Going through my iTunes and found something I forgot I downloaded a while back.

But first, amusing news segue from yesterday: channel 7 news had a story on the death of "one of Australia's most notorious pedophiles". They went through his crimes, said that he firmly believed that little boys wanted to have sex with him, and finished with how he ( Read more... )

Watching The 7.30 Report this evening (yesterday?), I have to say that this was one of the most disturbing things I have seen this year.It's been called the monstrosity of the century, and certainly if it happened in a developed nation it would fill the newspapers and TV screens. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, women are being raped ( Read more... )

I actually like Obama, but from what I see on Australian TV? He really makes me think of a televangelist.

When I was a child, we had some friends who came from South Africa. The father of the family was born in Africa, but the mother came from England and he'd spent some time traveling around Europe. They left because they could no longer stomach the Apartheid, and came to Australia because it was somewhere he could still "feel the sky ( Read more... )

The pictures have been all over the newspapers. There have been editorials, news reports galore, interviews with the kid and interviews with his parents (who seem to have been responsible in leaving him with friends, not at home alone while they were away). There has been a hude fuss over whether or not the parents should foot the $20,000 police ( Read more... )

I hear the election has been called. Hallelujah! At last! I know we're going to be even more inundated than we were during the not!campaign, but at least now I don't have to have an eye-twitch every time there's a "we're so good!-authorised-by-the-Australian-Government-Canberra" tax-payer funded ad on the TV (and yes, I had Issues with Bracks ( Read more... )

So first we have the whole "Africans are violent and evil and we're not letting any in!"1 return to the White Australia policy (hello, Children Overboard2, nice to see you raise your ugly face again), and then I realise that indigenous Australians aren't recognised in the constitution and we're going to have to have a friggin' referendum to get ( Read more... )

Dear Chaser boys,

I love you, I love what you do, but egad you're fucking stupid. Yes, the Sydney Wall sucks. Yes, APEC is ridiculous and a massive waste of money ( Read more... )

Today I managed to download the Human Nature eBook from the BBC website*, and discovered that at 3pm Australian time MegaUpload is far faster than SendSpace.

I also rediscovered that you don't want to read The Herald Scum if you want to remain spoiler-free for Doctor Who. In today's TV guide, we had the following:
( they like to spoil you )

To my ever lasting shame, the newspaper we get in this house is The Herald Scum. Rupert Murdoch, yays? Not quite. However, I do love Mark Knight's cartoons, and the Thursday liftout, and anything to do with Cameron Adams actually.

Mark Knight is on holidays at the moment, though, and today's cartoon was from The Adelaide Advertiser. And I ( Read more... )