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ACC is Fine - Seeing Through the Spin

By Tama on 31 October 2009

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In October 2009 the Accident Compensation Corporation posted a $4.8 billion dollar loss, which was referred to in the media as "the biggest corporate loss in New Zealand's history". There was of course a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth and many ideas were mooted as ways to deal with this loss, including introducing an excess, reduced coverage, substantial levies rises, privatisation and the opening up to small or all of ACC's services to competition.

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A Hell of a Commute

By Tama on 15 October 2009

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Currently my partner and I have jobs in separate cities until the end of the year - which means most of the time we're kept apart by 400 kilometres and a decent mountain range. So seeing each other regularly involves a hell of commute whichever way you look at it.

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All Crackheads must die

By Scotty on 10 October 2009

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I come to you live from my living room table, looking out onto my gloriously manicured lawn on a reasonably overcast day in Dunedin.

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Unnewsworthy

West Cape May is being terrorises by the Midnight Knitter

Mysterious tree cosies are plaguing a small town in the U.S.

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Sony releases black dildo you wave at your TV

Sony's finally put a name to their motion controller, and it's called PlayStation Move. Updated with hands on.

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Lonely galaxy is lonely. But it ate its friends.

Poor ESO 306-17 galaxy is all by itself - that'll teach it for eating all of it's friends.

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7 (Thankfully) Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals

In prehistoric times, you would've had to wear a diaper wherever you went on account of these pants-shittingly huge monsters ready to eat you.

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How a Giant Shark Took Down an Airplane

Here's how a 240 tonne shark can take down a airplane at 2000 metres above sea level.

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Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com

We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory. http://www.thefuntheory.com

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Lord Baden-Powell offered Hitler Youth hand of friendship | News.com.au

THE founder of the Boy Scouts founder held friendly talks with senior Nazis about forming closer ties with the Hitler Youth and was even invited to meet Adolf Hitler, newly released security files show.

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Time-lapse of book-cover design

Check out 6 hours of Photoshopping condensed into 2 minutes.

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MI5 monitored Hitler Youth cycling tours 1937, say declassified files

Before the rumbling of tanks and wailing of dive-bombers, another noise represented the Nazi war machine: the tinkling of bicycle bells.

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March 8, 1955: The Mother of All Operating Systemsl

1955: Computer pioneer Doug Ross demonstrates the Director tape for MIT’s Whirlwind machine. It’s a new idea: a permanent set of instructions on how the computer should operate.

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