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Hi all, Get your creative juices flowing and come on by this thread You can either submit or critique the submissions. In either case i know alot of people do not venture past the creative writing forum but it is well worth a look. With this contest and other threads there is no...

Just got the fantastic news that I landed a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship in Germany at Tuebingen. My wife and I are both excited and terrified at the same time. I have noticed that there are one or two German based members here and wanted to know if I could pick your brains.

I noticed the new Joss Whedon series Dollhouse and wanted opinions on it (I couldn't watch it even if I wanted to as it has only been released on pay TV here). I own all the Buffy series, Angle, Firefly, and Serenity but have heard mixed reviews on Dollhouse so not sure whether I should buy it...

I am reading Goethe's Faust. Have finished part 1 and about to start on part 2. Equal parts funny, tragic, enlightening, and confronting. Very interesting take on a western Christian parable. Also reading Swan's Way by Proust and just finished possible the best fiction book by a Christian...

Ok next fun creative writing game and my personal fav. Acronyms!! (read in game show voice for full effect). Ok so basically acronyms is liked entwined haiku but with acrostic poems. The initial poster (me) will write an acrostic. The next poster will take the last word and use that as the...

With religion and science seemingly at the cross roads with groups continuing to become increasingly polarized I picked up Christian and Cambridge Professor Simon Conway Morris' book "Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe". In this book Morris attempts to develop a "theology of...

Ok I find this forum a little intimidating so I thought I would start a thread where everyone can get involved. Entwined Haiku starts with a single poem consisting of three lines of 5, then 7, then 5 sounds. The next person will then take the last line and use it as the first line of their...

Hi All, Just got a new 12 week old purebred beagle puppy. This is a link to pictures of her and her sister. Her name is bella and the older puppy, who is a 1 year old beagle x cocker spaniel is named pandora. http://www.cgalliance.org/forums/album.php?albumid=12 All comments about how...

I have recently joined the Richard Dawkins discussion forum in order to understand a little better other people's points of view and how people explain the non-existence of God. Many people there are exceptionally intelligent and it is a little intimidating for an admitted Christian to be there...

Ok try not to laugh but I have been reading alot of classics and modern prose recently and wanted to give it a go myself. I dont think I have attempted any creative writing since high school but surprised myself in having such a good time writing this. Feedback would be much appreciated as I...

Well guys the newspaper headline over here today is "Sydney hottest place on earth". A bit of an overstatement perhaps but it will be 110 up to 115 in some places. Anyways the scary bit was that at 9.00 last night I went to walk the dog and could not breath due to the smoke. Our house backs onto...

The single most enjoyable reading experience I have had in some time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obernewtyn_Chronicles

Ok so I am working from home for the next 6 months to finish of my thesis and thought I would go John the Baptist style for a few months. One problem......my beard is gray! That is right I am barely 25 and I am going gray. My hair is black but my beard is gray in places, how can this be. On...

Well i am listening to the news at the moment hearing that many of you guys are going to have a white Christmas and I am so jealous. it pretty much only snows in two small parts in Australia at the best of times and never in Summer. Thus I thought you might want to know what is happening hear...

OK this is throwing a very wide net but does anybody have an advanced knowledge of LISREL or associated latent variable modelling software. If so could you please PM me before i shoot my copy of LISREL.

Well it took a while as I have had a bunch of formal engagement up till now BUT I am now an official mo bro ( http://www.movember.com/ ). Growing a mo for charity. Will up date you and post horrible photos soon.

I have moved the discussion here so as not to interfer with the point of the heaven the game thread.

Well. Here is the article folks: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=658128&rss=yes First the good news - Doctor Who will be making a return in 2009 with David Tennant at the helm. Now the bad news - The 2009 series will only be 5 eps and will be Tennant's last as the good...

I did a three day course on a program called Nvivo www.qsrinternational.com last week. It is free at many colleges and is great if you do writing that involves managing multiple sources (audio, visual, and text) and ensuring that you have consistency in your text. It was really easy to use...

Hi All, My wife has kindly agreed to get me a new laptop for my birthday. Here is the specs and the price I am looking to pay. I know very little about mobile GPUs or CPUs so would appreciate an indication if this is good or not (VB and HCS Im looking at you)...