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If Hitler had died of cancer, would he get obits like this?
The obituaries for the taxi driver's choice of right-wing shock jock Stan Zemanek are sickening. By dying of cancer he seems to have been rehabilitated as some kind of lovable, mildly eccentric but ge…
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I bought a PS2: I'm so up-to-date
After playing Guitar Hero at my brother-in-law's place last weekend, I went out and bought myself a PS2 for cheap on eBay. I've done this before, buy a console when they're nice and cheap at the end o…
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Tranny cops: masters of disguise
As you can see the Tranny Cops are masters of disguise. Clearly our police overlords had trouble distinguishing them from regular plods. Fortunately our eagle-eyed judges were able to spot the imposte…
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Am I missing something?
Job ad here touting the company as " One of the Insurance industrys most patented solutions provider ". WTF?
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How bad decisions get made
Here's a little anecdote from personal experience about why bad decisions sometimes end up happening, then staying around. I'm not quite sure how big companies can institutionally resolve this kind of…
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MTB training
Yesterday I went up to Gosford with Majella (Marion's sister) for a mountain bike ride with Ben (Holly's brother) and his mate Warren. We're all in the same team for the Scott 24 Hour Mountain Bike Ch…
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Chutzpah is...
Second in my series of posts about the great word chutzpah. Chutzpah is... running a series of concerts highlighting global warming and having one your sponsors be... well, a a manufacturer of cars th…
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Estate agent idiots
This one is the most creative I've seen in a while. "Aura of St Peters/Newtown". That's just brilliant! Now if only they applied some of their creativity to filing their ads in the appropriate categor…
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Tufte goodness
Being the end of the tax year, I ordered a full set of the books by Edward R Tufte last week. I've owned The Visual Display of Quantitative Information before, but it went walkabout somewhere. Now I h…
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The wit of The Economist
I'm a big fan of The Economist as a foil to the hopelessly biased, provincial papers in Australia. Their clipped, accurate prose and quality proofreading make it a joy to read. They're also not above…
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Nice printer
I picked up an old HP laser printer a while back and got it running. Problem was, it just kept jamming and driving me nuts. I'm sure if I wanted to spend a few hours with some cotton buds and metho I…
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Great educational products
For some reason the old "SRA cards" we used to do in primary school, reading comprehension tasks, came up in conversation. So I looked online for them. And found this page. Those of you who've done pr…
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Cynicism is the default when talking about transport in NSW
Ben Fowler is right to be cynical about the NSW government's planned metro railway. After all, Action for Transport 2010, launched in 1998, was supposed to see us have a railway line from Chatswood to…
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Howard's right: it is our hurricane Katrina
Howard has been quoted as saying the "emergency" in Australian indigenous communities is "Australia's own hurricane Katrina" and I think he's right. Just as Bush did nothing for years knowing about th…
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Apparently I'm a poet
WTF?
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Sydney has a long way to go on transport
I've been out to Telstra Stadium in the Olympic precinct twice in the last few weeks. The first for the Australia vs Uruguay football match and last night for the Swans vs Collingwood AFL match. They'…
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Regional broadband plan
Peter Lieverdink blogs on the government's regional broadband plans. I actually think they've done a pretty good job of balancing service provision with cost. It's never going to be easy to provision…
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Great photo from Glastonbury
The Grauniad has this great photo and caption taken by Billy Bragg at Glastonbury. Very jealous of all the people there, even with the mud!
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Useless fields
Do you see the problem with this form? Now I don't know about you, but when I'm looking for jobs I've never thought Hmmmm, I'd love to take that job but it's paying too much. How about you?
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Thieving scumbags
Two "news" sites have stolen one of my photos from the last Glastonbury. Fortunately Google News makes it easy to find such infringements. Does this or this look familiar to you? They'll be receiving…