As readers will have to go two weeks without a daily Stuff We Like fix, the Crikey Team has put together a bumper edition of our favourite articles, sites, videos and web-based distractions to keep you occupied while we have a hard-earned break.
Chinmerica. The world economy over the past decade has been the [...]
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Crikey’s summer reading guide
December 19, 2008 – 2:20 pm
Stuff we like: Obama, the college years
December 18, 2008 – 11:13 am
Crikey’s pick-of-the-web for Thursday:
Unsexy in the city. Vanity Fair goes on a Sex in the City tour of New York, which I’m guessing is kind of like the Melbourne Neighbours tours, with more Cosmos and less Dr Karl. Anyway, it sounds hideous, and just about the trashiest way to experience one of the most culturally-rich [...]
Magazines on Google Books
December 17, 2008 – 4:28 pm
Last week, Google Books launched a free, online, searchable magazine archive. Unlike books, old magazines are really difficult to keep in good condition; flimsy paper, cheap ink and bad binding from days of old result in few magazines standing the test of time — and that’s if people keep them at all. Magazine publishers these [...]
Stuff we like: Stupid robots and virtual Kakadu
December 17, 2008 – 12:57 pm
Our pick of the Net for today:
Stupid robots. The Baca RoboCup is a competition for robots that are completely “useless to society”. Check out these trashcan-bots doing, well, nothing (but nothing in an amusing way).
Street View in the Top End. Google Street View has come to Kakadu and Darwin. You can check out your favourite [...]
Stuff we like: Apple apples and Hitler’s birthday cake
December 16, 2008 – 12:10 pm
Crikey’s pick of the web for today:
Apple apples. A Japanese Apple (as in the computer company) fan has been growing apples (as in the fruit) with Apple (as in the company) logos on them. Cute, if a little pointless, but not dissimilar from Hello Kitty toast.
How the rich shop. If you’ve got it, don’t flaunt [...]
Stuff we like: Obama logos, eyeborgs and the Somali government
December 15, 2008 – 11:48 am
Our favourite sites and articles for this fine Monday morning:
Obama logos that weren’t chosen. Sol Sender, the designer who led the team who created Obama’s iconic rising-sun logo shows all the other deisgns they came up with, and why they weren’t used. Logo Design Love has more.
The eyeborg. Filmmaker Rob Spence has a prosthetic eye, [...]
Fabulous Friday trash wrap: Carrie Fisher’s revelations
December 12, 2008 – 10:22 am
Yes, we’re in the gutter but we’re looking at the stars.
Carrie Fisher reveals: Cary Grant told me not to take acid. If your daughter’s taking drugs, what’s a mother to do? If you’re Debbie Reynolds, put in a call to Cary Grant. Carrie Fisher, with a memoir to promote, Wishful Drinking, told America’s Today Show [...]
Stuff we don’t like: Italy turns Brokeback into Top Gun
December 11, 2008 – 12:29 pm
Of film censorship gone awry… and killer robots.
Stuff we like: Virtual video store clerks and cute things falling asleep
December 10, 2008 – 11:36 am
Crikey intern Michael Griffiths wraps-up our favourite things for the day:
Economic collapse #1. Now that the dust has settled and everybody’s clear that this financial crisis we’re in is real, nasty and probably prolonged, it’s worth reading the Wall Street Journal’s take on how we got to this point. Note: “What we ended up with [...]
Stuff we like: Neo-nazi fashion and tasty cameras
December 9, 2008 – 10:21 am
News, links and tidbits from around the web we like today:
Wear good shoes: advice to young photographers. Photographers from the famous Magnum Photos group offer their advice to young photographers, including David Hurn’s sage wisdom: “Don’t become a photographer unless its what you ‘have’ to do. It can’t be the easy option. If you become [...]
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