Entries Tagged as 'society'

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Dawkins in person (via satellite)

Saw Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers Fest­ival Unac­com­pan­ied Minors divx with John and oth­ers (which was very very poorly planned, I could not go to either of the Ross Gittins talks because the seats filled up hours before they were sched­uled to start). Nor­mally when he’s inter­view­ing people he comes across as very stiff and severe, […]

Friday, April 27th, 2007

A change is in the air

On Monday, was greeted with terse email telling me Inter­na­tional Law had been can­celled “due to ill­ness.” Jerry was admant we had to go forum shop­ping so we wouldn’t “miss out” on an import­ant les­son, thus cut­ting my leis­urely 3 hour lunch break to 1. Hence, day fin­ished at 4 instead of 6, but it was still […]

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

> Andy">Hamish > Andy

It’s out­rageous and down­right unAus­tralian that Andy (right) could be found a more eli­gible bach­elor than Ham­ish (left). Prim­rose Path rip buy O Gum­ball 3000: 6 Days in May video

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Some thoughts on Freakonomics

Just fin­ished read­ing Freako­nom­ics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dub­ner. For a full review, here’s one by Orson Scott Card. Freako­nom­ics What About Bob? trailer Frame of Mind psp Phant­asm III: Lord of the Dead down­load should be required read­ing for all eco­nom­ics stu­dents. The num­ber of under­gradu­ates study­ing it, who have no idea about basic economic […]

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

We decide who… blah blah blah

http://blogs.smh.com.au/entertainment/archives/the_tribal_mind/005060.html How the hell does Bor­der Secur­ity Cel­lu­lar divx down­load Double Agent draw in over 2 mil­lion view­ers? Are we really that para­noid?Mickey’s Christ­mas Carol dvdrip