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Ever tried to milk a Giraffe?
2008-06-10 13:45:00
Israeli researchers have determined that giraffes are kosher for eating and drinking.Shavuot, or the festival of the first fruits, which begins tomorrow, is traditionally a time for consuming milk products. Milk from a non-kosher animal is widely held not to coagulate or curdle.It had already been established that giraffe meat was kosher since the giraffe, like a cow, both has a cloven hoof and is a ruminant.Rabbi Shlomo Mafhoud, who accompanied the researchers from the Volcani Agricultural Institute, said: "The giraffe has all the signs of a ritually pure animal, and the milk that forms curds strengthened that."Don't expect big game hunting or commercial giraffe dairies to be established to feed this market. It is theoretical rather than practical since giraffes are endangered. And does it taste any good anyway?

Remembering the 1980s The Celtics against the Lakers
2008-06-10 00:02:00
Listening to the radio yesterday I learned with interest that the Celtics and the Lakers were contesting another NBA Championship series. When I moved to America in the mid 1980s I had never heard of Larry Bird or Magic Johnston and I doubt that I had ever watched a game of basketball. I had also never heard off or listened to the voice of the NBA, Brent Musburger, whose voice I would get to know well in the first few years of living there.We played it at high school for gym for about six weeks a year. I hated it with the heavy ball and the impossible hoop. This story is how I came to love the game for a short period of time.We stayed for a while in Vermont where all the finals games were on television on CBS. My future father in law was born and bred in Boston and he filled me in on some of the important details. The names from that era are very clear in my mind. I can remember many late nights gripped by the intense theatre from the dusty old Boston Garden and the razzmatazz of Lo...
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Italian Spiderman - Adelaide Home Grown Hero
2008-06-09 23:45:00
Some students at Flinders University here in South Australia have developed a short trailer for a fictitious italian cheezy movie from the 1960s. They developed The Italian Spiderman as a short project in their film course and posted it on YouTube. Two million hits later there is a MySpace Site, funding from the South Australian Film Commission and two more short excerpts (there will be ten) and the promise of a full length movie.Watch for the fat gut, the indiscriminate violence, fantastico musico and the moustache. Magnifico!
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Bungee Classics
2008-06-09 02:01:00
Imagine Mick Jagger and the like with this kit.
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Photo Hunt: Bad Hair
2008-06-06 23:09:00
Bad Hair ?Bad Hair?And this is Lambert de Vermont who has really bad hair.Not really really bad hair, more really bad wigs. I am very happy that I don't have to deal with it. One of my colleagues wears a wig. He has three or four depending on his mood or what he is doing it seems.Really I need to dig out some of the hatchet jobs that my mum did to us when we were in high school. Talk of humiliation. Fortunately, I don't know where they are. That is one legacy of my childhood. I will never cut my kids hair. I am happy to pay the money and have somebody do it professionally.This young lady had a more sensible mum, who didn't cut her hair at all for 17 years and then she cut it off for a cancer charity. That is a lot of growing. Not sure if that would constitute a bad hair day? I had mine done for cancer charity early in the year, but it was only a centimetre taken off.photohunt
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Hillary for President Discount Sale
2008-06-06 07:35:00
I wonder when the sale starts?And this hits the nail on the head.Perhaps they can store them for next time around.
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Colin Campbell: About Me
2008-06-06 01:16:00
I have had a busy life.
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And Don't Climb the Fence
2008-06-05 22:19:00
Important Rules for Tiger Cages
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Standby Power Meters
2008-06-05 22:04:00
OK I will admit, I am a bit of a gadget head. Not too extreme, but a little. That said, who would have thought I would post on standby power meters. All that electrical juice that is shuttled around the house to keep televisions and the like available to just turn on. My wife likes to turn things off at the plug. I am lazy. This gadget may motivate me as we work out how much money the power company is making as you sleep. Thanks Dr Faustus, who has more scoop.
