Posts in Category: Just Plain Interesting

The Dark Knight returns

Larissa linked to this on her blog, so I thought I’d give it a try. She got Neo, but I’ve always been more of a Batman fan so this works for me.

You scored as Batman, the Dark Knight. As the Dark Knight of Gotham, Batman is a vigilante who deals out his own brand of justice to the criminals and corrupt of the city. He follows his own code and is often misunderstood. He has few friends or allies, but finds comfort in his cause.

Batman, the Dark Knight

83%

Neo, the "One"

79%

Maximus

63%

James Bond, Agent 007

63%

The Terminator

58%

Captain Jack Sparrow

58%

El Zorro

58%

Indiana Jones

50%

The Amazing Spider-Man

50%

William Wallace

46%

Lara Croft

46%

Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
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iBelieve

I’m a Christian and I love my iPod (because I love listening to music all the time), but this is just silly. Or maybe it’s funny:

http://www.devoted1.com/

I can’t quite tell if it’s a joke or not.

Justice

“As one judge said to another: ‘Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.'”

I love that quote – I refer to it often. I’d never realised until I googled for it just now that it comes from ‘The Naked Lunch’ by William S. Burroughs – one of the most bizarre books I have ever read.

Strawberries




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Originally uploaded by Maggie Leung.

I wish I had taken photos like this, but alas – I have not. I came across this on the site Flickr – this woman has taken some great photos of Prague and, incidentally, food. I like food.

I might take this opportunity to also announce that I am going to be posting some photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mistertim

Watch this space and some, along with references to that site, may appear.

Sharp End of History

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/23/1079939647250.html

Saw this very interesting article in the SMH today, that the sword that Francis De Groot used to prematurely open the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been ‘found’ in Ireland. I always found this incident to be one of those very quirky pieces of Australian history, although I never quite realised the wider social significance that was drawn out in this article. This, like running gun battles between drunk parliamentarians or snide remarks to journalists (see about half-way down that page) are the some of the best (i.e. funniest) things about Australian history.