Australia's role in the Vietnam war

Interesting article in today's edition of The Age, titled "The war we gatecrashed," by Australian writer and New South Wales solicitor-general Michael Sexton. The thesis is that Australia encouraged the US to enter a full-blown conflict in Vietnam and then invited itself to this war.

Operator!

(via martin)
No one likes listening to menus over the phone, so it makes sense to try and memorize the escape sequences for the Very Big Companies whose customer service line you frequently call. Unfortunately such memorization is dull. But fortunately, someone has done something about it.