Crikey’s favourite articles and news for the day:
Animation for adults. Not all cartoons are for kids, says the International Herald Tribune, who speak to animators doing it for the big kids.
Milanos for mines. MAG — the Mines Advisory Group — do wonderful things involving clearing landmines and are holding their annual celebrity shoe auction, Give Landmines the Boot. Fancy owning Heather Mills’ brown boots, Rolf Harris’s Blundstones or Take That’s Filas? Stick in a bid – Susan Sarandon’s loafers are a steal at ₤9.99 (which is only about a million Australian dollars at the current exchange rate).
Black from behind bars. Jailed former newspaper mogul Conrad Black writes from his cell: “It is a little like going back to boarding school, which I somewhat enjoyed nearly 50 years ago (before being expelled for insubordination) and is a sharp change of pace after 16 years as chairman of The Daily Telegraph.”
Life is a cabaret. New York magazine profiles the enduring Liza Minnelli, still going strong at age 62.
BitingTheDust is a blog by a pharmacist living and working in the outback, where he can’t go by his real name but takes some great pictures.
Don’t make me run, I’m full of chocolate! German soldiers are too fat to fight: “A German parliamentary report has revealed that in 2007 German forces in Afghanistan consumed about 1.7 million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine. During the first six months of this year 896,000 pints of beer were shipped to German forces in Afghanistan.”
