I'm passing this on because it worked for me today...

I'm passing this on because it worked for me today... Dr Oz on TV said that to reach inner peace we should always finish things we start, and we all could use more calm in our lives. I looked around my house to find things I'd started and hadn't finished...so I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, tha mainder of Valiuminun scriptins, an a box a chocletz. Yu haf no idr how fablus I feel rite now. Sned this to all who need inner piss. An telum u luvum. Wuv U gies!

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73 prominant Australians, including former Prime Minister Fraser, demand protection for Assange

73 prominant Australians, including former Prime Minister Fraser, demand protection for Assange

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/rudd-urged-to-protect-assange-20111218-1p0vl.html

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8 reasons why stir-fry parenting works

Love this (and live most of it too):

http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/8-reasons-why-stir-fry-parenting-works/

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Damn You Auto Correct

Damn You Auto Correct Reveals 9 Funniest Texts of the Year (via @Mashable)

http://mashable.com/2011/12/05/damn-you-auto-correct-funniest-text/

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Top ten myths about introverts

This was trending on Twitter and apparently Facebook yesterday.  According to the last Meyers Briggs I did, I'm an introvert.  Not sure about all of these, but many are spot-on!

http://jerrybrito.org/post/6114304704/top-ten-myths-about-introverts

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Stop Internet Censorship!

Stop Internet #Censorship! Sign the global petition @Avaaz urging the US Congress to reject the #Blacklist Bill #SOPA
 
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?whAdlcb

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Free speech

I can't recall who I was having the conversation about free speech with recently... but this article pretty much says it better than I could!

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/play-ball-not-bolt-in-free-speech-debate-20111027-1mm4h.html

For the record, my personal views of Andrew Bolt best remain unpublished.  But allowing a judge, or Parliament, to decide what an individual can or cannot say, is not something that's ever going to sit comfortably with me.  I like this paragraph in the article best:

Democracy depends on the free flow of information and ideas. Opinions must be shared in 'a free and open encounter' because it is the competition between ideas that produces the truth. As Fredrick Siebert explained: 'The true and sound will survive. The false and unsound will be vanquished. Government should keep out of the battle and not weigh the odds in favor of one side or the other.'

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Facebook's New Timeline & Perceptions of Privacy (via tamaleaver.net)

Everyone's Facebook profile will disappear on 6 October 2011, replaced with a Timeline. I've already changed mine and while the Timeline is very, very different, it's also pretty cool once you get used to it. This is an excellent post by one of my lecturers which covers some of the changes and privacy implications. Worth a read.

http://www.tamaleaver.net/2011/10/02/facebooks-new-timeline-perceptions-of-privacy/

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