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Anthem for Teenagers
2008-06-05 00:54:00
Our kids are usually a lot more talkative than this. Not looking forward to Nope, Yup, Maybe... too much. My daughter is already using sms speak in some of her notes from school. It makes me feel icky. Call me a curmudgeon, but there is plenty time for lazy writing later in life. Thanks FXH
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Plight of the Puffin
2008-06-05 00:44:00
Our cute friends the Puffin are having some struggles, with numbers of breeding pairs plummeting in one of their breeding grounds on the Isle of May, just down the road and a short ferry ride from where I grew up in Scotland.Only 70% of nests on the island are now being occupied, while adult birds that have landed on the island have been underweight and malnourished. The finding follows the discovery of numerous dead puffins washing up along the coast over the last two winters.Professor Mike Harris, the lead researcher with the Oxfordshire-based Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, said the precise causes of the decline were complex and unclear but it seemed very likely that warming seas, changes and shifts in puffin food supplies, and intensive fishing across the North Sea were to blame.Although the bird ? which has a relatively long 30-year lifecycle - congregates in large colonies such as the Isle of May to breed in the spring, it spreads across the sea to winter on the water. It al...
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New York
2008-06-04 00:49:00
This was the winning picture from the Guardians Travel Photo Contest for May, with a New York theme.Guardian assistant picture editor Helen Healy says: "It's a ghostly photograph of one of the world's most familiar skylines. I like the desolation of the Hoboken shore, scene of On The Waterfront. It reminds us of the enduring allure of Manhattan on the other side of the Hudson from this down-at-heel New Jersey city."I used to drive up and down the New Jersey Turnpike on trips between New York, Vermont, Boston and Washington DC. The contrast in wealth from this side of the Hudson River was very startling. Not to say that there wasn't poverty in New York and the Cross Bronx Expressway was not the most scenic spot on the route, but the top end of the Turnpike as you headed up to the George Washington Bridge was pretty bleak. Other photographs here.
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Living in the Shadow of Warnie
2008-06-03 00:09:00
Even when he announced his retirement, Stewart Chardonnay MacGill , doing it easy with the Cadillac Aussie Cricket team in the West Indies was upstaged by Captain VB for Me Razzmatazz and his beat up Rajasthan Royals in winning the IPL Tonk Contest in India .It must be tough to be second best over a decade. That said, he still got over 200 test wickets. Not bad for a wine afficionado.
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No Wonder the Scottish Rugby Team are Crap
2008-06-02 06:47:00
Not much weight in that scrum.Editors Note. I was just joking. There must be other reasons. My nephew is third from the left on front and was asked to leave the field after the photograph.
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Photohunt: Self (Piece of Me)
2008-05-30 23:38:00
Here's a Piece of MeAnd another Piece of MeAnother Piece of MeAnd here is another Piece of Mephotohunt
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Beryl Cook
2008-05-30 22:56:00
I always liked Beryl Cook .There was always an innocent nautiness in her work and a very fun accessibility to her art.Beryl Cook, one of Britain's most popular and most recognisable artists, has died aged 81, at her home in Plymouth. Once described by Victoria Wood as "Rubens with jokes", Cook portrayed a world of innocent naughtiness that divided critics but established her as a firm favourite with the public, who never tired of the cards and reproductions of her work.Her private life was nothing like the pub life that she portrayed so accurately.Yet the critics hated her: Time Out refused to include her exhibitions in its listings and the Tate never bought one of her paintings. Brian Sewell said of her art: "It doesn?t have the intellectual honesty of the Pig and Whistle. It has a kind of vulgar streak which has nothing to do with art." Yet infuriatingly for the artistic establishment, her paintings, (produced at a rate of about one a fortnight) commanded up to £...

