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Win a Grand Weekend in Melbourne

By Ben Hourigan On 2008-08-22 · Leave a Comment

Expedia is running a competition to win an AFL Grand Final weekend in fabulous Melbourne (my beloved home city), valued at up to $9,600. The competition closes August 31 and is open to Australian residents. Click the image below to enter. Good luck!

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New Hampshire Numberplate – Live free or die!

By Ben Hourigan On 2006-01-30 · 6 Comments

While using Wikipedia to research “Montréal”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal and the surrounding area, I came across this image of a “New Hampshire”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire “numberplate.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CurrentNewHampshirePlate.jpg I wouldn’t die for freedom, myself; under dire oppression, I’d rather bide my time looking for a way to put my life and liberty together. Yet I have always loved this American revolutionary slogan, and [...]

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Gong xi fa cai – Year of the cock

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-02-9 · 8 Comments

Okay, Chinese New Year was yesterday, but Happy Chinese New Year, anyway. This morning I found the following image on the site of that purveyor of fine videogaming paraphernalia, “Lik-Sang”:http://www.lik-sang.com, which I thought was amusing. Incidentally, this lunar year, which I prefer to call the year of the rooster, or of the chicken, is the [...]

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    Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.

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