- Canada Day
Friday 1 July 2011
I’m listening to Fireworks , by the Tragically Hip. I’ve said this before, but I’ve only really started to appreciate their music after I left Canada.
- More Jurgens on the interwebs
Friday 1 July 2011
Further, if you think something I write is about you, you’re probably mistaken.
- The upside to pervasive CCTV
Thursday 9 June 2011
via youtube.com
Even more funny YouTube videos! Forget cute kittens - the next wave of Internet humour will be drunk poms summersaulting over bannisters.
- My month of not-drinking: an analysis
Thursday 2 June 2011
So I stopped drinking alcohol for the month of May. No real reason, except for the fact that I woke up with an I’m-never-drinking-again hangover on the first of the month, and I thought “well, what if?
- Another translated letter from The Age to The Readers about The iPad App from The Age
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Several months ago, launched to great fanfare, The Age released one of the worst iPad apps I’ve ever used.
- Big population isn't a problem if we plan for it
Tuesday 31 May 2011
The truth is that population is not the problem — the problem is planning and administration for the likely population size.
- Oh look, they're trying again
Monday 30 May 2011
FAIRFAX MEDIA will release new iPad applications for the> Herald > and> The Age > tomorrow, promising a “bespoke” way of presenting its journalism
- Exploding watermelons rock China
Tuesday 17 May 2011
The overuse of a chemical that helps fruit grow faster is causing a rash of exploding watermelons in eastern China.
- Coincidence?
Monday 9 May 2011
Rialto half-owners Lorenz and Rino Grollo have long wanted to redevelop the area at the base of the office towers, but have been stymied by the existence of the Bar 20 and Inflation nightclubs, which occupy the only two buildings on the block they do not control.
- The logic behind bin Laden
Monday 9 May 2011
It is wrong to dismiss the al-Qaeda chief as an evil lunatic.