Terror: the government is scaring me

Listen­ing to Lateline. The more i hear about this new legis­la­tion, the more dis­turbed I get. If you aren’t scared yet, you aren’t paying attention. You can be shot for run­ning away from people in plain clothes who happen to be police, which you wer­en’t...

The belonging kind

I some­times feel that I am par­ti­cip­at­ing in this com­munity of digital cul­ture intel­lec­tu­als under false pre­tences, as if at any minute someone will dis­cover I’m a fraud. Tonight, I went to dinner with Mark Pesce, Alex Burns and Darren Sharp....

Children’s books

Ah, syn­chron­icity… there you are again. Was talk­ing with e_dan earlier this even­ing about a con­ver­sa­tion I had in Perth about books for chil­dren and how the things that scare adults are things kids just take in their stride (Cor­aline was the...