Was Shakespeare really Sir Francis Bacon?

http://www.sirbacon.org/links/evidence.htm presents a lot of evidence that it was really Sir Francis Bacon who wrote the works published under the name William Shakespeare. 

Apple to launch video iPod?

Announcements have gone out for an October 12 meeting, with the name “One more thing…”, traditionally the phrase that Steve Jobs uses at the end of a meeting to drop a bombshell launch of a new product.  It’s believed to be a 60GB iPod with a nan-sized click-wheel, presumably to allow room for a bigger color screen.

From http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1304 and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/05/apple_video_ipod_launch/

Sydney “world’s best place to eat”

The LA Times food critic has written that Sydney is the number one place to eat, with superb locations and excellent food. She said “The best Australian chefs have caught the soul of a cuisine, so whatever they cook rings true…. Funny thing is, Sydney seems to do practically every other genre spectacularly well too. So much so that this city of 3 million has become a mecca of sorts for anybody serious enough about food to get on a plane and fly 16 hours to get here.”

From http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16722586-38198,00.html and http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-sydney25sep25,1,4609371.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

The Phoenix Principle

‘Despair leads to death. The entrance to hell in Dante’s inferno: ‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here.’ - Secrets of Super Achievers by Philip Baker, Webb & Partners 1997, Pg 50.

A man is sitting on his porch in Kentucky.

He’s just retired from the post office.

His first Social Security check arrives.

He’s very, very discouraged. He thinks, “Is this my life now - sitting on the porch waiting for my check?”

He made a list of all the blessings and capacities he had.

The list was long. In the list was his mother’s recipe for fried chicken.

It used eleven different herbs and spices.

He went to a nearby restaurant and asked if he could cook the chicken.

It soon became the most popular item on the menu.

So he opened his own restaurant, then others, then a string of restaurants.

Eventually Harland Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise across all of America.

Pastor Phil Pringle

http://www.ccc.org.au/

1 in 4 Aussies born abroad

24% of the Australian population are direct immigrants, with the highest groups from:

• Britain:6%
• New Zealand: 2%
• Italy: 1%
• China: 1%
• Vietnam: 1%

From http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16662689-39555,00.html