September 2008
If the world could vote Obama would be a shoe in. →
According to a BBC survey global opinon puts Obama ahead of McCain by a margin of four to one.
Apple says no to farting iPhone on 'utility'... →
Apple doesn’t seem to like the old “Pull my finger” joke. They claim the gag doesn’t have broad enough appeal, so they are stopping an app which produces the sounds of flatulence from appearing in their App Store.
Participating In Religion May Make Adolescents... →
“One of the few studies to look at the effects of religious participation on the mental health of minorities suggests that for some of them, religion may actually be contributing to adolescent depression.”
It depresses me and I’m neither religious or an adolescent.
“John McCain sounded like the vestry board chairman speaking at the church social...”
– Michael Tomasky on John McCain’s convention speech.
“The Republicans have turned her [Palin] into an attack machine. The very things...”
– Hannah Byrne at Humpy’s Great Alaskan Alehouse
“First of all she [Palin] offers an opportunity for an ailing Republican party to...”
– Gerad Baker, “Sarah Palin: it’s go west, towards the future of conservatism”
I hope you US Democrats are taking this thing seriously. From where I’m sitting Obama (or Clinton) was never a shoe-in and things are looking to be getting a lot tighter.
““What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a...”
– as quoted in Gerard Baker’s article “Sarah Palin: it’s go west, towards the future of conservatism”
New South Wales politics just got interesting... →
Last night the Premier (like an American Governor but more disposable) of New South Wales told his Treasurer he was toast. Today the NSW ALP caucus told the Premier he was toast.
So in less than two days with no election required the state of New South Wales of Australia now has a new Premier.
The yanks have being beavering away for close to a year now and they are still several months away from...
“The invective hurled at Palin is not so much directed at her politics but...”
– Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at the University of Kent, “Moralisers on a PC witch-hunt”
And this guys on our side.
A new study commissioned by Catholics in Alliance... →
asprettyasasong:
(via azspot)
“Nixon sided with middle America, mercilessly exploiting elite liberal values as...”
– Janet Albrechtsen, “Impaling Sarah Palin”
In case there is any doubt Janet Albrechtsen is one of the most right-wing, conservative, anti-intellectual commentators in Australia.
Time to come clean
Given all the stuff in the media lately the following is really hard to admit because I know people are just going to hate me for it. But here goes.
I’ve eaten mooseburger and it was good!
There I’ve said it, damn me to hell (not much of a problem for an atheist). But I just had to quash all those stories about me hunting moose, it’s just not true, I didn’t kill the...
“Personally, I think we’re witnessing the Republican Party in meltdown. The...”
– Margaret Wente, “The culture wars are baaack!”
Australia to get first female Gee Gee →
Today Quentin Bryce will be sworn in as the first female Governor General (G-G) of Australia.
For non-Australians the G-G is the Australian head-of-sate … well sort of. The G-G is head-of-state while the real head-of-state is out of the country. That being most of the time as the real head-of-state is the Queen of Australia … who also happens to be Queen of Great Britain, Queen of...
“ONE in three American girls becomes pregnant before the age of 20, which gives...”
– Ian Munro, “Bristol’s plight ignites sex education debate”
See abstinence works! Two out of three American girls won’t get pregnant before they are twenty!
Guess it depends if you a whiskey glass half-full/half-empty type of person.
“The geopolitical adventures of America on the world stage matter to us all, not...”
– Chris Middendorp, “It’s all showbiz, but maybe we deserve a vote”
“The success of this demonstration further validates our ICARUS autonomous...”
– Lockheed demos AI-based roboforce command tech | The Register (via codery)
I -Infallible
C- Complete
A - And
R - Running
U - User
S - Software
I remember this for a book entitled something like “The Devil’s IT dictionary”.
siddman:
1 more day ‘till school starts!
1 more day before I take off around Australia for 7 weeks, ha!
“According to a [US] poll by Time magazine in July, 20 per cent of likely voters...”
– Peter Hartcher, “Palin’s pro-life code, loud and clear”
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“Republican reformers note with dismay that the less educated you are, the more...”
– Daniel Finkelstein, “New US chattering class rises”
fingers crossed.
Google's Chrome browser needs more polish →
Not everybody is impressed with Chrome. Then there is the stuff up with the EUA, basically everything you do with Chrome belongs to Google, apparently Google is already back tracking on that one.
Obama climbs to 66% in poll — of Canadians →
He’d probably do even better with Australians.
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New... →
(via wayne-remy)
“I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get...”
– Governor Palin, addressing graduating students at her one-time church.
The gas line in question was a $30 billion pipeline project that she wanted built in Alaska.