Author Archives: Anthony

Quote of the Day #19

Google’s reliable presence is woven so tightly into our daily experience of the Web that its infrequent failures feel like seismic events. What? Some Google service doesn’t respond? Has there been a rupture in the space-time continuum?
- Salon.com’s review Google’s Vulcan death grip of Randall Stross’ new book Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan […]

Fauxmosexual - Word of the Week #4

fo-mo-sec-u-al
adj.
Women who pretend to be lesbians to titillate men. Bogus lesbians. See 60% of university bars.
- via soupsoup:

SFW porn is kind of the greatest thing ever!

Diesel’s new internet LOLZ campaign. Is so v good.

Top Secret: Obama’s email inbox

Take a peek into Barack Obama’s email inbox.
(via The Onion)

Gen Y choose Facebook and Myspace over Internet Porn

Kids these days are preferring to spend their time on social networking sites instead of surfing for naughty pictures on the internets. The research of author Bill Tancer who is the General Manager of global research at internet data and statistics company Hitwise has shown that:
Social networking sites are increasingly eclipsing pornography consumption over […]

Ever wondered if Google were…

Remember though, it’s all LOL until Google reveals itself as a worker for the spawn of Satan.
(via Rocketboom)

How cartoons dismantled Workchoices

How political, satirical cartoons illustrated Australia’s Workchoices debate

Flightys will finish up after second season

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)

Bikini girls Vice presidential candidates with assault rifles

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 […]

Pokie machine maker pays out $40 million…not to gamblers

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 […]

Quote of the Day #18

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 […]

Bottled Water is BS

Penn & Teller give the realities of bottled water a bit of air-time

Gail Kelly 11th most powerful woman in the world

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)

Quote of the Day #17

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 […]

Textual Frustration - Word of the Week #3

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

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