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First up, I really like Kanye's new song - Power.

That version seems a little bit low quality. The MP3 is a fair bit better. I love the tribal drums, the catchy sing-song and the rapping. Seriously, Kanye's rapping is getting a lot better. He's sharper, harsher, more creative. This could be the album where he kills it official style.

- One of the most hilarious stories I've read in a long time. Daily Tele journo goes with a clairvoyant to find the body of Peter Falconio.

"Show me the bones of Peter Falconia," said Lorelle Trickett, rods in hand, as we set off from Alice Springs in the dark hours of Saturday morning.
"Falconio," I gently suggested. "That's what I said," said Lorelle. "Falconia."
For the next three days, she would ask the rods again and again for the bones of Peter Falconia. This may be one logical explanation - in a journey that was otherwise void of logic - for why we never did find Peter Falconio or, for that matter, Peter Falconia.
(I hope I'm not spoiling the ending by prematurely revealing the mission's failure, but had we found Falconio, those of us on this expedition who are The Daily Telegraph staff would have resigned by now, signed up with Harry M. Miller and would be watching the big euros rolling in from somewhere in the south of Spain.)

- Charlie Sheen could be going to jail soon, and apparently the inmates love him. Two and a Half Men is one of the most popular shows in jail.

"The prisoners typically like to watch sports and anything that shows half-naked women. Two and a Half Men delivers the half-naked women," the officer told Fox News.
"They love Sheen’s character because he gets with a lot of women and he rarely suffers any consequences for his actions.
"God help you if you change the channel during Two and a Half Men."

- Long article about how Sarah Palin is becoming big big big dollars in the US.

- Interesting profile of Christopher Hitchens. A conversation goes from amiable to violently abusive in a few sentences. Worth a read.

And then the young doctor to his left made a passing but sympathetic remark about Howard Dean, the 2004 Presidential candidate; she said that he had been unfairly treated in the American media. Hitchens, in the clear, helpful voice one might use to give street directions, replied that Dean was “a raving nut bag,”
....(a few sentences later)
"F*** off. No, I mean it: f*** off. I’m telling you what I think are standards, and you say, ‘What standards? It’s fine, he’s against the Iraq war.’ F***. Off. You’re MoveOn.org."

- A parent's worst nightmare. 15-year-old son gets accused of rape, gets arrested and spends a year going through the courts... and he didn't do it.

- HILARIOUS entry from 1999 about Hobart's night life!!! It's classic!

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A night-club that attracts many 35 year old seedy moustached men. It is sleazy, with bad decor, bad music, and really not much going for it. A place to stay away from unless you are keen to pick up what ever is going around at the time, or would like to gain or ruin a reputation.

- How bad would it be to be a member of the NSW Government?

- Matildas' captain says there should be more coverage of women's sport.

- I really liked this piece about Matthew Richardson. He is a legend.

I looked over at my almost 20-year-old daughter that night and was surprised to see tears streaming down her face. And then it occurred to me how much a player like Richo must have meant to Richmond fans of her age and below. For all of her living memory he has so often been the only thing worth going to the football for.
Richo never had to try to be loved. It has been written before what a phenomenon he was to have been one club's best player for a decade-and-a-half. It was sad on the nights that Scott West was narrowly pipped at the Brownlow counts, but when Richardson fell just short in 2008 the entire room seemed devastated. In the end, individual glory was all he had left to vie for.