I try to remem­ber that we are still alive. I try to find good things. Last night, as Latham star­ted his con­ces­sion speech, I star­ted to cry. I don’t think I had real­ised how strongly I felt about this until then. I feel so betrayed. Today, numb after a bottle and a…

FBI raids UK Web host and effect­ively shuts down 20 local Inde­pend­ent Media Centres (Indy­media sites)

This is look­ing com­pletely fucked. I have to say I think the Labor cam­paign was pretty dumb. What does a Lib­eral voter care if Howard is going to give power to Cos­tello? Maybe they want Cos­tello. That was a stupid approach. They should have gone in hard on the lies…

The Age will edit­or­i­al­ise in favour of Howard and crikey​.com​.au claims it may be due to man­age­ment over-ruling edit­or­ial on the basis that a Latham Gov­ern­ment would be against the com­mer­cial interests of Fairfax.

Ganked from zara­bee: Pos­i­tion vacant: Prime Min­is­ter I am so ter­ri­fied Howard is going to get back in on Sat­urday. Who’s having a party Sat­urday night so I can get really plastered if I need to?

While I’m post­ing, go read qamar’s post here about a new device that will bring fresh water to the world. It will relieve women in third world coun­tries from the burden of spend­ing their days trav­el­ling kilo­metres to fetch it, some­thing that denies them options for…

Angels in Amer­ica just won Best Writer of a Mini Series at the Emmy’s. Tony Kush­ner thanked a rabbi for bestow­ing a bracha on the pro­ject and then thanked his hus­band and said “soon we’ll get a legal mar­riage license and you can make an honest homo­sexual out of me”.…

I had a really lovely week­end during the bits I wasn’t work­ing. I planned to have a quiet week­end clean­ing the house, mark­ing assign­ments and writ­ing my tutorial and lec­ture for this week. It didn’t quite work out that way. Sat­urday morn­ing I ended up at steampunk,…

I first met Morgan Lewis when we were 17 in the 2JJJ studio. The show was Drum Media and we were both there because the NSW Min­is­ter for Edu­ca­tion, Terry Mether­ell, had intro­duced a stupid system that would dis­ad­vant­age stu­dents around the state. Inde­pend­ently, we had…

From this art­icle: Mr Howard said while Iraq was a major focus of atten­tion, the number of people dying in Sudan was far greater “and the United Nations sadly has been unable to do any­thing”. So exatly why aren’t you and your mate Bush spear­head­ing a pre-emptive…

Feel­ing some­what lacklustre about life? Elec­tion cam­paign get­ting you down? Life could be a lot, lot worse. You could be in prison. Someone could be tor­tur­ing you. We’re pretty lucky in this coun­try. Use your free­dom to help raise funds to free others. How? Dance!…

Life returns to normal. Strange how it all just con­tin­ues. One odd dream of Grandpa, as he was at the end, and a sense of dis­tance, but oth­er­wise bizarre dreams like this morn­ing’s of being in a rela­tion­ship with Johnny Depp and trying to explain to him about some ex…

Very inter­est­ing art­icle on how text mes­saging was used during the RNC protests.