Cheap Therapy

If you like words, you’re likely to find that Visual Thesaurus will suck the time out of your life.

The Department of Immigration and Multicultural affairs have opened up for comments on whether there should be Australian Citizenship testing. Make sure to make your submission before 17th November.

For those of you who are fans of aerobatics, the Red Bull Air Race is coming to Perth in November.

The MythBusters guys want people to experiment with a Yawn Around The World

Being the last Tuesday of the month it was time for beer and science fiction at Fantastic Planet in Shafto Lane. With Fandomedia just around the corner Marianne de Pierres was in attendance as well. After some browsing in the bookshop, and restraining myself from buying the Lynn Fllewelling’s latest “The Oracle’s Queen”, and a copy of Tim Powers’ “Strange Itineraries”, it was off to the Durty Nelly’s pub for dinner and continued conversation.

Not content enough that the (Holy) War on Terror has resulted in More Terror, John Howard has now gone on to offer to sell uranium to India, who have not signed the nuclear non proliferation treaty. No doubt India will forward it onto Pakistan, either via the black market or ballistic missile.

But I guess not selling it would cause too much damage to the Australian economy.

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If you’re in IT (or you just have to deal with those who are), and you haven’t seen it yet, check out The IT Crowd, ABC 9pm Wednesday for a good laugh.

According to the back of The West’s Perth Royal Show guide, there’ll be a Honda Asimo humanoid robot at The Asimo stand at the Royal Show (I think close to the old Jubilee wool pavillion from the map).

From Francesco Martinelli in this week’s A Word A Day (May not be linked yet).

The real mafioso are not spoken about, so there’s hardly a word for them.
“Amici” is the word actually used, but in Sicily they have the wonderful expression “uomini de panza” (”men with belly”) for local VIPs. In Turkey we say “gobeksiz erkek balkonsuz eve benzer” or “a man without a belly is like a house without a balcony”!