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Instructions:
1. Stare at the centre of the image for at least 10 seconds
2. Look at something else.
3. Enjoy!
4. Please don’t do this if you are driving a car.

Via TED via speigl.org via verylowsodium:

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The current issue of Reconstruction (Vol. 6, No. 4) is all about Theories and Practices of Blogging. Could be interesting reading.

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The Cartoon Network is calling for cartoon ideas and characters which they can turn into world premiere animated short films.
I nominate Dümmerth (powered by BARNABY).
Submissions forms are available HERE.
What say you, BARNABY??

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You know those miniature video camera capsules you can swallow to examine the inside of your gut as they travel through? Sounds much more pleasant than drinking barium or having a barium enema, right?
This article in eMJA — Initial experience with capsule endoscopy at a major referral hospital – describes the process:

Patients fasted from midnight, [...]

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If people aren’t going to clean up after their dogs, doing THIS is the next best thing:

Political Poo Art (from Meredith’s MARRICKVILLIA blog).

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Monarch cake shop (Acland Street, St Kilda) now sells its famous chocolate kugelhopf by the slice. The plum cake too.
That is all.

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We’ve just spent the weekend poking our noses around Marysville, Buxton, Healesville and all places Yarra Valley. I could be wrong but I think it’s my first trip beyond the city limits in about 6 months and I’m so happy to be well enough at the moment to do a small jaunt like this one.
We [...]

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Winners!!!
You buh-yewty!
(You know who you are)
Can you hear that . . . ? It’s the sound glory makes as you bask in it.

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It’s pet peeve time again.
It may start with the use of unnecessary and increasingly annoying phrases like “at the end of the day” and “in relation to”, but please let’s be clear about where this sort of thing leads.
Today’s copy of The Age carried a story by Brendan Nicholson about the status of David Hicks [...]

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A number of readers have connections in the UK so I thought I’d post this call for contestants from the BBC for a new quiz show called Sudo-Q:
Are you a fan of SUDOKU?
Do you enjoy general knowledge quizzes?
If you answered yes and are lively and outgoing then we want to hear from you.
The BBC are [...]

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