Month: November 2004

Whay are the spam merchants of the world suddenly obsessed with rolexes? In the beginning, spam was all about porn, then it became about cheap…

Possibly the most cretinous people on earth are on Usenet. At my job, I spend all day putting together TV guides from station info (which…

A thought: The most terifying, stupid, dullard, backward dangerous scumbags on earth are American. And the most intelligent, forward thinking, decent and noble people on…

Finally watched my first full episode of Joss Whedon’s late lamented (sort of) series, Firefly. It started airing in Australia last week, but I taped…

I’ve just signed up for www.last.fm today. Looks very promising. First time that I’ve really looked seriously at a good online radio service – never…

I really love what Neil Gaiman wrote today. It’s about his response to the US election, which of course must have hit him harder because…

Can anyone in the western world believe that Bush actually won? With a bigger margin this time? With more “legitimacy”, if that will ever be…

And there was some horse race in Australia today… that Melbourne Cup thing. But hey, at least we get half the afternoon off work 🙂…

The US election is tomorrow (our time). It’s a curious thing really – to be so interested in the election of a foreign country’s leader.…