tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43333276916909759472012-01-07T17:40:52.109+11:00Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.comBlogger1711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-25979670604988317782009-06-07T00:49:00.001+10:002009-06-07T00:50:12.893+10:00

I've decided to take my blogging in two different directions, so this will be my last post on Blogue. The blog still gets great numbers, especially for some of the archival pieces (and the Reddit piece below is still on fire), so I won't delete the blog unless I see that it has faded into history. So, what's next?I have just launched a new blog about Australian artists, designers and thinkers

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Reddit.com’s RSS feed (“what’s new online”) has been in my news reader for a while. As part of a cull of noisy, useless feeds, I’ve just deleted it. A more literate version of 4chan, with significantly less users, it produces the same results over and over. Here’s everything you need to know about Reddit users' worldview.1. McDonald’s is bad.In fact, all multinational corporations are bad, but

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Excerpts from 1-star reviews of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice on Amazon.com.It just goes on and on and on, only to lead this sister ending up with that guy, this sister ending up with that guy, etc. — Adam ApplebyPersonally I am disgusted. I think that they are all pompous and rather annoying. — A CustomerA terrible bore, really sort of a nightmare that never ends. — Laura “witchbaby”I find

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toyA simple audio interface with instant gratification.[link]badFor Easter, a pair of horribly designed Christian sites.[Exhibit A][Exhibit B]usefulIf you find something you want to read online but don’t have time to read it now, use Instapaper.[link]pointlessHow fast can you click your spacebar?[link]videoEvery straight man’s fantasy. A demo ad by Adam Green and Will Barratt.[link]oddHow to make

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-44427965787038166082009-04-04T21:03:00.005+11:002009-04-05T02:03:27.031+11:00

The economic downturn and the growing awareness of the consequences of diamond mining have already heralded the death of bling.As the economy worsens, flashing the cash is seen as more and more inappropriate. Formerly logo-smothered fashion and accessories are out; discreet luxury is in.Leading online luxury fashion retailer Net-a-porter is, not surprisingly, embracing the trend. Its standard

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[via Burbia]

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I suspect that most people outside the money industries don't really understand why the financial system collapsed and how pervasive it is. That's why all the various elements of it have just been put in one big conceptual box and called the "economic crisis".This video, made by Los Angeles–based designer Jonathan Jarvis, is the best graphic visualisation of how this all came about I have seen,

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I’m aware that blogging about Twitter is like dancing about architecture, but I can’t write 140-characters-or-less forever. I also get that I'm late to the party but that's never stopped me before.I started an account for the magazine I work for first. It’s a sign of the times that after 25 years in print, I get a daily report on UBs and PIs for the magazine’s website. “It’s the future!” everyone

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-51795078769868317442009-03-16T23:32:00.001+11:002009-04-05T01:57:38.366+11:00

I'm working on several writing projects at once at the moment, including contributing to a book, two other blogs (in another voice!) and my work.I'm also trying out Twitter, so feel free to follow me there. I'm @kollektor.

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Jack + Elisa = Jalisa. Because they went here for one second: Jack's pink and blue Jalisa T-shirts.And as Liz and Kenneth came out of the subway: the X train to Zorgonia Avenue and a "coming soon" poster for Jenna's movie, Janie Jimplin.

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My Oscar picks were terrible! Only one right: Sean Penn. It's a good thing I didn't have money on them!I should have taken a stab at the Visual Effects award, because the team on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button achieved a real and important technical breakthrough, despite the film's Forrest Gump–backwards plot. For the first third of the film, the Brad Pitt character is completely virtual,

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I don't know what Dionne Warwick's problem was. If your weeks in LA turn into years – how quick they pass – and it's time to head to San Jose, here's the way. Driving directions to San Jose, CA 339 mi – about 5 hours 22 mins Los Angeles, CA 1.Head southeast on E 1st St toward S Los Angeles St 404 ft 2.Turn left at N Los Angeles St 0.4 mi 3.Turn right to merge onto US-101 N

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In a rare moment of restraint, TMZ marked the passing of Mickey Rourke's beloved chihuahua simply:Loki Rourke1991 - 2009"Sometimes when a man's alone, that's all you got ... is your dog."-- Mickey @ the Golden GlobesThe second and third reader comments on the story:2. That dog did not live 28 years. No way.Posted at 11:57PM on Feb 17th 2009 by Stephen3. Umm... a 28 year old dog? Is that a typo?

