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The piece for Stella’s class is done (“Australia =,” below), and a nearly complete Flash version (including the Aussie National Anthem) is up too (http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous/2006/australia):

australia thunders at more than just kangaroos and cricket
australia presses free
australia never speaks to closing its doors
australia burns unique
australia strives for helping
australia lurks in wonderful
australia is ringed by one big outback
australia is unshaven by part of our world
australia peeps out from maroochydore
australia is falling down into engineering better trees
australia freshens no island
australia confirms mooloolaba
australia is wrought with a safe place for backpackers
australia remembers caboolture
australia the world's biggest island yet it has a population of less than 19 million people
australia displays the sixth largest country in the world
australia speaks to commonly known as the oldest continent
australia waits for invited
australia plucks out home
australia hides behind kawana waters
australia mixes a party
australia asks for the only country which occupies a whole continent
australia rushes out into located in the southern hemisphere
australia is shored against a big loser from climate change
australia fiddles in the southern hemisphere
australia has been in the governing body for the sport of surfing
australia buries maroochydore
australia is unheard of in outlawing fun
australia pursues about aboriginal
australia is gilded with a country to work
australia stirs maleny
australia takes gympie
australia encounters refugees' goal
australia follows no island
australia dries noosa
australia walks among one big outback
australia spreads free
australia is touched by as wild as our tamed world gets
australia makes oneself into such a tough nut to crack
australia is musing upon montville
australia leans out into bundaberg
australia stays in toowoomba queensland australia
australia sighs in maryborough queensland australia
australia reflects upon a country where one feels at ease
australia draws more than just kangaroos and cricket
australia counts unity
australia powders commonly
australia is stirred by being flooded with refugees
australia is rattled by part of our world
australia comes from a health and
australia sinks into one
australia swells on pleased to announce
australia foresuffers the enemy
australia tumbles at buderim
australia is drowning in one of the major attractions for students going to study there
australia clears stable and showcases the best businesses
australia is touched by australian culture
australia is unheard of in kawana waters
australia powders caloundra
australia clutches doing
australia holds on to a major exporter of agricultural products
australia dries engineering better trees
australia promises home

Praise be to the Google Poetry Generator!

Made more headway than I expected on the next lecture, “Contents of Multimedia Literature” (April 5), where I want to highlight as much work as possible that I haven’t shown yet so reviewed a lot of online pieces I haven’t seen in a long time. Interesting to revisit quite a few cyber-nuggets, even if a little bit exhausting. Also started to think about what I should say in my final MMU lecture (April 6), which is supposed to address the professional possibilities for creative texts. An challenging topic, especially since poetry in all forms typically holds little commercial potential!

Didn’t make much progress on the Flash indexes, hopefully tomorrow. Moving forward, always, trying not to sweat the small stuff or fret the big stuff.

Good news today: the two proposals I sent in to the Thailand Media Arts Festival (http://culturebase.org/home/thailand/MAF06/), one for a talk on Digital Poetry, one for a collaborative text/music performance with Eric Curkendall, are apparently going to be included on the program. Should be fun, and an interesting process to organize the gig with Eric across the wires...