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Swinburne University of Technology’s e-Therapy Unit co-directors Dr Britt Klein and Dr David Austin have developed “internet to deliver therapy”:

Through graphics, animation, audio and video, a patient is guided through an internet-based psychological treatment. He or she is given the option to choose a male or female online presenter, to access video materials by former […]

A presentation on images, metadata, death, ice-smoking and more…

ANZAC Day – 25 April – is probably Australia’s most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as ANZACs, and […]

On 13 February 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will deliver the apology to the Indigenous people of Australia. This will occur over 10 years after the Bringing Them Home human rights report recommended that the government apologise for the policy of removing indigenous kids from their parents.
This historic event will be streamed live across the […]

Ok, some people may think that they have a good handle on idiocy, but I am here to tell you that I RULE in this department. Let me give you a snapshot of the last 24 hours or so…

Drive to airport.
Find a narrow parking spot at airport car park and decide “its very close to […]

There are three men on a train, One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don’t know why they are going to Scotland) and they see a brown cow standing in a field […]

Juvenilia is a term applied to literary or artistic works produced by an author during his or her youth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenilia
I wonder if there is a term for “works produced by an author during his or her declining years”? If not, some suggestions could include: senileilia… geriatrilia… venerabilia… veteranilia… ?

The word Tetrad fundamentally refers to “a set or group of four”. However, the word is used in a variety of ways including:

2 km x 2 km square area
set of four musical notes
set of four vector fields (general relativity frame fields)
complementary pair of colors (referred to as double complementary)

Tetradic or ‘double complementary’ colour schemes use […]

2DAY
today
2MORO
tomorrow
2NITE
to night
4EVRYRS
for ever yours
A3
anytime, anywhere, anyplace
AAM
as a matter of fact
AFAIK
as far as I know
AFK
away from keyboard
AKA
also known as
ASAP
as soon as possible
ASL
age, sex, location
ATB
all the best
ATK
at the keyboard
ATM
at the moment
B4
before
B4N
bye for now
BAK
back at keyboard
BBFN
bye bye for now
BBL
be back later
BBS
Be Back Soon
BBSD
be back soon darling
BCNU
be seeing you
BdBy
bad boy
BF
boy friend
BFN/B4N
bye for now
BRB
be right back
BRT
be right there
BTW
by the way
BYKT
but […]

I’ve noticed a growing trend within companies to use jargon phrases such as “technically agnostic“. This particular phrase may be good or bad depending on your interpretation. The word Agnostic comes from two Greek words - “a” (meaning “without”) and “Gnostic” or “gnosis” (meaning “knowledge”).
Agnosticism (from the Greek a, meaning “without”, and gnosticism or gnosis, […]