Links for 2008-03-21

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• Episode 29 online!

  03 October 2008 in Notes, Stilgherrian Live

  Last night’s episode of Stilgherrian Live was a strange journey through the streets of Surry Hills, Sydney, and is now online for your viewing pleasure. ’Pong took some great photos, too, and I’ll post them later, along with the results of “Cnut of the Week”.

  5 Random Semi-Related Posts

  Who’s nominated for “Cnut” tonight? (6 comments)
  Links for [...]

• At Town Hall station? You breathe this!

  02 October 2008 in Photography, Sydney

  This is the air vent in the elevator between platforms 1/2 and 4 at Sydney’s Town Hall station. Do you like that layer of black crap?
  Town Hall station is already hot, humid, smelly and dangerously over-crowded. Add to these risks the fact that you’re breathing whatever it is that’s accumulating up there.
  While taking this photo [...]

• Dell’s useless customer “service”

  02 October 2008 in Business, Internet

  Dell, I’m not happy with you. I’m not happy with you at all. Your incompetent customer service has screwed up the timelines for an important project for a new client, yet your blind, stupid corporate machine blunders on like a brain-damaged slug.
  If you read my Twitter stream yesterday you can probably skip this post. However [...]

• Links for 28 September 208 through 01 October 2008

  02 October 2008 in Daily Links

  Here are the web links I’ve found for 28 September 2008 through 01 October 2008, posted automatically and covered in badger fat.

  How to be Creative | gapingvoid: Hugh MacLeod’s classic article on how to be creative, starting off with Tip #1: “Ignore everybody.”
  Pigeon-powered Internet takes flight | CNET News: A news report on the 2001 [...]

• Who’s nominated for “Cnut” tonight?

  02 October 2008 in Stilgherrian Live

  It’s nomination time for “Cnut of the Week” for tonight’s edition of Stilgherrian Live (9.30pm Thursdays Sydney time).
  It’s the same rules as usual. We’re after people (or abstract forces of nature) who’ve been futilely trying to hold back the tide of change.
  Who do you nominate, and why?
  Can the US Federal reserve win for the third [...]