It’s all desperately important, as we know, but I can’t help but feel the idiocy of the nightly financial reporting at the moment. It’s all…
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Now normally, I don’t really care who wins the Nobel Prize for Economics. They’re usually some kind of disagreeable economist that isn’t really making much…
Leave a CommentFinally! After nearly three years, The Hold Steady have been announced as part of the bill for the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, held around February…
Leave a CommentThe Hold Steady get a good write-up in the Sydney Morning Herald (written by a critic that I don’t find particularly agreeable): Grand Ambitions THERE…
Leave a CommentTwenty-five years ago, something nearly happened that, if it didn’t kill us all, would have seriously ruined, well, everything. Thank you Stanislav Petrov for defying…
Leave a CommentPaul Newman died today, as you’ve no doubt read. A great actor, philanthropist and racing driver/manager. I’ll admit that this is his most famous role:…
Leave a CommentIt feels odd that I haven’t done a full 40-hour week for a long time, it seems. Certainly not more than a few in the…
Leave a CommentFirst picked up on this news last night on John Scalzi’s site — it’s a little disconcerting when you read something big on a blog…
Leave a CommentNow this is on the spot journalism … from an amateur, of course: From the New York Times blog and repeated at a few other…
Leave a CommentCharlie Stross has another insightful post which he starts with a few semi-random links, and his readers then link them together into a discussion on…
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