Anyone got more inform­a­tion than this? Will have to call my sources… that’s not look­ing good though…

She was an icon. She was one of those people who, by simply making a decision one day and doing a seem­ingly tiny, simple thing that she thought was right, changed the world. She refused to give her seat up to a white man on a bus. She was fined $14 and she ended…

Call for sub­mis­sions Is Not Magazine, Mel­bourne’s innov­at­ive poster street press, is seek­ing fic­tion, non-fic­tion, graphic and column con­tri­bu­tions for issues 5 and 6. Issue 5 is themed Time/Money. The pitch dead­line is Fri 21 Nov. Issue 6 is themed Beatles/Stones.…

I can’t believe Howard is saying fur­ther drafts of the terror legis­la­tion will be sent on paper to premi­ers to avoid fur­ther leak­age. Don’t you trust us, Mr Howard? Wor­ried we might actu­ally see some­thing and dis­agree with it? Wer­en’t you sup­posed to be representing…

I know delve men­tioned this many moons ago and I can’t remem­ber if it was fire­flesh or jen_tlemnfarmer who reminded me recently, but Eunoia by Chris­tian Bà¶k is just sub­lime. I espe­cially love the ‘e’ chapter with its doff of the cap to Pérec.

Right, you lot: Tomor­row. Your city. Protest about Civil Liber­ties. Admit­tedly, more likely to be useful if you’re in Aus­tralia, as there are actu­ally organ­ised protests in most Aus­tralian cities tomor­row, but hey, do a one-person chacha down in the mall for civil…

I just had a random Skype… I answered and ended up chat­ting to some 20-year-old guys in Coffs Har­bour. They asked what I do and I told them about Forget the Rules and then listened as they played the most recent epis­ode. Too funny. I love the Internet.

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 to know, and…

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. As we were walk­ing down…

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 example, because this is…