But more than that I wondered about my friends in Brisbane and Los Angeles. I've never been to either though I have friends in both, and family in Brisbane. The internet has conspired to connect me to people from all around the world and every now...
Topics: Brisbane, Culture, Fires, Floods, Los Angeles, Storytelling, Technology

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Fame, in and of itself, is the last great hope for many people who feel unloved and insignificant. And even in the sample of artists DJ Earworm lists above, there aren't many happy-endings-because-of-fame stories to be had. Fame almost killed Britney.
Topics: Culture, DJ Earworm

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Well the techno-savvy son of God would get himself a Twitter account, of course! At first I assumed this was a spam account, but it would appear there is someone updating it and not providing malicious links. It is worth noting, though, at the time of...
Topics: jesus, My eLife, Twitter

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It is not common for political scandals to happen on my own doorstep, so I was amazed to discover this morning that Member for Kiama, Matt Brown, had resigned after it was revealed that he stripped down to his underwear during a party at his...
Topics: Matt Brown, Michael Guglielmucci, Personal Universe, Sarah Palin

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The Large Hadron Collider created quite a stir today. Conspiracy theories and devil theories ranged from the predictable 'end of days' scenarios (the world exploding, chain reaction earthquake sequences) to theories that European science...
Topics: CERN, Culture, Large Hadron Collider

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