Lots of stretching, bouncing and pulling of flour? With a kinda annoying host and tasty looking results? Why, it’s a chef demonstrating Chinese noodles being made by hand!
September, 2009
Video of the Day: Pasta magic: making noodles by hand
Twitter worth $1 billion? Try $2.7
Putting a dollar value on Twitter is a favourite passtime of tech pundits, with $1b the current figure being thrown around. But one finance professor says that may still be underestimating the brand: it could be worth $2.7b by 2013.
Inside 50 Cent’s business empire
Rapper 50 Cent is worth a leeetle more than his name suggests — a few hundred million more, in fact. A look at the ads, endorsements, book deals, movies and investments that have built his multi-million-dollar empire.
Dead cattle put Kenya at the brink of national disaster
Years of drought sweeping across Kenya’s plains have placed the country at a critical stage. Four million Kenyans are on food aid, yet a blotched government plan has resulted in hundreds of dead cattle.
To market we go, with Michelle Obama
First lady Michelle Obama was first in line to get some fashionably fresh fare at the much-hyped new White House Farmer’s Market. The big question: what did she buy?
The financial meltdown’s greatest hits
Newsweek gathers the best soundbites from before, during and after the Global Financial Crisis hit to create a timeline of talk from the meltdown.
NRL’s naked truths laid bare by female journos
What’s it like being a female journalist in a sport dominated by sex scandal headlines and mistreatment of women? Rugby League journo Jacquelin Magnay tells how to play the game.
Could greening the outback save the planet?
Researchers are floating an ambitious plan to curb climate change: turn the Australian outback and Sahara dessert into forests. The scheme would cost a whopping $2 trillion per year, but they claim the new trees could suck up 8 billion tons of carbon a year.
REVEALED: Big Oil’s big Africa cover-up
The Guardian exposes a massive cover-up by British oil company Trafigura, with secret emails revealing the company dumped highly toxic waste in Ivory Coast, despite knowing the dangers.
Hartcher: Rudd plays nicely with the other team
Australian pollies aren’t known for their bipartisanship, although PM Kevin Rudd is changing that with his latest ambassadorial postings. Or, is Rudd just forward planning for his own career? asks Peter Hartcher.
Why Obama shot down Star Wars
Obama’s decision to junk Bush-era plans for a missile defence shield in Europe isn’t a capitulation to Russia, says Mark Ambinder.
We’d rather win a gold medal than let a doctor in
The famed citizenship pop quiz — with questions on Don Bradman and Cathy Freeman — has been scrapped for a test focusing on democracy and Australian law. But don’t fret sports nutes, athletes will get citizenship preferences. Ahem.
Knight: Fairfax’s silent coup
Ron Walker’s ousting from Fairfax has been a long time coming, says Elizabeth Knight. But now everything is out in the open, there may be some hope for reforming the company’s completely dysfunctional board.
Sheehan: Feminism makes a comeback in Higgins
Kelly O’Dwyer has won pre-selection for Peter Costello’s electorate, the safe Liberal seat of Higgins. She will infuse much needed young female blood into the Liberal Party, writes Paul Sheehan.
Bartholomeusz: Walking the plank
Fairfax Chairman Ron Walker’s declaration of his retirement intentions to the AFR was the final straw for shareholders, who weren’t big fans of his in the first place, says Stephen Bartholomeusz.
Fairfax gives Walker the finger
The Fairfax family has issued an extraordinary statement announcing it will not support Fairfax Media Chairman Ron Walker continuing in his post. Margaret Simons on how it all turned sour.
The 50 best foods in the world — and the best places to eat them
From Peking duck to pizza, The Guardian has compiled a list of 50 great foods, and the best places on the planet to indulge in them. Guaranteed to stir hours of debate amongst foodies.
Fed-up unis take science reporting into their own hands
Sick of the mainstream media’s mediocre reporting on science and medicine, 35 US universities have partnered to create the non-profit wire service Futurity to distribute articles about their research and discoveries.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Women at war
Crikey readers debate Guy Rundle and his views on women on the front line. Plus, the ridiculous actions of question time and will VCA never dance again?
The murky world of buyer’s advocates
The rise of buyer’s advocates has coincided with the continued inflation of Australia’s residential housing bubble. Why is this happening?
The amazing and daring adventures of My Little Pony
Flashback! Incredibly detailed My Little Pony toys, recreated as Cat Woman, the Joker, Superman and all your favourite super heroes. Not a pink, glittery rainbow amongst it.
Walker must walk from Fairfax now
Fairfax patriarch John B Fairfax has condemned Ron Walker’s term as chairman, demanding he resign at the company’s November annual general meeting.
What came first, the chicken or the vegetarian egg?
Vegetarians are forced to ponder whether the eggs they are eating are possibly chickens that never got the chance to grow. Is it true? Grist investigates.
podcast Canberra Calling: Bon voyage Kim and Brendan
Parliament is in chaos so Crikey’s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane and editor Jonathan Green chew the fat on Kim Beazley and Brendan Nelson’s ambassadorial appointments and ponder whether there was any order in the house to begin with.
