“An Anglo-American team of explorers has found an Inca city lost for centuries in the Peruvian jungles” (Age) (Thanks Mez)
And this is really cool: “Two British men, Andy McEwen and Ed Jocelyn, have retraced the steps of Mao Zedong’s Red Army on its epic Long March” (BBC)

Interesting… I always thought she was acquiescent but maybe she wasn’t: “A US woman soldier who shot to fame after being taken prisoner during the Iraq war has accused the military of using her for propaganda purposes.”
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“”They used me as a way to symbolise all this stuff,” she told the ABC television network. “It’s wrong.”” (BBC)

FIGJAM! Just rolled out my first Oracle Forms application.

Ahh, culture. This would almost be considered a long skirt in the UK.

Awww… going there with my mum and eating what seemed like a huge plate of spaghetti marinara while sitting on the stools talking to the waiters is probably one of my earliest memories.
And dog building.

Classic Onion: “There are going to be some pointless changes around here, folks.”

It is the blog of Sandrine!

Fireworks are fun until someone sets a car on fire.

Cliches for fun and profit
www.corporatewatch.org.uk:”examine the oil industry, globalistion, genetic engineering, food, toxic chemicals, privatisation and many other areas, to build up a picture of almost every type of corporate crime and the nature and mechanisms of corporate power, both economic and political.”
“Immigration is no longer the hot issue it was in the 1980s but the population debate is never far below the surface. So when one of Australia’s most influential economists decides to deliver a lecture with the deliberately provocative title of Forty Million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited, we should sit up and take notice.” Australian
“wristwatch phone that uses its owner’s finger as an earpiece” (BBC)
“Pauline Hanson and One Nation co-founder David Ettridge will be released from jail after Queensland’s Court of Appeal today overturned their convictions for electoral fraud.” (Age) Thanks Mez!

Oh lordy me!