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More interesting things happening in the world than in my life right now.

Zidane vs that Italian guy

Israel vs Hezbellah

John Howard vs The Environment and the Greenhouse Effect and Peter Costello

One of the above is fascinating and terrifying, and the other two are funny because they're so ridiculous.

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Miss Sydney. It always feels like coming home, each time I visit. It feels like I've never really left, probably because part of me never really did. Returned to work bleary eyed on Monday morning after a weekend supersaturated with old friends and the Emergency department waiting room was positively repellant.

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Good luck to BST candidates!

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Saw two girls making out the other day. It goes without saying that that was Pretty Cool.

I have been asked why it is that guys find the sight or idea of two girls kissing such a turn on. My simple-minded reply at the time was that it was mathematically a case of taking something that is Cool (a girl kissing) and multiplying it by two, thus making it Pretty Cool.

I have since been told that girls do not find the reverse holds true: two guys making out is Not Cool, nor Pretty Cool, but simply Gay Porn.

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New music:

Justin Timberlake's new single is absolutely whack, from the grammatically retarded title "SexyBack", to the infuriatingly-repetitive-and-therefore-catchy drum beat. I'm not sure what the song's producer Timbaland is trying to do exactly - the composition, it is simplicity, is a polar opposite to their previous collaboration on "Cry me a river," which was a mini-symphony in its density.

It seems to take a page from the Gwen Stefani single "Hollaback girl", or even the recent Timbaland-produced Nelly Furtado singles "Promiscuous" and "Maneater" - all "songs" without much melody, driven on sparse, catchy beats and futuretro synth.

I suppose Nelly Furtado had to do something different after Corrine Bailey Rae took her spot as "songstress with lilting wispy voice."