February 2012
Today.
I learnt how expensive it is to smoke in Australia. I had to buy some cigarettes to take to someone at work on Tuesday (I start my grad job on Tuesday at a mine in WA) and it cost me $148 for 200 cigarettes. Shelling out $0.75 every single time you have a cigarette seems ridiculous to me, I can’t believe people pay that much to kill themselves/smell bad/be unattractive/etc.
Edit - I am not...
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Most ExeRent bRog: Three Absurd Facts About Japan →
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FEB. 9, 2012
By TYLER HALL
Look, we all get it: other countries are super silly. Koreans consider live octopus a delicacy while Canadians are known to enjoy repurposed urine called “Molson.” Most men in Bali wear skirts and fittingly most women wear…
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Melbourne Tumblrs.
I will be in your city in April for a few days for work. I will have some free time and am likely to be by myself during those times, so let’s hang out! I know this is early, but Melbourne is my favourite part of Australia so I’m super excited.
PELTERMAG: Women prisoners from 1920s Australia →
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They were some of Australia’s shadiest sheilas.
Murderers, bigamists, cocaine dealers and back street abortionists, all manner of vampish villain and fallen floozy scooped off the streets and photographed for police files. Their blank expressions hiding a catalogue of appalling crimes.
The…
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The Value of Making Reading Hard →
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By ALAN JACOBS l The Atlantic Feb.8, 2012
One of the really tough questions to answer in relation to any technology is: When do you make something easy and when do you make it hard? This problem is perhaps most obvious in the realm of game design, since people get bored by games that are too easy and get frustrated by games that are too hard. So game-makers have to learn to...
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January 2012
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