March 2010
It would be nice…
I’ve seen some speculation that the next version of the iPhone or iPhone OS will be in some way ‘location aware’. This is wonderful. I would very much like for my iPhone to know when I am in the office and to not bother me with the ting ting of text messages and the like.
“But, most revealing of all was the statement by Judge Liu Xin in handing down...”
– Rio four verdict based on shaky legal grounds
The Age
I don’t want to scare you guys, but excite.com is still up. Who on earth is paying the bills?
Listen
Dating Advice, First dates - let go of being too... →
Posted in the hope that Rachel Hills will see it and find a way to make Naomi Robson suffer for publishing it.
I guess what I’m just so tired of is tech punditry that masquerades as journalism. Every device is terrible until it’s launched, and then it’s great. Every new gadget is an iPhone killer. Until it’s not. Or until it serves the publisher to be in favour of it, for clicks or ad revenue.
Publishers can only mine my trust in their masthead for so long before I’ll think...
I think I should just give up on asking questions.
OH I AM SO MAD I COULD JUST BLOG SOME MOAR
Oh jesus fuck I am fuming FUMING mad about this shit. Fuck shit fuck I totally wrote a really mildly funny thing on a picture of Sarah Jessica Parker and then I used my iPhone to take a picture of it and I posted it on Tumblr and already people are posting it WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION jesus fuck you people have no respect for my moral rights as a fucking artist.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
Pixies (82)
Johnny Cash (38)
Sloan (32)
The Shins (23)
The Modern Lovers (17)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A year late and many many dollars short.
I’ve been listening to old You Look Nice Today podcasts and I think Scott Simpson said the best thing of all time.
“A myth like the clitoris, or a myth like Sisyphus?”
“At least four of the House members hit with death threats or vandalism are among...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com
“And let’s ignore for the moment the risks to our freedom of speech that...”
– Colin Jacobs, A mollycoddling internet policy is just feeding the trolls
Well now. That was pretty gay.
I love it when my mother calls to regale me with...
She called today to tell me the story of a neighbour of theirs who has (as a result of last week’s cyclone) power lines down on his property and has been unable to drive a car out of his driveway. See he was scared of driving over power lines that might be live. Reasonable.
The guy calls the electricity company and asks what to do. The electricity company says that all power lines should be...
Yes, you’re right. I meant po-lice. A real murder po-lice.
In The Wire, the police officers don’t call themselves policemen and policewomen. They don’t call themselves police officers. They say “I’m a police”.
A police.
For some reason I really like that construction. Is it a common thing in the states or is it confined to certain areas?
“A short but effective tribute to the notion of always being the asshole at the...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates’ perfect description of Christopher Hitchens’ Letters To A Young Contrarian.
I Study White People… - Culture - The Atlantic
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE TRAIN OF TERROR →
In which Mr Curtis shows us some footage he found of a train derailment staged for live television in 1956. It’s a real steam train running off the rails at 45mph.
Bizarre.
“When the neoliberal project first began in 1979 with Mrs Thatcher the idea was...”
– Adam Curtis’ Blog
Adam Curtis is probably the public intellectual whose work I most admire and respect. I’m not sure I agree with all of his arguments, but the deftness with which he weaves them is a thing of beauty. I don’t think anyone has ever used media to explain society as...
"mancow"
“You can often tell by a man’s record collection or bookshelf which female...”
– Tiger Beatdown › 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon
Other people have been posting this link, but please do take a moment to read this piece. It’s really very good.
I wonder what we’d talk about on the internet if it weren’t for our propensity to vent about things that don’t affect us in any way whatsoever.
Because take away that and words on pictures of cats and all that’s left is porn and etsy.
You had best remember this moment, Australian...
Over recent months it has become de rigeur to make comments about Tony Abbott’s physique. How he looks in a speedo is especially open for comment.
Two things.
1: The guy is in amazing shape for his age.
2: Next time any female public figure anywhere is ever judged on the basis of her looks, especially if she is over 50, you can go through your clipping folders and look at what you helped...
Also funny: the full Australian National Anthem in...
Australian sons, let us rejoice. For we are young and free. We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil, Our home is girt by sea. Our land abounds in nature’s gifts Of beauty rich and rare, In history’s page let every stage Advance Australia Fair In joyful strains then let us sing Advance Australia Fair.
When gallant Cook from Albion sailed. To trace wide oceans o’er. True...
“Now that this bimbo is on her last days sipping lattes and eating salad...”
– A since-deleted comment on a story about Lara Bingle at News.com.au.
So if a lady-person from your past gets in touch and wants to meet up and shoot the breeze about old times and you haven’t seen her in like 20 years and you say to her “so would I recognise you” she is totally going to know you’re asking if she got fat.
That’s what I learned today.
Unintended consequences
Have you noticed that as rates of smoking have declined in the west there seems to have been a commensurate decline in the use of woodwind intruments in popular music? I mean, in the 80’s, when everyone smoked, the saxophone was everywhere. Even later, it held true. But once California banned smoking, there was no way Rocket From the Crypt could keep punching out the saxophone jams. So now...
“If congressional Republicans are determined to fix this bill by, say, reforming...”
– What the Republicans can learn from Britain’s Conservative Party. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine
Tumblr now has premium themes →
What a very Tumblr way to make money.
Found via Mashable.
“I’m all achey and bruised because I got the shit beat out of me this week....”
– The Filthy Critic rings true even after all these years.
“Come on, we’re all just talking shit on the internet. We do it because...”
– Rare Interview With Anonymous Blogger, “Coke Talk”
I don’t mind being seen to blow smoke up Ned or CokeTalk’s asses. Loved this piece.
Meeting planner for New York, NY and Melbourne,...
Unfortunately, there aren’t any times that overlap between your normal working hours and theirs. The best we can do with the meeting planner is to expand the range to cover from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM your time (New York, NY).
To schedule a conference call or plan a meeting at the best time for both parties, you should try between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM your time in New York, NY. That will end up...
Yes, Ian I am old.
I have fillings older than you.
I am not going to lie to you here. Being contacted out of the blue via a YouTube message is strange. Even stranger is when it’s from someone I dated when I was 15. Which was 22 years ago. Loooordy.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Kinematic (11)
Jarvis Cocker (11)
YACHT (10)
Kasabian (1)
Stone Temple Pilots (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
