alius locus, alius mihi Vox 2008-03-31T09:18:06Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2251ee4ba8e1d/2008/03/ Is this all there is?? Earth Hour tag:vox.com,2008-03-29:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00f48ce92c210002 2008-03-29T10:32:17Z 2008-03-31T09:18:06Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Can anyone tell me the sense in a community tuning out it's household lights, while the streets remain fully illuminated? What is the point, in a coal-fired, power-derived society of tuning out the house lights in the full and complete knowledge ...

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]]> QotD: No Laughing Matter tag:vox.com,2008-03-28:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00f48ce915990003 2008-03-28T21:25:10Z 2008-03-29T01:01:53Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom What do you think is too serious to joke around about? The Iraq War. We know from the news that 4,000 American military lives have been wasted. What we don't know are the number of civilian lives - Iraqi and foreign - which have been squandered ...

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]]> Nicely Done, Mrs. President! tag:vox.com,2008-03-28:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00f48ce8d37f0002 2008-03-28T07:07:27Z 2008-03-28T14:08:04Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Bruni Bruni_1 Bruni_2 Bruni_6 Bruni_7

Until this week, I couldn't have told you who the wife of the French President was. I knew he had one, because of all the hoo-hah with the marriage shortly after he took office, but as for who she is - or was - I wouldn't have had a clue. Could ha...

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]]> QotD: Sharing is Caring tag:vox.com,2008-03-28:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00f48d078c570001 2008-03-28T06:13:12Z 2008-03-28T06:13:12Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom What do you most hate sharing with other people? My time. It's too valuable to waste on other people. Lords know we get so little of it to ourselves and then others want to horn in on it. As Ford Prefect tells Arthur Dent, "Time is an illusion. ...

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]]> QotD: Neurotic Behavior tag:vox.com,2008-03-27:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00e398ea222a0005 2008-03-27T08:13:04Z 2008-03-27T08:13:04Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom What's the one thing you're most neurotic about? Sexual performance, believe it or not. But then, aren't most men?

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]]> Things aren't always what they seem tag:vox.com,2008-03-26:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00f48ce82afb0003 2008-03-26T04:32:16Z 2008-03-27T16:30:11Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom A woman was flying from Seattle to San Francisco. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento along the way. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re...

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]]> Vox Hunt: In Bloom tag:vox.com,2008-03-23:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00e398e8a6ea0004 2008-03-23T07:17:00Z 2008-03-24T03:46:03Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Dendrobium - (Dandy Dame x taurium) x canaliculatum Dendrobium biggibum var compactum Dendrobium (Spellbound x dicuphum) x Burdekin Candy Dendrobium biggibum var compactum x (biggibum x Chao Praya 'White') Dendrobium (Dalellen 'Glamour' x Polar Queen) x self

Show us your favourite flower. 'tis easy. I don't have one, but an entire genera. Orchidaceae. I've not yet found an orchid flower I didn't like. They're all so different and all so very alluring. Here's a couple of mine, in flower right now.

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]]> After Oil tag:vox.com,2008-03-21:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00f48ce676cb0003 2008-03-21T09:47:08Z 2008-03-24T01:40:38Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I was bored beyond belief this arvo, so thought to watch a freebie online doco to pass the time. Which category to select.....decisions! decisions! I selected Geo-Politics and a doco about peak oil. After 15 minutes it wasn't telling me anything I...

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]]> Great Humanist Departs tag:vox.com,2008-03-19:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00f48d04ab910001 2008-03-19T22:47:18Z 2008-03-19T23:42:10Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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]]> QotD: Time for Change tag:vox.com,2008-03-18:asset-6a00c2251ee4ba8e1d00f48ce5b1e20003 2008-03-18T23:41:57Z 2008-03-18T23:41:57Z NDC http://ndc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom If you could go back and change one thing you've done in your life, what would it be? Submitted by Devinoid. In 1972 I won a cadetship to study drafting at the Queensland Institute of Technology (now the Queensland University of Technology). I ...

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