Is Australia losing it's religion?

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A interesting exploration for theist and non-theist alike (via http://twitter.com/misssandy)

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The Decline in the Management of Defence and Defence Capability Development, Acquisition, Preparedness, and Sustainment

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Very critical

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And who should appear

Yesterday I posted on the discussion and today as I am catching up on my RSS feeds (in my breaks), Dave Snowden provides the necessary expansion. In my argument, I represented that as human's are natural, they can not violate nature. I think that the introduction of Niche Construction might better represent the point of the argument, showing that there are differences between the knocking down of a tree to dam a brook and mass irrigation depriving the Murray mouth of fresh water. Or am I missing something?

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Gladwell to find them

Over the christmas break, a friend slipped me a copy of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. I consumed that in my festival of literature this year, which lead me to listen to Outliers from Audible. And finally, Tipping Point via the library. Completely out of sequence, but none of the effect was lost.

Firstly, I would like to point out that these other methods of consuming books, audio or hiring from the library may share the risk of getting a bad book, but the good books will still need to be purchased. I have saved nothing here.

Anyway, if you are looking at a way to re-evaluate the way you think about thinking, well Gladwell is as good a place as any. Some other good books that have kept me interested this year, of a similar ilk are:

• The opposable mind - Roger Martin
• Did you spot the gorilla? - Richard Wiseman
• Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
• Tribes - Seth Godin

Finally, my obsession with mind mapping has lead to the included representation of Tipping Point

Public Enemies

With a quality cast including cult classics Johnny Depp, David Wenham, Christian Bale, Billy Cruddup and Branka Katic; Michael Mann told a tale of crime in the mid to early 1930s. Strangely, this a film that Julie and I could agree on (there really aren't many). Although, Julie probably was drawn to the Indianan references and the vague familiarity of John Dillinger because she really did shy away from the blood.

What cinched to film for me was the not so subtle relevance to the 'War on Terror'. The formation of the FBI to combat crime from a national standpoint, which exploited the power vacuum to use methods preminscent of Gitmo and Abu Ghraib.

I am left with a Watchmen reference; Who watches the G-Men?

Greatest Songs of All Time

Triple J is doing another Hottest 100 of all time, the first of which was conducted in 1989 and was won by Joy Division's Love will Tear Us Apart. The second was held in 1998 and won by Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit (hat tip: Michael Landsberg for picking up the error). I have slapped together my ten nominations, what are yours?

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Alice in Chains - Heaven Beside You
Tool - Sober
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song
You Am I - Berlin Chair

Twitter killed the facebook...

I have long been thinking about posting on how my twitter fetish has killed off any hope for my Weblog, but I kept myself from posting. The main reason was that I am certain that it had all been said before over the three years of Twitter's life. It is quite natural that a disturbance in the force results in a renegotiation of how to fit everything in.

What inspired this post has been the recent barrage of complaints on Facebook about the twitter updates that apparently consume facebook 'news' feeds. From what I understand, by tweeting some of my friend's walls are consumed by my activities... but isn't that the point?

What is it about web2.0 that these people aren't getting? but if I went down this rabbit hole, I would be just as bad. So instead... Things that @#$% me about Facebook:

1. Being bitten by Vampires/superwalled and poked

2. Friends' statuses about the current domestic that they are having

3. What this quiz can tell me about me

4. You can control your news feed

5. This is where your mum is now