The Crikey team really likes rainbows and puppies. And these stories:
Calories make a comeback. Forget Atkins, it’s time to dust off your calorie booklets again. Counting the joules is apparently still the sanest way to lose weight, says The New York Times: “For the last few decades, the most popular diets were complex formulas that [...]
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Stuff we like: includes obligatory Halloween item
October 31, 2008 – 10:51 am
The Friday trash wrap: toilet humour
October 31, 2008 – 10:10 am
Welcome to Friday. Your reward for making it to the end: tawdry gossip.
Why teenagers shouldn’t marry. A British 16-year-old has married her sweetheart … in a crystal-covered bikini with a three-metre wide train. Tasteful. Closer mag has the happy snaps.
Sienna Miller takes on the paps. Actress Sienna Miller has taken the paparazzi to court, with [...]
Stuff we like today: coughs on film
October 30, 2008 – 11:05 am
If you’ve come to this post via the Crikey email, you might be thinking ooh this is a bit different. And you’d be right.
From today, our daily “stuff we like” selection will be appearing in The Crikey Team’s blog. That means it should be easier to find each day. To get back to the [...]
Matt the Bat’s new (i.e. old) strategy for being good again
October 27, 2008 – 9:52 am
Matthew Hayden senses vulnerability in Zaheer Khan, the man who has dismissed him three out of four times in the current India vs Australia Test series.
Let me just repeat that: Matthew Hayden senses vulnerability in the person who keeps getting him out. Hmm.
Khan’s vulnerability goes back to 2003, apparently, when Hayden and Gillie smacked him out [...]
Melbourne’s ‘outdated and failing’ transport system
October 24, 2008 – 1:11 pm
Conflict of Interest this week interviewed Daniel Bowen, the President of the Public Transport Users Association about Melbourne’s ‘outdated and failing’ transport infrastructure. Part 1 of the video is here, and here’s Part 2 where the interview kicks off.
We didn’t run this on Crikey because it’s a bit too Melbourne-centric, but if you’re interested in the pressures facing [...]
First Dog on the Moon hates Australia
October 20, 2008 – 3:37 pm
I have an enormous amount of respect for Crikey’s own First Dog on the Moon.
We work well together in the Crikey trenches, ribbing each other over our respected choice in football team (First Dog follows the Bulldogs, I follow Freo); we compare moonwalks; cut out the latest day bed models from Outdoor Living Australia [...]
The ARIA Awards. Wow.
October 20, 2008 – 1:32 am
I learned a few things while watching the ARIAs last night:
1. I’m old now
2. I was right to dislike most pop music when I was a teenager
3. Gabriella Cilmi, of whose existence I’d caught only wafts from television and the papers, is this year’s anointed superstar. Before last night I thought maybe she was on [...]
Looking for real estate in NY?
October 14, 2008 – 3:25 pm
Architects are among the few artists who create, for me, a palpable sense that the future is here. I spotted an ad for this place while browsing the New York Times today. It’s an apartment building, and while the interior is sort of chilly and modish, the exterior cuts a most impressively disruptive figure on the New York skyline [...]
Who or what killed the Bear?
October 10, 2008 – 9:55 am
Back in March this year when Bear Stearns went bust, economists and finance journalists, not to mention investors, were justifiably shocked. This was an 85-year-old company, a leading global investment bank and major character in the shifting drama of Wall Street, and it had just been routed. JPMorgan snapped up the remnants for around $10 [...]
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