We… don’t even know where to start with this one: “Yogi Okie-Dokie” teaches yoga to kids in the creepiest way possible. Featuring singing, a rasta rooster, and the tightest pair of jeans known to man. Things you will hear in your nightmares tonight: “ARE YOU BREATHING CHRISTIAN?”
July, 2009
Video of the Day: Farmyard yoga for kids, with Yogi Okie-Dokie and a rastafarian rooster
Stella Artois: retro beer
“Because Stella Artois 4% lives in the 60s Riviera, we tried to make the work look as genuine as possible”. Don’t you just love creatives. It’s a beer! Still, with poster legend Robert McGinnis doing the art work, we approve.
Who owns green technology?
How do we keep emerging green technologies affordable and accessible to the developing world when they’re being developed by companies so consumed in the culture of the almighty copyright? Five experts share their ideas.
South Korea goes on a spending spree
South Koreans are the new world leaders in conspicuous consumption, churning through their household savings for new cars, overseas travel and designer clothes. But the culture of “competitive spending” is taking its toll on the country’s economy, with debt rising and growth slowing.
Publishing ban not expected to be lifted
Although the ALP conference has been largely stage managed, one thing is clear: if the government decides to lift the ban on the parallel importation of books, it will be strongly opposed, says Phillip Coorey.
Ruth Madoff facing $45m lawsuit
A trustee attempting to recover money for investors duped by Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme is suing his wife, Ruth Madoff, for $44.8 million, claiming that although she wasn’t implicated in the fraud, she reaped the profits with a life of luxury.
Labor’s big show not just for true believers
ALP conferences aren’t as wild as the days of Gough Whitlam, but they are appealing to a different crowd now. “Labor might have got boring, but it has got better”, writes Christian Kerr.
Edgbaston, Day One: Watson opens up
Australia took the biggest risk they have taken since Cameron White was convinced to bowl in India, and stuck a guy with a horrendously horrible first class record into the opening slot. The result was Australia’s best opening partnership of the Ashes.
ALP conference made redundant
PM Kevin Rudd’s tightly controlled government has neutered the ALP national conference, writes Michelle Grattan and “what the conference decides matters hardly a whit.”
Tackling obesity with economics
Want to solve the obesity epidemic? Instead of relying on the notoriously unscientific diet industry, maybe it’s time to give economists a shot, says Andrew Leigh.
Left out in the cold at ALP conference
The ALP national conference is an ideological mine field, with plenty of neo-liberal haters but few real results for the true left-leaning Labor faithful, says Phillip Coorey.
PODCAST: Crikey Sports previews the Third Test (a day late)
Crikey’s Leigh Josey talks to our Ashes correspondent Jarrod Kimber after the First Day of the Third Ashes Test at Edgbaston. Rain, Shane Watson and Twitter vs. Phillip Hughes are all on the menu.
Arbib uncertain about green jobs
Employment Minister Mark Arbib seemed unsure of exactly what the 50,000 green jobs promised by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd are — jobs or work experience?
How Jacko helped bring down the Wall
An uncovered internal Stasi file from Michael Jackson’s 1988 concert outside the Reichstag building in West Berlin reveal his East German fans, listening from the other side of the Berlin Wall, planned to riot and “test the limits of the security organ”.
Deceased get the last word with NYT video obits
For two years, The NYT has been allowing notable people to record their own video obituaries, to be published online at the time of their death. The identities of those immortalised are a secret, but include a former president, a Nobel Prize winner, and a playwright.
Rudd looks long term
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is still the same ‘Kevin from Queensland’, but now he is more focused on conservative long term goals, writes Dennis Atkins.
Bob Hawke: Labor for life
Former PM Bob Hawke will be honoured with life membership to the ALP at this year’s national conference, writes South Australian Premier Mike Rann.
A new New York Times?
What if The New York Times’ top 5-10% writers and editors — the most valuable assets that the newspaper controls — walked out of the building and started their own company? What would it look like?
Say a little prayer for unpaid musicians
Radio has become a race issue, with artists — particularly African Americans — not receiving correct payment for stations using their music, writes Dionne Warwick.
An eerily calm ALP conference
This year’s ALP national conference is a serious affair — “the triumph of android over hominid” — with PM Kevin Rudd serving as a chief robot, writes Annabel Crabb.
Labor on child care: promises but no answers
The hot topic of child care remains a mess in Australian, with the government refusing to reveal key data about the status of the industry, writes Sophie Mirabella.
Big issues brewing at Obama’s beer summit
Amidst the media hype of US President Barack Obama’s beer with a falsely-arrested black Harvard professor and his arresting officer, there are greater lessons to be learned about racial politics in America.
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US Army Colonel: “declare victory and go home”
A leaked memo from a senior US military adviser in Iraq says “it’s time for the US to declare victory and go home”, arguing Iraqi forces are now capable on their own and that American forces have outstayed their welcome.
787 Dreamliner: flawed inside and outside
New revelations about the “plastic fantastic” Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s wing problems show that they fail at lower stress levels than almost any other airliner in history, says Ben Sandilands.
Sci-fi: the new religion
Holy wars, ancient texts, breakaway sects, idols — science fiction fandom has it all, and its adherents’ worship can get more intense and bloody than zealots in major world religions.
