Crikey intern Michael Griffiths brings you today’s talk of the towns.
Rolling in his grave. Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia, Barcelona architectural icon, is famous for two things: being a masterpiece and being unfinished. Now, 125 years after building began, a group of Spanish intellectuals are saying it looks crap and has betrayed Gaudi’s vision (sort of [...]
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
The fabulous Friday trash wrap: Corey Worthington, get off my planet
December 5, 2008 – 11:13 am
Time for some trash:
He’s back! Argh, get off my planet, Corey Worthington! Narre Warren’s greatest export has returned to shake his fist at “them darn kids!” with Victorian Premier John Brumby. Brumby’s solution to the “lack of respect” shown by today’s yoof? Force them into the CFA. I’d rather fight my own fire than let [...]
Stuff we like: German soldiers are too fat and Susan Sarandon’s shoes are a bargain
December 4, 2008 – 10:21 am
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 [...]
How would you keep bogans out of Melbourne?
December 3, 2008 – 1:44 pm
Melbourne’s new Lord Mayor, Robert “local politics might be a bit easier” Doyle, wants to rid the Melbourne CBD of bogans.
An admirable goal (and surely a tacit show of support for getting rid of the Grand Prix), but easier said than done, and a task the Crikey team spent perhaps too much of our morning [...]
Stuff we like: Luxury rehab
December 3, 2008 – 8:47 am
Crikey intern Michael Griffiths trawls the net for new and interesting things.
Venice underwater. See San Marco and the rest after the worst floods Venice has seen in 20 years. The Guardian’s photo essay tells the story.
Luxury rehab. It seems that if you’re rich and addicted to drugs you can get access to all the same [...]
Stuff we like: Gattaca in real life
December 2, 2008 – 9:08 am
Today’s things we like are brought to you by Crikey’s intern, Michael Griffiths, in association with coffee.
Streamline your stalking. Just when you’d finally decided that there was no point to twitter at all, along comes a new way of visualising your twitter friends’ updates. Click, drag and make pretty friend wheels. Strangely addictive …
Gattaca becomes [...]
Stuff we like: At home with Eric Clapton’s gran
December 1, 2008 – 9:16 am
Apart from sleep and coffee, here are some other things we love on Monday morning:
’70s rock stars in their parents’ homes. Pretty much what is says on the label: ’70s rockers like Frank Zappa, Donovan, Eric Clapton and Elton John (left) pictured in their folks’ funky living rooms.
Life on the fringe. Magazine 13 have a [...]
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