Sex in the City Adelaide and Tokyo Version
2008-05-30 22:34:00
Sex sells they say and with a great deal of coverage of this film, I felt it important to bring this important news.Adelaide has made it into the big time with the first ever Sexpo being held here. While I didn't attend, I did complain to the advertising regulator that it was being promoted early in the evening on commercial television. It really did generate a lot of free publicity with all the news programmes covering it. Major step forward for Adelaide with the coming out of the Sex Industry.Being a little prudish by nature I was interested to see that the first ever Sexpo had also recently been held in Tokyo . Based on my experience in Japan I got the feeling that this sort of stuff would be more out in the open, but it seems that it is not the done thing to wander around Sex Exhibitions in Japan.Japan recently had its first-ever adult expo at the Makuhari Messe convention center near Tokyo. In a press release the organizers of the "Adult Treasure Expo" vowed to "draw the adult ...
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Shock Horror Scandal Expose
2008-05-29 06:59:00
Mr E Comes OutVery handsome.
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Making Fun of Politicians
2008-05-28 19:58:00
Photoshop has made its mark on the US Election Campaign this year.Interesting that there are none of Grandad McCain. Perhaps Republicans are too serious to parody.
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How About Some Decent Broadband First?
2008-05-27 13:05:00
This is a party political broadcast on behalf of the Telstra Party. If you think that petrol is expensive, wait until they have a more robust monopoly to provide internet services. Coming soon to your neighbourhood. Crap and expensive telecommunications services. If you don't like it suckers, buy a carrier pigeon. Forget conference calls or video crosses - beaming your hologram interstate for a live chat is closer to becoming a household reality.In what Telstra says is a national first, the telco beamed a mobile three dimensional image of its chief technology officer, Hugh Bradlow, from Melbourne to Adelaide to give a live business presentation.Perhaps he could be beamed into every home, along with Sol so that Australians could throw virtual rocks at them. He could start be telling Australia about why Telstra locks up existing installed technology to provide faster internet to working families as part of their commercial strategy, charges a fortune for their current shonky fraudban...
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Tommy Seebach: Musical Man of Action
2008-05-26 10:02:00
With the Russian win in the Eurovision Song Contest fading in our collective consciousness, it is sobering to note that this man had his country disqualified from the next years competition after his dismal showing. Hard to imagine based on this. Sort of a mix between Buddy Holly and Austin Powers.Thanks Tambourine QueenThe video response on You Tube is also very funny.
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Dean Windass Hull Local Hero
2008-05-25 23:38:00
When Dean Windass scored the winning goal for Hull City to secure promotion to the English Premier League for the first time, there was a certain symnetry.Born in Hull (Where?), he started off as a builder before starting for Hull City in 1991. He was a bit of a naughty boy when he was at Aberdeen and was shown a red card three times in one game. One for a second bookable offence, one for verbally abusing the referee and one for kicking the corner flag. Graham Poll eat your heart out.Now back at Hull at the age of 39 he scored the winning goal at the twilight of his career to give them the chance to get thumped by the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool next season. The citizens of Hull are thankful. Much better than grinding it out against Doncaster and the like.He can swan song for a few seasons and retire in style. He will likely never have to buy a beer again.
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Photo Hunt: Shoes
2008-05-24 00:01:00
Or rather where are the shoes? My kids have, since they were very little always wanted to take their shoes off as soon as they get into the house or into the car or in a playing situation. I like to do this too and often walk around with no shoes. My wife therefore blames me, largely, for this failure in parenting.It was quite normal in Singapore to remove shoes before going into peoples houses. I have some great photographs of large shoe collections congregated around doorways of preschools, houses and mosques.Of course it is also fair game to take off your shoes when you are on the trampoline. The problem is that they generally end up underneath. At our other house, it was a daily job to go out and do a shoe round up in the garden. This week I found two pairs around that area.photohunt
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Bliss to Blitzed in Three Minutes in Sichuan
2008-05-22 00:24:00
What a difference, three minutes and a magnitude 7.9 earthquake make.These are important moments in any couples lives. When we lived in Singapore, the family wedding photographs were a big deal. Parks were often full of beaming young couples. For our wedding it was freezing and raining, but we managed to avoid any major dramas other than my future wife nearly freezing in her not too warm outfit.
