Archive for May, 2007

Do you remember last year when the erstwhile Mark Latham (shamed former Opposition leader) released a book called A Conga Line Of Suckholes? The book was a collection of quotations by himself and others. The title itself came from one of his own particularly vitriolic outbursts. Well, another beautifully eloquent description has emerged in...
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I don’t often simply link to other sites from here, but a friend of mine put me onto this video of a guy with a whole new idea about how stories should be told. He’s an artist called Jonathan Harris. If you have five minutes, watch the video here.
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The (alleged) absolute word of Allah, (allegedly) spoken by the archangel Gabriel directly to the prophet Muhammad, has been updated. Well, more accurately it’s been “reinterpreted”. Keysar Trad, vociferous Sydney Muslim, has “tweaked” the meaning of 799 words and phrases in a revised edition of the Holy Koran. Keysar Trad It is not allowed...
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I’m going to be away for a week or so, on a well deserved little holiday, so don’t be surprised if things are a bit quiet around here. However, before I go, I thought I’d leave you with this bit of entertaining news via Reuters in Hong Kong: More than 800 Hong Kong residents...
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Maggie Pragratis is an author with a vision. She writes children’s books (Go Away Booboo! is already available in a number of languages), but that’s not enough. She wants to make the whole world a better place, not just the lives of the kids that read her books. Go Away Booboo! by Maggie Pragratis...
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I stumbled across this page recently and think it should probably be the compulsory homepage for everyone. Reload the page a few times as it changes. How many can you get right? Try getting one wrong too, just for the amusing result. Reduce illiteracy on the internet.
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Don’t worry. You’re at the all new website of The Word. I’ve spent considerable time recently putting this new site together, so I hope it appeals to you all. However, I couldn’t have done it without the considerably more time put in by my good friend James Frost. Thanks Jim! Please be sure to...
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Yawei, yu jis laik det brabli gudwan stakmen. Have I gone mad? Fallen asleep on the keyboard? Not this time. That’s Australian Aboriginal Kriol, a pidgin that is now the language for an estimated 30,000 indigenous Australians throught the country’s north. The line is Psalm 23 from the Bible, recently translated. In the translation,...
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Further to my recent speculation about the nature of adapting Stephen King’s writing to the screen, I’ve recently learned that he has finally sold movie rights to his Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower is what many, including King himself, consider to be the author’s magnum opus. Or his rambling, self-indulgent Frankenstein, depending on...
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So says this guy: You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists!Mickey Mouse is preaching Islamic Fundamentalism? Well, sort of. This is actually Farfour the Mouse (which means butterfly, for some inexplicable reason). He’s an icon on Hamas TV station Al-Aqsa TV and regularly stirs kids up into a...
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