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-42452873690069139212009-02-17T22:58:00.003+11:002009-02-18T00:41:52.015+11:00

On Thursday last week, a man was arrested and charged with starting a fire in Victoria, one that burned through the small town of Churchill, where he lived. That fire killed at least 21 people – the entire town has been declared a crime scene and the final number won’t be known until a forensic investigation is completed – and destroyed about 200 homes.His name is Brendan Sokaluk and he’s 39. He

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It's been a while but I have a couple of new writing projects on the go so, as always, the blog has to suffer.Anyway, I raced home tonight to beat the big storm that was moving down the coast and flicked the TV on. Deal or No Deal. I have absolutely no idea what the rules are. It seemed to be very complicated, with all sorts of language that only made sense to the host and audience. At least The

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Another new year party! Sydney is going all-out for its Chinese New Year celebrations this year. The festival, which started on Friday, goes for another three weeks, so it overlaps with the Sydney Festival, still in full swing, by a week. Much to be seen and eaten and explored, in that case.Oh – it's Australia Day today, as well, so for me it means there are going to squadrons of warplanes

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It hit 40.1°C today. That's 104°F. Too much summer all at once for my liking. Then the southerly came through at 6 and the temperature dropped 10 degrees in an hour. Ahhhh.

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The Oscar nominations were just announced.Yeah, all right. I'll go there. These aren't necessarily my personal favourites, but they're my favourites to win.My picks are, appropriately, in gold.Best Picture: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Frost/Nixon," "Milk," "The Reader," "Slumdog Millionaire."Actor: Richard Jenkins, "The Visitor"; Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon"; Sean Penn, "Milk"; Brad

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A moment to lift the heart. Bye-bye!Update: Maureen Dowd's op-ed piece in today's New York Times, 'Exit the Boy-King', is excellent.

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It turns out that black box flight recorders aren't black.This is the flight recorder from the US Airways plane that landed on the river in New York. While it's somewhat blackened around the edges, it's not black. Being bright orange makes it easier to find.In related news, as I was saying in this post, it's not legitimate news unless there's an Aussie onboard. And so, on the front page of the

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My local supermarket is open until midnight. At about 11, two guys start to close down the deli section. It’s obviously a big job: they have to put away all that neatly folded ham, coleslaw, fish fillets and mystery meat.I like to shop late when the place is pretty much empty. I shop fast and don't need obstacles like people hunting though the 50 different mouthwashes to get in my way. It’s just

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There something strange going on in this picture on CNN . . .

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The "Dick Cheney Lie Count" from last night's Letterman.In related news, I got a press release today from the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee – I have no idea why I'm on this list – saying that in the final week of Bushdom, Cheney will push Israel into a multi-front offensive with Lebanon and Syria that will give him the excuse to start a war with Iran that Obama will be forced to

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-3990638945398104742009-01-07T07:00:00.000+11:002009-01-07T07:00:01.426+11:00

I'm not an apostrophe Nazi unless it's work-related. I recognise that English is complicated and that punctuation can be tricky, so I'm fairly forgiving – by which I mean I wince but I get over it – when I see things like "CD's" as the plural of "CD". However, this job ad caught my eye. They really need to fill this position.

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-74357671135281660452009-01-06T07:10:00.005+11:002009-01-07T07:04:46.351+11:00

Barbie turns 50 years old this year and, like many mature-age workers, she has quite an impressive resume. Here's a random sampling of her work experience.DefenceAir Force Fighter PilotUnited States Army officerUnited States Navy officerEducationArt TeacherSign Language TeacherSpanish Language TeacherStudent TeacherEntertainmentAmerican Idol contestantBallerinaCircus StarMovie ProducerMovie

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I went back to work today after two glorious weeks off, and it wasn't pretty.I got in to the office very early only to discover a weird smell – something had gone off but we couldn't locate it. The computer network was acting up, I couldn't remember half my log-ins, and it took all my concentration to bang out a handful of stories. To make matters worse, it was a particularly beautiful day: sunny

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At 5’4” (162.5cm), here’s a group of statistically average height women: Drew Barrymore, Catherine Deneuve, Queen Elizabeth, Madonna, Britney Spears and Elizabeth Taylor. At 5’9” (175cm), here’s a group of statistically average height men: Antonio Banderas, Albert Einstein, James Dean, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and Jack Nicholson. Tom Cruise is regularly characterised as being “short”,

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At 11pm last night, Mike and I were having a quiet-ish margarita at the Bayswater Brasserie. By 11.30, with Amy and Janie, we were in a little boat leaving Double Bay wharf. We boarded the MV Flying Fish, moored in the middle of the harbour, and 10 minutes later the New Year’s Eve fireworks started, and this was our view. Awesome!

