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Inside the Favelas
Melbourne Childrens Hospital Meerkats
Bogan Ipsum
Where can I get thirty kilos of chopped onions in Sydney?
I need about twenty five to thirty kilos of chopped onions for a very large barbecue. Is there anywhere in Sydney where someone will sell me large amounts of chopped onion?
Australia's High Court Rules The "Malaysian Solution" Unconstitutional
Australia's High Court has handed down a 6-1 judgement against (PDF) the Commonwealth Government's deal with the Malaysian Government, to replace the so-called Pacific Solution, under which the two countries would have "swapped" asylum seekers.
Help me stop my motorcycle's number plate cracking
Help me stop my motorcycle numberplate cracking.
Mark Twain's Advice To Little Girls
[Mark Twain] did not squat down to be heard and understood by children, but asked them to stand on their tiptoes—to absorb the kind of language and humor suitable for adults.
Making a budget
I'd like to make a budget, electronically, and track my expenditure.
Help me resuscitate an ageing G4 Power Macintosh with a linux distribution
Can I rehabilitate an elderly Power Mac G4 for study?
Tweeting Operations in Odyssey Dawn
Problem with Google Maps and the description of locations
Problems with entering cities/suburbs with using the Google Maps plugin in IRL.
Printer Centipede
Trade Union Poster Design: A Very Mini History
Good, healthy, takeaway food in Haymarket in Sydney
Help me find a relatively cheap, relatively healthy takeaway alternative to greasy fried chicken or chain pizza to feed to groups of volunteers in Haymarket in Sydney.
Sydney meetup to cheer up divabat
Divabat is in Sydney and has suggested a meetup. This is the thread for thrashing out its details.
Help me find a TV documetnary on a self-building housing co-operative in the UK
I'm after a documentary I once saw about a self-building housing co-operative in the UK—or more information about the programmes.
The Mexican Suitcase
The International Center of Photography is exhibiting photographs online from the Mexican Suitcase, a cache of photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War, hidden, and rediscovered in 2008.
Let's Play Cars
Examples of news media outlets specialising in industrial relations?
I'm looking for examples of media outlets and organisations which do quality labour and industrial relations reporting.
What does alcohol breath smell like?
What does alcohol on someone else's breath smell like?
American Worker Cooperatives
American Worker Cooperatives: a library, resource centre, startup guide, and map of over 200 industrial cooperatives. [via mefi projects]
Tell me about gangster funerals
I'd like descriptions or, fiction about, gang and gangster funerals.
Help me organise an excellent Melbourne Cup sweep
How can I make my office's Melbourne Cup sweep interesting?
Oonce Oonce
Blogging The War, Seventy Years Later
Bob's On The Job
How does one auto-fill an Excel spreadsheet with terms?
How does one auto-fill an Excel spreadsheet with terms from another data source?
Cardon Copy
Cardon Copy takes the vernacular of self-distributed flyers and tear-offs... redesigning them, overpowering their message with a new visual language. [via]
Babakiueria
Julio Dives In Mexico City's Sewers
So Where The Bloody Hell Are Ya?
After suspending all asylum applications from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, the Australian Government has made a series of confronting youtube videos showing the dangers of the sea, and the arrest and detention of asylum seekers.
Oscar Wilde's Voice
Are iPads and tablet PCs viable substitutes for speaking notes?
Could a tablet PC or a device like an iPad feasibly be used instead of paper notes in public speaking?
The Worst Of Perth
The Worst Of Perth showcases the worst in public art, architecture, design, fashion, car culture, graffiti and suburban landscape in and around Perth in Western Australia, with the occasional public victory over bad art. Substantially NSFW.
Is a mature-age apprenticeship a good career move?
I'm interested in advice about changing career in one's thirties: specifically, learning a trade.
Encyclopedia Dramatica vs. the Commonwealth of Australia
In January, Google Australia agreed to take down links to the Encyclopedia Dramatica. The Australian Human Rights Commission has now written to the owner of the ED threatening legal action.
Vintage German Illustration
Ruby Hunter
We were supposed to really actually forget about that lifestyle. But it'd come back to me in song.Ruby Hunter, award winning songwriter, has died.
Help me plan to build a boat
Help me think about and plan boat building.
Help Me Become Well-Read About Lebanon
I'm interested in Lebanon, (relatively) modern Lebanese history, Lebanese literature, and the Lebanese diaspora.
Golliwog Etiquette
Golliwog etiquette required.
Crystal Lee Sutton
Crystal Lee Sutton was fired for trying to organise a union. The incident was made into the 1979 film Norma Rae.
Last week she died at the age of 68.
George Julius' Mechanical Totalisator
Sir George Julius's Automatic Totalisator, first used by the public in New Zealand, and quickly taken up by racetracks throughout Australasia and North America (warning hideous HTML), automates parimutuel betting.
Papercraft Keyboard Cat
Eve-Anke Goldmann
Exploring and trespassing
Assuming bullets sell in Somalia for USD 0.75
The Adventures Of A Would Be Arms Dealer (PDF) is an eight-page comic illustrating how an illegal arms deal works in practice. Via.
Thomas Ley, Hanging Minister
In 1947, Thomas Ley, a virulently sectarian, pro-hanging Australian politician, died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, where he had been sent after being sentenced to death for murder. It was probably not his first.
20 Years Of Supercilious Gits
Twenty years old this year, fifteen-minute long Australian television programme Media Watch criticises television and print journalism.
(Previously).
Why Did Mary And Joseph Have To Go To Bethlehem?
What technology would have been available to Biblical census-takers?