Dive into the archives.
- Sydney Film Festival 2009 Highlights
God knows what’s happened with the Sydney Film Festival this year. The promotional material has gone from being gorgeous, arty and incredibly cinematic to, well, featuring an ugly dog sitting on a chair. The festival is running for a week shorter than usual. The program is a tangled, unclear mess and the hype engine seems […]
- Recession is fun!
I don’t know how many of you have come across Microsoft’s “SongSmith” yet, but it’s their new program that “creates” “music” to go along with data, or more usefully, your voice. Thank god! My future has finally arrived! Anyone can become a internationally successful recording artist with the help of a computer (after all, the […]
- Maureen Dowd and Aaron Sorikin’s Op-Ed in The New York Times
As if we need further re-inforcement that The New York Times is a wonderful newspaper, check out this little ditty of inspired writing. Why don’t we have things like this in the Sydney Morning Herald, rather than “101 Ways to get your tits out at Ivy and not pick up a mind-dead moron”? (Although I […]
- The Semicolon and Sex
There was huge drop in semicolon use from the 18th through the 19th centuries, from 68.1 per 1000 words to 17.7. And that’s just the start of the trouble…
Jan Freeman has a wonderful article about the state of the punctuated union in the Boston Globe. I’m such a fan of traditional punctuation and grammar, even […]
- McCain hates you Slackers!
As if you need more evidence that John McCain’s a comically out of touch jackass, have a look at what McCain staffer Michael Goldfarb had to say on the offical McCain blog yesterday.
It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman’s memory of war from the comfort of […]
- Obama’s “Yes We Can”
Sure it’s been around the internet for months, but stumbling upon Barack Obama’s Post-New Hampshire speech this evening I couldn’t help but feel incredibly moved. It’s the sort of speech which will end up being published in a hundred cheap-ass paperbacks about “Speeches that Changed the World” - but despite my derision it has the […]
