A soggy commute this morning made noisome by someone’s merry christmas decision to cull three carriages from the 7.25 to Flinders Street. The windows steamed.
But then old friend ipod took charge.
We had Emma Kirkby:
Then Gillian Welch (awful non-video):
And then … sorry a bit about this … something of an old Simple Minds favorite:
Which was almost [...]
It’s the biggest story of the day. Huge. Filling talkback, leading the news bulletins, dominating the public conversation. Kevin Rudd’s muted attempt to forge an Australian response to cataclysmic climate change? No. The future of troubled AFL star Ben Cousins. And there in a bad-hair nutshell is the Rudd Government’s real failure in [...]
Gosh. This is terribly terribly sad. Stop this world right here. Conkers.
This from The Observer’s Henry Porter:
It is difficult to read the list of words excluded from the new Oxford Junior Dictionary without a sharp sense of regret. Here are some of the words that have been culled: catkin, brook, minnow, acorn, buttercup, heron, almond, [...]
A little something to be watching, contemplating even, on this strange, sobre afternoon of the Rudd climate White paper.
Gordon Brown is of course nothing if not eminently You Tubeable. Today’s saving the world moment is already a much remarked upon classic (as much for the rather Pythonesque reaction of the massed Tories as for the slip of the tongue I reckon).
How very odd. First there was this little item in this morning’s Strewth column in The Australian, breaking the nation-arresting news that the paper’s editor in chief and wife were separating. Good to see The Australian embracing so robust a notion of full and frank disclosure, we thought, looking forward to what would almost certainly [...]
Brilliant … Melbourne’s Herald Sun discovers the homeless world cup. How so? Because “at least 15 foreign soccer players” are apparently seeking asylum.
That for one thing seems only natural. Lets see, you’re a homeless street soccer star from Zimbabwe and you don’t attempt to get asylum at the end of the tournament? You’d need your [...]
Absolutely worth a read is this from George Monbiot, taking a swing at the latest murmurs of climate change denialism arcing up presumably to coincide with deliberations in Poznan. Funny to read him take down Bellamy.
In cyberspace, he says, “the response spreading fastest and furthest is flat-out denial”:
The most popular article on the Guardian’s website [...]
The Ruddbot Twitter entity tells us that:
First topic on the Oz Govt Consultation Blog is the Digital Economy – have your say now http://tinyurl.com/6gf6ue. #KevinPM Team
Oh joy, join Tanner and Conroy live on line to talk intertubes et al. Conroy will of course refine this process eventually and find a way of retrofitting each [...]
Current favorite bike song follows. Questions: what’s with all the milk? When will I get real taste? Can too much faux euro-trash ever be enough? If you can’t hear them coming do cars still hurt?
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