Garry Kasparov: Losing chess to a $10 million alarm clockChess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov on the moral, mental and mechanical challenges of playing chess against a computer.
January, 2010
Reporting in Haiti: Why I crossed the line from witness to participant
ABC correspondent Craig McMurtrie and cameraman Dan Sweetapple explain the excruciating ethical choice faced by journalists in disasters like Haiti: remain objective observers or lend a hand to fellow humans in need?
First Dog: Why does Google hate Aboriginal Australia?
Google had a competition to design its special banner for Australia Day, but First Dog on the Moon has spotted a rather concerning difference between the winning logo and the one Google is displaying.
Australia Day in the back of a cab
From Indian students to drunk coke-heads, every passenger in Sydney cabbie Adrian Neylan’s back seat this morning had the same message: Happy Australia Day.
When hipsters and hard news collide: VICE teams with CNN
Hipster bible VICE magazine has signed up content-sharing deal with nerdy news network CNN. Will Anderson Cooper start wearing skinny jeans and ironic t-shirts? Gawker explain what it all means for the media.
Will Cadbury’s chocolate stay Fairtrade?
Food giant Kraft has swallowed up Cadbury, but will it honour the chocolatier’s commitment to only using Fairtrade cocoa beans for its Dairy Milk and Black & Gold brands?
Why Australia Day is historically inaccurate
John Carmody explains why 7 February would make a far more historically accurate — not to mention morally acceptable — date on which to celebrate the nation.
New South Australian DVD laws are a pain in the Rs
Bizarre new laws have came into effect in South Australia pertaining to the manner in which R-rated films are displayed and promoted. But films with more provocative covers (but milder ratings) are allowed to be displayed as normal.
Obama takes on the banks — what will Rudd and Swan do?
Barack Obama is willing to fight US banks to constrain the sort of risk-taking that led to the GFC. Will Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan do the same?
Video of the Day: Rollicking old time Aussie fun
In honour of Australia Day, a collection of 1960s Australian TV commercials. The good old days when smoking and tanning didn’t kill, only white people existed on television and Graham Kennedy advertised “Fiji: It’s a gay life”.
Costello’s $600 million Cambodian crusade
Peter Costello’s $600 million private equity foray into Cambodia will struggle to avoid the corrupt taxes and charges attached to nearly all commercial deals in the mostly-peasant nation, write Bernard Keane and Andrew Crook.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Losing it over lost trolleys
What’s the big issue getting Crikey readers in a spin? No, it’s not the JJJ Hottest 100 leak or the Massachusetts election. It’s abandoned trolleys.
Dollar’s strength leads to a whiff of disinflation
The cost pressures seen in the September quarter, especially from government cost increases, seemed to vanish from Australian industry in the three months ending December 31.
Improved Volcker plan still doesn’t go hard enough
With the mooting of the Volcker Rule, it appears that finally the Obama Administration is taking the long-awaited stick to Wall Street.
US Fed boss Bernanke: will he stay or will he go?
Sending Fed boss Ben Bernanke packing would see a sell-off in markets (the US dollar would be pummelled, as would US stocks)
Morning Market Report: Another fall for Wall Street
Wall Street fell for the 3rd straight session falling 216 points. It was the biggest one-day fall since 30th October.
Literary Adelaide the scene of a journos’ dust-up
There is a dust-up in literary Adelaide, with leading editorial contributors to the Adelaide Review severing its connections with the publication amid disputes over payment.
Media briefs: Facebook urged to switch off hate sites….Papal decree: Thou shalt blog
The Pope decrees that Catholic priests should blog, Facebook is pressured to switch off hate sites and other tidbits from the mediascape.
Have Santos and Rann redefined “philanthropy”?
Yesterday’s conclusion of the Tour Down Under in Adelaide was a triumph not only for the wining rider, but also for Premier Mike Rann and the first-time commercial sponsor of the Tour, South Australian-based energy company Santos.
Anyone for tennis?: Libs candidate John Alexander too busy for Bennelong
John Alexander, the Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Bennelong, apparently cannot speak to the media about his campaign because he is too busy commenting on the tennis.
The absurdity that is Australia Day
In the old days, Australia Day meant something: the end of the summer holiday period, celebrated with a long weekend. Would it really be contrary to our national character to try to return it to that?
Why is Kevin Rudd Australian of the Year?
Silly season reached a sort of climax this weekend, when The Australian announced Kevin Rudd was its Australian of the Year “because of the way he dealt with the global financial crisis.” That was a bit odd, to put it mildly, to put it as blandly as possible. The national broadsheet spent 2009 attacking the […]
Conroy frantically spins Clinton speech
The debate over internet censorship has moved to the global centre stage, with Hillary Clinton declaring free access to information online as critical a human right. Will Rudd get on board? asks Colin Jacobs.