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I'm drowning in other people's "Best of 2008" lists, so I'm not going to add to the pile. Instead, just one lovely thing from 2008 that still makes me laugh every time I see it.The shiny guy does always worry.See you next year!

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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-25872666867415954582008-12-29T06:29:00.005+11:002009-01-06T22:49:40.925+11:00

I woke up this morning, as I have so many, many mornings of my life, to news of conflict in the Middle East. Today it’s the second day of Israeli air attacks in the Gaza Strip, with a ground attack looking highly likely.The prospect of yet another war there, even after almost 600 years of conflict, should be news in itself.Why, then, does the story have to be run on our local news – Seven’s

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I can't believe that Mamma Mia! was a hit musical and a hit movie-of-the-musical while the only decent thing anyone ever made about the Carpenters, Todd Haynes' all-Barbie Superstar, was banned.A Carpenters' jukebox musical, which will artlessly be called Close To You (although Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft would be pretty good), can only be just around the corner.Let me get a

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-82252648128778675922008-12-25T00:01:00.006+11:002009-01-07T07:06:14.504+11:00

Fuck you, asshole.Another power-crazed German determined to wipe out an entire people. Terrific.

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-41804014580390655602008-12-24T01:49:00.003+11:002008-12-24T02:44:31.508+11:00

I really must try to use the word "silversational" more often.Happy holidays, everyone!

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At this special time of year, please take a moment to remember the people in our world who are suffering the most: the poor souls in the "before" section of infomercials.Angry woman with hectic kitchen-tile pattern struggling with the washing-up. Her apron print, like the tiny broomsticks in Fantasia, suggests even more dishes to come.Frustrated woman who saves time by not having to iron her

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43 minutes spent talking to my phone company’s “care” call-centre in India. It took nine people to answer my ostensibly simple question: What is the status of my order?No record of the order. No match for the receipt number. “Would you mind if I put you on hold?” For five minutes.Along the way, inumerable requests for my date of birth. I know for sure that I’ve never given it to them, and I said

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"We ate the strawberries and drank the wine. As Sebastian promised, they were delicious together. The fumes of the sweet, golden wine seemed to lift us a finger's breadth above the turf, and hold us suspended." I'm having something of a Charles Ryder moment tonight: I can't quite believe it's been 26 years since I watched Brideshead Revisited when it was first broadcast. I was 17 years old,

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-40079760869315069042008-11-21T01:14:00.002+11:002008-11-21T01:28:20.125+11:00

"This is Entertainment Tonight in high definition and I'm Mary Hart."

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From today's paper:Police are searching for two men who fled after dumping a body with a gunshot wound to the chest outside a Melbourne hospital's emergency department early this morning. "Certainly the fact that they didn't stick around leads us to believe that they have got information that can assist us," said Detective Senior Sergeant Stephen McIntyre, of the Victoria Police Crime Department.

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-82257256712104619252008-11-18T22:04:00.005+11:002008-11-19T03:47:40.762+11:00

 There's been a spike in my reader numbers lately and it's all Amy and Bay's fault. Hello, Amy! Hello, Bay! Thanks for the shout out!To all my fellow G2Gers, welcome to my sandbox on the web. It's a pretty random affair, and I do encourage you to try out the Lucky Dip button to the left because the more randomly you are willing to face it, the better. Just like life.For those of you who have no

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You have a point. You believe in something. You think other people do, too. So you create a Facebook group to collect 1,000,000 people – or more! – to show that you're right. You fail. The numbers don't lie.[You can click through, if you must.]I bet I can find 1,000,000 ChristiansSize: 311,430 membersI Bet I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Just Want PeaceSize: 229,846 members10,000,000 Strong for

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Two moments from an extraordinary day. If Bush got anything right in eight years, it was phoning Obama and saying it was "an awesome night". 

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-83073256506746921502008-11-02T22:27:00.006+11:002008-11-02T22:52:02.290+11:00

I'm only two episodes in and I've already fallen hard for Mad Men, the series about Madison Avenue advertising people set in 1960.The visual style is exquisite, down to finest detail. The storytelling itself is brilliant because the range of values seems like it's from another planet, yet we recognise it as being modern.The men are all jocular buddies, constantly drinking and smoking. The women

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This is a Dalek.This is someone's interpretation of a Dalek in cake.And so, apparently, is this.More horrible cakes at this wonderful site.