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Yurts for the Masses Political Fix
2008-05-20 06:02:00
In the wake of a massive backlash against the effective shelving of the former Howard Governments plan to bankrupt the country by putting a photovoltaic cell on every middle class home in Australia and the worst housing affordability crisis since the white man came and as a means of showing solidarity with the Tibetan People, the Rudd Government has made a multi million dollar purchase of Yurts. Yurt and Land Packages, to be sold in an affordable price bracket in the outer suburbs of major metropolitan areas, will be offered on means tested basis for families earning less than $250,000, to assist striving Australians to get into the housing market. To demonstrate their green credentials, a free Yak, and trailer to provide of cheap environmentally sustainable transportation, a yak poo cooker and power generation system have been thrown in along with a wind up computer and free fibre to the yurt broadband."We just want to give these guys a leg up before the next election. We are worri...
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Uplifting Story of the Day
2008-05-19 21:21:00
This made me sad. We are all conditioned by this kind of thinking in small and large ways. I wonder how my behaviour is instilling this kind of thinking on my kids. Go for those bananas kids!Picture 5 monkeys placed in a cage. A new community is formed. From the ceiling of the cage hangs a bunch of bananas. A stepladder is placed under the bananas. As the first eager monkey rushes up the ladder, a firehose knocks him off and hoses down all the monekys. Shocked, they sit back and regroup. Later another monkey tries, with the same result. It make take repeated attempts by each monkey before they become conditioned (socialized really) to not climb the ladder.At some point, the lesson has been learned by this closed culture and controls how they respond as a community. Then one monkey forgets and steps onto the ladder. But the firehose doesn?t have time to react. The other four monkeys grab the offender and beat him senseless. They?ve learned that in this society, you don?t climb the la...
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TV Kills
2008-05-18 23:52:00
Image via WikipediaThis is a sad indictment on society and a warning to those who watch too much television. Watch out for some new health studies. Television can bore kill you. The remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV - 42 years after she was reported missing. Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television.I am surprised that this doesn't happen more often, with the rubbish served up on a daily basis. I would hope that my family would notice however.Here is a free television health check. Score high and you are in danger. Don't watch television by yourself.
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How Rabbits Get Their Bounce
2008-05-18 23:38:00
Ben and Daisy discovered the trampoline this week. Seems that staying in the garden makes them lazy and fat. Nothing like a bounce to shed those extra grams.
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The Great Kilt Conspiracy Debunked
2008-05-18 23:11:00
Lord Dacre, esteemed authenticator of the Hitler Diaries, debunks Scottish Myths in his book The Invention of Scotland : Myth and History to be published five years after his death. Sounds like a policy paper for an English Nationalist party.?In Scotland, it seems to me, myth has played a far more important part in history than it has in England.?Indeed, I believe the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered to replace it.?He claims that the ?myth? of the ancient Highland dress was perpetuated by historians to provide a symbol by which Scots could be universally identified, as well as to support the country?s textile industry.The traditional dress of the Highlanders was in fact a long Irish shirt and a cloak or plaid, he states, and only the higher classes had woven in stripes and colours creating tartan. How will Alex and the boys be able to per...
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A Bar is Where the Heart is
2008-05-18 05:10:00
This kind of stuff is parochial and pretentious bollocks. Woopdee Doo that some Aussie bars made it into the Top 100. This one looks like a cruise ship. A bar should be where you are, preferably within walking distance. Architectural icons and lounges that look like museums and offices are not very appealling as many of these appear to be.Do they serve good beer should be the first rule. Can I get to them should be close behind. Everything else is just a little unimportant darling.Frankly it is a bit sad that the top rated bar is in Dubai, a country where none of the locals drink is a bit rich. They are trying to promote Aussie Rules Football there in a country where nobody plays or watches the game. Oh yes, they have money and they are willing to shell out for a bunch of rich young 20 somethings to chase a ball around for a couple of hours and then get shellacked in the bar afterwards. Perhaps there is a connection.So lets all fly around the world, burning up carbon to drink in unk...
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