September 4, 2008 – 3:42 pm
Remember though, it’s all LOL until Google reveals itself as a worker for the spawn of Satan.
(via Rocketboom)
September 3, 2008 – 10:19 am
September 3, 2008 – 6:28 am
First they hurt “The Ladies”, now Jemaine and Bret are messing with the hearts and minds of couch potatoes everywhere who have an eye for good telly as the boys won’t be coming back to their very excellent HBO show after they wrap up writing and filming the second season. *sigh*
(via NZ Herald)
September 2, 2008 – 9:41 am
What is it with America’s Vice Presidents and guns? I’m sure Barack Obama supporters are hoping Joe Biden can handle a grenade launcher otherwise the Democrats have no chance of returning to the White House.
(via For When I Feel Like Sharing)
Update: ok, ummmm…despite filing this under “You can’t photoshop this stuff. This is the real deal.” it turns out it’s a fake. How were we meant to know? Sorry readers, the internet and Governor Palin.
September 1, 2008 – 9:30 pm
Shareholders were cranky at Aristocrat Leisure for not being open enough about its true financial position so brought a class action against the pokie machine maker who will now pay $40 million to settle the dispute. Great news. Though, for some reason I still think someone is missing out on all the mad coin from the pokies. Ummm…oh yeah, the punters.
(via Smart Company)
September 1, 2008 – 8:30 pm
It’s so unfair. Hillary’s candidacy told little girls “try with all your might, do everything that a man would do and more, and you still might not succeed.”
Sarah Palin’s nomination says, “one day you might be discovered and plucked from obscurity like an Idol contestant, so just keep yourself pretty and nice so when that happens, you’ll be ready.”
- Something Changed talking about the Alaskan Tina Fey lookalike chosen as the republican vice presidential candidate.
September 1, 2008 – 1:58 pm
August 29, 2008 – 5:18 pm
Former St George Bank and now Westpac CEO Gail Kelly has been named by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s most powerful business figures. Go Australia South Africa!
(via Smart Company)
August 29, 2008 – 4:15 pm
Australian TV viewers damaged themselves last night by watching it, Nine and its management confirmed it’s blokey with no real interest in what people want to see except if its half n-ked, swears or makes the Footy Show look like Oscar winning TV. Even though Nine’s problem trace directly back to Kerry packer from 2001-02 onwards, in this case he is the only person to emerge with any credit from this long, drawn out saga. David Gyngell is not even in the same room when it comes to Kerry Packer. - Crikey’s Glenn Dyer commenting on Nine’s rebirth of Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos
n. A late-night text exchange that fails to result in old-fashioned lip-locking.
via The DailyCandy Lexicon: Words That Don’t Exist but Should
Stalking
What used to be stalking is now called social networking. Welcome to the Internet.
- Zack Shapiro
(insert misogynistic joke here?)
Boys: SMH says ’tis 35. Ummm off you go.
(found via Musings of an inappropriate woman)
“Garnaut has a horror for all: for the Federal Government it’s the idea of fixed price permits for two years, so Kevin Rudd and his ministers can’t shift the blame to the “markets” — they would have to tax companies directly; for the states and power generators it’s the proposal to make ALL polluters buy permits — none get handed out for free; for motorists it’s the inclusion of petrol; for exporters it’s that only 30% of the money is earmarked for them; and for the rest of us it’s the fact that it’s really all about China, and it’s too late anyway — the Murray Darling Basin and the Great Barrier Reef are buggered already.”
- Alan Kohler in Crikey talking about Professor Ross Garnaut’s draft report into an emissions trading scheme.
“The problem with being a tyrannical dictator is that there is no career path and no practical way to retire. If another dictator takes over, the first item on his agenda is turning your head into a bird feeder for his guest house. If democracy breaks out, sooner or later the mob will want to execute you for crimes against humanity. As a tyrant, your only rational strategy is continued brutal suppression of your peeps. That’s a lot of work for the tyrant, and no fun for the peeps.”
- Scott Adams
I’ve taken a couple of days to process Telstra’s presentation the other day of a working example of a hologram.
On one hand I love it because it is Star Wars cool.
But on the other - I can’t help but think about the current situation of mobile phone black spots and broadband uncompetition as well as the gargantuan fees that will be associated with this future service.
Read some of the news reports and decide for yourself.
- Telstra chief hosts conference as hologram news.com.au
- Telstra’s 3D hologram party trick The Age
- Live hologram an Australian first nowwearetalking