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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Tribal warfare, anthropology, journalism and lies
May 28, 2009 – 5:10 pm
A Pulitzer Prize winning author writes an article about tribal warfare in Papua New Guinea for a prominent and respected publication who are subsequently sued for ten million dollars by the Papuan source. What happened?
Potato heads are cool
May 26, 2009 – 4:09 pm
Stand aside Mr Potato head, the root vegetables of Lebanon are here and they’re awesome. Artist Ginou Choueiri paints these realistic potato portraits and exhibits them all over the world. Check out the website.
The fabulous Friday trash wrap: Superman is kind of a douchebag
May 22, 2009 – 10:27 am
Our favourite trashy news for the week:
Megan Fox: “Superman is kind of a douchebag”. Megan Fox lets it all hang out for Esquire, with a bunch of raunchy undie shots and her exclusive views on superheroes, sex and watching High School Musical stoned.
How Quentin wooed Brad. Brad Pitt reveals how Quentin Tarantino convinced him to [...]
On stealing from bars
May 19, 2009 – 2:05 pm
Nicking a bar mat is hardly a crime that warrants five years in prison, but it is, y’know, a crime.
A thing I found on the internet…
May 19, 2009 – 1:05 pm
I have been advised with the implementation of the new website that “stuff we like” is no longer being produced by someone else. Previously I would just ship all the hysterical things I located on the internet straight to the Crikeytronic 3000 Someone-else-will-deal-with-it-o-matic. No more, now all my cat videos and hilarious pics I find [...]
How to kill five hours in Parliament House
May 15, 2009 – 1:15 pm
Take one visitor’s pass, one bored Crikey journo, our nation’s capital and stir…
Fabulous Friday trash wrap: Jordan and Pete’s breakup and DJ Gwyneth
May 15, 2009 – 12:13 pm
Crikey Intern Amber Jamieson wraps up our favourite trash for the week:
Least surprising breakup ever: The biggest trash story of the week is undoubtedly the devastating news of Jordan and Peter Andre’s break up. We NEVER saw this coming. News just keeps flying in about these two: Jordan has dumped her management team, it’s all [...]
State of Play: a movie for journalists about journalists
May 12, 2009 – 11:42 am
SPOILER ALERT!
There is something kind of odd about watching a movie on the subject of journalism in a cinema full of journalists. Last night’s Melbourne media preview of State of Play was hilarious, not because the film is particularly amazing but because the reactions of the audience to the material were just so perfect.
When Russsell [...]
The worst blogs in the whole wide world
May 8, 2009 – 4:57 pm
I like awful blogs and by awful blogs I mean the kind with genuine awful pictures of people. Like these people here:
I found them at AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com, thanks to my friend Mollie who likes to deliver all the best kinds of awful blogs, via Twitter, which is my main source of awful blogs. Awkward family has [...]
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