Tornadoes killed over 200 people in southern USA yesterday. Cool new touchscreen keyboard came out from Minebea in Japan. Zach Braff, one of my favourite humans, got his serious face on. Get your free ebooks from PEN! Gaddafi’s army were issued Viagra so that they could rape more. This may be one of the sickest… [Read more…]
April 20, 2011
I'm doing a course to get a Certificate IV in Marriage Celebrancy. Yep, you read right. I'm going to be helping people get married and the Department of the Attorney General is going to let me. (Hopefully.)
April 18, 2011
One of the reasons I came to Melbourne was to work with funky, innovative businesses. One of the first ones I found (via this guy and LinkedIn) was Anecdote. I’m spending the next little while running a social media campaign to tell the world about their funky new web app, Zahmoo. Zahmoo is all about… [Read more…]
April 15, 2011
Japan’s Economic Minister says that the economic damage of the disaster will be worse than they first thought. Iceland’s Penis Museum received its first human specimen. US politicians on both sides lied to win budget negotiations. They got called out by a fact checking organisation and Stephen Colbert. Then Obama stepped in and made them… [Read more…]
April 13, 2011
Warning: contains angsty ranting Dear everybody who has ever gone or will ever go solo travelling for longer than a month: Travelling is awesome. You will see yourself in all sorts of new lights as well as all sorts of other things. Do it. Just be prepared. Coming home is something you rarely think about… [Read more…]
April 11, 2011
My friend Gem is reviewing the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for Rhum and she’s been awesome enough to bring me along as her plus-one to a couple of shows. While waiting for her out the front of Town Hall one evening I inspected the crowd. It was made up of ticket holders, performers giving out… [Read more…]
April 8, 2011
Someone finally explains how the carbon tax won’t make your power bills bigger and could reduce households’ and businesses’ energy consumption. Obama kicked off his election campaign for next year. NASA is looking for Earth-like planets because they might support alien life. Also they might support Earth life once we’ve finished cocking up Original Earth.… [Read more…]
April 6, 2011
Updated 1:56pm 6 April 2011 Mates of mine from The Edge and the State Library of Victoria are working on a project called Libraryhack. It’s based on an idea that was kicked around The Edge office ages ago when I was still there and something that’s been talked about all over the place. Basically, libraries… [Read more…]
April 5, 2011
One of the things delaying my working on my grandma’s biography is that I’ve had trouble with the idea of writing about a real person. I have trouble with what’s true, what’s important, how to tell a story that other people actually remember bits of. Once I transcribed that first lot of tapes of my… [Read more…]
April 1, 2011
NSW Labor lost its election. People had things to say about it. Some intelligent words from a former asylum detainee about rioting and the experience of detention in Australia. Some more discussion on the social media boom and whether it’s a burstable bubble, now with stats and graphs. Two people who work at the Swiss… [Read more…]
April 29, 2011
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