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• The Secrite Butlere

  22 November 2008 in Human Nature, Photography, Sydney

  “The Secrite Butlere you have to have your reale ID,” says this graffiti in Woolloomooloo, Sydney. WTF?

• Bring on the olive oil, Patty!

  22 November 2008 in Personal, Politics

  While my Predictions for 2008 were mostly full of FAIL, there is one bonus. I did correctly predict Barack Obama as the next US President. Which means I won a bet!
  Patty wrote:
  If he wins, I will spank you with a feather duster and call you blinky all night long while rubbing your body with [...]

• How were my predictions for 2008?

  22 November 2008 in Business, Internet, Media, Personal, Politics, Privacy, Thailand

  The Christmas decorations are in the shops, people are having Christmas parties, the current affairs programs are off TV, so the year has ended, right? What do you mean, your calendar has something called “December”? Bah! This is the 21st Century! One-twelfth of the year is just thrown away!
  Back in January I made some Predictions [...]

• Links for 21 November 2008 through 22 November 2008

  22 November 2008 in Daily Links

  Stilgherrian’s links for 21 November 2008 through 22 November 2008, after being tickled with a feather duster:

  Danger Room Debrief: How to do Defense, When the Money’s Gone | Danger Room from Wired.com: “The current global economic and financial meltdown may yet become something worse: a protracted global depression. As with the last century’s Depression, which [...]

• Clive Hamilton doesn’t quite win “Cnut of the Week”

  21 November 2008 in Internet, Politics, Stilgherrian Live

  I’m surprised. I thought that given Senator Conroy’s three-in-a-row victory as “Cnut of the week”, this week’s winner would be Clive Hamilton for his irrational rant in favour of Internet censorship in Crikey yesterday. But no.
  Hamilton is certainly Cnutworthy, trying to hold back two strong tides of change: the change of the Internet, which will [...]