tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74517942024-09-10T17:12:34.535+10:00What election?Georg Hibberdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042823932172668960noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451794.post-1150710114031621652006-06-19T19:23:00.000+10:002006-06-19T19:41:54.056+10:00

I don't feel like I can make fun of freaky tourette's John on Big Brother, so instead I'm going to make fun of those nasty Brazilians.So, spot the difference:And again:I know it's hard to split them, but just do your best.

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I must take the opportunity to farewell Psephite. I was hoping the election blogging adventure would end in a somewhat different way I must confess. But this process has not been without its benefits. The boss was particularly impressed when I righteously claimed to be part of the blogging fraternity. I can now add blogging to the list of cool memories I have which have sprung from the

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We've decided to call it a day. Psephite was originally set up to critique the election and as that has now been and gone we have struggled to maintain the rage, so to speak. So, upon consultation, I am winding up Psephite. Thank you to all those who read and posted comments, it was amazing to realise that there were people out there actually reading Psephite. I can't speak for the others but I

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Via Arts and Letters Daily, an interview with Timothy Garton Ash about his dealings with the White House and his new book Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West. The interview includes the first contact the Whitehouse made with Garton Ash: It's the White House here, could you come and tell President Bush about Europe, uh, next Thursday at 1:45? Says it all really.

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If you would like to nominate a blog for one of the awards on offer, do it now. There is a 'Best Australian blog' category. Tim Blair has a couple of nominations so I have named Backpages (even after its demise) to even the competition up. The number of nominations has no affect on the winner - voting will start in December.

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Although I didn't make it to the 'colourful' part of the evening, a grand time was had by the surprisingly numerous bloggers who turned up to the Clock Hotel in Surry Hills last night. - > Got to meet the man himself, Darp, even if he can't spell Psephite he's still rather cool. - > Picked up me Pandagate shirt and have already worn it, the quizzical looks from passers-by alone are worth the 25

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Check out Google scholar, the Beta is online now. It allows you to: search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as

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I've been on a bit of a books/language bent in my last few posts so I thought I would continue it by pointing to a San Francisco bookstore that is allowing its books to be arranged according to colour. Someone has posted some photos, if you'd like to take a peek. It reminds of my years working in a bookshop where there were so many books they were piled on the floor. As well as the shelves

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Chris Sheil has decided to close down Back Pages to focus on writing his book. A sad occasion for the Australian blogosphere, yes. The positive? Chris has given us his 10 rules for blogging. A must-read for all current and would-be bloggers.

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Language eh? It's a weird and tricky thing. Even though I may not always write so good, I am of the opinion that there are rules to be observed and there is such a thing as good English. Ok, call me a fascist but I assure you the rest of my tendencies are thoroughly to the left. I was absolutely thrilled then to read this extract from John Humphrey's book. Although it seems he may be treading

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The Paris Review is offering fifty years of interviews with writers FOR FREE. Excuse me, I have some reading to do.

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I just read a very entertaining article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed about a man and his books. I was horrified to find myself agreeing with almost everything he said. You see, I may work on the web, do a bit of blogging, love my new iBook and have been known to use nearly 300mb in downloads a day, my true love though is books. The older I get the worse it becomes. Sometimes my interest may

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Went to the Newtown Festival yesterday. It was absolutely huge, as usual. And also as is normal, the usual mixed bag of yuppies, goths, dykes and poofs, uni students, hippies and god knows what else. Also, the usual stalls run by Green Left and Socialist Alliance on King St. One of them was selling a t-shit with a rat on it and 'Don't blame me. I didn't vote for the lying rodent.' I had a

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I don't know about fellow bloggers but I can't say that I have ever imagined myself as a journalist. (Except when I was in primary school and I conned my parents into helping me put together a photostatted 'newspaper' called the 'Hotline Herald'). Eric Engberg, a retired CBS journo has written an article claiming that bloggers like to think they break the news and that they are taking the place,

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Two Cents is no more. Bummer. I was needing some fun this evening. Right now I am not going to have rant about this, I'll leave this to everyone else.

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After crazybrave generously shared the sealed Crikey section, it is now on Crikey with a reply from Andrew Bolt and Simon Hollins. Now I'm off to have a look at the Blogger templates. Getting bored with this one, too straight maybe, perhaps something more diagonal is in order...

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I have enabled the Blogger commenting facility and am going to phase out the current system. If you want to comment on posts here, please use the Blogger commenting link. When I figure out how to disable the other one without losing all the current comments there will just be one link. Cheers. UPDATE: Ok, now I seem to have lost all the &^%^ comments. Ah well, nothing like a clean slate is there?

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Ok, with my last post I resolved that I would leave the Panda-hairy-gate saga in peace. Then I decided to cruise on over to Two Cents. Call me a masochist. Anyway, the latest post is entitled: It's not ok to be gay. (I did have a link to this 'piece' but Two Cents have since taken their site offline and made it password protected so only the priviliged few Right people can look at it). So, being

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Hopefully, the last word on Pandagate has beeen posted in the form of an email expose by Rob Corr. For all those who have been following the sorry saga, the emails reporduced in Rob's post are truly entertaining. I must admit to finding great mirth in two things: - Andrew Bolt got involved in some petty student-politicking - Alex Lew thinks he's allowed to put (BA/LLB IV)(Melbourne) after his

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Zoe at crazybrave has posted a very brave and thoughtful piece about abortion. Go read it.

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At the risk of enraging the RWDBs (actually, in the HOPE of enraging the RWDBs), I would like to refer you to a wonderful little table that ranks US states according to average IQ. Oh, and it also notes whether the States are Republican or Democrat. Enjoy. (But get in quick, it has been hammered with hits and may have to be taken down due to blowing out the owner's bandwidth).

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There's some to-ing and fro-ing going on down south between some 'young' Liberals and some lefty bloggers. You may have heard of the frankly delightful Miranda Airey-Branson. Well, Miranda had a blog where she said some not-very-nice things and basically crapped on in a spoilt brat manner about horses, the races, shaving, Sex in the City, all the intelligent stuff. Some lefties started commenting

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Of course it did. And I have absolutely nothing to say. F**k. I'm off to read Ms Fits for some light relief.

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Don't you just love it when you feel as if your whole way of life, your beliefs, are at odds with the majority of the country? After the 'stunning' election result, then the eventual take-over of the Senate by the Right I really didn't think it could get much worse. Of course, there was the gay marriage stuff before the election (who the hell was calling for it anyway??), now there's Abbott

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