An interesting look at the people behind the Google doodles, the infamous changing Google logo website banner. There are four official doodlers, plus a host of award-winning schoolchildren.
July, 2010
Iran bans the mullet
Ponytails, spiky hair and mullets don’t cut it in Iran, according to the government’s new style guide of men’s hair. Thankfully the quiff wasn’t labelled as a “decadent Western cut”.
Video of the Day: Israeli soldiers put on their guns and dancing shoes
Israeli soldiers out on patrol through the streets of Hebron busted out a choreographed dance to a US pop hit, just after hearing the Muslim call to prayer. The group are now facing disciplinary action.
Brown goes bush to support farmers in a fight for land
The stakes in a farmer versus miner battle were lifted into the federal political arena yesterday, as Bob Brown challenged Julia Gillard to stop a proposed coal mine that local farmers claim would ruin their prime farm land, writes Amanda Gearing.
Faulkner’s departure further depletes Labor’s store of experience
John Faulkner’s retirement to the backbench will continue the Labor talent drain as party veterans call time on their careers.
Agribusiness: where you lose some, then you lose some more
PT Barnum was once claimed to have noted that “there’s a sucker born every minute”. If he was talking about investors in agribusiness managed investment schemes, he would probably be right.
What would a proper regional solution look like?
There was a lot of predictability in the responses to yesterday’s Gillard speech and policy proposals on asylum seekers, at least as far as the broader commentariat were concerned. Much of it was lazy, writes Possum Comitatus.
In defence of Julia: it could have been worse
After the relentless nature of the attacks on her predecessor from the right-wing media, Julia Gillard must find it something of a relief that she is mostly drawing fire from the left. But some of the attacks lack a sense of perspective.
Like a Virgin, rubber ruckus takes Branson to court
Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has built a billion-dollar business on the back of his Virgin brand’s sexy image. A recent trademark battle has highlighted the lengths he is prepared to go to protect the brand.
Gillard — deploying ‘values’ to deadly effect
Julia Gillard’s asylum seeker speech yesterday was a devastating deployment of Australian values for partisan purposes. We haven’t seen communication this effective since John Howard in his pomp.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Gillard makes the headlines over mining tax and refugees
Huge volume continues for the new Prime Minister, as she moved from a deal on the mining tax to a Timor Sea solution on asylum seekers
Disney lands some grunt for the Press Council
The Press Council is surely one of Australia’s lowest profile self-regulation bodies, but it may actually be on the way to becoming relevant.
World Cup: Frank Lowy spitting chips over FIFA scoop
Australia’s richest man, Westfield shopping king Frank Lowy, has been ringing members of the Fairfax Board in a rage over The Age newspaper’s coverage of the Football Federation of Australia’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
Someone forgot to tell East Timor
The view within Dili on Gillard’s border protection proposal, and East Timor’s role, was one of surprise — no one seems to have been forewarned, much less consulted about this proposal.
Game, set and much at stake in ‘Come On’ trademark stoush
Sports stars feel like they should get some benefit from their fame but sometimes coincidences occur, creating a fortuitous linkage that can get very complicated, writes Glen Gordon, a registered patent and trademark attorney.
Crikey Clarifier: Oh Canada, what is a refugee sponsorship program?
Despite Tony Abbott’s strong rhetoric, the opposition leader laid out a plan to increase refugee numbers through a refugee sponsorship program. What does it mean?
The queue — where is it, and how do you take a number?
Asylum seekers who arrive by boat are queue jumpers, conservatives say. So Crikey intern Nikki Bricknell and Bernard Keane went looking for the queue.
A depressing lack of consensus on our economic health
The old joke — ‘what happens when you put 10 economists in a room together? You end up with 10 different views about what’s wrong with the economy and how to fix it’ — has never been truer, writes Business Spectator’s Karen Maley.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: What’s with “processing” people offshore?
Crikey readers weigh in on Julia Gillard’s asylum seeker policy. Plus Crikey readers on gay marriage, high rise development and Cosmos magazine.
Morning Market Report: Wall Street bounces back
Wall Street hit a 10 month low before it rallied in the last hour of trade and broke a seven day losing streak. The market is down 19 and the SFE Futures were down 4 this morning.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: from a sea of slums, to brick built suburbs and the shadows in between
People advise those who are embarking on a South African trip not to visit Cape Town first, and they’re right. Once you’re here you have no desire to leave and the rest of the country is bound to be, well, another country.
Daily Proposition: Heed the pitch, plug into Gruen
In a world that spends over $400 billion a year on advertising, it’s becoming increasingly important to understand the way the industry works. The Gruen Transfer does all that any more, says Matt de Neef.
Media briefs: The Age of outsourcing … the sheep at the Courier Mail …
The Age is preparing to offload its daily and Sunday sports results and racing form guide to sub-editing conglomerate Pagemasters at the conclusion of the AFL season. Plus, other media news of the day.
Political snippets: Julia should try outer space
If Julia Gillard spent just a little time in the outer with her club’s working-class supporters, she might not make such ridiculous statements about the nature of their attitudes to race.
