One Crikey reader explains that the term “rat fuck” has its origins in the murky world of science fiction. And the SBS and the World Cup.
June, 2010
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Why rat f-cking is alien to us
Three likely key drivers for a potential housing correction
If Australian banks are no longer able to service their considerable funding costs overseas, then they will not be able to continue to bankroll the bubble. Can the housing bubble burst? You bet.
Morning Market Report: Markets up ahead of the long weekend
The stronger-than-expected Chinese export number initiated the rally which was helped by other Euro and Japanese economic data.
Media briefs: Merger of sorts at Qld Newspapers … AFR out to lunch
News Limited is combining some resources within the Bowen Hills bunker. Plus, AFR rips off the Financial Times, Apple challenges Google in ad market and other media news.
Daily Proposition: Take a trip with Weeds
Weeds is a family show in the sense that heroin is a headache tablet. But it’s a great bit of TV viewing, with a sixth season due to air in August.
This day in Crikey: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Wednesday, 11 June, 2008, “Time to put ABC Learning out of its misery”, by Stephen Mayne.
Political snippets: Richard Farmer enters the climate change cage match
Let’s take a look at global warming figures, shall we? Plus, following the Brits follow a well worn (but unsuccessful) Australian path and other political news.
Video of the Day: World Cup theme song
Put your dancing shoes on (or maybe kick them off, it fits the mood better) and shake your thing to the official World Cup 2010 themesong, Waka Waka (This time for Africa).
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: A bigger Deal for better ratings?
What are the chances of people actually now winning money on Deal Or No Deal, as they are, when for most of its history people typically win only enough for their bus fare home?
Meet the women who rule the web
The internet is no longer a geeky boys club with not a female in sight. Think of the founder of Flickr, CEO of TechCrunch and the social media guru of the NY Times: all ladies.
Crikey Says: The banks, like Bernie, don’t give a rat’s
It’s always fun to read about American fraudster Bernie Madoff — mostly because he’s one of the few headline acts of the GFC who didn’t get away with it.
Bhutan: The tale of the cursed TV
The fascinating story of the Cursed TV of Paro, a television now abandoned on a Bhutanese mountainside because every family who owned it suffered a series of tragic and sudden deaths.
newspaper death watch 
The Mirror shatters with job cuts
Yesterday 200 journos were made redundant at UK Trinity Mirror, home of five national papers including The Daily Mirror, meaning 1/4 of the total editorial staff. It’s all just all part of the digital age, notes Roy Greenslade.
Why we open holes in the Earth than we can’t close
The Gulf spill simply draws our attention to the insanity of deepwater oil wells, where oil companies drill tens of thousands of feet under ocean floors. And there’s no known way to plug them.
Steve Jobs’ most hated website
Gawker has been brutal with its Apple coverage of late, from the leaked iPhone 4, to the email spat with Steve Jobs and now the iPad exposed emails story. Steve Jobs must be getting hot under his skivvy collar.
American Apparel: now even sleazier
American Apparel has got in trouble before for firing unattractive staff. Now they’ve gone one further, with staff hiring now reliant on providing head-to-toe photos of potential employees.
Antony Green: Can the Greens oust Lindsay Tanner?
There’s been a surge of support for the Greens, but is it enough for them to win the hotly-contested seat of Melbourne? Antony Green examines the polling data.
To kill a leadership: what Atticus Finch can teach Kevin Rudd
Atticus Finch may be a fictional character, but that doesn’t mean his ideas about prejudice aren’t relevant to today’s asylum seeker debate. Playing to xenophobia is a political nightmare, says Greg Barns.
Singer: Abbott will fail as Howard 2.0
There’s no way that Tony Abbott can be a PM possibility until he recognises the stuff ups of the Howard government and distances himself from them, says Jill Singer.
PHOTO GALLERY: The mystery of the reoccurring newspaper prop
Film geeks noticed that the same newspaper kept popping up in film and television from the last few decades. Is it an inside joke for propmasters or just that its the easiest prop newspaper around?
What is that damn noisy horn the South Africans are blowing?
Meet the Vuvuzela: a noise-making horn that South African fans are obsessed with blowing loudly at football games. But will it become the must have item for fans or the bane of the World Cup?
South Africa: not just racism and slums
Australia is out of the hosting race for the 2018 World Cup, but dreams aren’t yet over for South Africa, where the Cup kicks off tonight. Can the influx of foreign fans change people’s perceptions of poverty-stricken Africa?
