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Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com

hmmm…this is a taste of things to come methinks

Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com.

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Uranium export is the first step to war | theage.com.au

According to Helen Caldicott there are somewhere between 23000 and 26000 nukes waiting to go pop…anyone with a genuine nuclear power plant can make one. And here in Oz its suddenly OK to dig up and sell the stuff that makes them possible. Go the ALP! Three cheers…

Uranium export is the first step to war [...]

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YouTube – Making of “My Friend Ship” with Musician/Director Dave Righton

Is this a model for the future?

YouTube – Making of “My Friend Ship” with Musician/Director Dave Righton.

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Don’t like reading? Read on… | Offbeat Earth

Not sure about this, its very post-modern. The comments are as interesting as the pictures…

Don’t like reading? Read on… | Offbeat Earth.

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Garrett gives nod to uranium mine (and probably decides that politics sux)

Peter oh Peter where did it go wrong? From Midnight Oil and the NDP to Uranium is OK and “no credible risk to the environment”. This decision, probably more than any other (and let’s face it there have been more than a few by this so-called Labor Government) underlines what Marx claimed was the role [...]

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My iPhone’s bigger than yours

I am a big fan of Leunig

My iPhone’s bigger than yours.

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | North Korea launches beer advert

For a country that supposedly has trouble feeding its people, North Korea seems desperate to emulate those that it despises.

nothing beats a long cold beer

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | North Korea launches beer advert.

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On the right and on the left

Unbeknown to me there exists a universe of political bloggers awaiting discovery. Top marks for the right wing agenda of Leon Bertrand and his flatworld belief system although to be fair his perspective is the small “l” liberal approach with a good dose of libertarianism thrown in. I bet he was a serious young liberal [...]

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ISIS melts again!

Deja vu. A year ago, almost to the day the ANU’s student admin server isis.anu.edu.au collapsed under load and today it’s done it again. When I emailed the anu web contact last time I got some feeble excuse about unexpected load blah blah. What do these people expect on day 1 when results are available? [...]

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Hartigan @ the NPC

picture from ABC TV

John Hartigan, CEO of News Ltd took the big stick to citizen journalism as the Rupert campaign against the evil alliance of Google and the blogsphere picked up speed. Apparently John’s not too concerned about the fate of his charges, in fact he was doing his best to be positively upbeat about [...]

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