| Category: Cartoons Remember Bluey and Curly? What a great site! And you gotta love this Narre Warren museum. This link found at the Professor's response to Scott Wickstein's top 10 Australians of the 20th century challenge. I wish I had half the ability of the respondents to come up with such a list. BTW Slatts did a good job, too. My list would probably include GK and Roy Rene, Sir John Kerr, Sir Jack Brabham and maybe even (exceedingly reluctantly) Gough. It would probably even include R. A. Santamaria if he hadn't gone a bit silly toward the end; I can't forgive him for that matey interview with Phillip Adams when they both naïvely slammed economic rationalism (was it on ABC TV?). |
| Category: Economics Any search engine will hit the motherlode if you enter "Cowperthwaite Hong Kong". An article by Milton Friedman. PJ in fine form. An interesting history of technical education in Hong Kong. Some stuff on statistical collectivism. The freedom and whisky blog. The list goes on. Sir John Cowperthwaite is one of my heroes. |
| Category: Blogs Jeez I get annoyed when Mark links to something that I find funny. (Minor Flash alert! Don't think it's too big though). |
| Category: Blogs For what it's worth, my friend Mark's blogging again. Hopefully it'll be more dynamic than last time . |
| Category: Literature I don't understand this. Thanks (last article, can't work out how to link directly(sorry)) Risks! |
| Category: Culture(?) If you like David |
| Category: Disability Mobility This is sorta cool. From the inventor of the Segway et al comes the iBot. Thanks Dean! |
| Category: Politics "One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." -- P.J. O'Rourke Lots of quotes, most of which I have read some time or another but it is nice to have a collection all in one place. |
| Category: Cars On the toll road back from Monash this afternoon I saw a brightly coloured Monaro (local GM product being sold in the US under a different name, I believe) with the number plate ROUT31. It seems sad that a performance car (even though I am a Ford man I must refer to the Monaro as a performance car) should have a number plate referring to one of the guvmint's main speed traps. Tim Blair is going to expose himself to the Benalla Revenue Droids this weekend. They pinged me once and I was shorted $130 and had my license suspended for a month. The suspension was because I was going 132k in a 110k zone which is 30k over the speed limit. You do the math, I can't. My mum drove me shopping and I used 6 door green limos for thirty days. These days I drive a front-wheel-drive, four cylinder, slushomatic, Japanese, people mover. I was much happier driving my '68 boxy Corona but that was declared dead for nothing more than a petrol leak. Where are the real mechanics these days? |
| Category: Language I'm eternally grateful to the Urban Dictionary for explaining to me what a metric shitload is. Now I'll just have to work out a way to work it into the conversation. |
| Category: ABC Annabel Crabb writes about Christopher Pyne (Lib, Sturt, SA) talking about advertising on the ABC. On pointing to the article, Fight Fire With Fire remains committed to the disaggregation and sale (in that order) of the ABC...Go FFWF! |
| Category: Telly Thank goodness for the National Broadcaster budget cuts. Telly the way it was when I was a kid. |
| Category: Printers If the ink were gasoline, it would cost you $175,000 to fill your gas tank. (via The Yobbo) |
| Category: War Blood on Our Hands? Another set of data points on the events of 58 years ago today. (via Tim Blair) CORRECTION: Errr... Yesterday. (or was it Aug 6 US time when the Enola Gay took off and probably Aug 7 here? Research time!) RESEARCH: The tiny island if Tinian is on this side of the dateline so it was yesterday. My bad. UPDATE: And this guy's got it at August the 5th. Kooky Americans! |
| Category: Science Bizarre Science is written by Aaron Oakley and is always a good read. Tuesday saw him posting an article from the Calgary Herald about the sources of "global warming". Yet another theory to explain something that we may or may not have observed. |
| Category: EUSSR I discovered via Tim Blair that the EUSSR has a standard for condom sizes. The Germans are none too keen on the standard. It's probably nonsense but it is a bit of "harmless" fun. |
| Category: Telly Jump the Shark yields some more wonderful information (in particular, see last dot point). |
