Crikey readers have their say.
September, 2010
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Morning Market Report: Markets up as Dow Jones ends week on high
The S&P 500 had its biggest gain in three weeks, up 2.12% for its fourth straight weekly gain.
Daily Proposition: Hang out in the Treme
Treme is a 10-part HBO series that dramatises the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s effect on the people of New Orleans. It is so good that it bears repeated viewing.
Media briefs: The Age’s uni poison … SMH loves travel
Monday is normally a news graveyard but surely nothing can top the un-bylined drivel (David Rood’s name was later attached to the online version) trotted out in this morning’s Age. Plus, the advertisers want compo for Games and other media news.
Political snippets: News Ltd and Rob Cheapshott
Independent MP Rob Oakeshott is really getting the tabloid beat-up treatment from the News Limited empire.
Video of the Day: The nail-biting end to the AFL granny
It was an AFL Grand Final that seemed to be inspired by the federal election, delivering a no winners/no losers result that left audiences across the country in a “what just happened?” funk of confusion and mixed feelings. The last five minutes of play was Australian footy at its nail-biting best.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Oprah House to honour activist? The CFMEU is understood to have contacted Oprah Winfrey through the International Labour Organisation to ask her to accept a plaque during her forthcoming Sydney Opera House performance. According to backstage rumours, it will commemorate the 1960 visit to the building by the legendary black American singer and human rights activist Paul Robeson. At the time […]
Crikey Says: Julia’s replay (warning: laboured footy puns at forty paces)
A prime minister pleaded: “Please, please, we cannot have a draw,” she prophetically pined before the AFL Grand Final Saturday morning. They didn’t get it. A nation waits — again.
The five most clichéd author photos
When it comes to author photographs, the options are pretty limited. Will you choose the ‘my thoughts are so deep and heavy I need to hold my head up’ pose or the classic ‘I’m so comfortable here resting on the couch’ shot?
Advice to first year uni students: dump your boyfriend
A bunch of graduates and PhD students offer up their tips for students heading off to university: make rich friends and poor friends, don’t use a computer and break up with your high school sweetheart.
Imagine if John Lennon lived on
What if John Lennon hadn’t been shot dead 30 years ago? On the eve of what would have been his 70th birthday, David Kamp ‘interviews’ Lennon. It’s a bizarre but utterly enthralling story.
London-Frankfurt to go high-speed rail by 2013
Another intensively flown city pair, London-Frankfurt, could gain frequent high speed rail links in the near future, says Ben Sandilands. London could have a rail link to Frankfurt that is superior to air services for most potential travellers at least a year sooner, in 2013, than Paris.
The new powers of the US of A: bringing down the internet
New laws passed by the US government allow the Justice Department to shut down any website in the world that contains pirated content if a film studio or record company complains about it.
On the Grand Final hung result: whinging
I shouldn’t be buying into this. But I do recall watching the 1977 Grand Final with a roomful of fans in a house on the coast of the Victorian western district. When the siren went, the silence fell, recalls W H Chong.
Election 2010: a failure of democracy
1.4 million Australians are not on the electoral roll, 729,000 were enrolled but didn’t show up at the polling booths and 400,000 voted informally. Where is the outrage? asks Michael Danby.
The internet makes it harder for the idiot box to treat us like idiots
The rise of BitTorrent technology on the internet has in part forced television networks to “fast track” overseas programs. The web is making it harder for TV channels to treat us like ninnies by pretending old shows are new shows, according to Digihub.
Bird of the Week: the Bush Stone Curlew
The Bush Stone Curlew (Burhinus grallarius) is found across Australia apart from the drier parts of Western Australia and the Simpson Desert. Its presence has been reduced by land-clearing and modern land-management practices, writes Bob Gosford.
Opposing coal in NSW
In a recent NSW court case, climate activist Ned Haughton argued that the NSW Planning Minister didn’t adequately consider the climate impacts of the proposed power stations. John Hepburn gives a quick break down of the arguments.
Shots fired by the river, unknown number of dead #mexicandrugwars
As Mexican newspapers see their journalists killed and threatened for reporting the drug wars, bloggers and tweeters are increasingly the most effective media for following the assassinations, shootings and kidnappings as they happen.
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The many forms of the Mac mouse
The Apple mouse has taken on many forms over the years, from the clunky 1983 original (complete with lead ball) to today’s svelte cordless trackpads. Mashable encapsulates the evolution of this humble but imperative device.
The Ashton Kutcher Twitter Effect
The Butterfly Effect star Ashton Kutcher may have millions of followers on Twitter, but a new study from an American university claims celebrities actually wield very little influence on Twitter discussion trends.
Scramble to save Middle East peace talks
Despite the US proudly launching peace talks with Palestinian and Israeli leaders just a month ago, no resolution could be reached before the end of Israel’s freeze on West Bank settlement construction. What will Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas do now?
