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Today’s phrase of the day is “doubleplusgood duckspeaker” from Newspeak; the language used in George Orwell’s book, 1984.
For those who haven’t read 1984, Newspeak was designed to eliminate all redundant language in an effort to limit the scope of people’s thinking. A single adjective is used (in this case “good”) and then strengthened and [...]

WASHINGTON, DC—After decades of antagonism between the two global powers, the U.S. has officially severed relations with Them, Bush administration officials announced Tuesday.
“They have refused to comply with the U.S. time and time again,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, following failed 11th-hour negotiations Monday night. “It’s always unfortunate when diplomacy fails, but we could not [...]

While watching the start of the Australia V South Africa rugby game on Saturday night I started thinking about our national anthem. The official Australian national anthem is “Advance Australia Fair” which replaced “God save the Queen” on April 19, 1984.
Australia also has an unofficial national anthem which is often played at sporting events [...]

The Victorian government is currently engaged in a massive revenue raising exercise under the guise of ‘road safety’. Revenue from speed cameras jumped from $20.1 million dollars during March 2002 to $33.5 million dollars during the same period in 2003.
In response to this, an email has been circulating purporting to list the location of [...]