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The FAT Website has had over a dozen bloggers writing about their lives around the world for over a decade. Topics cover everything from food, music, sports, travel and general musings on the minutiae of everyday life. The FAT Website blog first started in 1999 as a means for five high school friends to stay in touch as they independently traveled around the world.

The 85th Academy Awards

It’s Academy Awards time!  It’s that weird awards show that usually disappoints but occasionally gets it right.  Some years the host can be pretty awesome and other years the host can be James Franco.  Whatever happens, there’s usually some good talking points after the show and if we’re lucky, some memorable speeches. Anyway, here are my guesses for who will ...

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Jack Swagger And The Weird World of Professional Wrestling

Imagine a billion dollar multinational company.  They have an unremarkable middle-management employee named Jack.  Jack was well liked by his colleagues and a steady hand at his job.  He showed some promise when he first came into the company and was quickly promoted but now he’s been stuck in a rut and has been in the same role for a ...

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Youtube Friday: Google Glass technology

We’re big fans of gadgets and technology on The FAT Website and so its pretty cool to see what we are apparently on the cusp of wearable technology becoming the next big thing with Apple reportedly balls deep in R&D on an iWatch and Google rolling out this video of Glass, their hi-tech spectacles that record and access the internet. ...

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Blogs From America – San Francisco

San Francisco I’m pretty happy living in Brisbane.  The weather is good, we have a good football team and there are nice people here.  Having said that, if I was to move to anywhere else in the world, it would probably be San Francisco.  It is a gorgeous, picturesque city that is absolutely full of character.  The Golden Gate Bridge, ...

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The Last Of The E/N

If you’re a long time reader of The FAT Website, and I mean you were there with us twelve years ago, you would remember that TFW was part of a gigantic thriving community of websites that were categorized as ‘E/N’, an abbreviation for Everything/Nothing, the name given to turn-of-the-century blogging. For a small country, Brunei  was heavily involved in this ...

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Obama’s State of the Union and Marco Rubio’s Response

He gave a shout out to Brunei.  Surely a lynchpin in the rebuilding of the American economy. Lets hope its not VCD trading.  I think the Americans might find the market a little crowded. And the Republican response from Marco Rubio, recently anointed as the Republican Saviour by TIME Magazine: *sips* Poor Rubio seems like a lovely guy but looked ...

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A-League Round 2012/13 – Round 20 – Everybody is on drugs!

  Central Coast Mariners 5 Wellington Phoenix 0 Adelaide United 1 Melbourne Victory 0 Melbourne Heart 2 Perth Glory 0 Western Sydney Wanderers 2 Newcastle Jets 1 Sydney FC 2 Brisbane Roar 1 “The Darkest Day In The History of Australian Sports” Australian sports may be about to face their Lance Armstrong moment after the Australian Crime Commission announced the ...

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