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From a cocktail party I went to on Friday night at a model agency.

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703197219364638962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333327691690975947.post-6012053295193877012008-10-16T21:34:00.000+11:002008-10-16T21:41:43.173+11:00

The display in the window of a new nail salon in Kings Cross. I've never seen fake nails for toes before.

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Two people are having a fantastically heated argument right outside my house. When it started I thought I was going to have to call the police – it sounded like he was going to kill her. Then it stopped really suddenly.It started again about five minutes later, but the strange thing was they were having exactly the same argument. I mean, it was exactly the same words, same intonation. It stopped

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Apologies to all my regular readers – hello east coast of India! hello person in Sweden! – for the lack of posts lately. I'm launching a new magazine and a new website on 16 October, so busy is an understatement.Anyway, I was cruising around the Barack Obama campaign website and there's a page devoted to correcting false stories about the candidate, including this gorgeous search tool.

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Juanita Phillips' new hair on the news tonight.I'm yet to be fully convinced.

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Here's a list of people born in 1965, just like me.  Robert Downey Jr. Shania Twain Gong Li Princess Stéphanie of Monaco Sherilyn Fenn Dr Dre Chris Rock Sophie, Countess of Wessex Diane Lane DJ Jazzy Jeff Alan Cumming Julia Ormond Joely Richardson Slash Jeremy Piven JK Rowling Elizabeth Hurley Manuel Uribe Garza Sarah Jessica Parker Paul WS Anderson John C Reilly Brooke Shields Björk Ben

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The winner of the All My Facebook Friends Are Gorgeous award is this guy. Even the thumbnails are stunning.

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I’m intrigued and fascinated by the Rapture – the idea that Jesus is coming back, gathering up all the believers, including the dead ones, and taking them to heaven.The people who believe in it are a fervent group, to say the least. They're close readers of the Bible, although I must say only when it suits their purposes. There’s a lot of speculation among them about timing and whether the rest

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Got some time to waste? Go to Wikipedia and hit the Random article button on the left-hand side. That’s the name of your band. Hit it again to find the name of your hot new CD. A few more times and you’ve got the names of all your songs. Here’s mine:BAND: SimtelALBUM: Guqin aestheticsTRACKS:Space pirateDe DannanCineasteNest FreemarkBondelumMedial intercondylar tubercleSpring Garden TunnelWilliam

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Everyone dreams. At about two hours a night, the average person spends six years of their life dreaming.We don't know how or why we dream, the thing between our ears still being one of the great scientific mysteries. We do, however, know what we dream about.Since the 1950s, there have been several large-scale studies of the content of dreams.The most common emotional state we experience in our

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There's this guy called Jay Hinson. He's bright. Really bright. His PhD thesis was on the decay of the tau lepton into three charged pions and a tau neutrino. That's particle physics, people.So Jay lets his mind wander one day and starts to think about "technology which allows subspace fields to 'reduce' the mass of a ship while still allowing for energy and momentum conservation".Except when Jay

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I'm reading Tallulah Bankhead's autobiography, Tallulah. It's one of the most eloquent, entertaining books I've ever read.In the chapter called "Affidavit of the Accused", she writes:I've had many momentary love affairs. A lot of these impromptu romances have been climaxed in a fashion not generally condoned. I go into them impulsively. I scorn any notion of their permanence. I forget the fever

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Peter Kay has a new sitcom in production called Britain's Got The Pop Factor ... And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice.

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My friend David was working on a logo for a mining company that started out with this completely on-brief sketch:and, thanks to everyone at the client end weighing in with their fascinating opinions, somehow ended up, at one point, with this horror:His entire sordid history of what happens when you let clients keep making changes is here.

