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Today I wanted to send out a big Thank You to Gladys Berejiklian.

For those of you who don’t know her, Gladys is the NSW Transport Minister and is widely considered to be one of the Liberal Party’s strongest members in the NSW Coalition Government.

The reason for my wanting to thank Gladys is for showing us how the Coalition fix things, that way we will know what to expect if we vote in an Abbott Government that says they are going to fix things.

The man who could once bowl a batsman through his legs and turn a ball three feet on a flat wicket can no longer fit his face in a tall-glass, … Continue reading →

The AFR has this gem:

Australians obsessed with fuel prices will be pleased to hear that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission inquiry into petrol price fixing is moving toward a conclusion after more than 12 months of work.

However, don’t hold your breath for some silver bullet that will magically lower the price of Australian fuel.

Orange growers are considering genetically modifying your morning OJ. Why? A terrible disease-Scientific American calls it "the most devastating disease of citrus plants in the world"-is spreading in the U.S. "Five years from now, there may be no more Florida orange juice," one University of Florida scientist, J. Glenn Morris, told Scientific American.

Gary Shteyngart, author of the lovely Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story, was one of the unlikeliest winners of one of Google's first test pairs of Google Glass.

Just in case the cosmos are not fantastic enough for you: This new video shows time lapses of the night sky over enormous metal dragons, dinosaurs and other creatures in Galleta Meadows in the desert town of Borrego Springs, California.

Lenovo is either the world's biggest or second-biggest PC manufacturer, depending on who you ask (the other potential is HP), and certainly one of the best. But according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR), they've been banned by spy agencies around the world, from the US to the UK to Australia, because of concerns about their hackability - and where those hacks might be coming from. Lenovo, you see, is a Chinese company, and was originally created by a wing of the Chinese government.

Here’s keen Liberal Party and Geelong Cats’supporter (and twit) “Peter W Hill”. Is he fake or not? We are not sure.

What we are sure of is that he is a misogynist. And he likes to stalk journalist Clementine Ford troll journalist Clementine Ford’s Twitter.

The internet is a giant vault where people store some of their most private information, trusting that the company holding on to it can keep it all safe.

The sea is calm tonight

The seas is calm, tonight
And the waves of anger, tight,
Have bought a peace
And still the silence grows
That no one knows

Close and yet afar
We talk, ajar
While our words
Upon the water fall
Lost to me, lost to all

Cascading chasms of the quiet
Unite their purpose
In our riot
And so we stand,
Victims of your promised land

The cell of freedom beckons
In this or other lives
We reckon on our own
Not counting their hard blown
But challenging, alone, always alone

Have a heart  - no really, have one. We grew it for you special. Actually, we didn't grow it, we cultured your stem cells and then we printed it out on a 3D printer. Okay, so the actual process of bioprinting isn't quite THAT advanced yet, but the revolution is under way...