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June, 2009
YouTube takes drastic online action: allows obvious external links
Introducing the Call-To-Action Overlay available on YouTube tomorrow, allowing specific advertising over videos that will send users off-site.
Ode to Kodachrome
Kodachrome has been discontinued. Photojojo suggests you help it go out in a blazing storm of colour by taking just one more roll.
Which bank’s been pissing off its customers?
The Commonwealth Bank’s NetBank went down for several hours on the second-last day of the financial year. So The SMH invited customers to vent their spleens.
Who says Buffett lunches are cheap and nasty?
An anonymous punter has won the right to pick billionaire Warren Buffett’s brains over lunch — and to pay $US1.68 million for the pleasure. Calm down, it’s for charity.
Technology: cheating on your partner made easier
Infidelity made simple with iPhone applications and date sites for the already married.
GE makes a tidy sum from bailout loophole
The world’s largest industrial company, General Electric, has quietly become the biggest beneficiary of one of the US government’s bank rescues. The only hitch is, it’s not exactly a bank.
13-year-old roadtests Walkman, discovers tapes have two sides
For the 30th anniversary of the Walkman, the BBC gave a teenage boy a portable cassette player to review. His comments are pure gold.
Victorian Newspoll — ALP solidish edition
Worth noting in the first such poll since Feb, is the general decline in the net-satisfaction levels of both the Labor government and Liberal opposition, says Possum.
The salesman behind Wall Street’s bull
The strategic communications specialist advising a financial industry effort to enhance Wall Street’s image has plenty of experience in spinning the American public: he was one of the aides in charge of the Bush administration’s fact-bending campaign to sell the Iraq War.
Welcome to wife camp
The goal of Make-over Camp is to instill poise, grace and confidence in girls between the ages of 10 and 14. Girls will learn to improve their posture, voice, table manners, conversation skills, wardrobe choices, makeup application, hostessing skills and music appreciation.
Sharks: the serial killers of the sea
Great white sharks and serial killers such as the Yorkshire Ripper stalk their victims in a similar way, scientists have found.
My first time … transplanting a heart
“When the heart comes out, you’re staring at an empty chest. That’s when I said, ‘Am I actually doing this to a human being?’ It’s kinda cool, actually,” recalls Dr Daniel Goldstein, Vice-chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center.
Sweden’s strawberry flavoured sex ed classes angers immigrants
Mandatory sex education classes for 14-year-olds has angered Muslim immigrants in Sweden.
It’s Malcolm Turnbull Jim, but not as we know him
Bernard Keane went to bed in a universe in which Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership was damaged, but not terminal, and awoke in one in which he was about to be deposed by “senior Liberals”, “within days”. It’s like a bad episode of Star Trek.
Russians at the beach
Turbans and Miama Vice-esque blazers. Just another day a la mer according to Vogue Russia.
Private credit drops 0.1%
Despite the surge in profits at our major retailers, private credit dropped 0.1% in May.
Battle of the new media heavyweights
One month since the launch of News Ltd’s new siteThe Punch and a few months since we relaunched our very own Crikey website, the Australian media commentariat are now dutifully weighing in on who is winning the readership wars.
Crikey Says: Asylum seekers set to test Australian politics
Australia faces a major test in relation to its refugee policy in coming months, with conflicts in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan producing a significant increase in asylum-seekers.
Political snippets: Rotting capitalist era art
Yale University brings out the lawyers to protect its rotting capitalist era art, Libs struggle in almost every state, and more political tidbits from Richard Farmer.
Madoff’s conviction is no example of American justice
Let’s not kid ourselves that Bernie Madoff’s conviction and jailing somehow is testimony to speedy and swift American justice.
Miaili, Rembarrnga, Ngalakgan, Dalabon, Jawoyn: save these languages
We nurse a deep failure to appreciate the value of Australia’s unique linguistic diversity and the lost opportunities resulting from an entrenched “deep monolingualism”.
What to do with your print journalism degree
Salon’s Agony Aust, Cary Tennis, advises an over-qualified journalism graduate who still lives at home and sells ice-cream for a living.
Nine gets behind Little Britain — but not too much, and about five years too late
It was a slightly prissy press release from the Nine Network that trumpeted that they will soon be airing Little Britain, after it has been to air at least twice on the ABC and countless times on Foxtel.
