With "Shark Boy," Rodriguez finally finds the limits of his digital imagination...

--- "A team of Indiana firefighters, volunteering to help rescue victims of Katrina, went to Atlanta, where Federal Emergency Management Agency staffers told them that their job was to hand out fliers and that their first task was to attend a multi-hour course on sexual harassment and equal employment opportunity."

When they presented their design at an international Nuclear Energy Conference in 1970, the West were horrified at the monstrosity they had produced. In the same way that a motoring writer would condemn a car maker who presented at a motor show a car with a 12 litre V8, cable-operated drum brakes, suspension out of a 1965 Holden and no seat belts, the Nuclear industry were quick to condemn the RBMK reactor. It was, they said, dangerous and flawed and should never be built.

The SMH’s Peter Hartcher: “One of the striking features of Latham’s career is that he has consistently fallen out with every major figure with whom he has worked closely, with the exception of Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating. In his new book he corrects this omission by criticising these men, too.”

The Age’s Michelle Grattan: “Perhaps the most damaging question for Labor, as Mark Latham’s bile sweeps over the party, is not about specific allegations, but how it could ever have seen him as a credible leader ... Latham is behaving like a crazy man.”

Bob McMullan: “When someone looks through a window and thinks they see a lot of vipers and snakes, it’s nearly always the case they’re looking in a mirror and seeing a reflection.”

Mayor Nagin Blames Bush for Lower Body Count
by Scott Ott

(2005-09-12) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin today blamed President George Bush for the lower-than-expected number of bodies discovered in the receding flood waters, and said it's part of a White House campaign "to prevent black people from getting what they deserve."
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TWO pit bull terriers were shot and killed at point-blank range to stop a savage attack on a seven-year-old girl.

"Pit bulls don't belong in our community," Mr Cameron said.

Hepburn Shire communications manager Sue Moses said council records did not detail a pit bull attack on a schoolgirl in their area.
Ms Moses said records showed a wolfhound was destroyed after attacking a 13-year-old boy in Trentham on August 27, and one pit bull terrier was put down after attacking a flock of sheep.

Council officers will be given the power to seize and destroy any pit bulls that are unregistered or entire.

A graduate in history and drama from both Newcastle and Melbourne universities, her degrees allowed her to pursue a variety of occupations, namely professional basketballer, barmaid and university secretary.

No-leaks warning is leaked

For people who were there, somewhere between 1975 and 1984, or those who have rediscovered this era of great music.

In left-liberal Sweden they actually have an "Equality Minister". He has come under fire, though, because the unit he set up to implement gender equality in employment has only three men in a staff of 28.