I have a whole lot of polit­ical art­icles I was to post, but while you’re wait­ing, exper­i­ence this jour­ney from 10 bil­lion light years out to one atto­metre in, stepped down one order of mag­nitude at a time, from outer space, to our galaxy, then to images of earth, the…

Just wrote a quick bio of myself for someone and fin­ished with the fol­low­ing: I am fas­cin­ated by cul­ture on all levels with par­tic­u­lar interests in digital cul­ture, art move­ments of the 20th cen­tury, medi­eval european his­tory (social and lit­er­ary, not mil­it­ary), and…

Forgot to men­tion: I got a T‑shirt at the Big Day Out: bright red with No Sweat emblazoned across it. It came from http://​www​.nosweat​stuff​.com​.au and they make sneak­ers too. Even better is Unbranded which offers print­ing of your own slogan on a 100% sweatshop-free…

I still have my pri­or­it­ies right. I could have been home watch­ing the tennis final, but I accep­ted the offer to help out on the Indy­media stall at the Big Day Out (it was a long day but we gave away posters and sold a few News­Real discs and it was good). Anyway, at…

This star­ted out as a line about an old woman I saw walk­ing in the street but it’s turned into some­thing about my Grandma. I don’t think it’s fin­ished yet, so first draft com­ments very much appre­ci­ated. Also, I have abso­lutely no idea how vil­lan­elles or pan­touns are…

kowari asked about the sexist chal­lenges to Gil­lard’s lead­er­ship (which I think were more of a media beat-up than a ser­i­ous con­sid­er­a­tion for her with­drawal but I could be wrong). Non­ethe­less, the chal­lenges on the basis of her mar­ital status did occur, at least in…

Damn. I really wanted Julia Gil­lard to win the Labor lead­er­ship. But she’s pulled out in the interests of ‘party unity’. I think she should have at least stood. But per­haps if she stood and lost, Beazley could­n’t have nom­in­ated her as Deputy and maybe he will. I hope…

The only prob­lem with eating that much meat in one sit­ting when you’re 90% veget­arian is the diges­tion. Owwww, cramping.

Pos­sibly the best birth­day in a long time. At mid­night as my birth­day star­ted, I was up at the Kelvin having a glass of red wine after having treated myself to a movie. I bumped into Ben, an old mate from The Age who now works for ABC TV. We’ve always got on quite…