The Cannabis Cup is the Tour de France for pot heads from around the world. For US$199, stoners can buy a pass entitling them to sample the green stuff from nearly 30 participating “coffee shops” all this week, writes Grant Doyle from Amsterdam.
November, 2009
Letter from...: The Cannabis Cup, Amsterdam
Murdoch and Microsoft: the mice are trying to roar
Rupert Murdoch thinks Microsoft has all the answers, which it once did. But when it comes to the internet, it has struggled, and mostly failed, to buck or control the currents of the business, writes Michael Wolff.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Turnbull, climate change, CPRS et al: Chris Johnson writes: Re. “Despite Turnbull win, Libs more divided than ever” (yesterday). Apparently Malcolm’s crime is invoking his party’s policies for the delinquent and disorderly and just like thousands of asylum seekers thirty five Liberals this week protested their right to be heard and taken seriously. No surprise […]
Crikey Says: Australia pardons a couple of turkeys
The day before Thanksgiving is notable for an excruciating American tradition: the presidential turkey pardon. Yesterday, Australia gave it a local spin.
Morning Market Report: Market up as golden streak continues
Market, Dow up as AGMs are help all round.
Guy Rundle: The Liberal party is trapped in a death spiral
The Liberal Party is on the verge of ceasing to exist as anything other than a shell, but Malcolm Tunbull lacks the political skills to solve it, and Nick Minchin is too delusional.
Video of the Day: Video of the Day: Great Depression Cooking with Clara
Ninety-four-year-old Clara cooks recipes and tells stories from the Great Depression in her online TV show. Today’s recipe: eggplant parmesan.
Expensive, unproven: meet the F-35 ‘Madoff’
If ignorance is bliss, the people who advised Australia’s defence minister, John Faulkner, on the status of the F-35 program, must be quite happy, writes Eric L. Palmer.
Dubai, going for broke, comes to financial standstill
Dubai and Greece are the countries most likely to go bust in this crunch, writes Glenn Dyer.
Media briefs: Robbie Williams hunts houses, UFOs … iTunes for magazines … blogging vs microblogging
The NT News’s hot Robbie William scoop, Triple J hurts newsreader Ian Ross’s feelings, nerds ditch microblogging for regular blogging and more from the world of the media.
The Monomeath curse strikes on Hedges Avenue
It appears that Monomeath Avenue is being challenged as Australia’s most cursed promenade by Queensland’s most expensive street — Hedges Avenue in Mermaid Beach, writes Adam Schwab.
Comitatus: charts of the day
Want a visual representation of all the current news on the opposition leader, the PM and the cost of living? Possum Comitatus is here to help.
$110m delivers half of DMG radio to Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Murdoch’s Illyria group has bought 50% of DMG Radio Australia, the owner of Nova and Vega FM, for $110 million, in a deal that will see him become the chairman of the entire operation.
Do taxpayers really need to pay for the ABC any more?
Mark Latham has written a piece in today’s AFR arguing that it’s time to privatise the ABC. Perhaps it’s time we let Australians vote on whether they want to keep subsidising Auntie, suggests Sinclair Davidson.
New investment boom set to explode
The big story from today’s private investment data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics isn’t the surprise 3.9% fall in the September quarter — it was the size of the investment boom re-gathering in the economy.
Political snippets: Forget about boat people: it’s still the economy, stupid
A new Morgan poll says it’s still the economy and environmental issues that Australians think are the most important, soccer match-fixing in China, and Thailand takes the stealing of religious artifacts very seriously.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Milne and Mayne’s Walkleys return canned
A rematch between Stephen Mayne and Glenn Milne at tonight’s Walkleys has been canned, Fairfax doesn’t deliver and the ALP’s Dianne Farmer is no shrinking violet.
Is social media killing the web as we know it?
Web traffic to every Australian news site has been trending down this year. Perhaps this is what those annoying social media experts have been predicting all along: people are passing news directly among themselves, bypassing the traditional news outlets.
The Libs are far from finished with Turnbull
Just when you think they’ve hit bottom, the Liberals surprise by finding new ways to tear themselves apart. The Libs have promised to get their act together, but who seriously thinks they have finished?
VCA accidentally leaks its own website attacking critics
The Victorian College of the Arts has thrown an independent review on the institution’s future into chaos by inadvertently publishing an attack on its critics on a leaked website.
Ian Plimer: Carbon dioxide is plant food, not a pollutant
The emails stolen from climate scientists last week proves the science behind climate change is a fraud, says Ian Plimer, and the people who have promoted it should be held accountable for their crimes.
IKEA’s inspired Facebook marketing campaign
IKEA ran a genius marketing campaign for its new Swedish store: posting images of the showrooms on Facebook, and allowing the first fan to “tag” each item they wanted with their name to take it home. The result? An army of customers promoting the store free on their profile.
