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Marginalia

Marginalia

Wot! Another theatre fringe festival? Why not!

Flloyd Kennedy, actor, director, and voice coach talks up a new ‘Bits’ fringe festival for Brisbane, scheduled “loosely” for late November this year.  She enthuses about the kind of wild and woolly “and deeply unreliable” fringe festival that she wants to see in the city, and challenges the group to get organised, and get going.

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The PM, the girls, and the Dogs

Bulldogs v Lions, originally uploaded by Kevin Rudd PM. No reason for this post other than it’s clearly silly footie finals season, and perhaps only in Australia would a Prime Minister bet on the results of a football match with his Deputy … and then wear the winning team’s tie next day. Here’s Health Minister

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My iPod Nano and me: testing the onboard video camera

I’ve had some fun today playing with Apple’s new 5th generation Nano iPod. Specifically, I’ve been testing the inbuilt video camera for usability and results. I’ve sent up an Audioboo which discusses my reactions so far to the Nano, and although I call it a ‘Nano video-camera’ on this boo, it’s no such thing at

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