Tweet1. There’s no point to it. World of Warcraft and other online games and spaces have a point – make friends, complete quests, shoot people, etc. Second Life is like when you were 14, hanging around outside Doncaster Shoppingtown with … Continue reading
TweetInteresting statistics regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in Iraq – here’s a sobering statistic: There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 … Continue reading
TweetAre you easily amused? Are the sort of person that thought the three concurrent, unrelated plotlines of Crash or Syriana was the height of genius? Are you led to be impressed by a filmmaker, no matter how weak or forced … Continue reading
TweetThe new AFL site has just come online. Sorry, the BETA site, from the little sign they’ve got on the top, has gone online. Unlike most over BETA sites though, this one isn’t off the main site, for use in … Continue reading
TweetThere’s an ad on TV (or at least it was on TV) that absolutely sh*ts me to tears. It shows emotive footage of pollution, small seabirds covered in oil, burning refineries, clouds of smoke, barren landscapes and then has a … Continue reading
TweetMelbourne put 6 goals past Adelaide in the A-League Grand Final and won the match in a canter. To quote the late Jack “Captain Blood” Dyer, “nice sizzle, shame about the sausage”. It was a good game, but any game … Continue reading
TweetALP Shadow Minister Peter Garrett, former frontman of Midnight Oil and all round anti-US guy, has supported his party’s endorsement of a new major US military base in Western Australia. In the greatest headline I’ve ever seen, The Age has … Continue reading
TweetTo “celebrate” St. Valentine’s Day – the only Saints day invented by the florist industry – the Google homepage (you don’t need the URL link, surely) has a graphic of a strawberry dipped in chocolate, with the chocolate curling to … Continue reading
TweetThere is talk low cost carrier Tiger Air, a joint venture between Singapore Airlines and Ryanair, will be coming to Australia soon. The Age has a poll on it’s website asking: “Do we need another budget airline?”. I laugh at … Continue reading
TweetLast night Scissor Sisters played the final show of their Aussie tour. It wasn’t great. Vodafone Arena is the sh*ttest music venue in the WORLD! No atmosphere at all in that massive high-tech shed; Jake Shears even lied: “We heard … Continue reading