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OMG what have they done? post #spill

david — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:21:46 +0000

A week ago the Libs looked like a rabble, then they spent the week proving it and now, after a bit of a break and a nice night’s sleep they wake up an elect TONY ABBOTT as their leader?

Barry Cassidy summed it up with Annabel Crabb on the rather extravagant ABC coverage of the #spill; [...]

Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content | Slashdot

david — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:47:34 +0000

This is tech humour, it mightn’t appeal to many but I’ve lifted a few gems to lighten the mood a little

presidenteloco writes

Dear Mr Murdoch

If you don’t want to be hyperlinked to, you might consider not putting your content on the worldwide web.

interkin3tic says:

You have to look at it from his perspective.

Basically his [...]

The news you have to pay for

david — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:27:08 +0000

Ok let’s try this idea. You have a business, its core activity consists of people stringing a few words together based on information received. They, the stringers-of-words, do this stringing thing regularly and they also spend more than the average amount of time reading other stringers-of-words. Then there is a certain accumulated body of knowledge [...]