Today is a sad day in internet land: Yahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities.
GeoCities was one of the first free, design-your-own-page website hosting services on the net, and was the place many of today’s web masters, bloggers and sundry other geeks popped their web design cherries.
Sure, most will remember it as a haven [...]
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A tribute to GeoCities
October 28, 2009 – 12:49 am
Crikey roadtest: New Vegemite
July 7, 2009 – 4:45 pm
So about a month ago, Kraft announced they were releasing a “new” Vegemite, which is patently absurd because there is nothing wrong with normal Vegemite.
But today a big box arrived at the Crikey office full of little snack pack samples of the stuff.
Each pack contained four slightly cheesy biscuits, and a little compartment of “new” [...]
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.
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…
Stuff we like: Just how many laws did Ferris Bueller break in his day off?
May 4, 2009 – 12:45 pm
Sites and links we love today:
Bueller? Bueller? MetaFilter are compiling a list of crimes comitted by Ferris Bueller in cult film classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Who knows why, but it’s a fun read, and naturally, things are getting pretty technical:
Breach of contract could work, but Cameron has a good looking cause of action for [...]
The fabulous Friday trash wrap: Mr T does jury duty
May 1, 2009 – 11:41 am
Our favourite trashy news for the week:
How many starving African kids could celebrity engagement rings feed? A question I’m sure we’ve all pondered at some point – Cat Walk Cat Fight has a visual guide, and it’s both wonderful and depressing. Nicole Richie’s is quite modest, expensive enough for only 200 kids, while Beyonce could [...]
Stuff we like: Home funerals and feminist weddings
April 28, 2009 – 12:47 pm
Good things to read and look at today:
We’re all Trekkies now. Star Trek is cool again (again?), according to, uh, Newsweek (those well-known arbiters of all that is hip. Ah well). There’s some tenuous Obama-administration link in there, too. Apparently the new film is pretty good, though.
Play with your food. Food art!
Sci-Fi, black and white. [...]
Stuff we like: MORE Hairy Angel and lots of stuff about food
April 27, 2009 – 11:57 am
Stuff we like today:
Fast food reality. Pictures of real fast food products compared with how they’re shown in ads. Ew.
The best-selling beer in the world. Ever knocked back an icy-cold can of Snow beer? No? Believe it or not, this Chinese lager is the best-selling beer in the world, recently knocking Bud off the top [...]
The fabulous Friday trash wrap: Denise Richards’ fun bags and Jade Goody: The Musical
April 24, 2009 – 12:25 pm
All the trash that’s fit to print:
Hairy Angel HAS been kissed. It was all a lie! Britain’s Got Talent breakout Susan “Hairy Angel” Boyle says her claims to have never been kissed were a “joke”. Lame. Meanwhile, some columnists are calling shenanigans on the whole “ugly duckling” story. Come on guys: she IS ugly — [...]
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