David Ould is an Anglican Pastor who ministers to the Macquarie Fields Congregation in Sydney. He is also one of five winners of the Your Chair competition and tonight becomes co-host of television current affairs program The Project. I don’t think I’ve directly interacted with David, but we seem to frequent a lot of the …

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At their OZWords blog, the Australian National Dictionary Centre are featuring some of the words and phrases that have been submitted to their Word Box, an online portal which invites the submission of newly minted terms. Among this batch are ‘awks’, ‘whatevs’ and ‘captain’s pick’, which I have run into, and others with which I …

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A homemade documentary about a family bankrupted by Dad’s purchasing of Beanie Babies. “It all started innocently enough…” Those of us who have personalities that tend toward gathering, collecting, compulsive completivism, and hoarding know that this could never happen to us. Never. Bankrupt By Beanies from Chris Robinson on Vimeo.