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Fantasy marketing to those who fancy being at the top end of town

Nicholas Gruen
November 25, 2010
This afternoon I returned home from a day out doing various things Kaggle, and on the stairwell was a fancy black, clear wrapped package. I...
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Me on debt and infrastructure

Nicholas Gruen
November 25, 2010November 26, 2010
Well it's not a new topic for me, but if anyone's interested Lateral Economics got quite a bit of coverage for a study for Western...
Politics - national Politics - Northern Territory

Abolish NT self-government?

Ken Parish
November 25, 2010November 26, 2010
The release in federal Parliament yesterday of the report into last year's Montara oil spill off Australia's north-west coast is just the latest chapter in...
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Sarah Palin talks to Glenn Beck

Nicholas Gruen
November 25, 2010November 25, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-3hL9FfQFc&feature=player_embedded Well, North Korea, this is stemming from I think, a greater problem when we’re all, you know, sittin’ around askin’, ‘Oh, no, what are...
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The Northern Lights – I want to see them before I die

Nicholas Gruen
November 24, 2010November 24, 2010
http://vimeo.com/16917950
Religion

Cringeworthy Christmas Cinema

Ken Parish
November 24, 2010November 24, 2010
(Hat-tip Dale from Faith in Honest Doubt) Although I intensely dislike the rabid intolerant atheism of people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, it's certainly...
Politics - national Politics - Northern Territory

Just Stop! Just say no!

Ken Parish
November 24, 2010November 24, 2010
At last count eight people had been seriously injured and seven arrested after an extended family group returned to the Central Australian remote Indigenous community...

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