Author: Dan

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Sport

Los Pumas

Argentina set to join Tri-Nations

Argentina have been invited to join South Africa, New Zealand and Australia in an expanded southern hemisphere rugby union championship from 2012.

It could still fall on its face but it would be awesome to have Argentina in regular competition, even if the travel is going to be a bitch.

In other news: Family Guy double to woo voters. As awesome as I think it is that this guy is going to have Peter Griffin on his election posters I really think he should watch some Family Guy first. Turns out trying to tap into popular culture for political gain doesn’t always work…

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Photography

Then and Now II

The Big Picture has some pretty amazing during and one-year-later shots of Hurricane Ike hitting Texas.

hurricaneike

The word Hurricane comes from the (now extinct?) language of the Taíno, from which we also get the words tobacco, potato, hammock and barbecue. Huraca’n means centre of the wind.

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Books

Then and Now

Then: The Oxford English Dictionary
Now: Word Up! 300,000 proven ways to express yourself in speech and writing

Book Titles if they were written today, original idea here

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Words

New Colours

Having had to enter the same list of 40 colours 24 times in succession today I have managed to invite some new shades, my personal favourites are:

  • Royal Green
  • Still Grey
  • Fire Fred
  • Fuzzy Lemon
  • Arctic Shite
  • Salmon Punk

If we only sell 14 Halls Hoodies I might actually cry.

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Film

The Cat Piano

An award-winning animation form The People’s Republic of Animation:

The Cat Piano is an 8-minute short film directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson. The Cat Piano features the voice of iconic Australian artist Nick Cave narrating a poem written by Eddie White.

catpianofilm.com

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Health

Oscillococcinum

Oscillococcinum…is a homeopathic alternative medicine marketed to relieve influenza-like symptoms…The preparation is derived from duck livers, which are diluted such that to obtain one molecule of the original substance would require consuming a dose larger than the known universe.

That’s a big ol’ dose.