Bush talked of bomb­ing Al-Jaz­eera but Blair per­suaded him not to EDIT: And while I was speech­less, jen_tlemnfarmer said a lot of what I was think­ing pretty clearly.

Ganked from anti­minke: “Because Sami com­plained repeatedly they held him in sol­it­ary con­fine­ment at Camp V. Three years into this ordeal, Sami’s tribunal found him “inno­cent” – as he had said all along, he never was an enemy com­batant. So what did he get for it? The…

1. The state of rock­’n’roll. Scath­ing treat­ise on what’s wrong with the yoof of today and spe­cific­ally the apolit­ical music they listen to. 2. Pan­dora. Awe­some use of the concept of like-leads-to-like that we almost saw with Music Plasma but that here is actually…

Because it’s still Monday in Hol­land… Happy birth­day, dai­syn­erd! Love you lots and lots and lots, always.

Monday Nov. 28, 12:30pm – 1:00pm Par­lia­ment House, Spring Street, Mel­bourne Emer­gency protest – defy Howard’s anti-demo­cratic terror laws! Called by Civil Rights Defence. John Howard’s new terror laws won’t combat or stop ter­ror­ism. These laws are designed to silence…

This week­end was a few moments of peace snatched out of a night­mare week. The Social Forum was excel­lent. Smal­ler than expec­ted but with a good core of act­iv­ists with great ideas and a real sense of know­ledge exchange and con­sol­id­a­tion. Plans for the G20 conference…

Stuck for some­thing to do this week­end? How about solv­ing the world’s prob­lems? Today and tomor­row at CERES, 8 Lee St, Brun­swick East. Many, many speak­ers and work­shops. $20 for both days. [more info here]

“It is no secret. All power is in source and end, I think. Years and dis­tances, stars and candles, water and wind and wiz­ardry, the craft in a man’s hand and the wisdom in a tree’s root: they all arise together. My name and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a…

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a com­mon­place thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fab­ulous yellow roman candles explod­ing like…

More on the massive IR rally later when I’m not paying by the minute. 3‑second grab? Combet for Prime Min­is­ter! He can prac­tice as Gil­lard’s deputy…

I meant to post some­thing on this earlier, but last week I was too busy mark­ing and tonight has been a night­mare. Anyhow, tomor­row. Protests in your city. Why are the IR changes bad? Read this. You don’t get to choose, even though it’s called WorkChoices. Companies…

I’m guess­ing it would be a bad idea to pub­licly com­ment on the news I’ve just had from the Uni­ver­sity. I’ll just say I’m incred­ibly dis­ap­poin­ted, given the effort I’ve put in this semester, through injury and intense pres­sure from my other job.