But... is it real?

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Win a flight for four anywhere in Australia

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Between 20 June and 15 July Qantas red e-mail members have a chance to win economy flight for four to anywhere on the Qantas domestic network, departing from a capital city.

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You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.

Create your own 4-by-6-inch postcards out of any mailable material. Put one secret on a card. Please put your complete secret and image on one side of the postcard. Be brief - the fewer words used the better. Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering. Be creative - let the postcard be your canvas.

Mail your secrets to: PostSecret, 13345 Copper Ridge Rd, Germantown, Maryland, USA 20874-3454

The Undomesticated Cat Suggests... Art

A friend studying art popped in and gave me a list of art/artistic (all mediums - digital, sculpture, experimental, etc) related sites to have a look at... some of them (well those I've got to briefly have a look at) are very cool. She gave me a list of names, no links... but I think I've got the right links... or I hope so. I've decided to give them to you in a jumble. Because I can.

Jon McCormack, Char Davies (i), Char Davies (ii), The Lycette Brothers, John Tonkin, Francesca da Rimini (i), Francesca da Rimini (ii),Akuvido, Blast Theory, Paul Sermon, Richard Brown, Ken Rinaldo, Amy Youngs, Symbiotica, Oron Catts + lonat zurr, Adam Zaresky (i), Adam Zaresky (ii), Victoria Vesna, Nigel Helyer, Lynne Sanderson (i), Lynne Sanderson (ii), Troy Innocent, We are all boat people, Critical art ensemble

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McLibel

McLibel is the true story of a postman and a gardener who took on McDonald's and wouldn't say "McSorry," in a legal battle since described as "the biggest corporate PR disaster in history."

McDonald's loved using the UK's libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organizations like the BBC and The Sun had crumbled and apologized. But then McDonald's sued penniless activists' Helen Steel and Dave Morris.

In what became the longest trial in English legal history, the "McLibel 2" represented themselves against McDonald's USD$19 million legal team.

Every aspect of the corporation's business was cross-examined: from junk food and McJobs, to animal cruelty, environmental damage and the company's advertising to children.

Outside the courtroom, Dave brought up his young son alone and Helen supported herself working nights in a bar.

McDonald's tried every trick in the book against them. Legal maneuvers. A visit from Ronald McDonald. Top U.S.executives flying to London for secret settlement negotiations. Even spies.

Seven years later, in February 2005, the marathon legal battle finally concluded in the European Court of Human Rights. And the result took everyone by surprise - especially the British Government.

Filmed over ten years by no-budget Director Franny Armstrong (Drowned Out), McLibel features reenactments of key courtroom scenes directed by Ken Loach.

McLibel is not about hamburgers. It is about the power multinational corporations wield over our everyday lives and two unlikely heroes who are changing McWorld. more...

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