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Sunday & a man incapable of returning friendship

on a road to nowhere…

Tina Weymouth has been critical of David Byrne, describing him as “a man incapable of returning friendship” and the band that was Talking Heads is of course no more. Just more debris on the Road to Nowhere.

This version isn’t to bad either

or this one

But I think they all lack the [...]

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FT.com / UK – TV ads are the most effective, says poll

Hypnosis of a different kind. ft.com in the UK are reporting that “Television provides the most memorable form of advertising, a survey has found, offering some comfort for broadcasters facing plummeting revenues.In a report commissioned by the Edinburgh International Television Festival, which opens next week, Deloitte and YouGov found 64 per cent of people who [...]

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Nine’s hypnosis clip breached rules: TV watchdog

The so-called watchdog and the concept of self regulation once again show themselves to be a farce of the first order. If someone breaks a law then there should be consequences, its a concept that in my limited understanding applies to people who steal things or hurt other people. However for the sacred cow of [...]

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www.breakfastpolitics.com: The Himalaya Melting – the Forgotten Climate Change Crisis

The net is gobbling up my day faster than I can poke a stick at it…this was sitting in a firefox tab for future thinking. Ok its raining (sort of) right now while I type but I just don’t understand why the gravity of the problem with climate change isn’t driving all politicians to focus [...]

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Possum Comitatus and the gender divide

The possum regularly comments over at LP so you might wonder where his brain was when he posted this -
“We see the same things with political blogs in Australia – the ratio of male to female comments here ranges between about 4 to 1 on a good day, through to 10 to 1 depending on [...]

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Is the War against Terrorism worth it?

I was asked to look at whether or not citizens should give up their civil rights in the War against Terrorism. This is problematic because the proposition is logically flawed and the actions of governments around the globe are riddled with instances where they have not acted in the best interests of the public. Why [...]

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Afghanistan passes ‘barbaric’ law diminishing women’s rights

This is what we are fighting for?

Afghanistan passes ‘barbaric’ law diminishing women’s rights | World news | guardian.co.uk.

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New Jersey Homeowner Calls Cops on Bob Dylan – ABC News

New Jersey Homeowner Calls Cops on Bob Dylan – ABC News.

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David Wilson – Moray McLaren ‘We Got Time’

David Wilson – Moray McLaren ‘We Got Time’ | Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking and visual effects.

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Beware – the Google monster!

The Google monster!

Julian Lee’s 4 page rant about the evil Google monster might just be one example of how the old media is fighting their decline into insignificance. As he writes “The irony is that the media helped create the monster now giving them nightmares and there is little they can do to stop [...]

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