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Tag Archives: Australia

links for 2007-08-11: booksellers, Gilles Deleuze

Bookstore chain puts the screws on small publishers – and small publisher sticks it to the man. (tags: australia books commerce publishing) L’Abecedaire de Gilles Deleuze, with Claire Parnet (tags: philosophy theory deleuze)

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links for 2006-12-13: fire down below, Taking Tiger Mountain

Map of Australia |Current Fire Hotspots this is not normal, right? (screenshot, for those who came in late) (tags: australia Bushfires) Doug Hilsinger & Caroleen Beatty – Brian Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy) 30th anniversary cover version of the … more…

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Bradshaw Art

There are ancient rock paintings in the Kimberley, an inhospitable and sparsely populated region in the north west of Australia. They are known locally as Gwion Gwion, and according to legend, the paintings were made by birds, who pecked at … more…

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The BOLD PRINT giveth…

Charlie Stross, mostly offline in Sydney, Australia: The hotel booking info that promised broadband internet access actually meant “we’ll rent you a PCMCIA card with Windows XP drivers that lets you talk to a cellphone network, at vast expense” — … more…

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