Why It’s Time to Stop Calling Everything a ‘Hipster’ — powered by Cracked.com
The word hipster gets overused on this site as much as anywhere.
Often by angry people who think their own ignorance is a justification of their opinions.
In any event Cracked have done an excellent job explaining the term’s misuse which I thought worthy of [...]

ACT Policing has released CCTV footage of a man believed responsible for fraudulently obtaining money from Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) last year.
Detectives from Criminal Investigations’ Fraud team have received more than 50 reports of unauthorised withdrawals from bank accounts via ATMs in November.
Investigations indicate skimming devices were attached to two ATMs, one in Mawson [...]

Crikey has the happy news that after Sydney and Melbourne we’re pretty hip with Civic and Braddon rating in Australia’s hippest suburbs.
Scoring two suburbs we’re even with Perth, and ahead of Brisbane. Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin are not hip at all!
Canberra City has the distinction of having the highest proportion of both tertiary educated [...]

ACT Policing has released CCTV images of the man believed responsible for the robbery at the Coffee Club in Belconnen Westfield on Wednesday (August 8).
At 5.35pm, a female employee was counting money after closing the café when a man walked behind the service counter. The woman tried to grab the money however the man pushed [...]

Alf has sent in this piece of street art taken in Braddon (near Crust).
The interesting thing about hipsters is that even people who are evidently hipsters still despise their brethren.
It’s nice to see some love.
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