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Tomorrow morning at 7:30, Snooze and I will pile our stuff into a 4WD and start out on a 1,700km journey to a place called Yalata . View Larger Map We will spend a couple of days in this remote aboriginal community and then head to Oak Valley , an even more remote aboriginal community 500kms or so North West of Yalata. Right in the guts of the country. View Larger Map The reason for the trip is a book that Snooze is editing about the Anangu communities in these settlements. Yalata and Oak valley are the end result of the aboriginal displacement caused by the Maralinga nuclear test range. I expect it will be quite confronting but also quite extraordinary. Despite living all my life in this country, I have never ventured into what can genuinely be called the Outback. I've spent plenty of time in the Bush, but never the deserts. I think it might be quite alien but I am very much looking forward to it. If I feel it's appropriate I might blog about it when I get back home. In t...

I know all that's gone on here in the last few months is purely blog filler, but meh. I think I'm in love with Michael Bay. "I demand things to be awesome" In other news, this is my 200th post on Itemisation. Happy bicentenary to me!

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Apparently posted by an international student. Don't know if it's for reals or not, but it's funny either way.

This is truly ace. The things people can do with technology. This is gaming 3.0 for Playstation 3. It's a longish video, but skip a few minutes in for the fun.

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