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Some random Taliban prohibitions:anything made from human hairequipment that produces the joy of musicpool tableslobsternail polishsewing cataloguespictureschessmasks

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When news happens in the outer Sydney suburb of Mount Druitt, it’s never going to be a good thing. Here are the recent headlines from ABC News tagged “Mount Druitt”.Man flips car during high-speed chaseMan charged over Sydney rape spreeYoung crims face curfews in Australian firstSydney serial sex attacker 'will strike again'Sydney sex attacks feared linkedP-plater 'doing 110 in a 60km zone'Teens

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Not that kind of bear. After all, it is hard to imagine the creative head of the house of Chanel submitting to the "No Artificial Scents" rule at the door of his local bear bar.The inventors of the teddy bear, Steiff, have created a Karl Lagerfeld bear, designed by the man himself.Speaking of KL, was he really ever fat? Go ahead – do a Google image search. Not a one. Has he had all evidence of

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Konstantinos Lagoudakis, the mayor of Malai, Crete, interviewed in today’s New York Times: “They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit.”He's talking about British tourists.“It is only the British people,” he said, “not the Germans or the French.”The Times spoke to 21-year-old man from Essex who said that the night before he had drunk had five

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As recently as yesterday, Dairy Farmers was running a TV ad in high rotation featuring actual dairy farmers – and lots of photogenic kids – saying "I own a company". Today, Dairy Farmers was swallowed whole by National Foods of Japan for $910 million.

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The Official Moron Registry allows you to let the world know about the moron in your life. Here, some morons of note. Bodes, Patricia - She doesn't know how to be a real parent. She is not the brightest color in the box of crayons. She is as dumb as a box of rocks. Cairo, Kelly - Chooses to play billiards instead of spending time with his girlfriend who had slaved over the stove cooking

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The momonga (Pteromys momonga), a flying squirrel that lives in Japan.Super-kuwaii!

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If the buzzing and beeping of an ordinary alarm clock won't entice you to rouse from your slumber, perhaps the irresistible smell of sizzling bacon will.The Wake 'n' Bacon alarm clock switches itself on 10 minutes before you want to wake up and cooks some bacon in its internal tray.It makes the morning so much easier.

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Every time I watch a DVD, I always sit through those endless copyright warnings in different languages wondering who on earth the one headed "Suomi" is for.It turns out it’s for Finns. They call Finland Suomi, and their language is also called Suomi.From Enchanting Finland: legends, feelings, experiences comes this list of the top 10 things that make a Finn happy. Number 6 is odd, but I know what

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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a website dedicated to its executions, including a database of final statements. Here are some highlights.Leon Dorsey, executed 12 August 2008“See you when you get there. Do what you’re gonna do.”Patrick Bryan Knight, executed 26 June 2007“I am not Patrick Bryan Knight, and ya'll can't stop this execution now. Melyssa, take care of that little monster

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Aveda stoops to conquer with this poorly named product.

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Finally, something on eBay I actually need. "It's offered to your attention the 'space pants' for macaque small monkey to wear it during the experimental space flight. This pants has been used for animals (monkeys) experiments in 1950s & 1960s in the USSR Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP, Moscow). This monkey's 'space pants' are designed with many clasps to fit bigger or smaller monkey."I

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Without any apparent irony, the commercial television association Free TV Australia is running community service announcements telling us to “live life”.This message is being hammered home in almost every ad break by sportbots like Grant Hackett and Giann Rooney.Hackett is a particularly inappropriate choice to be telling anyone how to live. In the past year he has only seen his parents once and

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I slept through the Olympics opening ceremony -- actually, it put me to sleep -- but I saw highlights this morning.The Australian team looked good in their shiny blue jackets and silver caps, but did they all have to be chatting away on mobiles as they came in to the stadium? It looked like they had somewhere else to be.

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Meet Jingjing and Chacha, the adorable mascots of the Internet Surveillance Division of the Public Security Bureau of the People’s Republic of China. In other words, the internet police.The bureau employs more than 30,000 people to monitor the internet, ensuring that anything to do with the Falun Gong, police brutality, the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, freedom of speech, democracy,

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I love the press releases for fragrances. They try so very hard. Here are some highlights from a six-page press release for an upcoming Mariah Carey fragrance.Endowed with the gift to bring her art to life, with heart-stirring music and lyrics to alluring fragrance, Mariah unveils a heavenly side of herself with the launch of her newest fragrance, Mariah Carey’s Luscious Pink.This brand is a

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A wonderous dinner last night at the Park Hyatt, with a menu designed by Giovanni Pilu, from Sardinia, and Alessandro Pavoni, from Brescia. The two brought elements of their local cuisines – the mountains and the seas – together for a memorable meal. Here’s the menu with matched wines. Thinly sliced swordfish served raw with grapefruit and Sardinian bottarga with capers 2006 Sella and Mosca ‘

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You can tell how quiet Sydney becomes in winter when the local gossip hacks are forced to lead with claptrap about nobodies. Witness, for instance, Ros Reine’s column in today's Sunday Telegraph. It leads with the utterly banal story of a former prime minister’s daughter having a go on the turntables at a Kings Cross hole-in-the-back-lane bar where nobody dances. Yawnsies! In order to justify

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An excursion out to Olympic Park tonight for the Bledisloe Cup. While I had a gold Wallabies scarf hanging around my neck, I had my eyes on the very handsome Richard Kahui – an All Blacks' rookie who also happens to be a great player. For the record, Australia won 34-19.

