The Crikey team have gone a bit SWL crazy today. Enjoy this bumper edition, now with 40%* more links:
Where arrrrr the pirates? This Google maps mash-up shows all the hot spots for piracy over the last year — not of the burning your friend’s DVDs kind, mind, but rather the eye-patches, peg legs and pillaging variety.
Hip [...]
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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Stuff we like: Gwyneth gets GOOPy
November 18, 2008 – 10:32 am
Stuff we like: I can has pathos
November 17, 2008 – 11:26 am
It’s monday morning madness! Nah, not really, but here are some stories to keep your brain bubbling:
Ancient Greeks pre-empt Dead Parrot sketch. Old jokes die hard, apparently: a 4th century CE joke book has been found with a pre-cursor to the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch (with a slave replacing the parrot, natch). Also in the book: [...]
My pub burnt down and I don’t know what to do
November 17, 2008 – 10:09 am
I awoke this morning to grave news; my favourite watering hole, the Richmond Club Hotel, located on Swan St, Richmond, had burnt down.
The Richie Club as it’s known to those of us who live in Richmond put up a brave fight — 36 firefighters were needed to put down the blaze. They’d just installed an [...]
Crikey’s “Name Obama’s puppy” competition
November 14, 2008 – 2:28 pm
Over at the “big” site we’re running a poll/competition to name Obama’s new puppy which will be heading to the White House come January.
First Dog and I collaborated to set this thing up — First Dog picked the ten best names from over 200 entries to create the finalists — and I set up the [...]
The fabulous Friday trash wrap: Go directly to video. Do not pass go.
November 14, 2008 – 11:00 am
The online amatuers at Crikey present our favourite trash for the week:
Will the Obama girls appear on Hannah Montana? Billy Ray Cyrus has offered Barack Obama’s young daughters Malia and Sasha guest spots on his daughter’s Disney series Hannah Montana, says CBS. Jebus, Billy, they’re not the Bush twins — keep your nude-photo-posing, non-seat-belt-wearing, underwear-model-dating daughter away [...]
Stuff we like: We’re not addicts, we’re intellectuals
November 13, 2008 – 11:29 am
Thursday brings us the following nuggets:
Internet addiction made an official disorder in China. China is set to register Internet addiction as an official condition next year, says the Times. ”According to Chinese estimates, about 10 per cent of young users suffer from addiction and of those about 70 per cent are male.” But WE can quit any [...]
Stuff we like: Vanishing churches
November 12, 2008 – 10:29 am
Today we hate never-ending door alarms and the people who set them off, but we like these other things:
Church vanishes brick-by-brick. A church in Russia has completely vanished, Reuters reports. The church, located in an isolated area, appears to have been stolen, brick-by-brick, leaving only the foundations.
Mutating viruses to death. A study in the journal [...]
Stuff we like: Chickens, communists and casinos
November 11, 2008 – 10:35 am
Our favourite news items and other bits for the day:
Chicks shoot up. The world’s largest meat producer, Tyson Foods, has admitted that it injects its chickens with antibiotics before they hatch, so it can label them as “raised without antibiotics”. “Tyson agreed to voluntarily withdraw its ‘raised without antibiotics labels,’ citing ‘uncertainty and controversy over [...]
Obama won and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
November 11, 2008 – 9:48 am
Received an email from Barack Obama today. Which always makes me do a double take.
His camp is selling a commemorative 2008 victory t-shirt. And of course I thought good, I can purchase what will become a nice little bit of retro cool in 15 years when I’ve worn it to fade. Except I balked when [...]
Stuff we like: Monks go old testament on each other
November 10, 2008 – 11:43 am
After our Monday morning hit of caffeine, the Crikey team are able to enjoy things again. Here are some of those things:
King of the barrel. Writer Josh Criss explains the thrills and spills of trying to break the world record Donkey Kong score in the Washington Post: “I am one of the top 10 Donkey [...]
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