The first ever Canberra Biennial is on right now with an exhibition at Reconciliation Place of temporary shelters (the theme for this biennial). There have also been various conferences and talks (have a look here for more on this). The exhibition closes this Sunday 20-NOV-05 but if you don’t ...
Maelinar sent in the plan for Molonglo Valley showing what the government’s going to do with the area. Looks like there’ll be lots of nice riverfront real estate as well as some vinyards and the possibility of some land being retained for broadacre usage (anyone care to enlighten me?). M...
Insatiable Banalities Number 29 features the music of the Australian Kingswood Factory and is available for download here Track List: No News. 8:02 Hey Baby. 19:48 Pub. 35:08 God’s Gift. 42:44 Midnight Painkiller. 50:51 The feed for podcatching software is here. iTunes users can just search th...
Some people thinks it takes an expensive suit and education to master the lexicon of weasel words on which modern business rests. To those people I present this ABC piece on Simon Woolford stepping down as Raider’s Captain in 2006. said he now wanted to focus on his playing and business intere...
Deb Foskey pushed out a horrified media release (below) this afternoon. The Liberals had mocked her anti-cat crusade! Yes, a cat out at night is a killing machine, no question. But what sort of environment is it predating again? After we’ve bulldozed the trees, built roads, fences, houses, la...
I have to say I was a little suprised to see a media release form the Chief Minister congratulating the Soccerroos on qualifying for the world cup. As a rule unless the sport involves one legged lesbians or gay whales he’s not known for his keeness. (The Raider’s proletarian nature possi...
Survey 2 for the year is out, and the general trend is for losses by the AM stations and gains by the FM stations. Interestingly, FM 104.7 managed to take over the top spot from Mix 106.3, for those who are wondering, the survey was undertaken from October 9 to November 5. The results for Survey [.....
ABC is reporting that the bike racks are all a go-go here
RA’s coverage of the unfolding recumbant bike debate can found here and here.
About freaking time, that after all the buggering round that has gone on (not too mention the funds wasted), this has actually started to see the light of day...
BoingBoing.net has been documenting stuff about the malicious trojan-horse rootkit that is sneakily installed on your PC when you try to play a Sony BMG CD. Apparently something like 500,000 computer networks worldwide are infected. The Sony uninstaller released to fix the rootkit problem is even wo...
ABC online is reporting here that our benevolent government will allowing prisoners who are locked in the Hyatt Regency Hume, to have access to a needle exchangwe program, in case the knitting needle they were using to make woollens for their mum gets turned into a shiv by an enterprising cell mate....
Google has this list of links up on the latest spy scandal to rock Canberra. It is alleged that one of our esteemed Defence people was involved with the man selling US B2 Bomber secrets to foreign powers. I grabbed this snippet from the Australian: Defence Materiel Organisation officer Arthur Lazar...
No online reference I could find, but the blue collar bible the Daily Telegraph ran this story today. In a situation reminiscent, yet infinitely worse than the infamous Dickson-Cockroach-Dim-sim-Fiasco, Canberra man John Suthern is suing Streets Ice cream for Mercury poisoning he sustained eating a...