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And what about Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith?From today's news coverage of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s whirlwind visit to Perth.The Sydney Morning Herald:The world's most powerful woman strolled through the city's

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain's campaign spokesperson's name is Tucker Bounds.

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Oh, Estelle. For 173 episodes of this alone, thank you.

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Which Sydney model has the stage-mother from hell? The chatter at brunch today was electric with tales of the pushy mom who’s riding roughshod over everyone in her daughter’s path towards – well, what? Already chewing her way through agents, the model daughter had literary ambitions and engaged a writer who cooked up a concept, wrote two chapters and came up with a perfect title. Mommie Dearest

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Is it Topsy Taylor . . . . . . or Muffie Potter Aston?

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Those devilish pranksters, Improv Everywhere, filled a subway carriage with identical twins, creating a human mirror simply to delight people or freak them out, depending on their disposition. Genius! Video and more photos from the event here.

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I came across this warning while fact-checking a story.And your brain, no doubt.Here's what I remember about Nikki Webster: dangling from a wire at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Sydney eight years ago; a song called "Strawberry Kisses" that could easily become Rickrolling V2.0. That's it. And she's still, against all odds, trying to become a brand. Last I heard she was working the gay

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In an institution as old as the British royal household there are some positions that go back centuries, to when the monarchy actually ran the country. Some positions no longer exist because the roles were absorbed by government. The Master of the Revels, for instance, oversaw royal festivities and, oddly, stage censorship. The Master of the Great Wardrobe ran the office that provided clothing

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Two student activists took the New South Wales Government to court today to challenge the special World Youth Day laws that allowed police to detain people or fine them $5,500 for “annoying or inconveniencing” Catholic pilgrims (first discussed in this post) – and won.They argued that the laws, which were never discussed or debated in Parliament, were unconstitutional because they would make

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The Coen brothers are channelling the spirit of Saul Bass in the poster for their new film, Burn After Reading.By the way – quite the cast, isn't it? It opens the Venice Film Festival at the end of August, arriving in cinemas swiftly afterwards. The trailer's here.

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The Pope's in town and says he'll apologise for all the pedophile priests. Sorry about all the kiddy-fiddling! Happy World Youth Day, everyone!Broken Rites is a group that helps victims of church-related sex abuse to obtain justice. Since 1993 they’ve documented thousands of cases, in particular involving the Catholic Church. Here is their list of the 107 Catholic priests and religious brothers

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What is the one thing that all dreadful people on reality TV shows say to excuse their dreadfulness?

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Forward a piece of spam to the Spamrecycler. Its address is spam@spamrecycling.com.It will send you back a link. Click to watch your inbox-clogging piece of crap turn into something far more interesting to look at. Here's what it made out of mine.

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Two excellent videos by Phillip Scott Johnson. How many faces can you name?Men in FilmDouglas Fairbanks Sr., Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster

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A bicycle by Chanel. A steal at $13,000.

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The very fabulous and fearless Patty Huntington has abandoned the shackles of mainstream media to strike out on her own. The author of, most recently, the Fully Chic blog at news.com.au has gone all indie on our ass with her very own blog, [frockwriter].There's a great story about Patty being banned from some off-schedule New York Fashion Week shows a couple of years ago by a megalomaniac PR --

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There's a wonderful expression in French, l'esprit d'escalier. It means "the wit of the staircase", thinking of something brilliant you might have said during a conversation – as you're leaving.Its origins come from leaving the drawing room of a grand 18th-century house. (The drawing room, where guests were entertained, was on the first floor – thus Upstairs, Downstairs.)The Germans have a word

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Having just finished reading a series of books set in the 1920s and 30s filled with details of calling cards and dressing for dinner, I’m currently obsessed with old systems of manners and etiquette. I’ve uncovered some gems, including the English Manners And Tone Of Good Society, Or Solecisms To Be Avoided by A Member of the Aristocracy (1879) and the American Mrs John M. E. W. Sherwood’s

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