Broken Hill Dust Storm

Heh! "It looks like a little Ayers Rock".

Verve again

Well that was predictable. I've been favourited… by the Verve blog. Recognition for my 19 month moribund blog.

Verve

Well, fancy that. I haven't updated this blog for ages. It was an experiment using some sort of clip blog tool (I forget which one now). I wasn't really happy with its implementation, hence the lack of posts. This email just arrived:

"Your blog monkeycrumbs caught our attention. I'm the founder of a recently launched startup for bloggers. We are searching the internet for the world's blogs by geography, and we found yours for Australia. I would like to invite you to our site which plots the content of the internet on an interactive map of the world. VerveEarth is an entirely new way to surf the net. It shows spatial and geographic connections that a blog search engine could never reveal.
The site is Verve."

So I registered and we'll see what happens (if anything). Might even make a few posts here again.

Exterminate

Dalek Cake: "Unfortunately, no one had any video to capture the cake actually moving via wireless remote control." Shame, that's a sweet looking cake.

Atheism

Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns: "Based on a careful assessment of the most recent survey data available, we find that somewhere between 500,000,000 and 750,000,000 humans currently do not believe in God. Such figures render any suggestion that theism is innate or neurologically based untenable. The nations with the highest degrees of organic atheism (atheism which is not state-enforced through totalitarian regimes but emerges naturally among free societies) include most of the nations of Europe, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. There also exist high degrees of atheism in Japan, Vietnam, North Korea, and Taiwan. Many former Soviet nations, such as Estonia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus also contain significant levels of atheism."

Shaun Tan

In ‘The Arrival’, the absence of any written description also plants the reader more firmly in the shoes of an immigrant character. There is no guidance as to how the images might be interpreted, and we must ourselves search for meaning and seek familiarity in a world where such things are either scarce or concealed.

Knights of Africa Sovereign Order

His Serene Highness, Prof. Sir Vincent Abukuse Mbirikah: "Socrates was an African living in Greece. When you put a rabbit into an oven, you don't seriously think it will turn into a biscuit or an English muffin do you? Of course not. If you succeed baking it, it only becomes a baked rabbit, but certainly not a biscuit, less so an English muffin. Therefore, there was no way one could turn Socrates into a Greek philosopher, given his prominent African features such as big think lips, broad nose black skin and woolly hair."
"As this Grandmaster relaxed in his hotel suite at Baden, Austria, the Austrians were quick to remind him he was staying in a famous suite known for its African music composer who had stayed in the same suite when he composed the famous Symphony number 3, popularly referred to as "Eroica". And who else could that be but the famous Ludwig van Beethoven? He too has also been mistaken by his European admirers to have been germany, except those who knew him well, the Germans. There is a lot of material written about Beethoven's background and one of the sources is that written by Frau Fisher, an intimate friend of Beethoven,(See R.H. Schauffler, The Man Who Freed Music, Vol.I, P.18, 1929).The famous blind and deaf composer of Symphony number 9, also known as, "Ode to Joy" is one more example of how whatever is supreme in Africa, or of African origin, is always claimed, stolen, branded or adopted by non-Africans, and that includes without exception, civilization itself."