A question of priorities
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees or the Houston Oilers, or what label ‘Hang On Sloopy’ by...
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Apparently Google hasn’t heard of phishing
I was surprised to get this email this morning. ‘Important information’ in the subject-line? Check. No mention of my name, just a generic user-title? Check. Poorly-defined threats of accounts being...
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Sorry, Broken Hill
In Apple’s world-view South Hedland is more important than Port Hedland;1 Canberra doesn’t warrant its own label; and the western division of New South Wales and north-western Victoria are not quite...
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All-out superpower confrontation?
Reminds me of something else from a few years ago. YouTube link for those who didn’t spot the reference in this post’s title.
View ArticleVivid Sydney motion exhibits
Vivid Sydney 2012 motion exhibits from Richard Flynn on Vimeo. Following on the heels of my photos from Vivid Sydney 2012 (which took place in, er, May–June) is my video of a couple of the motion...
View ArticleRosetta Stone: Bad at Languages ➻
Rosetta Stone (the language-peddling company, not the stone of the same name) has embarrassed itself with its Christmas advertising campaign this year: [They use] the song “Let it snow, let it snow,...
View ArticleSydney Harbour heliport: collected news coverage
The fall-out continues over Newcastle Helicopters’ proposed floating heliport/helipad in Sydney Harbour, the application for which was abysmally mis-managed by the NSW Government. The project was...
View ArticleFive Factoids about Popes and their Appointment
With Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that he will be resigning from office at the end of February, news organizations the world over will be scrambling to provide their audiences with interesting...
View ArticleJonathan Ive on Blue Peter
Sir Jonathan ‘call me Jony’ Ive on Blue Peter. Ive’s name has now become so recognizable that no one is too surprised that he’s featured like this on a general-audience show like Blue Peter—he’s...
View ArticleA prelude to insanity
‘He was talking very excitedly to me,’ said the Vicar, ‘about some apparatus for warming a church in Worthing and about the Apostolic Claims of the Church of Abyssinia. I confess I could not follow...
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