Cat Empire: Prince of Wales, 26.02.06

by | Feb 27, 2006 | Uncategorized

I think the Cat Empire may well be one of the best live bands in Mel­bourne. Every single member of the band is so incred­ibly pro­fi­cient at their instru­ments and the res­ults are so tight and irre­press­ibly dance­able that it’s impossible to catch the vibe of the...

One for bourdieu_boy

by | Feb 24, 2006 | Uncategorized

You prob­ably already know about this one… A Chinese pro­fessor has sued a blog host for per­sonal attacks against him.  Inter­est­ing ques­tions about free­dom of speech and cul­tural clashes. A ques­tion often dis­cussed in cyber­cul­ture courses...

Procrastinatory aids

by | Feb 23, 2006 | Uncategorized

Thanks to Xanni (a.k.a Andrew Pam), friend to pro­cras­tin­at­ors every­where, for Unusual Wiki­pe­dia articles.  I, for one, shall be read­ing the art­icle “Soci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Call­ing Sleep­ing Car Port­ers ‘George’ ”. And maybe some of the...