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Punk goes Primary. Five anthems your kids should learn

The coincidence in the anniversary of the release of Nirvana's Nevermind and a primary school's performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit was too much for a wannabe punk rocker to ignore.

The future: online and ready for you

Now that the Beijing Games are over and you're back to watching Nazi Friday nights on SBS-TV, you might want to reflect on what a golden opportunity the Olympics was to open up a society as closed as the People's Republic to the scrutiny (well, what was permissable) of the world's media.

Am I a hot Beijing Olympics athlete or not?

Sex sells everything, apparently. Even single-party states which suppress human rights and clamp down on free speech. I've been utterly freaked out by the parade of flesh that is the Olympic Games. The values I learnt studying Arts in the 80s means I am troubled. But I like it.

Olympic smog-screen: how the spirit of the Games has gone

It's almost here. More than two weeks of competition, drama, nice bodies in skin-tight lycra. But what about the negatives? Six Billion Blogs ponders the Olympic-sized holes in the true spirit of competition at the Games.

Hello Earthlings, This is NASA Calling...

Fifty years of NASA provides great web junk for space geeks, as Miguel "The Lost Cosmonaut" D'Souza explains.

Kiss-ins in Sin City and Aussies kiss off their gods

With the countdown clock to World Youth Day down to the small double digits, reports are emerging of gay groups being questioned by police about their activities and growing disquiet over emergency WYD laws.

Ice found on Mars

The NASA Phoenix Mars Lander probe has confirmed a finding that is set to change current thinking on the red planet.

Footloose: six feet under investigation as another limb makes landfall

It's the mystery that has police in Canada's British Columbia wracking their brains for leads on. All they have is six feet, none related, all variously shod in socks, shoes and all washed ashore on islands in the Strait of Georgia.

Cricket's switch-hit turns fans inside out

It's a stroke (literally) of brilliance by England cricketer Kevin Pietersen that has got cricket bloggers talking about whether a batsman changing his stance - literally going from being a left to right hander - is legal or not.

Satellite pictures tell of human rights violation

The term 'the morality of altitude' was coined to apply to bomber pilots who released their payloads on victims they couldn't see, without ever feeling any sense of remorse or empathy for the people whose lives, families, homes and property they destroyed.

Blogs react to Bo Diddley's death

The rock pioneer who wore a cobra for a bow-tie, Bo Diddley, has passed away today and the blogosphere has paid tribute.

Pink and blue, cocktails and kaffiyehs

How do you get from pink and blue to Yasser Arafat? Read on ...

Islamden, beard types and more

Beards, beards and more beards. They're cropping (no pun intended) up in Camden and online, and it's not even Mo-vember.

Burmese rappers

An unusual take on human rights and rap in Burma.

Gary Kasparov interrupted by flying phallus

Today's SBB celebrates the digital public outing that is the Youtube attack. It's truly not enough anymore for an event to be witnessed. To really make it into the cyber top drawer, one must be the subject of a Youtube video.

Mugshots - we heart mugshots

We here at Six billion blogs love the pre-eminence of photographic immediacy amongst the internet's many joys. It is police station snapshots, however, that count as web gold.

Fondue funnies - this blog looks like a duck

SBB has it's first submission, courtesy of SBS's own linking Lothario, a blogwise and streetwise artful type we call 'JP'.

Holy mini-golf! Last days of a putt-putt palace

Today's piece of web goodness comes courtesy of a Flickr uploader Airstream Life, whose gallery of the dying days of a mini-golf course kick today's blog count off.