27April
Whale rider the movie
Every good movie needs one astounding image.
Leon Narby (dir photography)(a buddy of Francis P. in 1969)
has Pai riding a whale underwater,
Cut seamlessly to beautiful actual whale shots.
Overheard in King St after the screening
"It was so beautiful it makes me want to go back to New Zealand right away"
Whale rider the movie
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Chopped off the Web:
www.smirkingchimp.com the best, the most foaming at the mouth, anti Dubya site
I hope the loss is technical, not political, and I hope Smirking Chimp is back soon.
Smirking Chimp

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26April
Kut today, American marines said they had convinced a Shiite cleric, Sayed Abbas,
to leave peacefully on Friday evening.

Baghdad explosions

Baghdad At least six Iraqi civilians were killed on the outskirts of Baghdad today when explosions ripped through an ammunition dump guarded by American troops in their neighborhood. Military officials said a group of attackers had fired a flare into the cache



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How to make a fortune through misfortune:

SARS will need a 2 minute test if its to be halted.
Someone in California in the next months will make a DNA chip
with a thousand chunks of SARS sequences.
There is a market of hundreds of millions.
The biotech company that makes this will boom
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AnnandaleGalleries
A new movement in NE ArnhemLand bark paintings.
If you tend to walk past bark paintings to get to the Central Desert works,
check out the exhibition at Annandale Galleries 110 Trafalgar St Annandale Sydney (until 17May?)

Conflicting essays state that the images are more abstract because:
1) the animal & human figures were intended to obscure secret clan images and now can be removed, partially
2) the market prefers abstraction to figures

Whatever, this room will stop you in your tracks, austere and rich, earth pigments shimmering.
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