January 2010
“But travelling Britons are still significantly better off than their Australian...”
– Australia-London flights more expensive for Australians | Travel to UK (via indefensible)
“Why ban small boobs? I can only assume it stems from paranoia that flat chests...”
– Now Australia Is Banning Small Boobs
The ASP’s site is down due to high bandwidth at the moment.
(via indefensible)
This internet filter is some fucking scary shit.
(via cankerbloxxom)
Ugh. What next?
“It is no coincidence that Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is also a...”
– Gabriela Coslovich in The Age
Tony Abbott Says Virginity is Gift
(via indefensible)
“I think I’ve just figured out why it annoys me when people trivialise the...”
– Me (after, well, a few glasses of wine) (via alexjcampbell)
One Third of Women in the Military are Raped →
switchblades:
robot-heart-politics:bmckinney:abbyjean:
In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars,...
“i mean, in the end, we’re all basically animals, really. i can tell most when...”
– James Murphy. (via saimagery) (via areminder)
Derek Powazek - What I Hope Apple Unleashes... →
A great post.
Tomorrow Apple’s having an event here in San Francisco and everyone’s expecting them to launch some sort of tablet computer. The specifics are still unclear, but people are expecting something that looks like an iPhone but bigger, with an interface that can handle more complicated tasks.
I have no inside information, but I do have a unique perspective. I’ve spent my professional...
“As the explosive-laden van pulled into the open carriageway, civilian guards at...”
– [Surviving Terror - Paul McGeough in Fairfax papers today] (via saimagery)
I read this over breakfast this morning. Truly gripping stuff.
Seized by panic, I dropped to the tiled floor of the balcony, hugging its heavy concrete wall instead of retreating into the room. As the van exploded 50...
“We’ve all been there before. You come home late from a catered event where maybe...”
– Stephenson Billings (via Homosexuality, The Enemy Within | ChristWire)
I’ve been reading some of this guy’s posts since I became aware of him via Tash earlier this evening. I have reached the point where I genuinely cannot tell if this is real or satire. I— help.
from SBSNews →
imjustlikeme:
So, this just happened:
‘Kevin Rudd’s nephew has been removed by police during a protest at the Australian Open wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit’
The headline is terribly misleading. This is what the story’s actually about:
Van Thanh Rudd, the son of the prime minister’s brother Malcolm and his wife Tuoi, was protesting against the assaults on Indian students in...
“Disregarding any sense of fair play, the show does not offer any alternative to...”
– What Every Parent Should Know About The TV Show Glee | ChristWire
yoshang:
Seriously, everywhere I look there aren’t enough popular boys saying they want to stop doing gay things with guys in the bathroom.
(via tristn)
“Instead of a real world high school, we have a fantasyland of happy,...
“Would it be acceptable to the public if these same people got about in a hat...”
– Marieke Hardy (ABC The Drum - Blue singlet patriotism gets a little off-colour)
Guardian editor hits back at paywalls | Media |... →
The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has delivered a riposte to Rupert Murdoch’s campaign to introduce paywalls to newspaper websites, claiming that it could lead the industry to a “sleepwalk into oblivion”.
Delivering the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp Lecture today, Rusbridger said that universal charging for newspaper content on the internet would remove the industry from a...
And now we are beating to death Buddhist monks →
(via ninefruits)
“But on the internet, kids can find porn easily, even if they’re not looking for...”
– Okay, class – it’s maths, then porn - Times Online
Really? Because I just googled ‘honey bees’ and there were no pornographic results. Not even on an image search.
But whatever. I guess I’m not ‘thinking of the children’.
(via indefensible)
I guess I must be using the internet incorrectly. This...
…who only England know.
indefensible:
Tomorrow, January 26, is Australia Day. Amongst the younger Australians whose blogs I read, there has been an outpouring of cynicism and an attempt to somehow distance themselves from what they see as the negative aspects of our national character. A number of posts have called the Australian flag a racist symbol. A number have characterised Australia as a land of barbarians. One...
Rachel Hills' article on he subject of Australia... →
indefensible:
Because while the people who drape the Australian flag over their shoulders at music festivals — or who cheer “Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi” at the cricket — might be the showiest about their nationality, they don’t have a monopoly on what being Australian is. And nor should they.
Read the whole thing.
Dave Eggers' staggering decade →
areminder:
gotsound:
This interview makes me want to read What Is the What and Zeitoun back to back, like, NOW.
It also got me thinking of the kind of life that I want to live in the next 10-15 years.
(via ryanedwardmiller)
Australia's National Day
ninefruits:
Tomorrow is Australia’s national day. While most national days throughout the world can be unsavoury (if one is a minority or educated), Australia’s national day must surely take the cake for absurdity. The day commemorates the landing of the British on the land-mass on the 26th of January 1788, and their subsequent theft of the land from the indigenous populations (not to mention...
The New Yorker on The xx →
britticisms:
“The xx are, in the purest sense, a modern band: their music could not exist without the machines that make the noises and the machines that record them.”
(via kafka-on-the-shore)
Hopes/predictions for the 2010s
saimagery:
rachelhills:
Image: What Will You Fill Your Heart With in 2010?, by Thomas Ott
Or 2010 itself, at least.
Fool: Bloated, hyperbolic professional bios/marketing copy. Cool: Letting your accomplishments speak for themselves.
Fool: Pretending that 600 Facebook friends means 600 actual friends. Cool: Spending more time with the people you really care about and authentically engaging...
The Horrors at Oxford Arts Factory via Hobogestapo →
saimagery:
deeza:
Man i wish i went.
Well, damn.
Tips for Surviving Australia Day -- Administrator...
okayjokesover:
overdosebabyblue:
Zombie invasions: usually confined to the realms of video games and horror movies, they are an actual phenomenon that occurs about once every year here in Australia. In order to avoid causing panic amongst the population, this annual day of terror has been given the less threatening name of ‘Australia Day’, a day which most sensible citizens choose to spend in...
“WE TOTE and we vote.” It was the placard that caught the eye of the Premier....”
– Spring Street tap dances, fearing the Tote could rock the vote
Well, that’s one for the books.
(via indefensible)
Signed Advance copy of Joey Comeau's One Bloody... →
cankerbloxxom:
Joey Comeau of A Softer World fame is auctioning off an advanced copy of his new book, One Bloody Thing After Another, set to come out in May. 100% of the profit is being donated to Medecins Sans Frontiers.
So if you are a bajillionaire and like his writing, and feel like giving some money to a good cause, get on it! I would bid myself but the price is already USD $62 and I am...
“We get loads of girls at our gigs and we get criticized for that because people...”
– Richey Edwards (via indiescribe)
World Bank waiving Haiti’s debt payments →
caraobrien:
Currently, Haiti’s debt to the World Bank, which is interest-free, is about $38 million—about 4% of Haiti’s total external debt. Due to the crisis caused by the earthquake, we are waiving any payments on this debt for the next five years and at the same time we are working to find a way forward to cancel the remaining debt.
An excellent beginning. But the fact that this counts...
World's Best Bookstores.
bbook:
No matter where you are in the world, here are the coolest places to bathe in great architecture and buy some books while you’re at it.
