The world in Australia is upside down: Waltzing Mathilda may no longer be performed as the national rugbyteam stampedes onto the grounds. My favorite reference work, the official dictionary of Australian slang, has to be extended with at least ten pages of new expressions or expletives, i guess. Aussies not only wear their hart on their sleeves, but they’r also pretty creative with language. Fair dinkum! To prevent misunderstanding: there is only one Waltzing Mathilda, and that’s not, as almost everybody in the US and Europe seems to think, the burden of Tom Traubert’s Blues, as performed by Tom Waits.… >> Lees verder . . . >>
‘Brights’ come out of the closet
This is the latest E-skeptic from © Michael Shermer from The Skeptics Society. Chek out Skeptic magazine, e-Skeptic magazine at www.skeptic.com. Members (i am) have permission to print, distribute, and post with proper citation and acknowledgment. We – members – are encouraged to broadcast e-Skeptic to new potential subscribers. Newcomers can subscribe to e-Skeptic for free by sending an e-mail to: join-skeptics@lyris.net E-skeptic d.d. august 28, 2003 As many of you are aware by now, there is a movement afoot to introduce a new meme into our cultural lexicon to substitute for the melange of descriptive words such as atheist,… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Yeahronimo? Yeah!
Maybe because i haven’t checked often enough development of streaming video, after so many disappointments during the last couple of years, that i wasn’t aware of the status of watching live events on the net.Anyway, never before my scepticism vaporized so fast as sunday afternoon, while i was watching the soccer game Groningen – NAC, live, on the web.Fair dinkum, it works, at last al those predictions are beginning to become true! How they manage to handle the technology at Yeahronimo.com, where Roelof Oltmans is director Sports and Events, i don`t know, but does it matter?Driving a car, talking in… >> Lees verder . . . >>