January 2012
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Australia Day 2012 Address: Full Speech
This is very interesting. Especially the comparison between America and Australia.
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If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud.
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep...
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This is my favourite podcast that I've listened to... →
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December 2011
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Party Down movie may be made over the summer... →
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If I could be bothered I’d read this which details how the Stop Online Privacy Act violates the constitution.
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This article is worth reading.
Entitled “The Personal Computer is Dead” and written by Jonathan Zittrain a professor of law and computer science at Harvard, it describes a culture of censorship that is emerging epitomised by Apple.
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November 2011
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Pop Culture and Iraq
popthirdworld:
America’s 8 year presence in Iraq has had an influence on Iraqi youth pop culture. They’ve embraced, amongst other things, rap music, hip hop culture, tattoos and American slang (mainly the F word and the MotherF word apparently). More info and pics here and here.
One of my teachers at law school has started a blog on pop culture and the third world. Follow it, if you please.
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nostrich:
Couple of nice pieces on the UC Davis pepper-spraying incident last week:
Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike, Alexis Madrigal
Militarization of Campus Police, Bob Ostertag, a professor at UC Davis
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