Archives, eh
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# Links for 2008-07-22
Using Google as a free MobileMe alternative
No tasks yet. Hopefully Remember The Milk will be first off the rank though ✴The rise and fall of European and Arab cities ✴
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# Links for 2008-02-04
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# Links for 2008-01-23
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# Links for 2008-01-22
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# Links for 2007-09-09
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# Links for 2007-08-31
- sp!ked review of books | Towards an age of abundance ✴
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# A wolf, you say?
Confronted in question time with the wording of a 2004 Liberal Party advertisement that said it would “keep interest rates at record lows” if returned to office Mr Howard disowned the advertisement saying “the Liberal Party ran many advertisements.”
“I remind the Leader of the Opposition of what I have said previously in the House. He can scour every transcript, and I will make them available, of every interview that I gave during that election campaign and he will find no such commitment,” the Prime Minister said.
Ah, Mr Howard. We know, we know. The ALP knows, the media knows, the bloggers know; hell, even most of the population knows in their heart of hearts that you didn’t promise to prevent rate rises, or keep the rates at record lows. You merely promised to keep them lower than the ALP would and allowed the electorate to hear what they wanted to.
But remember that honesty perception problem you were told about on the weekend? This is one of the reasons why people don’t think you are honest. It is because you speak in weasel words; you speak in the verbal equivalent of a Rorschach blot. And when everyone believes exactly what you actually wanted them to believe – despite never actually saying it – well then you effect lofty indignation.
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# Links for 2007-06-17
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# Links for 2007-06-16
- Energy as the Constraining Factor on Increased Complexity ✴
- ‘Rome Reborn’ Model Pushes Frontiers of 3-D Simulation ✴
- Open Source Economics Driving Web 2.0 Innovation ✴
- Global Liquidity Crisis when the Credit Boom comes to an End :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Forecasting & Analysis Free Website ✴
