraph. (via rachelhills) (via buyhercandy)

As I just tweeted, I think it’s possible to read too much into this.  My take is that Kevin just decided to get a bit of petty revenge on Madonna King by being nasty about her husband’s newspaper.  She has a way of getting on her interview subjects’ nerves.

Anyway, heralding the demise of print in making the news is, well, a dying profession.  Let’s face it: our politics and its messages are crafted towards and aimed primarily at broadcast media, which are as dominated by ancient rich oligarchs as ever.

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Jul 1 ’09
From Wikipedia. Tama (たま?, born 29 April 1999) is a calico cat who is the station master at Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. (…) The publicity from Tama’s appointment led to an increase in ridership by 17% for that month as compared to January 2006; ridership statistics for March 2007 showed a 10% increase over the previous financial year. A study has estimated that the publicity surrounding Tama has contributed 1.1 billion Yen to the local economy.[2] In January 2008, Tama was promoted to “super station master” in a ceremony attended by the president of the company and the mayor; as a result of her promotion, she is “the only female in a managerial position” in the company.[3] Her new position has an “office” — a converted ticket booth containing a litter box .

From Wikipedia.

Tama (たま?, born 29 April 1999) is a calico cat who is the station master at Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

(…)

The publicity from Tama’s appointment led to an increase in ridership by 17% for that month as compared to January 2006; ridership statistics for March 2007 showed a 10% increase over the previous financial year. A study has estimated that the publicity surrounding Tama has contributed 1.1 billion Yen to the local economy.[2] In January 2008, Tama was promoted to “super station master” in a ceremony attended by the president of the company and the mayor; as a result of her promotion, she is “the only female in a managerial position” in the company.[3] Her new position has an “office” — a converted ticket booth containing a litter box

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