Entries Tagged as 'society'

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Happy 60th anniversary

… to the Uni­ver­sal Declar­a­tion of Human Rights.
Take her for a spin:

Equus on dvd
In a world that trivi­al­ises mil­it­ary con­flict and ter­ror, human rights are more import­ant and rel­ev­ant than ever. So it is with great relief that Aus­tralia is set to join the league of West­ern demo­cra­cies, with the Rudd gov­ern­ment set to open con­sulta­tion to the […]

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

NYT opens the floodgates">NYT opens the floodgates

The New York Times (NYT) has decided to finally remove its ridicu­lous pay-wall ser­vice (TimesSe­lect), mean­ing all con­tent is now freely avail­able to any­one with inter­net access. On top of that they are going to pro­gress­ively make avail­able the entire NYT archives stretch­ing back to 1851. As a uni­ver­sity stu­dent, appar­ently I’ve had free access behind […]

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Conspicuous consumption

Mar­ginal Revolu­tion Health for the Amer­icas: Clean­li­ness Brings Health psp The Secret Life of Bees buy
Crank film
takes a look at a “polit­ic­ally incor­rect” paper:

Aver­age income of whites and other races: $53,292.
Aver­age income of blacks: $34,485.
Expendit­ures on foot­wear by whites and other races: $274
Expendit­ures on foot­wear by blacks: $440. 
Fatal Attrac­tion video

Writ­ten on the […]

Friday, August 10th, 2007

The Howard Myth

[There is] more than enough time for Krudd and his inex­per­i­enced team to slip up a dozen times. Wayne Swan will make a joke of him­self at budget time he is the biggest dunce the Labor Party has ever seen and he thinks he can run a tril­lion dol­lar eco­nomy!!
I think this pretty much sums up a broad view […]

Friday, August 10th, 2007

A Tale of Two Cities

Lord May­ors Clover Moore and David Bor­ger spoke at length about their vis­ion for their respect­ive cit­ies
Donald’s Golf Game release

down­load Auto­maton Trans­fu­sion
Step Up video
Angel and the Bad­man ipod
El Gaucho Goofy dvd

. Sydney Town Hall has a seat­ing capa­city of about 2000. There were at best 100 people in the room. An indic­a­tion of how much Sydney-siders care.
These […]