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"…The former prime minister John Howard claims more Australians know the lyrics of a Vegemite advertising jingle written in 1954 than know the Australian national anthem."
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links for 2011-09-17
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oh I WANT one
links for 2011-09-16
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oh I WANT one
links for 2011-09-15
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nice to find this again, thanks to Tamara… originally in Whole Earth Review of Spring 1987
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"…Since freight railroads were deregulated in 1980, the number of large, so-called Class I railroads has shrunk from 40 to seven. There are now only four that matter: CSX and Norfolk Southern in the East, Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe in the West. These four now take in more than 90% of the market…"
links for 2011-09-13
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"…Who though is this “we”? It is the deepest, most festering wound of 9/11…" (via a now-vanished post at Forbes)
links for 2011-09-09
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with grace and style
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concentrated weirdness and wonder
links for 2011-09-01
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Surely one of the most graceful memorials I've read
links for 2011-08-24
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almost makes me a Believer in the utility of Twitter
Simply astonishing
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Taksim Trio:
links for 2011-08-22
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"…scuttlers were routinely demonised by politicians and sections of the press. Victorian gang members were derided as ruffians, brutes, barbarians, savages and "juvenile terrorists"… The demise of the gangs owed less to draconian policing and punishment than to a more forward-thinking response pioneered by former Guardian journalist Alexander Devine, a police court missionary (an early form of probation officer). His "working lads' club" for Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, opened in 1887, inspired a generation of Mancunians and Salfordians to invest substantial amounts of both time and money in new facilities for education, training and recreation for youths in some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Britain."